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A #protip thread for artists about working w/ commercial clients. Everything here is something I learned the hard way by screwing up and NOT doing it.
When you do client work for ad agencies, design studios, etc it’s important to establish PRECISELY what you're providing for the rate.
It helps to proceed as if your #commercialart clients understand NOTHING about what you do. In your contract or letter of agreement, specify sizes, dpi, format, layered files or flattened, the number of revisions included, and the schedule for each milestone.
Negotiate a rate for changes and rush work.
(#Comics is pretty much the only field where freelancers are not expected to charge a rush fee. We should all feel sour and resentful about this.)
When you sell the rights to use your work, you should ask where, how, how long, and in what quantities the work will be reproduced or displayed. The more rights they want, the longer they want them, the more it costs. An all rights buyout costs more than a one-time regional use.
And if the art director's boss changes his mind about any of these usages halfway through, guess what! They don't get to just have them for for free. Tape this response to your monitor:
"That's beyond the scope of our original agreement. We'll need to work out what that will cost."
Establish that you only take feedback from ONE point of contact- preferably an art director, or someone who understands visual communication.
The client may have lots of stakeholders, all with contradictory opinions. Your contact needs to reconcile these opposing viewpoints before giving you instructions.
Do as much via email as possible. If the art director insists on briefing you by phone, take detailed notes, and immediately send an email itemizing everything you discussed. This helps keep everyone on the same page, and the paper trail provides accountability.
The people who work at ad agencies and corporate offices aren't evil, but they're focused on their job, not yours. Your happiness is irrelevant to them, and to them your time has no intrinsic value. You need to be your own fierce advocate.
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book authors and illustrators deserve to take all the time they need to take all the time they need to get their books done.
they don't deserve to be stuck on tight deadlines, the fact that this is happening right now is heartbreaking and just not right.
please give them more time to make their books good. stop overworking them. let them breathe.
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