[Funk Master Kane]

Since Im kinda new to the online art scene and I am about to put my site up soon, I need a few things answerd about doing comissions,

1 What kinda policy should I have on doing them.

2. What should I charge.

3. How do i go about giving the customer the finished product seeing as I do it all digitaly. Do I just e mail it, or do I have to make a printed copy.


Please excuse my questions if they seem dumb, But any feedback I could get would be very appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

[jr]

your questions arn't dumb at all. first you have to see who you're doing work for. just because you're doing it on the computer, don't sell yourself short. you should charge as much as the work calls for. the graphic artist guild puts out a book about the prices. for magazines it's about 400 to 800 or soemthing like. and books are a bit more. most of the time when i do something, i copy it on a cd and just send them the cd, or i upload it to them(ftp). i'm sure there's more experienced people on here that could help you more than i could.

[Tom Luth]

Regarding delivery of artwork, I personally do it a few ways. Most of my digital work is comic book coloring, illustration, and motion graphics. For single illustrations/colorings, I tend to upload to ftp sites. Average page is around 50mb when open, but saves down to 5-15MB depending on content. With a cable modem I can upload in about 15-40 minutes.

Obviously, this is less practical for entire books of 16-24 pages.For this, I use either a Zip drive, or burn a CD, and mail or Fed Ex. Actually, nowadays, it is almost always a CDr, as Zips hold just 100 (or 250 if ya have it) and cost much more, and often are not returned. CDs hold roughly 650-700 MB and are under $2 each. This lets me GIVE the client a cd to keep, and one for my own back up.

Motion Graphics are usually huge files. Fortunately, most are quite short, and often fit on a CDr or two, particularly with compression. I am only set up for DV, for tape output, which usually is not acceptable for graphics work, except for live action capture. I find Photo JPEG format at 98-99% is excellent, and reduces a file a lot. For delivery of film, Betacam SP, or some such tape format, I bring a portable hard drive to a service bureau and pay for a transfer.