Hourly graphic artist??? :\

[selunca]

So I got a job offer from a local company that knows me via another contract I have with another company.

This company is a t-shirt/logo/printing press company, that basically wants to pay me an hourly wage to draw them images that then then turn around and print on t-shirts, beer cozies..anything they can put ink on.

My issue is, is with an hourly

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[mazz]

Have you posted this to artist_beware? Thy allow advice posts and I'm sure you'd get a lot of good advice!

I'd be worried on getting in business with a company that doesn't even sound like they know what they're doing.

[chenneoue]

Not sure. But hourly I could see. I kind of think of Disney. I doubt the artists are getting "compensated" because they are working for the company. Any work they create will belong to Disney. I'd imagine this would be the same concept here. But I have no experience with sort of thing.

That being said. If they are only using you when they need you, and it's project based... to me, they should hire you per job and should be compensated. However, I am not exactly sure how this works. I'd imagine Thornwolf would have a better idea of this?

To put it out there... I would say, whatever the high end of what you think you should be getting paid is a good place to start! Well, within reason I suppose. :p

[selunca]

I totally agree with you with the Disney thing, but the way they intended to 'use' me, I didn't feel hourly would be fair.

From what I've read a fair 'rate' is $300 per image, even if that's low-balling, but lets be honest, I'm not really the most talented artist people could be using to do this, so I think lowering its better.

Thank you for your input, I really really appreciate it!

[chenneoue]

No problem. Advice is easy to give (well... sometimes), no matter how useful, or useless it is. :P

Anyhow...$300 sounds... good I suppose. Depending on what you are making. Don't just quote them because that's the average. You need details! Cause you can corner yourself, thinking, sure it's just this silly little image.. and then they want so much more. Make sure you know what they want (assuming they go this route), before you quote a price. I often kick myself for not getting more details in a commission, as it turns out to be more complicated then I thought.

Personally, I think (not knowing details) $500 sounds better. But that's me. If they want your work, and they are going to use it a lot. I think that sounds fair. But that's just me again.