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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>There are visual artists and illustrators who are well paid, but unfortunately the general reputation of the "starving artist" may be earned by more than alliteration in the phrase. The combination of skills in art, in selling one's works, and in business appears uncommon despite the evident value culture places in, well, some art.<br />
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The internet of course has opened the field, so to speak, for illustrators, though perhaps mass print media of yesteryear may be considered roughly equivalent at least in terms of the number of available jobs.<br />
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I. Where the work is found... online<br />
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Only some of the larger [https://www.facebook.com/uginc blaze 1 clothing] typically have such a constant internal need for visual art or illustration that they hire full time employees for the job. Otherwise some other businesses serve to warehouse artistic talent to be farmed out wherever the demand arises.<br />
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Illustrators preferring freelance work cannot rely on such businesses to find work for them. But neither need they share the profits.<br />
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Indeed for the freelance artist using the internet for business a tension seems to arise, given the nature of the internet, between paying to have one's services advertised online and "free" methods.<br />
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(I put the word "free" in quotes because sometimes there are "hidden" costs such as for computers, graphics tablets, scanners, cameras, software, a professional blog or website, and internet access.)<br />
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For "free," for example, a freelance illustrator may put up his or her virtual "shingle" on Google.com/places or search online jobs boards such as on ifreelance.com, artjob.org or Craigslist.org. Guru.com offers a free membership version.<br />
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But modest sums of one's money can often be well spent outsourcing a bit of advertisement to sites whose alleged purpose is to connect freelance workers (usually of all kinds) with those looking to pay someone to do a project for them.<br />
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Examples of these are oDesk.com, Freelanced.com, and again artjob.org.<br />
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II. The art of doing the art business online<br />
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There are of course no guarantees that one's money will be well spent on such sites. That depends on the freelance jobs one lands.<br />
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Complicating the matter is that most of the offers are by auction. A contractor or job poster advertises a project need with its various specifications to which freelance illustrators (or other artists, depending on the kind of work) make proposals or bids from which the job poster chooses one.<br />
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Thus the freelance artist is under pressure to under-bid, at least until a reputation is earned and more money can be expected. But under-bidding assumes the freelance artist knows how fast he or she can work at what quality. Some effort should be expended trying to estimate a break-even point for oneself before (underline "before") making bids.<br />
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And one must give oneself time to experience the difference between a potentially profitable offer and a money loser.</div>Fijkoytr8765