Patterns 🧡

Last January, I applied to a few licensing companies... fast forward to a couple weeks ago. iCanvas wanted me as one of their artists! Never thought my art was marketable at that level! (iCanvas sells on Amazon, Walmart, Target, Wayfair, etc.)

Never Your Enemy | An Art Licensing Collection 🩸⚔️♥️

As a book illustrator, I mostly did commissions over the last year. And I had a very few time to work on my artworks. So this year I decided to make more original art and to make small collections with illustrations and patterns.

Never Your Enemy is inspired by my favorite romantasy tropes : Enemies to Lovers and Forbidden Love.

I visited my World Market and found my new cutting board!! 🧡🍄✨ Thanks to Society6 as always! I also found my journal with Denik in the stationary section 📙✨ so go visit your world market and shop online today!

www.worldmarket.com/p/society6-s...

This is a rehash of a thread I wrote for Twitter that I think is important to share here as well!

some disclaimers:

I don't speak for all artists (but artists, if you didn't know this please look up info about copyright transfer law bc you could be losing out on lots of money)

I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice 

I can only speak to my knowledge and experience working as a freelance Illustrator & Art Director in the United States. Laws will be different for other countries.

dear anyone who’s looking for art for their projects:

Full copyright transfers (FCT) are expensive. If you want a full copyright transfer (ie to OWN the art), expect to pay AT LEAST $1,000 (artists should be charging at LEAST double their base price)

Why?

A FCT means you now own the art and can do anything you want with it: make and sell merch/prints, edit it, resell the rights to someone else, etc

Most people/projects don’t NEED a FCT. There are other options for commercial licenses that allow artists to retain rights & are cheaper for the client. I am BEGGING indie game designers to understand this and to stop lowballing artists when asking for exclusivity.

If you want exclusivity, you gotta PAY for that— however:

Exclusivity ≠ Full Copyright Transfer