#onesheets

WE FEEL YOU. All of us are in the same boat. Most folks who are ADs or in a similar hiring-artist position really DO want to help artists, but we would drown and never get our real job done if we answered one person at a time. That’s why this Tumblr exists, and all the resources at Drawn + Drafted and Make Your Art Work. Art schools really should be teaching this stuff, but Art Biz Education is spotty at best. So our merry band of Art Directors are doing the best we can to spread reliable info from the people actually hiring artists. Feel free to refer all these folks to our free downloadable onesheets on gumroad. There’s ones on how to set up a portfolio, how to self-promote on social media, how to read contracts. etc.

P.S. If you ever want to answer questions here at Dear AD drop us a note! We’d love to have more folks weighing in from the animation biz!

Not unless they’re buying the original.

Commercial clients are usually paying you for specific usage of your art. You retain the original, the copyright, the ability to make prints, and sell other usages to other clients. 

…Unless the client negotiates for Universal Buyout, which means you retain the copyright, but can’t sell any usage to anyone else. 

…Or unless you’re Working for Hire, which means the client owns the copyright. (This happens most frequently when you’re working on someone else’s IP. You don’t get a copyright to Han Solo just because you drew him. The original copyright supercedes yours.)

If this is the first time you’re hearing those terms then go check out the Make Your Art Work PDF onesheet on contracts.

But back to the original question. Nope, it usually doesn’t matter to a client how you get to the image so long as they have a reproducible digital file at the end. So you can’t charge more just because you did it traditionally. 

—Agent KillFee

Hey it’s Gumroad Day so make sure you have all our Art Business Bootcamp cheat sheets. They’re always pay what you can, but today there’s no fees for creators!

Hello! This is also a big topic, and not a simple answer, so I’m going to point you to our parent site, Drawn + Drafted, and the educational resources there. We have a batch of PDF one sheets about topics important to art business. There’s ones on promotion, contracts, confidence, portfolios, and more. We add new ones frequently.

Check them out: http://www.drawnanddrafted.com/#/bootcamps/

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