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F.A.Q.
1- What's the price of a cartoon or an illustration?
2- And what's the price of a comics story?
3- How much time you need to make a cartoon?
4- May I use a bought drawing as I want?
5- Will be the signature of the author in the drawing?
6- Is the original drawing property of the one who bought it?
7- Is it possible to see a sketch first?
8- Do I must pay the sketches?
9- How do you deliver the drawings?
10- How I must pay you the drawings?
1- The price of a cartoon or
an illustration depends to the technique used and to the difficulty
to make it. A cartoon (or an illustration) in black and white will
cost less than the same coloured. We must consider also the time to
make a cartoon (or an illustration): quick sketch (to study the scene),
sending of it to the client for the approval, possible modifications,
documentation (the drawer cannot draw mentally, but he must absolutely
document himself about the background to draw), possible studies of
objects/characters to draw, penciling, inking, possible colouring.
Obviously, the size of the drawing influences the prize. Generally,
the humorous cartoons will be make in A4 format maximum, while the
illustrations don't have a maximum size. Last, but not least, you
must consider the costs of the materials and the tools used to draw:
pencils, rubbers, inks, album, colours.
2- Same speech for a comics
story. The cost of it depends also to the number of the pages.
3- The realization of a cartoon
doesn't require generally more than a day. But you must consider that
the drawer has also other works in progress and dead lines to respect:
so, please don't ask for a drawing today for yesterday...
But, as the drawer is a sort of a mercenary, he can make miracles
for money...
4- It depends on the agreements
with the author. Generally, the author sells the print rights of his
works for one use only (for ex. a cartoon in a magazine). I remember
that it is a commercial exploitation of an intelligence work, then
the author must get the right remuneration for several commercial
uses of his works.
5- Cartoons, illustrations
and comics stories are signed and it's not possible, neither right
nor correct, to take off the signature of the author. In special cases
you can take off the signature in the drawing after the print, for
ex. in a character created for advertising use or like a logo of a
company.
6- No. The original drawing
(cartoon, illustration, comic story) is copyright of the author. The
author sell the print rights of his works accordingly with the requests
of the client. The original drawing can be, obviously, bought by the
client or others. These ones can not reproduce the drawing neither
parts of it without the written permission of the client that bought
the print rights.
7- Yes. The first step of the
realization of a cartoon (or an illustration or a comics story) is
the sketch, that is a quick pencil draft to see if the drawer got
the right view of the client's idea.
8- No, generally you must not
pay the sketches, unless you will change your idea continuously and
the drawer must make a lot of sketches. But this is a border-line
case.
9- The deliver will be make
accordingly to the client's decision. The required drawing will be
delivered in a CD-Rom and sent. Or I will deliver the original, if
the client needs it. I remember you that generally the drawers sell
the copyright of the drawings, not the originals drawings.
10- You can pay with cash
or with transfer order or with postal order. A cartoon or an illustration
can be payed on delivery. You must give an earnest and the balance
on delivery.
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