Artists with Spare Time: a call for help!
Nov. 27th, 2011 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matt_doyleSo, I'm currently working on what will be, in three to six months, an e-published (and MAYBE self-published through Lulu, if I have an interested customer base) gaming sourcebook, The Periodic Tome of Elementals.
Ideally, I would like to have some illustrations in this book, and I know that many of you have amazing art skills.
Unfortunately, I cannot afford to buy or commission pieces of art.
What I can do, if anyone is interested, is to offer royalties. 1% (potentially, negotiably higher) per each illustration; so that someone who drew ten elementals for me would get a dime out of every dollar I make off the book. In the end, I'm hoping for 30 to 40 illustrations. The .epub version would be selling for $10 or $15; if a printed version sells, it will be going for $20 to $30. Obviously I have no guarantee that there will be any money whatsoever, but enough people have oohed and aahed over the concept and the work I have done so far that I am reasonably confident I can net a few dozen sales.
Does this sound interesting? Does it even sound like a good deal? I don't want to be cheating anyone, so I'd like to be totally up-front and honest about the process from the start. It's my understanding that usually illustrators get paid a flat rate per picture rather than having any percentage of sales go to them, so this could *potentially* be a good deal, but if the book sells poorly or not at all I'm basically asking people to do art fro free, and I recognize that. (Although in that case, I'll be out a little money and probably about two hundred hours of labor myself, so. Equal risks).
What do you think?
Ideally, I would like to have some illustrations in this book, and I know that many of you have amazing art skills.
Unfortunately, I cannot afford to buy or commission pieces of art.
What I can do, if anyone is interested, is to offer royalties. 1% (potentially, negotiably higher) per each illustration; so that someone who drew ten elementals for me would get a dime out of every dollar I make off the book. In the end, I'm hoping for 30 to 40 illustrations. The .epub version would be selling for $10 or $15; if a printed version sells, it will be going for $20 to $30. Obviously I have no guarantee that there will be any money whatsoever, but enough people have oohed and aahed over the concept and the work I have done so far that I am reasonably confident I can net a few dozen sales.
Does this sound interesting? Does it even sound like a good deal? I don't want to be cheating anyone, so I'd like to be totally up-front and honest about the process from the start. It's my understanding that usually illustrators get paid a flat rate per picture rather than having any percentage of sales go to them, so this could *potentially* be a good deal, but if the book sells poorly or not at all I'm basically asking people to do art fro free, and I recognize that. (Although in that case, I'll be out a little money and probably about two hundred hours of labor myself, so. Equal risks).
What do you think?
