Illustration Pricing-How to Make Money Drawing Illustrations

How to calculate the specific price of wall painting?

The larger the painting area, the lower the price per square meter. Generally, if you do not use 8 to 10 square meters, you will be quoted based on the entire painting. The more difficult the drawing, the higher the price per square meter. Generally, painters with the same material type, Chinese painting and meticulous Chinese painting are more expensive than freehand Chinese painting, and realistic oil painting is more expensive than abstract oil painting. 3D wall painting is relatively more professional and the price is higher. How to make money by drawing illustrations

Share the channels for making money with illustrations

1. Illustration contributors:

1) Visual China/Zhanku Hailuo

These two platforms are relatively authoritative platforms. Visual China needs to upload works on the platform after signing a contract, and Zoku Hailuo can upload them directly. When uploading, you can choose exclusive or non-exclusive depending on your needs. Although the income from non-exclusive works is not very high, the same work can be sold continuously to make money, which is a good way to continue to make income.

2) Other contracting platform websites

For example, Illustration China, Mi Painter, Graffiti Kingdom, Painter Alliance, Art Box, UI China, Qiantu.com, Petals, etc.

When uploading works on these platforms, it is best to pay more attention to targeted uploads of commercial hot spots and upload them in a series, which will achieve double the effect.

2. Peripheral products

1) Zizier.com:

You can open your own store here, so you need to have a certain amount of traffic of your own. You can also sell on behalf of others. The income share from the sales on behalf of others will be much smaller, but you can use the traffic of the platform to sell products. I uploaded a few simple pictures before, and the simple pictures surprisingly sold a few orders. However, because it was a consignment sale, the income was not very high, but it was still a small channel that could continue to make income.

2) Taobao store cooperation:

After you continue to increase your exposure and promote yourself, some Taobao stores will take the initiative to seek cooperation with you. There are two ways to cooperate with stores:

You set the price

For example, a T-shirt store has its own base price and will let you set the price. The money you make is determined by you. Price minus store reserve price.

Pricing (you decide) = store price difference (earned)

Earn commission

For example, in a decorative painting shop, he will give each 5 to 10% of the monthly sales will be divided into specified times each month.

3) Open your own store:

Taobao store or Weidian. This requires that you already have your own traffic, have a certain degree of popularity, and many people like your paintings very much. Then you can open your own store to sell some peripheral products made from your own illustrations. For example, T-shirts, notebooks, mobile phone cases, canvas bags, pillows, etc.

4) Publishing books:

You can continue to receive royalties from illustrated books or picture books.

5) Offline large-scale illustration activities:

For example, Illustration Carnival, Singularity Art Festival, China International Illustrators 100 Exhibition and other activities. Here you can constantly sell your own peripheral products, and you can also meet many illustration partners in the same industry. Many businesses will come here to find illustrators, which will give you more possibilities and opportunities.

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3. Customers are looking for you

This requires you to continuously publicize and promote yourself. Actively publishing works on different platforms, increasing your connections, and being active in various groups will bring you greater opportunities. Regarding how to let customers actively find you and promote yourself better, this part has a lot of content, which will be explained in detail in the next article.

4. You find customers

1) Illustration groups

Join as many illustration-related WeChat groups as possible. You will often have illustration-related needs. Take the initiative when it feels right for you. You can also publish more of your latest works to let more people know about you, so that when there are suitable needs, they will most likely think of you first.

2) QQ outsourcing group

QQ has many illustration outsourcing groups. If you pay more attention, you will find more opportunities.

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3) Public account submission

There are many public accounts that publish content through illustrations. If you feel that the style matches yours, You can take the initiative to contribute.

4) Magazine submission (heart painting, etc.)

5) Recruitment information submission

There are also many recruitment illustrators or part-time illustrators on major recruitment websites. Especially picture books.

6) Major vertical painting websites

Illustration Home, Graffiti Kingdom and other illustration-related websites often have a lot of demand for illustrations.

5. Teacher/Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant: Not only can it bring some income, but it can also bring huge network resources and accelerate growth together with the teacher.

Teacher: You need to accumulate your own painting level and flow in the early stage. When you have accumulated it to a certain level, you can start to consider starting classes. Common ones include live courses (high income), recorded courses (continuous income), and check-in activities. Common platforms include cctalk, Qianliao, NetEase Cloud Classroom, Huke.com, Blue Pencil, etc.

6. Participate in competitions

Zokuo, UI China, Visual China, Graffiti Kingdom, these websites often publish many illustration-related competitions. What is the current situation of domestic illustrators?

The domestic illustration industry has developed relatively maturely. It is usually a freelance job. You only need to take orders at home. If your income is high enough, you can live anywhere. It doesn’t matter if you are with your parents, as long as there is an Internet connection. You can work without having to bear the high rents and housing prices in big cities. It can be said that this kind of career is what many people dream of.

Of course, although the illustrator profession is relatively free, there is also a lot of chaos. Because the threshold for illustrators is low, demand is huge, the market is not standardized, and information is extremely asymmetric, resulting in no standard pricing and no guarantee of cooperation.

Some illustrators say that a single order costs about 300 yuan, and a rare large order only costs 1,000 yuan. For some freelance illustration and graphic designers, the orders he takes are at least 800 yuan, and he won't accept any orders lower than that, and his level is not very high. Some orders are 2000-3000 yuan, which is very simple.

This is caused by information asymmetry. Party A generally tends to find painters who have already cooperated with it, because it is very costly to find a new painter, and it will waste time if the draft does not pass.

Also, many people who are invited to work now do not sign a contract. This is also caused by the low threshold for freelance illustrators. Many illustrators take the initiative to lower their requirements in order to receive orders. As a result, illustrators who do not want to lower their requirements are forced to accept, otherwise they will not receive orders. Some people even take the initiative to lower prices.

Of course, although there is a lot of chaos in the illustrator industry, due to its low threshold, as long as you have certain painting skills, you can get orders in this industry, and it is not difficult to make a living.

With the development of time, the industry will become more and more standardized. If students want to improve their painting skills, or start learning painting from scratch.