What's Bugging You Today? Volume 3, Part 1

**Fe 26** · 30 Sep 2012, 08:36 AM

oh, well 10%

450 instead of 500. I don't know why they aren't knocking your door down.

**kedawa** · 30 Sep 2012, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by Hero

Hypothetically, you could charge $1/hr to the same clients I quote and they'll get what they pay for - shit work from someone who doesn't know what the fuck they're doing and taking forever to do it.

Would they even know the difference?
I have a few friends that do freelance illustration, and most of the time, their great concepts get reduced to bland garbage once they've taken their clients 'creative' input into account.

**Dolemite** · 30 Sep 2012, 04:24 PM

Unfortunately, now more than ever, the market sets the price. As talented as Hero may be, the market is probably flooded with people of a similar skill set. Companies can low ball and they know there are people out there desperate enough to bite working for a fraction of their normal rate.

**Brisco Bold** · 30 Sep 2012, 05:30 PM

True. The great thing is once a company gets fucked over by a bad designer/illustrator, they typically reevaluate their position. That's assuming they're a good company you want to work for.

**Hero** · 01 Oct 2012, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by Brisco Bold

True. The great thing is once a company gets fucked over with by a bad designer/illustrator, they typically reevaluate their position. That's assuming they're a good company you want to work for.

That's the key - usually dropping price and being desperate for low-paying work gets you mixed up with those who aren't worth working with no matter the price. Those who are good to work with tend to value high quality and are willing to put the money into it. Not to mention that no job is ever set in stone as far as rates go, nor the (mostly anecdotal) evidence from other designers that when they drop their rates, they actually tend to get less offers. Since it seems there's a notion that such work really does have a quality::cost relation.