Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-30602727-20150517053141/@comment-53539-20150521180248

Can I just step in and say... *some* artists will work for free. *ahem* but bear in mind these are amateurs and not professionals. You simply need to ask in the right places (and not just stick with DA here). But it comes with a cost. You have no contract with them and no certainty about if and when they will get the project done. It can be hit and miss, but the price of a artist is not always as expensive as people think.

There are lots of artists who are looking for portfolio additions or college art that are willing to do things also cheaply. Again... You just have to look in the right places.

You can negotiate as well the terms of usage, so if you can't afford to pay someone you can agree for purely it based on royalties or something. There are lots of ways forward and honestly... The artist though is the last thing to do anyway so its not something you have to worry about until you reach it.

I'm just speaking out of experience, since my field was art I choose in the end.. I do regret it as now I wish I'd have chased music options after college. But it does come in handy from time to time, such as talking about artists. :-/