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Hi Stephen,

We are not allowed to talk specific prices on this listserv.  One very good reference is the Graphic Artists Guild Guide to Pricing and Ethical Guidelines. It gives fee ranges for everything from spot illustrations to full color covers. Also contracts and usage fees. 

If you’re just starting out, keep track of all the time you spend on a project, from research to rendering, so you can more easily estimate future jobs. (“This job will take me #X hours; I want to make X$/hour...).

Congratulations on this job! 

Gretchen 

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On Jul 24, 2019, at 8:36 PM, Stephen Nachtsheim <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi All!

After the conference, my boss asked me to do some illustrations for a paper he is publishing on a new insect species. This would be my first real scientific illustration job, and I’m not sure how to price it! He gave me suggestions, but he said I should look myself as well. As you can guess, the internet hasn’t been super helpful in how to price scientific illustrations. So I thought I would ask the experts! It would be just two images of an epiproct and an aedeagus.

It would just be a pen and ink / stippling illustration.

He recommended from $150 - $200 for Both. Is that a good amount?

Thank you!
Stephen Nachtsheim

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