Hi! This is a quick two part post. First I'd like to say I had a great time at the Fan World 2017 Convention in Niagara Fall, NY. While I did not have much time to do demonstrations of my board game, or play some other designers products, I did however spend a lot of time helping out the volunteer staff (and becoming a staff member in the process!)
It was quite a busy weekend, and I was able to meet and assist a lot of great people, such as Todd Haberkorn, who needed a photographer during his post panel autographing, and Christopher Robin Miller (Professor Layton). Another big name I was glad to meet and help was John Stocker. He's an old guy but we spent hours talking about some of the greats he's worked with in his past years; John Candy, Steve Martin, and the entire original cast of Saturday Night Live.
Now the second part of my post brings up an interesting suggestion I was offered while doing a brief display of my board game. There were quite a few comments and compliments on my games artwork, and was asked if I did illustrations.
My question is this; what is required to become an illustrator for hire? I've done some research, and the first obvious one is to have a readily available portfolio of my work, which I will be developing in the next few months. However I'm wondering if there's some form, or many forms of legal aspects or protocols I have to follow before potentially selling my artwork. Does anyone have experience in this? If so, please comment!
While I did have a different theory in mind, everything in your post makes sense.
Originally I was considering this sort of method, (and if I'm wrong, by all means tell me!)
My art style is focused more on front facing 2D/3D icons and simple images. Now I know pretty much anyone can do this, but while I can help various designers with projects, I can work on improving my own art skills as well. As for ownership and rights and such, being that my artwork can be cranked out in galleries in a matter of days, obviously my prices will be affordable.
In my head, a typical conversation with a designer would be, "Hey, I like your style/this image you did", my response would be to quote a price, and release the rights to the receiver, no questions asked. The image/s can be modified, used, promoted, posted however they like, if I can make a couple dollars off of a simple image, I won't bring legal actions into it. It's theirs entirely.
In time I'll have an image posted to provide a visual of what I'm thinking/planning. But, like I said, if I'm going about this the wrong way, I'd like to know! Thanks again.