Character Artist / Illustrator

Awesome work Nicholas! I'm sure you'll have no trouble finding projects in need of your skills.

You'll want to target designers with intent to Kickstart/publish their own games, or publishers who employ artists like you.

For designers who are looking to license their designs (like me), paying for art is usually a detriment, as a company will likely prefer to use their own artists or tailor the game to their vision/needs. In other words, keep the core game and scrap the art. A designer could easily find themselves "in the red" with art they paid for which didn't get used...sometimes never even making that money back in royalties!

All that said, welcome, and again...I'm sure you'll find a very warm and receptive audience here, as your talent is without question!

Absolutely I did not mean to imply that you sell stock art...my point being, unless a designer intends to manufacture and publish a game on their own, only then is the expense of hiring an artist of your talent necessary. Of course most if not all would want custom art.

In my case, my business model is to license toys and games to publishers/manufacturers, who would then contract final art for the game. It would be entirely up to the publisher who creates the art, if any rules changes are made...basically the game now belongs to them, so they can change any aspect of the game as they see fit...and they almost always will.

This is why it is usually inadvisable to pay for fantastic art in the prototype stage...90% of the time, it doesn't make it into the final game.

Again, if a designer intends to bring their game to the public entirely on their own, without assigning rights via license agreement with a publisher (and there are plenty such designers out there thanks to Kickstarter), then those are your potential development partners in need of final, polished artwork. Simply stating who you are best off targeting with any promotional discussion threads...

It may also be worth stating that DIY designers likely won't have the same budget to create custom art as a publisher will...just something to keep in mind given the inevitable ask for your rates. Here's a thread dicussing this very topic, just to see what's been discussed here previously. Perhaps as a pro illustrator, weighing in here would be advantageous:

http://www.bgdf.com/forum/game-creation/publication/whats-going-rate-col...

I do hope we can grow our resource of fantastic visual artists like you here on BGDF...this is such an amazing incubator, and you have a great opportunity to participate and lend you artistic expertise to ongoing projects discussed here!

second that!

I like the mix of fantasy and sci-fi characters in your portfolio.