Business
9 min
Day rates, per-asset pricing and retainers: what I charge, why, and what I'd tell myself five years ago.
Pricing is the question I get asked most, so here are real numbers.
I quote per asset for sprites and tiles, and a day rate for anything exploratory. Key art is a flat fee with two rounds of changes.
Two of my clients pay a monthly retainer for a set number of days. It's the steadiest income I have.
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Process
7 min
Dawn, noon, dusk and night from a single drawing. Here are the four lighting keys, and the one mistake I made for years.
Tutorial
5 min
Why your greens look muddy, and how a ten-colour ramp from teal to lemon fixes it.
Process
8 min
Players notice repeats in seconds. Here's how Lanternfall's tileset hides them.