I just spent the last six days straight in a fugue state writing this from start to finish, and I’m ready to crash.

I present to you;

So You Want To Be A Professional Artist:
A Guide to Selling Art and Commissions, And Other Tales
By Ash Something

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After the Adobe IP/TOS fiasco I was set into a nearly all-cnsuming rage that made me decide to put into an accessible and exhaustively-detailed document to provide to other artists and creators who are just fucking T I R E D of dealing with everything about this capitalistic hellscape.

This document details as much as I could think of to include in a 150-page dissertation outlining everything from how to find commissions, how to do your taxes as a Self-Employed individual, andexhaustive amount of information regarding Cpyright and IP law, and how that affects your business and art, as well as how to use it to best protect yourself and your IP, how to write contracts you’ll need when dealing with clients, and just every fucking thing else I could put into it.

I love you all, and I’m tired of seeing artists take loss after loss.
I hope this can help you all.

This document is written by and is © 2024 Ash Something.

The document currently links to certain graphics and imagery that I do not own the copyright to, which I intend to replace with my own versions of at a later date. I do not claim to own anything I am linking aside from my own personal website or writings that clearly state they were authored by me. I am not using these materials for commercial gain, and I am only using them for educational and informative purposes. I have not replicated or claimed these materials into this writing so as to avoid the confusion or appearance that I am claiming them as my own IP.

I have credited artists where applicable and I have attempted to link to the official websites or home pages of the original IP owners when I reference them, and used Google or Wikipedia along with a variety of other sources for more catch-all references I am attempting to make.

I am making this writing public, free of charge, to all artists and reader under the following license:

So You Want To Be A Professional Artist: 
A guide to selling art and commissions, and other tales 
written and compiled by: Ash Something 
© 2024 by Ash Something and licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. 
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This license applies to the writing and contents therein and NOT the contents included in any outside links or hyperlinks that I have included,  unless otherwise stated.