Seeking Established Artist with Related Questions

[Servomoore]

I have finished a script for a spec project and have set aside enough to hire an established artist, assuming the US dollar doesn't tank against the yen in the near future. I have some quick questions in case anyone has commissioned a doujinshi artist for a similar project. I understand the rules for this matter are not particularly hard and fast.

1. Do you know a good site for posting a notice, or should I look through credits of manga I like for email addresses and send messages individually? I've seen recommendations for Pixiv, do the artists there do full stories or just one-off illustrations?

2. Is $250 for an inked page in a domestic setting with characters in contemporary garb (i.e. no complicated backgrounds or mechs) considered a reasonable benchmark?

3. Unthinkingly I formatted the script in Jim Zub's very western style (here's a reference for the curious: https://imgur.com/a/wz38vpz ) Is it worth looking up how it's usually done for manga and reformatting it?

4. Are boilerplate contracts for these projects available? I am told they're fairly secretive about it on a company scale. How are freelancer contracts?

5. Is Paypal popular overseas? Is another payment method popular that's available in the US that I should expect to use?

Thank you very much for your time!

 

[bugmenot2]

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[Kokoe]

From what i know from bakuman a manga artist earns like 3800 yen per page or smth like that and 3 times that for a colored page. No clue tho. 250 is way too much tho I‘ll say that much.

 

[Servomoore]

bugmenot2: I cut and pasted this message from another forum that I joined in 2018. That was sloppy of me and it's been fixed.

Kokoe: I did some Googling, and the panel I found said 9000 yen per page, and that's set back in 2009 before a lot of inflation occurred: https://eric-koenig.com/2019/12/24/the-perils-of-texting-and-a-victory-in-bakuman-chapter-15-send-and-reply/

Also I believe those characters are supposed to be rookies.

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer.

 

[aquariumtourmaline]

If you're really adamant about finding a japanese artist you can try skeb, checklitebox for page rates (though you can expect to pay more for a japanese artist), and if you're fine with a western artist you can try creator advisor

good luck finding an artist that suits your needs

 

[Sheila55]

@Servomoore are u still looking for artist? some pixiv artist I've followed open their commision in pixiv, maybe you can dm them personally and you can also check out their portofolio...
and i also followed a ton of good artist in twitter too mostly asian, but i dunno how to reach em maybe also dm one by one

 

[Servomoore]

Thanks again for your suggestions, but it's beginning to look like Fiverr might be the site I was looking for. Lots of very skilled artists there from Indonesia and the Philippines. Still, I would like at least one, maybe two mid-tier name artists with instantly recognizable styles attached to this project for marketing. Looks like I might just have to grind on that one through a bunch of Twitter of Wix sites until I find one willing to take the job.

Pixiv and Skeb are both kind of awkward for me, and it's also an issue that Skeb doesn't accept Paypal.