QUOTE=ErikAs I understand it, you live entirely off your music & art/design work
at the moment?
actually I'm not even close to doing that yet
my art subsidises does pay enough to subsidise it a bit, my music pays me nothing other than the
occasional cd
May I ask approx. how much you make a month?What exactly is it that you do & how
much comes from Scald & the design business respectively?
yes you may ask....but its variable and more often than not pitiful
I'm starting to get more recognition now and at least people have mostly stopped asking me to
work for free, but even bigger releases pay shit money,
if you can work like m**e b*****h and churn out tons of photoshop covers quickly I guess you
could do alright. My shit usisally takes 3 times longer than the fee covers, so the hourly rate
is usually less than minimum wage
I hope that someday i can cut out all the design work I'm not bothered with and consentrate on
art. with my present family circumstances (i'm not going to go into it) I don't get enough hours
to make a go of it, family has to come first. But i am planning on expanding a bit soon, I'll be
trying to get our own room in the building we practice in which can double as a painting / photo
studio + rehersal room, I have no room to set up a large painting at home and thats where I see
myself going in the near future.
Scald makes very little money and it all goes back into the band when we do
all 3 of us are pretty damn poor, pete is the only one with a proper job
which he just started a couple of months back after a long unemployed stint
none of us have even slightly rich parents so everything has been scraped up off our own backs,
its another reason why we're slow....but cost effective
we're at a point now were scald is almost paying for itself, money goes to , practice rent,
equipment, recording and producing our cds etc
you really need to be fairly big in the underground to make any money, and that involves touring
What about those other distributed CD's that you sell on your website? [/
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we don't sell that much
the stock we have is trade with other distros for our own cds
it helps the spread at least
for our mates we'll sell thier stuff non profit after paypal fees + postage, we really don't get
anything
How much do you work (how much do you do every month to get those £££s)? Do you
do advertising or publicity crap to get the word around about your services? Etc.
my typical day
(if its one i have time to do work)
get up around 7.30
do some housework, get the lad ready for school
8:30- school run
followed by taking meals and medication to an elderly relative whos been ill for some time
make sure he's sorted for the day, clear up a bit
do any shopping that needs done ..
get home around 9:30
theres usually some shit to do, then whatever emails are urgent, then work till 2:30 on artwork
so I normally get 3-4 hrs work done during the day, if I'm lucky
occasionally I'll get 6 hrs
then I go to pick my sone up from school
a half hour spent waiting in the car, usually with a sketchbook
get home, deal with homework
another hr or so on emails downstairs, sometimes I'll work on the shitty comp downstairs doing
illustrator parts, or surf about
cook dinner if its my turn, sit downstairs doing family stuff or work til about 9/10
then usually back upstairs to do work or scald work till 1am or so
sometimes 2am or later depending on workload....wether or not I pass out
.............
I used to approach labels etc about artwork but its rarely successful
these days they just come to me
I've had features in a couple of music mags
not sure if that has helped or not
I'm fairly shit at networking really, not being the social type
I'm in better position than I was a couple of years back but where I'd like to be
is creating art of my own and being able to live of it
licencing works to those who want to publish it
it would take out about 1/3 of the slog
