Heidi Fisk's Blog - Posts Tagged "cover-writing-art"
Royalty Free Images
It goes without saying, when I first started writing I used quite a few Royalty Free Images, a lot of them I had to dig through to find in fact.
They were cheap, and allowed me to release content often without having to worry about artist and character designs.
Of course things have changed and now I rarely if ever use Royalty Free Images for my covers, however this has brought up a rather unique problem.
Covers, designs...those cost money, not only that I am limited to what I can release at a given time. Even by some miracle I was able to write 100K in a month, I wouldn't have enough money to pay all the artist or character designs for everything.
I thought about making shorter content using Royalty Free Images, but I don't think I could do that. It wouldn't look as nice, and even then I would have to start a completely new series, something I want to avoid.
I guess I'm just really bad at business when it comes to something like that.
Also, don't get the wrong idea. I think there is no shame in using Royalty free images, and if the image really fits then it can save you a butt-load of money.
They were cheap, and allowed me to release content often without having to worry about artist and character designs.
Of course things have changed and now I rarely if ever use Royalty Free Images for my covers, however this has brought up a rather unique problem.
Covers, designs...those cost money, not only that I am limited to what I can release at a given time. Even by some miracle I was able to write 100K in a month, I wouldn't have enough money to pay all the artist or character designs for everything.
I thought about making shorter content using Royalty Free Images, but I don't think I could do that. It wouldn't look as nice, and even then I would have to start a completely new series, something I want to avoid.
I guess I'm just really bad at business when it comes to something like that.
Also, don't get the wrong idea. I think there is no shame in using Royalty free images, and if the image really fits then it can save you a butt-load of money.
