A few years ago I was paid $10K to illustrate a picture book, and it took 6 months.
AI is fucking killing the market. And its “illustrations” are shit.
So I did the maths and. $150 over 2-3 days - let’s say 2.5 days and assume a 7.5 hour working day (i.e. 8 hours with a lunch break). That works out to roughly $8 an hour. I don’t know what the minimum wage is in the US but I converted that to GBP and it’s less than two-thirds of minimum wage in the UK.
It’s also less than $3 per illustration. And about 20 minutes per illustration. Speaking as someone who does some art in its free time, if you ask me to make you something in 20 minutes for $3 all you’re getting is stick figures and my spit in your eyes
