Illustrator Portfolio, Commission Portal and Print Shop, Made with AI

Mythex lets an illustrator build a portfolio grouped by market, a commission portal where clients approve sketches and finals round by round, quotes that price the drawing and the usage separately, and a print shop with numbered editions. Describe your work and how you take commissions, check the preview and publish.

The business around the drawing

An illustrator spends a surprising part of the week not drawing: answering enquiries, quoting, explaining why a national campaign costs more than a blog header, and chasing a publisher's accounts team for an invoice sixty days overdue. Briefs, sketches and revision rounds pile up in email threads, so nobody can say whether this is the third round or the fifth. Contracts sit in PDFs and license terms are forgotten until the client wants to reuse the art. Before Christmas, print sales and pet portrait commissions arrive all at once. Good tools separate the creative fee from usage, keep each project's rounds and approvals in one place, and release final files only when the invoice is paid.

• Portfolio grouped by market
• Briefs with deadline, use and budget
• Revision rounds counted per contract
• Usage rights by media, territory and term
• Kill fees and purchase order numbers
• Limited editions with numbers left

What you can build for illustrators

Sketches, roughs and finals with an approve button

Each commission has stages: sketch, colour rough, final. Clients approve each one with a date recorded, and revision rounds count against what the contract allows. Final high-resolution files unlock when you mark the invoice paid; until then, clients see watermarked previews.

Build a client portal for my illustration commissions. Each project has sketch, colour rough and final stages with an approve button and date. Show revision rounds used out of the number included. Clients see watermarked previews, and final files unlock when I mark the invoice paid.

A portfolio an art director can skim in seconds

Your strongest dozen pieces up front, then work grouped by market: editorial, children's books, packaging. Client names where you have permission, an enquiry form asking for use, deadline and budget, and your agent's details if you have one.

Make a portfolio website for my illustration business with my best twelve pieces on the home page, galleries for editorial, children's books and packaging, a client list, and a commission enquiry form asking for intended use, deadline and budget.

Quotes that price the usage, not just the drawing

Creative fee and usage fee on separate lines, with usage described by media, territory and duration. Revision rounds, deadlines and a kill fee are stated on every quote, and an accepted quote becomes the project.

Create a quote tool for illustration commissions. Each quote has a creative fee, a usage fee based on media, territory and duration, number of revision rounds, deadline and a kill fee. Clients accept online and the project is created in my portal.

Numbered editions and originals

Prints in several sizes, limited editions showing how many are left, originals marked sold once gone, and cards, stickers and books next to them. Shipping options for rolled and flat prints.

Build a print shop for my illustrations. Open-edition prints in A4 and A3, limited editions of 50 with numbers left shown, originals that sell once, plus cards and stickers. Offer rolled or flat shipping.

Invoices that state the licence

Creative and usage fees split, the licence written on the invoice, purchase order numbers for publishers, kill fees for cancelled jobs and deposits before personal commissions start.

Make invoicing for my illustration business with creative fee and usage fee lines, the licence terms (media, territory, term) printed on the invoice, a purchase order number field, kill fee invoices, and 50% deposits for personal commissions.

Art directors who move between publications

Each contact with where they work now, what they commissioned, licences granted with territory and term, and when you last sent new work. A list shows licences ending soon.

Build a CRM for an illustrator. Track art directors and editors with their current publication, past projects, licences granted with territory and end date, and last portfolio update sent. List licences ending in the next 90 days.

Christmas starts in October

Pet portraits, house portraits and print orders peak before the holidays. Put a personal-commission landing page live in early autumn with starting prices, sizes, turnaround and your last order date in large type, and set the shop's last posting date the same way.

• Starting price and size
• Turnaround time
• Last order date for Christmas

From email threads to one project record

Start with the next commission rather than migrating old ones. Create the project from the accepted quote, upload each round to the portal instead of attaching it, and ask the client to approve there. After two or three projects, the email threads stop on their own.

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