Reservation of Rights

All rights not expressly granted to the Client beforehand are retained by the Artist, including any electronic rights or usage unless specified and including, but not limited to, all rights in sketches, comps, or other preliminary materials. Any grant of rights is conditional upon receipt of full payment. Upon receipt of full payment, Artist shall deliver digital files necessary to enable Client’s usage rights granted herein. Any use additional to that expressly granted requires arrangement for payment of a separate fee. Artist retains the rights to display all work created by Artist, including preliminary materials and final art, in Artist’s portfolios, including in print and online, and to submit such work to design periodicals and competitions.

Revisions

Preliminary Work/Sketches: Artist agrees to submit one (1) initial sketch for Client’s approval. The client is allowed one (1) revision. Additional fees will be charged to Client for revisions requested after sketches are approved and for all revisions that reflect a new direction for the assignment or new conceptual input.

Finished Art: Client agrees to pay Artist an additional fee, to be negotiated separately, for changes requested to final art where Client asked Artist to proceed directly to final art.

No additional fee shall be billed for changes required to bring final artwork up to original specifications or assignment description. Client agrees to offer Artist the first opportunity to make any changes to final artwork.

Cancellation

The Client may cancel at any time before production on the art has started with a full refund.

Payment

Fifty percent (50%) of the final fee is due upon acceptance of the commission. The rest of the fee is due upon approval of the sketch. The Client’s right to use the work is conditioned upon receipt of payment and upon Client’s compliance with the terms of this Agreement.

Permissions and Releases

The Client agrees to indemnify and hold the Artist harmless against any and all claims, costs, and expenses, including attorney’s fees, due to materials included in the artwork at the request of the Client for which no copyright permission or privacy release was requested or for which uses exceed the uses allowed pursuant to a permission or release or the scope of the license granted hereunder.