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 The Graphic Artists Guild Handbook-Pricing & Ethical Guidelines says the conventional artist-representative arrangement calls for a 25 percent commission for the representative (textile design is 25-40%). When I had a rep in the Bay Area she charged 25%. These are professionals - perhaps others would take less.

My copy is a few years old, but I assume it still holds. It sounds about right. Compared to reps, most galleries my area (No. CA) take 40%, some as much as 50%. 

You can borrow my copy if you want-it has other info related to artist reps. Good artist reps are not always easy to find. Sounds exciting.

Check out the sales reps completely before you allow them to take your work.  I have only had good things happen through using one, but a very good friend of mine lost 7 (I think that was the total in the end) oils when the "New Gallery looking for professional artists" disappeared.  This happened in Utah about 12 years ago. Ruth was able to recover 9 of her 16 pictures "required" to exhibit at this gallery.  There were many artists who lost full collections.

Thank you all for the feedback.

I have always had the gift to gab, so selling come natural. Its just difficult to make the time, when my day job as a Fabricator keeps be busy 100 hrs a week. I get small half days off once in a while, but to drained to think about anything. If all I had to do is produce, I could do allot more work. I will do some of my own once in a great while, but nothing compare to what I'd like to.

I'll take everyones comments in and do more research ;) Plus Jon at Brokencolor was kind enough to off me a artist sellers book, Thanks Jon. 

Steve, i agree with what everyone is saying, i also have the same book several older versions too...sounds about right....seems fair to pay 25% for a nuisance fee if one doesn't have the time....i'm one to believe in taking the time to sell one's self for simpler reasons of pride....... i have a contract with a publisher which is not real easy to get, if they sell my work they get 90%....now that doesn't seem right, but if they sell it's quantity usually....nothing has sold as of yet.....as artist we all need to keep a keen reality on when the market/economy is bad nobody buys art....doesn't mean our art is bad or we as artist didn't do something right or weren't trying hard enough, it simply means this to shall pass....hang tight, try not to stress over it, most important never ever panic....i have, was literally giving stuff away for next to nothing then kicked myself later.....

silly phrase i just thought of...."artist are a dime a dozen" when was the last time (besides AB) you found a loose dime on the ground..?         we must continue to think of ourselves as extremely gifted individuals who apart from the rest of the world see life differently, creatively, soulfully, spiritually, emotionally, continually striving to enrich the lifes of other human beings with our work.....

i guess what i am trying to impress with you here is nothing is impossible, try it, if it doesn't work, do something else, nothing is ever set in stone, unless it's a path to your beautiful garden.....

good luck, have fun, simply continue to enjoy....

peace.....

Does anyone know how I could find a rep who could get me some book illustration work?

Tami from Minneapolis