Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-01-06

tween twenty-five II thirty. and ma.
KING 500 or more a week. There is a
Dig field in newspaper illustrating 70,
'he man with a specially adapted to
newspaper needs.
Manly consider newspaper art a fine
stepping stone to the more particular
ana remunerative magazine illustra-
ing and pOrtraiture: so your artist
son will in all probability try to get
some work of hat character on the
size. He gets it. of course, by applying
70 the art manager Of one of the maya
zines, who, it favorably impressed, will
give him some unimpol tant story to H.
l'lstrafe. or will buy a comic or other
sketch to Use III vacant spaces on the
advertising pages.
The line of advancement fem here is
pretty well defined; fnr il al! denends
upon the progress made BY your son.
II he makes good on the magazine as
s'gnm"nts he gets. he will be given
more and more important work, until
ii" Is included among the army OF sue
ccssiul illustrators, n will earn from
$1,000 to Sc. 200 a year. Many artists.
and men under thirty at that. are paid
as much. Even If he should have no
ambition to become a great portrait or
landscape artist, there is plenty of
room in this line for him to get high
on the ladder. I have in mind one man
who makes $50 900 a year out of the
magazines and advertising pictures
alone.
The illustrating of advertisements
has become a large n very remunera-
tive held Tor artists, and if you know
their monographs n peculiarities you
will find that some af the best known
painters and illustrators are taking an
important part in this commercial de-
veiopment. One man, for instance, is
paid $500 a figure for fashion draw
ings. and as each picture has three or
four figures, and he can easily make
one of these designs in a week, there
is a possible income Of 81, 900 a week
in this work alone.
Another and similar line is found
with the photographic companies, which
employ large forces of artists to make
and fix up pictures for advertisers, cal
endars. etc. These men are generally
St4ptOJ GU AS6u1ollJ ~ Sd1dllcS "a $GV
to $50 a week for ordinary workmen,
and offer the possibility of working up
to the position of head designer of the
department at a salary sometimes of
as high as $1,000 a year.
II r~crtraiture is to be your sons spe-
cialty, or if he is proficient at it, even
without making it his specially, he will
find great possibilities before him,
even if he doesn't become one Of the
| worlds greatest men in this line. So
common is this particular phase of hu-
man vanity that at his first manifesto
ton of ability in this direction he will
have opportunity to paint somebody
or somebody's wife's picture, and Will
be paid-whateyer the two parties to
the agreement decide upon. One por-
trait painter-and he is not by n
means numbered among the worlds
g~reatest-is regularly paid $4,000 Cor
a head, $4,000 for a half length figure,
and 81, 900 for a full length.
There IS little satisfaction to be de-.
rived from the sale OF pictures and
age sale is less than five per cent. in
such instances, and even then they
are not apt to bring adequate prices.
OF course, if your boy is a genius
but we are not talking about g%eniuses.
These pointers are addressed to the
father of just the average bright boy
who may possess a little Imagination
and originality.
Copyright, 1910. by the Associated Lit
erary Press.)