The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-01-05

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will be gratified finally at seeing one
Of his own compositions appearing in
print to illustrate some article, or joke,
or story.
BY the end of three years he will be
receiving probably $40 week, and by
this time he should have shown pretty
definitely whether or not he Is going
to make a success in art. In two
years more he should have found a
speciality, If he has any, whether in car
| looming, comics, portraits, dramatic
news stories, or scenery in general,
and will be receiving anywhere from
$40 week up. Many artists have
been at the zenith Of their careers be-
tween twenty-five and thirty, and ma
king 500 or more a week. There Is
big field in newspaper illustrating for
the man with specially adapted to
newspaper needs.
Many consider newspaper art fine
| stepping stone to the more particular
and remunerative magazine illustra-
ting and portraiture; so your artist
son will in all probability try to get
some work of that character on the
side. He gets 1t, Of course. by applying
to the art manager Of one Of the maya
zines. who. II favorably impressed. will
give him some unimportant story to IL
lustrate. or will buy q comic or other
sketch to use In vacant spaces on the
advertising pages.
The line Of advancement from here is
pretty we'll defined; for it all depends
upon the progress made by your son.
If he makes good on the magazine as
| signments he gets, he will be given
more and more important work, until
he is included among the army of sue
cessful illustrators, and will earn from
| $4,000 to $4,000 a year. Many artists,
and men under thirty at that, are paid
as much. Even II he should have no
ambition to become great portrait or
landscape artist, there is plenty OF
room in this line for him to get high
on the ladder. have in mind one man
who makes 100000 year out of the
magazines and advertising pictures
alone.
| The illustrating of advertisements
has become large and very remunera-
| tive field for artists, and If you know
their monograms and peculiarities you
will find that some af the best known
painters and illustrators are taking an
| important part in this commercial de-
velopment. One man, for instance, is
paid $500 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 $1,000 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
employed regularly at salaries of $40
to $50 week for ordinary workmen
and offer the possibility of working up
to the position of head designer Of the
department at salary sometimes of
as high as $1,000 year.
If portraiture is to be your sons spe-
cialty, or If he is proficient at it, even
without making it his speciality, 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 HUI
man vanity that at his first manifesta-
ton of ability in this direction he will
have opportunity to paint somebody
or somebody's wife's picture, and will
he paid-whatever the two parties to
the agreement decide upon. One por-
trait painter-and he is not by any
means numbered among the worlds
greatest-is regularly paid $4,000 for
a head $4,000 for a half length figure,
and $4,000 for full length.
There is little satisfaction to be de-
rived from the sale of pictures and
sketches at exhibitions, as the aver
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 genius
but we are not talking about geniuses.
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.)