Spec Art

Most companies will pay you for spec piece. That's the majority. You'll either get some sort of... They have a budget for test pieces or you'll get ... If it's a piece that they ended up not using, but you spent time on,. There's like a kill fee that you can get, but that's usually after you've signed a contract with them. One thing you can do is send the full piece with 72 DPI, essentially web resolution. And then if they ask for high resolution, send them half of it. So cut it in half vertically and send it a half so they could see, oh, here's how the brush strokes look up close. Here