I don't have much freelance experience to share, but wanted to throw in another question. How much of your freelance work is actually game art related, or do you also venture into other fields? Arch Viz? Web Design? Flyers?
With @"Eric Chadwick" on this one. I enjoy the game work 100% more than any other freelance that I have done, but I will say that I always made quite a bit more money when I stepped outside of games (sometimes more than double the hourly rate). Specifically arch-vis and offline rendered type educational work, especially…
I'm with the guys who've branched out. Game Art Freelancing tends to be 75% small clients (at least for me) and thus I need to string together multiple contracts at a time. I've done some Advertising work with Unreal for a few places in New York that have deep pockets and huge clients that has paid very well. I've done…