Illustration quote template: separate artwork, exports, and uses

A client adds a square promotional image to a quote for two article illustrations. Before changing the price, identify which artwork, which file, and which placement the new request involves.

This fictional I01 quote contains A01 and A02 at an assumed USD 300 creation fee each, giving a USD 600 creation subtotal. Each includes one 1600 × 900 PNG for article placement W01 and one rough review round. The HTML worksheet recalculates the creation subtotal when you change the two rates. It also keeps the square request S01 separate, without assigning it an invented fee or treating it as a third original illustration.

Two originals. A separate square request.
Two originals. A separate square request.
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Give each illustration an identity

Describe A01 and A02 independently. Include the subject, composition, layout, references, and intended reader for each. Two illustrations can share dimensions while depicting different ideas, so a file-size specification cannot replace the brief.

The original export allowance here is one landscape PNG per artwork. That means two originals and two specified exports. W01 is one named article placement shared by both illustrations. Supply the actual publication website and article reference before using the quote with a client.

The creation calculation is 300 + 300 = 600. It prices the two original illustrations under the example assumptions. Exporting the agreed files does not add two more original-artwork charges. Conversely, that subtotal does not promise every crop, file format, or future placement.

Keep review stages attached to the artwork

One rough review round is included for each original. Identify who consolidates comments and what the rough needs to resolve before final work begins. Composition, subject, and space for accompanying text are useful questions to settle at that stage.

Keep actual approval and delivery entries blank until they occur. A review allowance describes planned work; it does not establish that the client accepted a rough or received the final PNG. Store any agreed scope and revision references with the native quote.

The example uses assumed fees, not market rates. Taxes and additional charges remain unconfirmed. Label the amount as a creation subtotal wherever it appears so a reviewer cannot mistake USD 600 for a complete payable total.

Clarify the square request

S01 requests a square promotional placement. Ask whether it uses A01, A02, or new artwork; ask for exact pixels, framing, destination channel, and intended use. A crop of A01 would still derive from that original, but it could require additional composition or export work.

The worksheet lets you select the existing artwork and enter the proposed size and channel. Its clarification note repeats those details beside the missing work price and usage decision. A blank channel remains visibly unresolved instead of becoming an assumed social-media permission.

A new export and a new use need separate answers. Agreeing how to make the square file does not by itself establish where the client may use it. Keep permission wording, territory, and duration for the commissioning parties to resolve; this worksheet supplies no universal license clause.

Send a scope question before a revised quote

Read back the counts: two distinct originals, two included landscape exports, W01 article use, and S01 awaiting clarification. Even after entering S01's dimensions, its additional work price remains unknown until supplied. The worksheet therefore leaves the revised final total unavailable.

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Build a complete, self-contained US-English HTML illustration scope worksheet. Use an editorial studio design with a paper background, clear asset rows, warm accent color, generous whitespace, and minimum 16px text. Keep every section usable at 360px. Use no remote assets, libraries, network requests, or storage.

Label the example fictional quote I01. There are exactly two original illustrations, A01 and A02. Each starts with an illustrative USD 300 creation rate, one included 1600 x 900 PNG export for W01 article use, and one rough review round. Give each original a labeled editable nonnegative creation-rate input. Recalculate the creation subtotal on a type=button click; default is USD 600. Reject blank, negative, nonfinite, and excessive-precision values. Require plain decimal fee text with at most two fractional digits, calculate in integer cents, and clear stale results on edits.

Keep taxes, additional fees, publication website, permission wording, territory, duration, approvals, and delivery unconfirmed. Never call the subtotal a final payable amount.

Include separate change request S01 for a square promotional export/use. Provide buttons to identify A01 or A02, plus labeled pixel-size and intended-channel text fields. A clarification button produces a readable note naming supplied details and unresolved fields. Do not invent an extra fee or create a third original artwork. S01 is neither priced nor accepted, and the revised final total remains unavailable.

Explain the distinction among artwork, output files, and placements. Preserve the actual DOCX/PDF quote as authoritative. No download, acceptance, payment, sending, licensing conclusion, or saved-change claims. Use explicit selectors and accessible click handlers. Return the single complete HTML file.

For a client discussion, keep the actual DOCX or PDF quote as the commercial record. Use a sanitized HTML scope sheet in NOS to preview the artwork/export/use distinctions together. Then ask the client to confirm S01's asset and placement so the illustrator can prepare a priced revision with the appropriate terms.

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