Hullo!
There is a popular influencer who inspired me to draw some chibi style characters of them. I thought it would be super fun to print them as stickers and send it to them, this person is hilarious. However, I got to thinking, what if my art gets stolen or reproduced, should I include a note about “hey these are gift, but if you’d like to buy the art to resell as merch…”
That brings me to my main question. How would you quote licensing or even just selling the designs to someone who has a massive following on multiple platforms but has zero merch yet (which is kinda crazy). Like, even I would buy this persons merch if they had it. Since this would all be based on projections, would this be a case to charge royalties? To me it would make sense to because the market it there, but there’s no telling what the response could be to the merch.
I don’t want to shoot myself in the foot here and undersell. This is all theoretical at this point of course but I want to be prepared for that conversation if it were to happen.
This will also come in handy if I do merch design for indie authors in their near future.
Thanks yall!