So I have comic experience and "old school" webcomic experience, and have typically hired freelance artists for projects on a per page payment basis.
I'm currently working on a project for webtoon format and am slowly learning the differences between a traditional comic and a webtoon, both formatting wise and practice wise.
I have an artist, and originally my plan was to just have him draw it like a regular comic, then I'd go back and cut it up in photoshop for webtoon format, that way I could have ez print format for printing later down the line.
But my artist made a point of saying that would be difficult, especially formatting comic-page establishing shots for webtoon format.
Ultimately I decided between future print options and going all in on Webtoon format, I chose the latter. But now a tricky situation arises: How does one handle payment for an artist for webtoon content?
Like what would the standard "per strip" in this case be? IS there a standard for it like a regular "per page" comic?
Webtoon is a new field for me in more ways than one, and would appreciate any advice so I make sure I'm fairly paying my artist while not blowing my own finances using an outdated model paying him.
Thanks for any advice.