Well, for paid collaboration, it's money obviously. I guess my question is how much.
I can't have one right now, but it seems to me that i won't be able to put out everything i want in my life time without some help. So i want to have someone take care of what i can't do well/ fast enough. Which in my case is drawing background and coloring.
It's more like hiring an assistant rather than finding a partner to do collaboration. I just want to ask for your opinions as artists to know how much i need to prepare, i guess.
As for requirement for background drawing, the lower end is something like i did here https://tapas.io/series/One-Day-in-the-Life-of-a-Comic-Artist
And my ideal is like smth from Yotsuba! https://www.mangago.org/img/yotsubato/chap-77/1.jpg
For coloring work, well someone better than me i guess. Which should not be very high criteria.
There'll probably be comments like it's depending on how much you like the artist, you might even do it for free if you like his work... or smth. Well that probably how it is for most, but idk that doesn't seem like professional or stable relationship to me.
So setting everything aside, assume you're totally neutral toward the artist. How much would make you agree to be the assistant, in this case with my quality requirement.