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07-30-2015, 11:35 PM
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The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 1,426
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What happens to your art when your gone?
I have been thinking about this a lot lately and though I would ask the same question to the forum members here. What happens to your art when your gone? Or do you care? Are you leaving it to your descendents? What if your single?
I know I would never get back the same prices I have paid for commissions, but I'm now starting to make a list of what I feel the current value of my commissioned art is worth to leave for my better half in case something were to happen to me. I'm also changing my theme somewhat to characters that would fetch a higher resale price if it were sold.
I know I'll be dead, but I want my wife to get a little something back especially if she needed the cash.
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07-30-2015, 11:55 PM
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Hercules
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 13,814
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estate sale? sold for a nickel a piece at a crappily thrown together tag sale most likely.
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07-31-2015, 12:01 AM
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Jedi Order
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Habs Nation
Posts: 28,111
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All my artwork will be sold long before I kick the bucket. Either I'll use the cash to better enjoy my retirement years or I'll cash in and give it to the kids. It all depends on how much people care about artwork in ten years. It's not like 20 year olds are raring to join this particular party.
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07-31-2015, 12:12 AM
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S.H.I.E.L.D.
Adamantium Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 7,186
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This kind of stuff sorts itself out.
The only thing you really need to worry about is appointing a trusted friend to destroy your hard drive. 
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07-31-2015, 08:48 AM
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U talkin' to me?
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: NYC Metro
Posts: 556
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If I'm fortunate enough to live a long life, I presume I'll have sold my stuff by then or given them away to loved ones, including my 3 boys. If things don't work out that way, I've instructed my wife to have my really good friend (comic book store owner & fellow art collector) help her with unloading the pieces.
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07-31-2015, 09:06 AM
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Baron Zemo
Join Date: May 2006
Location: we know each other, he's a friend from work
Posts: 16,341
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Kids and wife can sell it off after I am gone and they pry it from my dead hands.
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07-31-2015, 09:24 AM
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Hellfire Club
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: chicago
Posts: 4,163
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depending on when i go it will either become a very large coloring book for the kids, ebay fodder, or comiclink / heritage auctions.
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07-31-2015, 09:25 AM
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Hellfire Club
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: chicago
Posts: 4,163
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ghost9
If I'm fortunate enough to live a long life, I presume I'll have sold my stuff by then or given them away to loved ones, including my 3 boys. If things don't work out that way, I've instructed my wife to have my really good friend (comic book store owner & fellow art collector) help her with unloading the pieces.
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set aside your caldwell's and fabok's for me please 
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07-31-2015, 09:33 AM
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Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,693
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I keep a list of all my pieces and what I paid for them.
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07-31-2015, 09:47 AM
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Hercules
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: By a Lake in NC
Posts: 14,926
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Those with immediate family should be sure to explain the value and best mode to sell if that is what the want done. Those without immmediate family should be sure to have where they wanting going spelled out in a will.
Those who do not have a will should make sure they have one put together asap. (and not bc of the art just bc it is something we all should have)
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