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William (Bill) A. McBride
WAM Architectural Illustration
18 West 59th Street
Kansas City, MO 64113
office: 816-523-2345
cell: 816-806-1732
email: bill@wamiam.com
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We can start this process with no more than a conversation or napkin sketch, but I can develop a more accurate quote if I am provided with the design drawings. Wherever you are in the design process, early or late, I can work with you to provide an illustration to meet your needs.
Send me whatever you deem appropriate to describing your design: elevations, site plan, building plans, sections, details, photos, cut sheets, color boards, etc.). PDF images are useful to start this process but DWG’s will eventually be required if you need me to make the computer model. Regardless of how each project begins, when you call me you are speaking with a past architect, an accomplished illustrator, and the business manager, so you get direct answers and firm commitments.
Cost estimates:
Once we establish the scope of services, I will provide a not-to-exceed price in the form of a one-page proposal. The work will be billed hourly up the not-to-exceed, so if the work goes faster than expected then I only bill you for the hours I work.
A simple line drawing can cost from $250 to $800. A typical color rendering ranges from $1000 to $3000. Reimbursable expenses and sales tax, if applicable, are additional (see below).
Time and schedule:
Rendering typically take me a day for a black-and-white sketch, a few days for a simple watercolor, and a week or more for a complex renderings. If the project is on a rush, call me now so I can fit you into my schedule.
Flexibility:
I can provide a full service product, collaborate with your staff, or pick up the project using a computer model developed at your office. If changes are made to the work after the proposal is accepted, then adjustments for my time are added to the initial proposal should I exceed the capped price.
Reimbursable expenses and sales tax:
Reimbursable expenses include printing (offset, bubblejet, laser, Xerox, etc. including paper), mounting, delivery, packaging, framing, film, photo developing and any other processes either typical of illustrating or at the request of the client.
All businesses operating in Missouri are subject to sales tax (7.25% as of July 2010) unless they are either tax exempt or charging sales tax themselves to their clients. Tax exempt entities are required to provide proof of exemption.
