I am surprised nobody has brought up the most important benefit of registering a copyright.

The largest benefit with the copyright (registered) has to do with litigation and damages.

With a registered copyright you can sue infringers and seek statutory damages and attorney fees. Without a registered copyright you can only go for actual damage and profits which you have to prove.

Registering a copyright also allows you to record your copyright with US customs which helps infringing items to be imported into the USA.

Registering a copyright also gives you a valid and clear ownership record.

It is all a matter of habit. In 2011 I realized I had not been drawing much at all for a variety of reasons. I decided to do 100 days of drawing and that got me into a daily habit. It moved to 365 days, then 500, 1000, 1500 and I got up 1,990+ consecutive days of drawing. Then life got in the way and I have fallen out of the habit and desire and have not picked up a pencil since.

@Aleksey Full time tuition was about $1,800/semester in 81 and $2,300/semester in 83. At that time they had no dorms or housing.

@jimsz

It was expensive for it's time but now the costs associated with a college education are ridiculous. The fact that SVA s a peivaye college makes it even mr expensive.

I'll post a tuition question to a group I belong to as I don't remember the tuition costs back then.

Good luck with the residency! SVA is a great school. Was there in the 80's.

Also, for a project that size a kill fee would not be unheard of.

Buy a copy of the society of Illustrators Pricing Guidelines. That will give you pointers on what limitations are on the pricing (number of proofs, changes requested, ownership of original artwork, rights purchased, etc).

Here is a link for the book

https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Guild-Graphic/e/B07MFZLN9N?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1559575607&sr=1-1

Obituary - https://www.nelsonstar.com/obituaries/richard-william-cartwright/

You have to accept the fact that your images are going to stolen and they may even be sold or used on products without your permission. You can’t stop it.

Some of my work was being sold online on t-shirts, and used on websites. There is nothing you can do about other than send a C&D letter if you can find an actual address.

You can purchase an external CD/DVD drive for less than $25. It’s worth the cost.

If you are running a Macintosh computer and still have the old computer you can insert the drive in he old computer and have it appear on the new computer wirelessly, it’s called disk sharing.

Hang onto CS5 and run it as long as possible it is better then renting software.

Why are you doing a time machine back up only once a month? Ithe default is backup changed files every hour?

You don’t need much for a backup system but you need more than what you have. Few people think of redundancy in backing up. Drives die, that’s a fact.

The least expensive and easiest is to

1. Keep files in Dropbox so you have an offsite copy somewhere.

2. Purchase 2 external drives, the larger the better. 3tb spinning drives can be purchased for $100, buy the largest you can afford (2 of them).

3. Setup the external drives as your time machine backup and leave it to back up every hour. There is no reason your drop box can’t be included in this process and I is unless you manually disable.

4. After spending a week (or month) backingup to one of the external drives, disconnect it and store it in a safe or lockbox and then attach drive #2 for the next week (or month). That way you have redundancy which few people think about. You will have the copy on your computer/Dropbox, a copy on drive 1 and a copy as of the last week on drive 2. 3 copies of most files.