Time Tracking for Illustrators Who Bill Per Project or Per Hour
Illustrators time tracking
Teetrack helps illustrators log hours across commissions, track sketching and rendering time, and turn tracked hours into client invoices.
Why Illustrators struggle with time tracking
Sketching, inking, and coloring blur into one undifferentiated block
A single illustration moves through concept sketches, line work, coloring, and final rendering. Without phase-level tracking, you cannot tell clients how long each stage actually took or price future work accurately.
Commission scope creep is constant and hard to quantify
Clients ask for one more character, a different background, or extra detail after the initial brief. These additions feel small individually but stack up to hours of uncompensated work.
Personal projects and client work compete for the same hours
Illustrators split time between paid commissions and portfolio pieces. Without tracking, it is easy to spend too many hours on personal work while client deadlines slip.
How Teetrack solves this
- No visibility into phase-level effort: Log time per phase — sketching, inking, coloring, revisions — within each commission so you know exactly where hours go.
- Commission scope creep without data to push back: Set hour budgets per commission and see real-time burn so you can flag scope changes before they eat your margins.
- Invoicing from memory at project end: Turn tracked time into professional invoices with per-commission line items — no spreadsheet reconstruction needed.
Frequently Asked Questions
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