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> That is far more preferable to spending hours or days (or maybe even weeks) learning to do it yourself. It depends whether you're trying to maximize your inc

> That is far more preferable to spending hours or days (or maybe even weeks) learning to do it yourself. It depends whether you're trying to maximize your income over the next year or over the lifespan of your career. Investing in yourself by taking the time to learn technical skills and also develop your aesthetic taste in different areas of design is usually going to pay dividends in the longterm far beyond whatever immediate benefit you'd get by outsourcing this. Once you know how to do it yourself, then by all means find a consultant to do it for you, but until then it's just a risky shortcut that's not likely to work out.

fencepost 10y ago
By all means enrich yourself and learn new things, but don't delay your game for 5 years so you can teach yourself how to draw, use proper proportions on figures, color, etc. (on your own because why pay a teacher?). Remember that you're in business, and even if you're a solo dev it's not all about you and your personal growth, it's about whether your business can deliver. The good advice from a conference this past weekend: "if I was hiring, would I hire myself to do this job?"