I will share my minor horror story: I hired an artist off of guru.com to do the artwork for a game. He was a phenomenal artist, and his asking price was quite l

I will share my minor horror story: I hired an artist off of guru.com to do the artwork for a game. He was a phenomenal artist, and his asking price was quite low. I paid him the first half of his price up front. He produced a few sketches intially, but then got hired by a big game company and that was the last I ever heard of him. In a sense, the price I paid for this was actually worth it as I learned a lot from this experience.