Hey I just met you this is crazy here’s my manuscript, illustrate it for me.
Have you ever been in this situation as an Artist?
How often do people offer you the opportunity to do the artwork for their children’s book? It seems that as soon as people know you’re an artist, they want you to illustrate their book. They haven’t got a clue how it works in the real world of illustration, or that maybe you don’t want to spend a few hundred hours designing, drawing, and illustrating a story that it took them 2 hours to write. And it’s their first book, and probably not finished and will need you to fix the story.
It’s always awkward. It would be flattering if these people knew your work, but most don’t. They usually just know your an artist and they they know, (or think) that they are a children’s book writer.
Any way, we put this together awhile back using Xtranormal.com. I would recommend it for you to go have some fun with it but I can’t find it out there any more. I wonder if xtranormal is gone. Oh well, you can waste a LOT of time on there.
You nailed ‘me’. I just encountered this exact situation. A manuscript emailed for my review last night. Friend wants me to do children’s book illustrations. Manuscript copyrighted 2002. No publisher to date. Tiresome with bad syntax and style. Asked her to please look at my portfolio – my art does not fit her book. Refuses to make fee offer when asked. I want to run fast the other direction. Tactful-I will say, ‘no’. Thanks for your video. It hit home.