Need Skilled Artists to Draw Birds for Book

Published by: admin 2009-01-07

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I am looking for artists outside the USA who can create a large number of low cost illustrations of birds for a bird identification book I am publishing. The illustratios must be in full color and use colored pencils and they must be scanned and sent to me over the internet in jpg format at 200 dpi or more. I need the artists to be able to follow a strict format regarding position, size, and so on so that comparisons of birds that are similar are easy to follow. I need a large number of illustrations (2000) and I need to keep the price very low. I can work with an artistic group in countries like India and Pakistan, but there must be a good internet connection, and ability to speak English and meet deadlines.

When I first saw the answer to my question contained a lot of links, I thought it was great. I hoped some of these links would help me out. But what I discovered was that these links required me to click on each one and send a message to the link creator, which would be terribly time consuming. So in the end I would give the answer an A for quantity but a C for helpfulness.

The answer was nothing more than a collection of links from various artist web sites. It did provide me with a few sites that allowed me to find groups of artists that can work on my project, but the web site failed to work when I tried it and the results where unsatisfactory. I was aware already of these sties and was hoping someone who knew of good quality talent finding sites would come forward with an answer.

It would help to know your time-frame. Is this something that one person can do within your expected publishing deadline or are you thinking along the lines of a team of people? Also, it would help to know what you mean by a "low" price. Your price will certainly rule out (or in) certain options. Your clarification would be appreciated! Thanks - -K~

I can direct you to sites (or other places) where you may find such an artist, would you be interested?

Hello! We can't, of course, act as employment brokers to hire and make contract arrangements between you and the chosen artist(s). What I can do is point you toward artists who accept commissions similar to what you've described, culling the list, and also offer links to specialized search sites, creative solutions, and hopefully, provide an expedited search process. I've sought out technical and scientific illustrators currently listed outside the U.S. from a variety of sources and listings. Khim Pang - Singapore http://www.talentx.com/creative/arts/new_view/portfolio.html?artist_id=177&category_id=3 Bao-Ling Lin - Taiwan http://www.talentx.com/creative/arts/new_view/portfolio.html?artist_id=621&category_id=32&plpage=1 Szalai L szl - Hungary http://www.talentx.com/creative/arts/new_view/portfolio.html?artist_id=1065&category_id=32&plpage=1 Ajith Prasad - India http://www.talentx.com/creative/arts/new_view/portfolio.html?artist_id=928&category_id=32&plpage=2 Yury Lisyak - Ukraine http://www.talentx.com/creative/arts/new_view/portfolio.html?artist_id=1666&category_id=32&plpage=1 Henry Tang - Singapore http://www.talentx.com/creative/arts/new_view/portfolio.html?artist_id=1316&category_id=32&plpage=2 In order to contact talentx artists you'll need to register as a member: http://www.talentx.com/creative/arts/new_adm/adm_register.html Deanna Franklin - Canada http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/d/deanna/ Grant Freckelton - Australia http://www.furry.org.au/gryf/main.html Rajeev N.T. Panniyora - India http://www.kalakeralam.com/artistd/rajeevnt.htm Utako Kikutani - Japan http://www.utakokikutani.com/index.htm Talent Exchange Marketplaces - in addition to Bullhorn, listed in the comments, you'll find creative professional exchange services available at: http://www.talentx.com/creative/arts/newindex.html http://dart.fine-art.com/ http://www.portfolios.com/ http://www.elance.com http://www.allfreelance.com/jobs.html http://www.allfreelancework.com/employers.html Specialized Artist Directories The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators offers a Member's Directory which lists their members worldwide, including freelance specialties: http://www.gnsi.org/join/publicat.html Yahoo - Illustration Artists http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/Illustration/Artists/Personal_Exhibits/ Google Directory - Illustration http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Illustration/ ArtistFolios http://www.creativepro.com/eservices/artistfolios Artists Portfolio's by Medium: http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolio/media/ Another creative way of attracting artistic talent might be to offer an Internship - Art Schools and specialized programs in scientific illustration might be an ideal venue to locate an individual or group of artists willing to work on your project as an Intern, receiving educational credit, rather than full salary, for their work. I've included links to several art schools which offer a major or specialization in scientific illustration: http://scicom.ucsc.edu/SciIllus.html http://www.visart.uga.edu/pos/sci_ill/info/sci_ill_info.html http://www.engr.iupui.edu/~acheson/tghomepage/curriculum/curriculum.html http://www.iastate.edu/~catalog/catalog/courses/premed.htm http://www.risd.edu/ce_natsci.cfm http://www.parsons.edu/kale/html/map.html Search terms used: illustration freelance illustration scientific artists OR illustrators "for hire" I hope these resources help you find the ideal artist for your project. ~larre-ga

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Hi, Can you give some indication of the amount you'd be prepared to pay per picture, or for the lot?

Hi goofy116, Have you tried http://www.elance.com ? Elance is a site where you can post your project in detail and professionals will bid to do the job. I have watched the site closely for quite some time and they have matched many large projects such as yours with the person qualified to do the work at a fair price. One nice aspect of elance.com is you can browse the "elancers" profiles and "invite" those you feel are qualified to bid on your project. A high ticket project like yours will get lots of page views, good exposure. I hope this helps! Cynthia

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Here are some clarifications, I am sorry I was not more informative. In many cases the same drawing can be used for a bird and only small changes need to be made to differentiate them. For example the families of Warblers, Terns, Sparrows are very similar and only minor changes are needed to each drawing. I eventually need a total of 2000 illustrations. The first 20 will be a test of the artist and the process and for those I am willing to pay $12 for accepted each. For the larger number I will negotiate a package price in the range of $10 per drawing. For the larger number of drawings I need them delivered at the rate of 100 per week, which will mean about 5 months to do the entire batch. For the smaller test samples 5 per week would be fine since the time is needed to make sure we are on the right track. I have more detailed specs for the artist once I get closer to finding someone.

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Thanks for your answer. I spent about 30 minutes at talentX.com. I registered and tried to enter my requirements to see how it works. After all the work of trimming my request to fit in its paltry 1000 character (not word) description, and filling out all the numerous fields, I pressed Submit, and got a Page Not Found Error. When I hit back to try again all my text had been erased. Not a great start! Oh no! That's almost a guaranteed cause of hair loss when it happens to me, I didn't have any problems with the workings of talentX, but I didn't explore as far as making a posting. I'm truly sorry you ran into difficulties. I've personally used several of the marketplace sites, eLance, bullhorn, and portfolio.com, start to finish without errors, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they'll function flawlessly for you. We use textboxes here to post our answers to you. I find it extremely helpful to compose anything over a few sentences in Notepad. It's saved my bacon a few times when flipping between pages. Please let me know if I can help in any way. ~larre

Very generally, Bullhorn ( http://www.bullhorn.com ) might be worth a look. It allows artists (illustration, web design, traditional design, video producers, animators etc) to meet with clients and vice versa. As a client you can search their catalogue of "talent" and may well find someone who can do this work. Good luck!