THE ILLUSTRATOR SEARCH
I’m often asked how I found the illustrator for
this book. This was much more a process
than a task. It would have been far
easier to learn how to draw than it was to arrive at a great illustrator for “Magic Reindeer Milk”. While having no regrets of how it worked out,
it is an interesting story nonetheless.
I began this process by selecting metropolitan
areas and placing ads on craigslist that read something like, “Children’s book author seeks an
illustrator for an upcoming book.” This
occurred in several rounds. I was
impressed by the large number of responses.
Many had great portfolios and talents.
After finding one of interest, I began the creation and negotiating
process.
The artist I reached back to after admiring her
work was known as Kate Pane. Kate had
replied to my craigslist posting with interest.
Kate Pane, for those who are not familiar with her work has a very
creative style that emphasizes ethereal cloud-like images and as fate would
have it, she had a series in her portfolio that was centered around a
carousel. At the time Kate and I were
conversing about working on this book together, she was at the precipice of
being discovered.
I am very happy to say that Kate’s enormous talent exploded on
the New York art scene at and around the time we had discussed the possibility
of working together. I am really happy
to see the talents of one very deserving person recognized. Artists especially bare their souls through their
work and when you see Kate’s
work, you can tell she has a good soul.
So I have an eye for talent. That eye does not get a book illustrated so
it was back to work posting ads on craigslist and hoping that the right talent
would come along. The right talent did
come along and you will have to keep tuned-in to the blog to find out how that
happened.
- JH Kindt
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