Children's Illustration

[babiesmiles]

great works indeed

 

[Kcar]

Your work is fantastic, but the photography is lousy.

Get good jpgs of your work and send them out.
Ignore the frames and the mats, Just get the images out and send them out.

No, having the publisher steal your original is not normal.


I can understand how that would discourage you from dealing with these people again.

Take the pictures once they have been pulled out of the frames.
Get good reproductions. You can get excellent laser prints of these.

If someone wants to publish you, that is what you'll need to have.


Treat your work with respect and other people will too.

These are quite old (my 52nd birthday aproaches ), and I had no need to take photos of my work back then except as memoirs for myself. I sold all of these in galleries, and was not aware of the correct way to present my art, and indeed had no reason to do so. All of it sold anyway.

I sell over the internet now, but don't have the money to make prints anymore, so each is a one-of-a-kind by commission or one of my own private works.

Take the pictures once they have been pulled out of the frames.
Get good reproductions.

As far as taking professional shots of my drawings, I did have these professionally done many rears ago. We did remove the glass and frames, but I had to tell him to darken the light setting before they came out correctly. He agreed after he'd finished the same group of images again - graphite is silverish, and reflects more light than ink because of that, so the drawings had lost much of their detail and plasticity. It pissed me off that I had to pay for both sets. I do have a very good professional copy of the crow that was submitted...it was taken flat on and only the image was showing in it (I should scan that). My manager told me they wanted to keep the original. In the rules of publishing, it said that you are really better off submitting copies than originals or you risk having your work kept. I read that after the "working for hire" chapter. I can't remember why my agent took the original to Little & Brown. She was inexperienced with children's literature, and more invloved in adult publications.

Treat your work with respect and other people will too.

You're right, I do feel inadequate.

You can get excellent laser prints of these.

What is a laser print?

Thankyou for the tips olive...are you a professional artist yourself?

Here is more of my work:

https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=447521

https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=457331

https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=448164

I have quite a few threads in here, but they're back a couple of pages.


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[Kcar]

great works indeed

Thankyou babie. ^_^

 

[Chantilyvamp]

Kcar those are amazing! You are incredibly talented.

 

[Kcar]

Kcar those are amazing! You are incredibly talented.

Thanks sweetheart!