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| PO Box 6482 Edmond, OK 73083 Phone: (405) 225-7298 President@4rvpublishingllc.com |
| Illustrator & Design Submissions |
| 4RV Publishing works one on one with authors and artists |
Illustrator and Design Submission Guidelines
please follow completely
All illustrators and designers are paid in royalties
Acceptance of illustrator or designer is not guaranteed.
Electronic submissions are accepted and preferred, but all components must be sent as email attachments in a PDFolio and .doc.
Send electronic submissions to
art_director@4rvpublishingllc.com
Cc: President@4rvpublishingllc.com and asst_art_director@4rvpublishingllc.com
Special note: 4RV may take up to 3 months to review all submissions.
Guidelines for submissions:
• Email message should only include a short introduction.
• Subject line must include your name and “illustrator/designer submission”
The following should be attached to the email:
• Cover letter should include: preferred medium, training, published work, references, awards and marketing/ promotion plan.
– 2 page limit.
• PDFolio should include: provide only professional quality illustrations.
Please include two or three samples of each of the following: pencil, color pencil, paint (watercolor, acrylic, oil, etc), charcoal,
digital, ink, etc.
Please include various styles: cartoon, realism, portraiture, caricatures, etc.
Please note any published work.
We would like to see:
Children - Children playing, fighting, mad, glad, cute, silly, bashful, wistful, just kids being kids.
Animals - All different kinds: birds, bunnies, bears, moles, frogs, fish, cats, dogs etc. Please include spot illustrations of a number
of different animals, or a larger scene with several included. Illustrations should not only be animals in nature, but animals
with personality, driving a car or dancing and singing.
Mythical Creatures - Dragon, fairies, trolls, child friendly monster, etc.
Movement – The characters that you are working with should have movement to them dancing, swinging, playground games.
Nothing is worse than “static” or “flat” looking illustrations. Even a simple portrait should have some movement - a bug
skittering by, a swing in the hair, and gleam in the eye.
Character Transitions Multiple images of the same character in a set, doing different things.
Actual Spreads If you haven't actually illustrated any children's books, please include a scene or two of your version of a famous
old fairy tale.
* * *
Children’s picture books are not just random images. We need you to be able to tell the story with your illustrations, and to be able
to follow the character developing and changing throughout a book or a series of books. We need to see that you will able to tell a
whole story with no words.
Constantly portray the same character throughout the book in age, height, nationality etc.
IF we accept the illustrator/designer, when we send a contract, we will expect the illustrator/designer to send us a photo to use for
publicity (.jpg, 300 dpi), a short biography (50 words or less), a completed W-9 tax form, and a list of places to contract for the
illustrator/designer to make appearances such as bookstores, libraries, and schools in the illustrators/designers area (include
addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and, if possible, contact person for each) The contract will not be honored until we
receive the needed information.
All illustrators/designers offered a contract are required to have a website and a blog and to promote their own works.
please follow completely
All illustrators and designers are paid in royalties
Acceptance of illustrator or designer is not guaranteed.
Electronic submissions are accepted and preferred, but all components must be sent as email attachments in a PDFolio and .doc.
Send electronic submissions to
art_director@4rvpublishingllc.com
Cc: President@4rvpublishingllc.com and asst_art_director@4rvpublishingllc.com
Special note: 4RV may take up to 3 months to review all submissions.
Guidelines for submissions:
• Email message should only include a short introduction.
• Subject line must include your name and “illustrator/designer submission”
The following should be attached to the email:
• Cover letter should include: preferred medium, training, published work, references, awards and marketing/ promotion plan.
– 2 page limit.
• PDFolio should include: provide only professional quality illustrations.
Please include two or three samples of each of the following: pencil, color pencil, paint (watercolor, acrylic, oil, etc), charcoal,
digital, ink, etc.
Please include various styles: cartoon, realism, portraiture, caricatures, etc.
Please note any published work.
We would like to see:
Children - Children playing, fighting, mad, glad, cute, silly, bashful, wistful, just kids being kids.
Animals - All different kinds: birds, bunnies, bears, moles, frogs, fish, cats, dogs etc. Please include spot illustrations of a number
of different animals, or a larger scene with several included. Illustrations should not only be animals in nature, but animals
with personality, driving a car or dancing and singing.
Mythical Creatures - Dragon, fairies, trolls, child friendly monster, etc.
Movement – The characters that you are working with should have movement to them dancing, swinging, playground games.
Nothing is worse than “static” or “flat” looking illustrations. Even a simple portrait should have some movement - a bug
skittering by, a swing in the hair, and gleam in the eye.
Character Transitions Multiple images of the same character in a set, doing different things.
Actual Spreads If you haven't actually illustrated any children's books, please include a scene or two of your version of a famous
old fairy tale.
* * *
Children’s picture books are not just random images. We need you to be able to tell the story with your illustrations, and to be able
to follow the character developing and changing throughout a book or a series of books. We need to see that you will able to tell a
whole story with no words.
Constantly portray the same character throughout the book in age, height, nationality etc.
IF we accept the illustrator/designer, when we send a contract, we will expect the illustrator/designer to send us a photo to use for
publicity (.jpg, 300 dpi), a short biography (50 words or less), a completed W-9 tax form, and a list of places to contract for the
illustrator/designer to make appearances such as bookstores, libraries, and schools in the illustrators/designers area (include
addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and, if possible, contact person for each) The contract will not be honored until we
receive the needed information.
All illustrators/designers offered a contract are required to have a website and a blog and to promote their own works.