by Bella Cosa on Tuesday, June 18, 2013

this sound to me more like a freelance job my recomendation is to have artists submit quotes

by cgitech on Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Yes this shud be freelance job. Its lot of work and just for a chance of winning.Its aint fair to ask so much for a contest. I recommend the artists to submit quotes. Hi project holder You may ask artists to submit one design,If you are ok with the first design, then give the artist the rest of illustrations
All the nest

by cgitech on Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Yes this shud be freelance job. Its lot of work and just for a chance of winning.Its aint fair to ask so much for a contest. I recommend the artists to submit quotes. Hi project holder You may ask artists to submit one design,If you are ok with the first design, then give the artist the rest of illustrations
All the nest

by Project Owner on Wednesday, June 19, 2013

1. As mentioned in the brief, the illustrators are encouraged to submit just a couple illustrations from the brief to participate in the contest. We will only ask a few illustrators to proceed further based on the submitted samples and our hope is that the selected subset would be very small. As mentioned clearly in the brief, we intend to engage with the most promising illustrators for our future design projects as well, so their full illustrations if requested by us would not be a waste in any way.

by Designer LeahG on Monday, July 1, 2013

Illustrating a book well takes weeks not days which is why the suggestions are advising that you request quotes, doing it this way you are neither valuing or respecting the process. This job that would normally cost min. £100 per page illustration and doing over a thousand pounds worth of work for no reward isn't fun :) This is how we pay our bills, feed our kids ;) And we're on this site not because we can't get hired but because the entire world is now using these sites and it's killing the industry stone dead. Can't beat them, we have to join them and slave away daily for no reward.

I myself do charitable art works free (within reason) and maybe a better way to proceed would have been a quote request but inside your limited budget. You can easily identify a style you like by visiting established artists websites. Samples are not necc.

These are just a couple of pointers for future ref. should you find this process hasn't met your intended needs. More time, mutual respect, better results guaranteed.

by Project Owner on Thursday, July 4, 2013

To all the artists who submitted their work to this contest or messaged us to express their interest in our initiative:

1. Thank you so much for your efforts and for your beautiful illustrations! 

2. It is really inspiring and encouraging to get messages from many of you and to know that so many of you are keen to help out with our nonprofit initiative and create positive social impact!

3. Many of you are really talented artists and would be great to work with. However, we had to make the difficult decision of picking just one artist and entry for this particular project. Please do not be discouraged if your entries are not selected! The core team just tried to pick the entry that was most closely aligned with our needs, preferences and vision for the project, for which there is no "correct" formula. Hope we get to work with many of you in the future!

Thanks again for your enthusiastic participation!