RMCotton's WEbook Profile

RMCotton

Join Date: 9/12/2008

About me:
I am a professional illustrator making art for a living. You can check out my website at http://www.cottonstudios.com.

To determine pricing, I use the Graphic Artist's Guild Handbook for Pricing and Ethical Guidelines put out every few years. It is considered the industries most reputable reference guide for illustrators and designers.

While I would love to make art for everyone, I simply cannot take on unpaid projects or the bank will come take my house!!

I will give a few estimates here on illustrating, so that you may have a reference point:

32 page children's book - approximately $8,800 per book plus 5% royalties

Cover art - Solely depends on final usage, who's publishing it, if it is international in sales, and various other factors. Ranges from $1000 - $5000.

If you have any questions about typical negotiations between illustrators and writers, please feel free to drop me a line!
My claim to fame: I wrote my Master's Thesis on the correct procedure for illustrating a children's book. I have been published many times over, but not yet for a book. I love to read, and children's books have been a passion on mine forever. As a designer, I am also very capable of creating compelling book cover artwork.
Visit http://www.cottonstudios.com/galleries to see my work!

What I like to read:
Favorite books:
One by Richard Bach, Where the Wild Things Are By Sendak, All the Toot and Puddle Books, Ishmael by Quinn, Women Who Run with Wolves
What I'm reading now:
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Favorite place to read:
ON the beach, in the bed, in the hammock, during coffee!!
My other writing:
What I like to write:
Character I'd like to be for a day:
Favorite authors:
Daniel Quinn, Richard Bach, Amy Tan, Dr Suess, Shel Silverstein,