{"id":2634,"date":"2008-03-13T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:27:00","slug":"finding-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2008\/03\/13\/finding-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m publishing books at a fairly rapid clip, given that Wire Rim Books<\/a> is pretty much a one man operation with occasional help from family members. \u00a0But the bottleneck seems to be getting the cover art. \u00a0Given the huge number of creative people out there, I would have thought that it would be easier.<\/p>\n

I currently have two books, ready to go, all proofed and laid out, except for the artwork. \u00a0(I also have one with the art and not proofed yet, but that’s another issue.)<\/div>\n
It seems that artists have real lives and can’t drop everything when I have a sudden need for an image. \u00a0Who’d a thunk? \u00a0<\/div>\n
There are three problems that I see:<\/div>\n
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  1. I don’t know enough people. \u00a0I need to make more contacts and be more up front about my need to meet artists.<\/li>\n
  2. I’m a perfectionist who can’t draw. \u00a0Maybe that makes me too difficult to work with. \u00a0I get an idea in my head, and then try to talk the artist into drawing what I imagine. \u00a0Thus far, it never works. \u00a0However, usually the artist talks me into going for another image, another concept, and that usually works out better than my idea anyway.<\/li>\n
  3. I probably don’t pay enough. \u00a0That’s probably a big reason I can’t send out an email and get an immediate response. \u00a0But I do have a budget, and what I do pay certainly makes a dent in it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Today I’m trying something to tackle issue number 1. \u00a0I posted an assignment on pixish.com<\/a> for a cover image. \u00a0Pixish runs contests where people like me post an assignment and then pay a prize for the winner.<\/div>\n

    I sensitive to the issue of getting a bunch of people to work on a project and then only paying one of them, so the contest is just for a sample and the prize is the whole assignment of cover art and interior artwork. \u00a0I hope I get something good out of this. \u00a0What I hope the most is that I can find more artists that I can work with directly in the future. \u00a0I have many books to publish and the covers will be in different styles. \u00a0I’d love to know who does what, and how well. \u00a0Plus if I do the covers right, maybe I’ll begin to make enough money to pay more.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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