Illustrations for Coloring Book - Extra Paid Work Included!

The National Shrine of the Divine Mercy

We are a beautiful Catholic Church in Stockbridge, MA, USA

We want to create a coloring book for children to teach them about the different stain glass windows, statues, and paintings found in our Shrine. Total of 47 B&W illustrations. For the cover, one of the B&W drawings needs to be colored as if by crayons. I can provide high-resolution photographs of each item in the Shrine. Because most of the items are high in Shrine, many photos will need to be parallax corrected so they are all illustrated from a straight-on view without distortion. And similar items (i.e. stain glass windows, images, etc.) need to be similar proportioned and sized when completed.

The book will be 8-1/2" wide by 11" tall. We are seeking the illustrations only, we will format and layout the pages. We will use InDesign for layout so the final vector files need to work with InDesign, preferably Illustrator. If you're a freehand artist, you will also be considered if your final work can properly reproduced for printing (450dpi or greater).

You will see by the photo samples that there are a lot of details in the paintings, statues and stained glass. We want to see much of the detail and not a simple cartoon look, so skillful use of line weight, grey-scale lines, and line hierarchy is important to us. You will also see that 24 of the items are stained glass windows, so most of the line work is present in the item (except horizontal structural mullions need to be removed).

NEW NOTE: Check this webpage out below I found tonight. It's the style we are looking for, heavy line weight around individual items and lighter hatching patterns allowing the pages to stand alone and tell a story even when not colored.

https://www.booktopia.com.au/kings-…46660.html

Thanks for considering our project!

The award money listed for this project is a retainer fee for the winner. Your total fee for completing all 47 B&W illustrations, (and crayon color one of those images), should be included in your communications. We are not seeking the lowest cost, but cost will be considered for final selection between similar quality artists. Quality of drawing is our primary concern. I've included all 47 items in the attached PDF file. Copyright will be ours but the artist will be given credit in the book.

To get to the shortlist, you may submit samples of your work which meet the above specifications and/or create an example from our paintings (files attached). For the final selection, we will be required to illustrate file "Shortlist Image01" (attached). You may also illustrate file "Shortlist Image02" and "Shortlist Image03", if you'd like to show more of your skills.

This book is funded and we will be publishing it.

After final selection we will provide on-going written approval of your work as you progress through each item. We do not anticipate the need, but, after final selection we retain the right to cancel this agreement immediately, if we feel it necessary to stop your work because it does not meet our expectations. At that point we will reimburse you for the work we have approved to that point by dividing your total fee by your completed illustrations. We will provide the order in which we want the illustrations completed.

If your skills only include B&W illustrations and you do not feel capable of coloring the cover image (as if it were done by crayons), we will still consider your work. If your work is exceptionally better than others, or equal and your fee allows us the hire someone else to color the image, we will still award you the project.

Good luck!
Br. Mark