Artwork of Toronto by Farida Zaman

HELLO!

I’d love to hear from you about a collaboration or other inquiries.

For Art Licensing or Children's Book Illustration inquiries, please use links below. For anything else, please fill in form and submit. I will respond as soon as possible!

For Children’s Book Publishing represented by: Essie White - Storm Literacy Agency, stormliteraryagency@gmail.com

For Art Licensing represented by: Wild Apple, licensing@wildapple.com

I currently work worldwide from my studio in Toronto Canada.

FAQ’s | PRICING

  • If you already have a fixed budget for your project, CONTACT ME to discuss it.

    Otherwise, if you need an estimate, the final price of a commissioned illustration / pattern design will consists of two factors:

    • Production cost, based on estimate time to complete the project. This also includes time for doing some changes after your revisions, since revisions are a necessary (and useful!) part of the creative process. I apply the same daily / hourly rate for every client.

    • The usage of the illustration, a.k.a licensing.

    Keeping it simple: licensing fee is proportional to the usage of an illustration and represents its added value in a precise context. The wider the usage, the higher the fee.

    Production and licensing are independent and separated fees. A project may take a long time to complete for a limited final usage. For example, 50 illustrations for a local brochure about a one-day event. On the contrary, another project could take only two days of production for a wide usage: think about 1 small illustration for food packaging sold in supermarkets across an entire country during 5 years.

  • Go to the CONTACT PAGE and tell me more about your project, including as many details as you can. The questions below are a good starting point. That will help me provide a quicker estimate!

    • How many illustrations do you need? At which size and format?

    • Do you have already a budget and a deadline in mind?

    • Which is the destination of the illustrations? (magazine, book, website, advertising)

    • Will you print the illustration on products (for example t-shirts, fabrics, homewares…)? Do you know the retail price of those products?

    • For how long do you need to use the illustration? (in months or years)

    You will receive a first quote mentioning production fees and licensing fees.

FAQ’s | HOW & WHERE

  • I invite you to take a look at MY PORTFOLIO. Does it have the vibe, the style you are looking for? If you see an illustration with a particular graphic style, a particular subject or a colour palette that you especially like, please let me know when reaching out.

  • It really depends on the number and complexity of illustrations, and on my current schedule.

    I always do my best to meet your deadlines, even if they are a bit tight! But remember also that the sooner you send feedbacks at every stage of the project, the quicker I can go on to the final illustrations.

  • Yes, absolutely! We can schedule meetings on Skype, communicate by emails, send files with WeTransfer, share entire folders on Google Drive.

FAQ’s | WHAT ELSE?

  • Yes! I can work on your wedding stationery, draw a family portrait or an illustration for a newborn.

FAQ’s | TECHNICAL INFORMATION

  • I usually do sketches on paper, because I find it more spontaneous and suitable for brainstorming on multiple ideas. After refining and cleaning sketches, the rest of my workflow is done by hand or digitally or a combination of both depending on the project.

  • Depending on the media (print on paper, print on textile or objects, website, app) and following your specifications, I provide raster images (tiff, jpg, png...)

FAQ’s | LICENSING

  • When you pay for an illustration, a photo, or a pattern or every other creation from an artist or designer, you usually don't buy it forever. Licensing means, in simple words, renting a commissioned (or pre-existing) illustration or pattern design for a specific purpose, for a specific period of time and following specific geographical limits. The legalese words for this are "be granted of rights" to do something with the image. Licensing price is strictly related to this right: what you do with the illustration, for how long, and in which countries.

  • No problem, this is possible! You can choose to use an image without any limitations of time, geographical extension or type of support: that's called “a buyout”. The licensing fee, in this case, will be much higher than a standard, limited licensing.

    Please note that a buyout is not a Copyright transfer. I retain the right to be recognised as the author of the illustration, and I may use the image for self-promotion, for example on my portfolio.