About the role
This role is for a talented illustrator to bring a children’s picture book, Practice Makes Progress, to life. The story celebrates perseverance, diversity, and creative growth, featuring children from various backgrounds engaging in music, martial arts, painting, performing, and science. The visual tone is warm, painterly, and cinematic, with softly glowing lighting and gentle ribbons of light connecting each spread. The ideal candidate will create expressive, kind faces and natural body language, ensuring a consistent visual style throughout the book. The project includes 10 spreads (16x8” each) and a finished cover illustration for an 8x8” square hardcover format. This is an opportunity to contribute to a series that promotes brain and emotional health in children, with the potential for future collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Illustrate 10 full-color spreads and a cover for an 8x8” children’s book
- Develop diverse, expressive characters with natural body language and kind facial expressions
- Maintain a painterly, textured, and cinematic style with warm, uplifting lighting
- Ensure visual continuity in color palette, lighting, and style across all illustrations
- Integrate text into illustrations, considering layout and readability
- Prepare print-ready files suitable for professional book production
- Collaborate on feedback and revisions to achieve the desired artistic vision
Skills And Requirements
- Proven experience illustrating children’s books or similar projects
- Proficiency in Procreate or Photoshop for digital illustration
- Strong character design skills, especially for young children
- Ability to create expressive, emotionally resonant artwork
- Experience preparing print-ready files and integrating text into layouts
- Attention to detail and commitment to visual consistency
- Excellent communication and openness to feedback
- Availability to deliver high-quality work within agreed timelines
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Our Mission Twine's mission is to empower creators and businesses to thrive in an AI-driven, freelance-first world.
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About the role
This role is for a talented illustrator to bring a children’s picture book, Practice Makes Progress, to life. The story celebrates perseverance, diversity, and creative growth, featuring children from various backgrounds engaging in music, martial arts, painting, performing, and science. The visual tone is warm, painterly, and cinematic, with softly glowing lighting and gentle ribbons of light connecting each spread. The ideal candidate will create expressive, kind faces and natural body language, ensuring a consistent visual style throughout the book. The project includes 10 spreads (16x8” each) and a finished cover illustration for an 8x8” square hardcover format. This is an opportunity to contribute to a series that promotes brain and emotional health in children, with the potential for future collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Illustrate 10 full-color spreads and a cover for an 8x8” children’s book
- Develop diverse, expressive characters with natural body language and kind facial expressions
- Maintain a painterly, textured, and cinematic style with warm, uplifting lighting
- Ensure visual continuity in color palette, lighting, and style across all illustrations
- Integrate text into illustrations, considering layout and readability
- Prepare print-ready files suitable for professional book production
- Collaborate on feedback and revisions to achieve the desired artistic vision
Skills And Requirements
- Proven experience illustrating children’s books or similar projects
- Proficiency in Procreate or Photoshop for digital illustration
- Strong character design skills, especially for young children
- Ability to create expressive, emotionally resonant artwork
- Experience preparing print-ready files and integrating text into layouts
- Attention to detail and commitment to visual consistency
- Excellent communication and openness to feedback
- Availability to deliver high-quality work within agreed timelines
About Twine Twine is a leading freelance marketplace connecting top freelancers, consultants, and contractors with companies needing creative and tech expertise. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and innovative startups alike, Twine enables companies to scale their teams globally.
Our Mission Twine's mission is to empower creators and businesses to thrive in an AI-driven, freelance-first world.
About Twine
Twine connects companies to over 500,000 freelance experts across 190+ countries. We enable flexible work opportunities for so many talented people. Twine covers digital, creative and AI – Software development, graphic design, animation, marketing, video products and everything in between.
AI COMPANIES (www.twine.net/ai) If you're a company that uses machine learning and needs audio-visual datasets, we can use our network of diverse freelancers to build this for you. Text to speech, video, actors, presenters, and more.
STARTUPS (www.twine.net) Companies need a flexible and global workforce to keep competitive. However, they struggle to find specific experts to match their needs. If you have niche technical/creative requirements or need a freelancer in a specific location – we can help you.
FREELANCERS (www.twine.net/freelancers) If you're a freelancer, take control and choose which projects you want to work on. Build your portfolio with Twine and find interesting jobs from all over the world.