Custom Full-Color Illustrations

Custom illustrations make the difference between a good book & a GREAT one. Illustrations are not just for children’s books—self-published non-fiction, poetry and cookbooks are all enhanced by custom illustrations.

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Bring your book to life with custom illustrations.

Choose from more than 40 artistic styles for children's books, nonfiction, poetry, cookbooks, and more.

40+ Artistic
Styles

Find the right look

Custom
Artwork

Created for your book

Keep Your
Royalties

No artist royalty split

Multiple
Genres

Not just children's books

Artist
Collaboration

Based on your descriptions

Scroll down to choose the illustration style you love most. Once you've selected your style and quantity, our illustrators will use your descriptions to create artwork for your book.

Scroll through our available styles. Click each image to enlarge. Select the style you want for image quantities and pricing.

CUSTOM ILLUSTRATION SERVICE DETAILS

From Your Vision to Original Artwork

Once you've selected your illustration style and quantity, we'll help bring your ideas to life through a professionally coordinated illustration process.

Your illustrations are created specifically for your book, and you won't have to share your book royalties with the artist.

YOUR ILLUSTRATION JOURNEY

How the Custom Illustration Process Works

Meet Your Illustration Facilitator

An Outskirts Press Illustration Facilitator will contact you to discuss your project and coordinate the illustration process. Your facilitator serves as your point of contact with the artist.

Describe Your Illustrations

You'll provide detailed descriptions of the artwork you want created. Be as specific as possible about characters, settings, actions, colors, and other important details.

Review the First Three Drawings

The first three illustrations help establish how the artist interprets your descriptions. You'll have two opportunities for moderate revisions to these initial drawings.

Complete the Remaining Artwork

Once the initial illustrations establish the artistic direction, the remaining artwork is created using your descriptions and the agreed-upon style.

Review Your Illustration Proofs

You'll receive low-resolution electronic proofs to review and approve before the artwork is incorporated into your book.

A helpful tip: Details you don't include in your illustration descriptions will be left to the artist's interpretation. The more specific your descriptions, the better the artist can understand your vision.

ILLUSTRATION PACKAGES

Choose the Number of Illustrations You Need

Custom illustrations are purchased in packages of a single artistic style. You can combine package quantities to accommodate the number of illustrations required for your book.

Illustration

Illustrations

Example: If your book needs 17 illustrations, you can purchase one 15-illustration package plus two single-illustration packages, all in your chosen style.

REVIEW & REVISIONS

Establishing Your Artistic Direction

First Three Illustrations

You'll have two opportunities to request moderate revisions to the first three drawings. This helps establish the artist's interpretation of your desired style and direction.

Remaining Illustrations

Descriptions for subsequent illustrations should reflect what you've learned from the initial drawings. Revisions to the remaining artwork are at the Illustration Facilitator's discretion.

ARTWORK RIGHTS & USAGE

Your Illustrations and Your Book Royalties

No Artist Royalty Split

You won't have to share your book royalties with the illustrator. Your royalty arrangement with Outskirts Press remains unchanged.

Book Marketing Usage

You receive an unlimited, non-exclusive license to use the illustrations in marketing efforts related specifically to the book for which they were created.

Optional Artist Credit

You may choose whether to include an illustrator credit in your book, although acknowledging the artist is customary in book publishing.

Electronic proofs are supplied at low resolution. High-resolution illustration files are not provided separately to the author; the final high-resolution artwork appears in the published physical book.

Your Vision. Our Illustration Team.

Throughout the process, you'll communicate by email with your Outskirts Press Illustration Facilitator, who coordinates directly with the artist on your behalf. There is no direct author-to-artist contact.

Choose your preferred illustration style and package quantity from the options above to get started.

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