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What is our illustration service?
Our illustration service connects authors with talented illustrators who bring their book visions to life. The Troubador team works closely with you to fully understand your creative goals and what you aim to achieve. We handle all the logistics of working with the illustrator, ensuring you're involved at every stage of the process and that you're completely satisfied with the illustrations before final approval. Once completed, we provide you with the images and full copyright, so you have complete ownership.
Why use our service?
Avoid having to source illustrators
Sourcing the right illustrator can be a time-consuming and challenging process, especially for authors new to commissioning illustrations. If you're unsure where to begin, our extensive network of talented illustrators offers you a head start in bringing your book's visual elements to life.
Own the copyright to your illustrations
Many illustrators prefer to retain the copyright of their images when working directly with authors. However, we've established an agreement with our network that ensures authors who use our illustration service retain the full copyright of the final artwork. This means you have complete ownership of the illustrations for your book forever.
Guaranteed quality, original creation
We ensure that every illustrator in our network is highly skilled in their respective styles and produces only original, hand-crafted work. Our illustrators do not use artificial intelligence (AI) to create their artwork, guaranteeing your project's highest quality, originality and authenticity.
What styles of illustrations can we create?
Our carefully curated roster of illustrators offers diverse styles, ensuring we can bring virtually any artistic vision to life. Below are examples of some of the many styles we specialise in, but we can also connect you with an illustrator to match any unique style you have in mind.
How does it work?
We pride ourselves on the direct, accessible customer service that we give our authors when publishing their books with us, and the same principles apply for those for whom we are creating illustrations. The Troubador team works with you every step of the way to create perfect illustrations for your book. Below is a high level overview of the process we'll guide you through.
Initial consultation
We work with you to define what your requirements are and help you work out if we are suited to what you are looking for.
Briefing and style selection
A team member experienced in sourcing and commissioning illustrations will work directly with you to define what style of illustrations you are looking for, so that we can source a suitable illustrator.
Quoting and contract
We supply you with a quote to complete the work and, only once you are happy will we ask you to sign a contract and give the illustrator the green light to begin work.
First draft illustrations
The illustrator will produce rough drafts of illustrations to your detailed specification, which you can then review and amend if necessary.
Illustrations finalised
We work with you and the illustrator to edit the illustrations so they meet your original specifications.
Illustration approval and supply
Once you are completely happy with the final illustrations, we pass the final files over to you to use in your work.