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I would like to find an illustrator for a book I've written. How do I do that without resorting to Reddit or Facebook? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have written a book and would like to add pictures. I am also poor and can't easily pay a bunch of money, especially when I expect this book to make no money at all. It is an adult themed horror book and I want pictures like in The Wizard of Oz. Some of the characters, who are mostly women, are bi, one is possibly trans, it's a book that a conservative would never want to illustrate for many reasons. There are LGBT themes and also offensive shocking and strange themes. I would be fine if AI helped generate them, but I need the characters to look consistent across the book. I almost wish I could use AI to draw the pictures, and tried experimenting, but could not get AI to generate the faces to look consistently the same. (AI sort of did whatever it felt like doing, instead of drawing as requested.) I also want color images. I'd like them to look realistic. I have ideas about what the characters look like. This isn't a comic book... although it could become one someday.

I have no idea where to look. My hatred for Facebook and Reddit is EXTREME. I hate fucking shit where it's some centralized asshole blocking everyone forever and/or requiring all sorts of bullshit.

Does anyone at lemmy have any ideas?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Some already great suggestions in the comments, so to summarize: Have a look at Artststion, Deviantart, Cara, Instagram, LinkedIn, Fiverr, Tumblr.

Deviantart used to be really good for searching artists but not so much anymore. You'll have to wade through AI slop using mediocre search

Artstation and Instagram will probably get you the best results as most active artists are in either of the platforms if not both. You can search keywords for the style too, to some degree

And before you feel overwhelmed about all these social media platforms, remember you don't need to contact them, just find them. Any artist worth their salt will have some other means of contact such as a personal website, a work email or an account in a platform you can bear using.

Good luck out there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I am actually okay with AI slop if they can be consistent with making the characters look the same way. I need to be like "draw main character being sexy" and then also be like "draw main character drinking smoothy" and not have it look like 2 different people.