Beehive Illustration!
Beehive are an illustration agency who specialise in childrens book illustration and currently have over 100 of the best childrens book illustrators around the world.
I couldnt find much information on the how,why and what's of the company, so i emailed them questions and have thankfully been replied to:
1. How easy or difficult is it to get your work accepted here? Quite hard at the moment as we are pretty full so only considering illustrators not working the same style as the ones currently on the books
2. Can portfolios be denied? i.e. is there are low quality images submitted. Not really denied but if the images are low quality it certainly will count against you as it would hint we might get the same quality for live jobs
3. What sort of work have members of beehive been given? and how much work do new illustrators typically get? All for children’s books and most of that for education or ELT (English Language Teaching) How much depends completely on the popularity and commerciality of the style.
4. Do you think it is difficult for a recently graduated student to become noticed, especially when surrounded by older, more experienced artists? Yes it is and there are no short cuts but the standard of your work and the number of bods you can show it to will definitely help you succeed or not
5. Is it better to be a part of a publication company than to go it alone? If you can get a job as an in-house illustrator then that would be great but those jobs rarely come up. If you can get signed up by an agent then that would be next best thing and finally freelance as the last option. If your work is strong you will do well – you should try and make your mind to continue with your career after the first 12 months as long as you have worked hard to advertise yourself you will know by the response you’ve had whether you have got what it takes to succeed.
6. Do you organise commisions etc for the artisits? If sowhat is the process of this, from what you do to making
artwork submissions, arranging an apointment or pitch for a
concept, and pay. No we don’t get involved in this – we are asked to quote or submit illustrators for existing jobs, we rarely pitch to gain non-existing ones.
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