I am SO happy that I found and chose C.J. to illustrate my first book. Everyone is raving about how beautiful and amazing my illustrations are. This would not have been possible without C.J's talent and artist expertise. He is straightforward, easy to understand, and easy to work with. I will DEFINITELY book him again for future projects and refer his service to others. If you're in doubt, THIS is the message that you needed to go ahead and book C.J. today! :-)
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Elena Y.
Joseph is an amazingly versatile artist whose work is becoming a co-creation of my novel. He is an amazing draftsman both on paper and in digital media, and I don’t mean that in the sense of mechanical, more in the sense of being able to draw anything, however specific or outlandish. In some ways, I am sad that I can’t currently hire Joseph to create a drawing on traditional media of some kind for me to display in my house, because the work he has shown me is absolutely breathtaking. Maybe once the novel is a bestseller! Anyway, I know this is only a fraction of what he can do, but Joseph has been creating head shots of ten major characters for my novel (from the eighteenth century), as well as illustrations for pivotal scenes in the book. Along the way he has done an amazing job of giving me options that balance detail against cost, without compromising quality. Joseph is great to work with — very kind and intuitive, and incredibly knowledgeable about art, in terms of the ways of drawing but also how to compose scenes. Also, I love that we are creating not-completely-polished versions of the drawings so we will know how they are all looking, roughly, before finalizing, to leave room for creating narrative and stylistic continuity once we know how the whole arc will look. My enthusiasm is completely something Joseph has built from scratch based on his work, and the great experience I have had working with him. I was skeptical about Thumbtack, but Joseph is the real thing.
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