Taslaine Publishing Industries Children's Book Illustration Project Summer 2023

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Taslaine Industries Incorporated
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Employer
(33)
3
Project
Academic experience
Learner
Anywhere
Advanced level

Project scope

Categories
Graphic design Illustration Visual arts
Skills
creative arts character designs illustration
Details

**PLEASE READ** Project Eligibility & Requirements: To be eligible for this project Students must have previous experience in creating illustrations over various mediums, featuring (cartoons and other imagery) using various mediums involving PNG images, illustrations and other illustration and creation software. Students must be able to create illustrations and designs using landscape and character design concepts using various software mediums and have creative arts, illustrative and designing skills.

PROJECT SCHEDULE: Students are required to attend One 40 min mandatory weekly meeting. Meeting hours are between 3:30pm-6:30pm EST/1:30pm-4:30pm MT/12:30pm-3:30pm PDT. Students must be able to commit at least 8-10 hours per week for project work.

Deliverables

We are looking for dedicated Illustrators to create illustrations for our children's books. Ideally, candidates will have experience in creating cartoon style illustrations. We are looking for beautifully illustrated full coloured pages, featuring characters and landscape/background images, for a variety of our soon to be published children's books.

The following tasks during the project will be:

•Creating fully coloured illustrated pages, based on concept ideas descriptions, w/ guidance.

•Illustrating various short children's books using landscape and character design concepts.

•Creating draft illustrations based on concept ideas for multiple book series.

•Creating illustrations for other books and other book designs, including illustrating book covers.

PROJECT GOALS/DELIVERABLES: Final Deliverables include:

  • Each Student will be responsible for creating at least 20-30 illustrated pages. 3-4 illustrated pages per week, time permitting.
Mentorship

MENTORSHIP AND SUPERVISION

Students will be supervised during their internship through Zoom and other online work sharing platforms, specifically during working hours. Students will be guided and mentored by our senior project manager along with our student Project Manager as well. They will have access to our Senior project manager any time needed during business hours by phone/email and after business hours through email.

Students will also be given concepts for designs and illustrations and given various examples and feedback throughout the process.

About the company

Company
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
0 - 1 employees
Publishing & printing

Taslaine Industries Inc. is a newly founded publishing company and sister organization to the Building Black Youth Foundation. We were developed to showcase and display literary creations and artistic expressions of our founder and other authors. We specialize in publishing children's books, fiction, non-fiction as well as cultural educational literary resources for the Building Black Youth Foundation.