I have a sci-fi book in the works and I'm looking for someone to make a couple concept sketches for the main characters. So far all of the sites I've found have been of extremely low quality. Anyone have any ideas?

I have a sci-fi book in the works and I'm looking for someone to make a couple concept sketches for the main characters. So far all of the sites I've found have been of extremely low quality. Anyone have any ideas?

Try Stephen Prophater here in the city. http://prophater.com/images/NewFutureScape.jpg

Contact the Oklahoma Visual Artists Coalition? You can look at some of their illustrators work online, they might point you to who might be interested or alternately put out the word in a newsletter to member artists.

http://www.ovac-ok.org/

Hector Lopez is local and VERY good.

http://www.hecklopez.blogspot.com/

when all of that gets expensive... try freelancer.com and hire an artist for cheap on your terms.

make friends with a high school art teacher. Then make the day of one of his/her better students. It's been decades since high school but we had some folks down on the west end of my school who were extremely talented kids, and most would have been thrilled for a shot at someone outside their circle hailing their efforts.

Talk to the guys at Tree and Leaf. They hold a art meet up every week to just do sketches. Im sure they know of someone.

This guy is pretty good as an illustrator . . .
(IMHO) for comic books--excuse me: illustrated novels.
Yet I've been wrong before.

"As the crew approached the summit of Mt. Everest,
and the temperature approached 130 degrees,
they grumbled to themselves while removing
yet another floating polar bear carcass
from the rudder that blocked them from
turning right, while wondering (aloud, yet quietly),
'How The 'F' did this happen . . . ?'

"Nobody here went to Jared . . . ?"

1898

lol

There's a volume issue with that scenario, but you should probably take that up with Gish/picker/Morris crowd.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. If I end up with a decent e-book cover I'll post it here.