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Honors Art: Children’s Book Illustration Proposal for work  Please check that you have joined our wiki space. Some of you logged in last time, but didn’t actually request to join. Go to-www.svchildrensbook.wikspaces.com Log in, and see if you have the ability to post and contribute. If not, you must request to “join this wiki” at the top of the page. I have to confirm your request. You may want to send me an email if you do this outside of school so that you’re not sitting around waiting to be confirmed by me.  Your business cards have been uploaded to your pages. Your job is now to submit two letters of interest to the authors. All authors have posted a rough draft of their story. Read through the stories and find two that spark your interest. These should be stories that you can envision yourself illustrating. Then draft a proposal request to be picked up by that author as their illustrator. In drafting a letter, you must follow these guidelines:  1. All correspondence must be professional. You are approaching a potential client in hopes of receiving work. Assume that this is your means of supporting yourself in the real world. You are a freelance illustrator. 2. Your proposal letter must make suggestions of your artistic vision. Convey to the author some ideas you have about how their story would look visually. This may have to do with color scheme, character development, imagery involved, media used for illustrations, etc. Make yourself sound like a competent artist with a real inspiration. 3. Demonstrate enthusiasm for the story you read by directly quoting or referring to a specific part of it. This type of specific, thorough interest would impress a potential client. 4. Use the following format for your letters: salutation, first paragraph introducing yourself and your skills, second paragraph expressing your interest in the story, third paragraph describing your specific artistic vision, and closing remarks which reiterate your request for work. Sign your name with your name, the company name and contact info you used on your business card. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Black'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Black'; msobidifontfamily: 'Arial Black'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Arial Black'; msolist: Ignore;">5. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">You must email me your letter to kwilliamson@pdsd.org. It must be free of grammatical and spelling errors. It must be in the proper format outlined in step #4 above. Once I email you back that your letter is approved, you may post it in the “discussion” section of the author’s page. No author may receive more than two proposals. If someone beats you to a story, you’re out of luck. If I email you back with edits to make, you must email me again until it is approved.