Finding an illustrator is DIFFICULT Picture book illustration is a HIGHLY competitive field. Lots and lots of artists try to break into it, and that means lots and lots of those artists are, frankly, not very good.
Now, if you include art in a picture book submission, the publisher will judge it according to the standards of the industry. That means, if you want ANY chance of being published, the art has to be of professional quality, good enough to hold its own on a bookshelf next to tons of other big books being published.
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So, do you know how to find picture book artists? Do you know how to sort out the good from the bad, and the great from the good? And do you know which of those would be a right fit for your manuscript?
It is very rare that a writer will have the resources or know-how to find an illustrator on his own. In fact publishers would be CRAZY if they expected them to. You, as a writer, do not need to worry about the art at all. Publishers have very experienced and knowledgeable people called art directors whose job it is to find the right artists and pair them with the right manuscript AFTER the story has been acquired.
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