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How do I contact you? Just click here. |
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do I
license your art or character
designs for my product. Click here. |
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Who are your clients? I have created artwork for hundreds of clients over the years. Here are just a few: Carus Publishing (Cricket, Spider, Ask, Ladybug Magazines), Current Greeting cards, Discovery Channel.com, George Lucas Educational Foundation, Grolier, Harcourt, McGraw-Hill Silver Editions, National Park Service, Paulist Press, School Zone Books, Scholastic, Silver Burdett Ginn, Simon and Schuster, Weekly Reader K-6. |
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Have
you won any awards? A few. Click here to view some of them. |
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Do
you ever put new samples up on your site? Occasionally I'll post a new published piece or two. Unfortunately, some unscrupulous Internet users seem to think that just because artwork is online it is in the public domain and free for them to use as they like. This forces me to limit the amount of work I have online. However, it doesn't mean I don't have lots of illustration samples to show to prospective art buyers. Please contact me or my agent if you want to see more of my work. |
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Where can I
buy your books? At your local bookstore or at one of the many online booksellers. Click here to go to a page that lists many of my book titles and ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers.) |
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I want to be a freelance
illustrator, can you offer any advice? Yes, I can offer you some advice as well as words of encouragement. Click here. |
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I've written a children's book, can you illustrate it for me?
Usually a writer submits their story to a publisher. If it's accepted for
publication the story illustrations are then assigned by an editor and/or
art director to an illustrator they feel most appropriately fits
the style of the writing. So, to answer the question: No. I only accept illustration assignments that come directly from a publishing house.
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| Can you tell us more about yourself?
I have
been creating freelance illustrations professionally for over
two decades. Illustrating everything from advertisements to
children's books to educational clip art to zoo publications. When I can find the time, I also paint and sculpt. ( And no, this art is not for sale. Refer to item #6 above for the reason why.) My hobbies include archeology, herpetology, and tinkering with new inventions. I also like collecting hockey memorabilia, old books, old toys, and other old things. I'm married to an elementary school educator and we have one child. We also have a very spoiled domesticated feline and a huge tortoise that mows the grass for us. (Really! Click here to see his picture.) I live in Arizona. To find out more about Arizona click
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Are you the same Mark
Hicks...
...that authored books about fishing? No. ...the actor/stuntman? No. (Although I was on a local television station's edition of Romper Room School two times when I was a little kid. Click here to see my picture.) ...the minister? Heck no. |
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Do you have a blog? No. I just don't have the time. I'm a freelance artist; between creating and promoting my artwork I have no spare time to pen inane ramblings about my life. |
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