JULIA BAX

I've been hunting everwhere to find an artist and I stumbled across a website for someone that I originally had intended to contact, but somehow misplaced the information. Her name is Julia Bax, and she's awesome.

I was hesitant for a moment, since she lives in BRAZIL. But, since everything is being done online nowadays, it shouldn't be a problem.

She had a contact form on her website so I sent her the following message:

Hi there! I've seen your work on Digital Webbing, and then I ran across your page again while searching for comic book artists.

Are you interested in drawing a comic book project for/with me? I really like your style and would love to work with you or talk you into doing some character pin-ups for me.

If you're interested, let me know! Take care :)

The next day I got the following response:

Hi JL!

I´m glad you took some time to visit my site.
Unfortunately, due to a really acute money shortage currently I´m not able to pick up any projects that involve no pay upfront. =(
But wish you the best of luck in finding a great artist to work with!

Take care,
Julia

Okay, so we went back and forth about page rates, and I sent her the following message:

Sounds good to me! I'm interested in making a comic to pitch to the various comic book publishers. We only need a few pages for the submission packet, but if it gets picked up you'd need to be the artist for the first few issues. I'll pay you your page rate up-front.

Does that sound like something you might have time for? I know you're a student and I wouldn't want to get in the way of your homework, or whatever. There really isn't a huge rush to get it done fast, it'd be mostly for fun and experience. Regardless, I love to have you do a few pinups of the characters, if you're interested.

Is there any chance we could have two characters per page? And do you show rough sketches of concept stuff before you do the final piece? I'm new to the whole working-with-an-artist process and I'm interested in seeing how we work together and all that in shaping what the character's will eventually look like.

It might seem weird that Im just emailing you out-of-the-blue with all this, but I'm excited about doing a comic book, and I think your drawings are just fabulous.

Just let me know what you think :)

Talk to ya later.

/JL

The email is sent. Finger crossed.