Key children's book illustrators: beatrix potter, beatrix potter was a english writer and illustrator who is most known for stories about animals, her most famous being ‘the tales of peter rabbit’. Some have described her as an entrepreneur, they say that potter was a pioneer of character merchandising, and peter rabbit being patentes into a stuffed you, made him the oldest licenced character. When it comes to her illustrations, tho the style is old timey and isn't like the children's book illustration you see today, there is something still pleasing and almost timeless about her work.

The fantasy aspect of the humanoid animals compared with the realistic background all created with watercolour makes it soft but also detailed meaning both children and adults can enjoy the stories. In terms of more modern day practices, finding this sort of work is found a lot of the time through agencies, this is usually done online where a company will hire artists and show their portfolios on their website where scouts for certain projects can look and contact artists for work. Sometimes as well agencies will find work for the people in their company but this can depend on the company and policies and contracts.