Nothing tells a story like a custom made illustration. Crowdspring makes it easy for you to connect with top illustrators from around the world. Risk-free, affordable and quick.
With every project you'll get:
Dozens of designs in 7 days or less
100% money back guarantee
Award winning customer support
Free legal contract protecting your intellectual property
Stop wasting your valuable time elsewhere. Over 220,000 talented creatives from 195 countries work on crowdspring.
Work you'll love, guaranteed.
Beautiful design that drives results. If you're not 100% happy with your design project, we'll promptly refund all your money.
Award-winning customer support.
All the suport you need, when you need it. Our dedicated support team (99% customer satisfaction) is available by phone, email, and chat to ensure your success.
Protect your intellectual property.
Powerful intellectual property protections, made simple. Every project includes industry leading customized, dynamic legal contracts and policies that protect your intellectual property.
Interactive Q&A customized for illustration projects.
Flexible pricing for everyone.
Simple (takes just a few minutes) and proven process.
FAQs
Projects run for 7 days, but you can shorten them to as little as 1 day if you're in a hurry. Many entries come in the last few days of a project, and we encourage you to wait until the project ends before picking your favorite (tell us if you want to close the project early). You can extend your project for free, up to 7 more days if you need more time.
Illustration design packages start at $499, while projects with a single designer (1-to-1 projects) start at $200. All packages include the award to the designer and crowdspring's fee, a custom legal contract giving you full rights to the work you're buying, free focus groups, our award-winning customer support, tools and platform. You can select packages and features based on what you need and your budget. You will always know up front exactly what you'll pay, with no hidden costs and no surprises.
Absolutely! Every project on crowdspring is protected by a custom legal contract giving you full rights to the work you're buying. If you have multiple awards, you'll have separate contracts for each. Once the contract is signed and the creative is paid after you approve the final deliverables in your project, you can use the design (or name) any way you like. You can change it or alter it in any way – it's yours.
The non-winning work remains the property of the person who created that work. This means you may not use those other entries (or any portions of them) in any way. But we give you an easy way to add awards and make offers in your projects when you find more than one design (or name) you love.
"I loved working with crowdspring! It was so exciting to watch your project pick up steam as you gave feedback to the creatives. It felt very collaborative and you have so many creative people submitting ideas just for your project. Their system is organized, easy to use and understand. I am so happy with the results!"
Ali Hissey, Founder, Hissey Fit
2.Work with our über-talented designers
Multiple designers submit dozens of concepts.
Review, rate, and give feedback.
One price. Pick the design you love.
FAQs
You'll see dozens of designs from multiple designers. The more active you are in the project, the more designs you will get. We'll let you know every time a new design or comment comes in and invite you to give feedback. The more feedback you provide, the more designs you'll receive. Years of experience show us that projects with active clients will receive more than double the designs compared to projects with low client participation.
Absolutely! In fact, this is a key factor for success. Once the designs start rolling in, let the designers know what you think about their designs. You can score and give individual feedback. You can also update your brief if you want to address all participants in your project. They are happy to make changes and iterate on their designs.
When you score each entry (1 to 5 stars), your score and comments are private. Only you and the individual designer will see the star rating and comments on their design. Updates to your brief are public for all participants in the project.
Like more than one illustration design? It happens all the time. You can start your project with multiple awards or add awards at any time during your project. You can also make offers on additional designs after your project has been awarded.
"In 10 years I have launched 17 projects on crowdspring and have always been impressed. Crowdspring brings 10 maybe even 100 times more creativity than simply working with a single random creative I could have found outside of crowdspring where I might only see a couple different concepts. And the price is very affordable."
Steven Krane, Entrepreneur & Investor
3.Pick the winning design and finalize the project.
Select the winner.
Make final adjustments.
Receive full rights to the work you purchased.
FAQs for step 3
You have seven days to select your favorite after the project closes. Sometimes, you might need an extra few days. Just let us know when that happens.
Before making the final decision, you may want to run a free focus group. All silver packages in design projects include one free focus group ($29 upgrade to unlimited). All other design packages include unlimited focus groups.
A focus group (also called a "poll") allows you to invite friends, customers, colleagues and anyone else to vote and comment on their favorite designs (you can assign weighted votes or let each vote count equally). Anyone is eligible to vote as long as they have the special voting URL we'll provide to you (they will not need to register an account). Your focus group can be public or private - you choose! You fully control whom you invite to each focus group and what designs are included in each focus group.
In design projects, you'll have a private area to complete the project with the designer you chose. If you have more than one award, you'll have a separate wrap-up with each designer. Each of you will sign the legal contract for the project (giving you full rights once the designer is paid).
You can continue to iterate and request changes in wrap-up to make sure the design is just right. Once you approve the proof files, the designer will create and send final files for your approval. Once you approve the final files, we pay the designer and you own full rights to the work.
For each project category, we'll recommend required file types and will ask the winning designer to provide you with appropriate final files. You can always request specific formats you or your printer require.
"I just finished my 2nd of 3 projects with crowdspring. The first was an incredible book cover. This new project was artwork for a wooded token. I have a 3rd project on going for the development of a logo for graphic for my wife's jewelry business. I'll summarize - Don't waste your time at other sites - just come to crowdspring.com. The experience, the talent and the result will only make your life easier."
Robert Dixon, Bob Dixon Consulting Services
The creative power of crowdspring is unmatched anywhere.
Crowdspring is the first stop for any aspiring entrepreneur, whether bootstrapped or VC-backed. The creative power of the their crowd is unmatched anywhere.
Businesses of all sizes, from one person start-ups to small and mid-size businesses to international conglomerates, will benefit from using good illustrations online and offline. Freelance illustrators can help a company to more effectively market its products or services to customers by providing graphical elements that reinforce the text on a webpage or the text on paper, such as in a magazine or newspaper, or in a marketing brochure.
Studies show that regardless of whether the marketing materials are in print or online, people generally react better when words are accompanied by graphics and illustrations. One of the biggest strengths of using illustration is that it is based on ideas and not reality, as photographs tend to be. They can be crafted to communicate exactly what you want to convey and can often make complex ideas easier to understand. It’s also easier to create a very individual style and feel using illustration than it is with photography.
Illustration is a communication tool that provides clarity to a complex concept. It allows us to link an abstract concept with a specific vision. It's effective in communicating the values and personality of your brand in a compelling and engaging way because it speaks directly to the consumer.
In general there are two different ways to estimate price for illustration and design work: hourly and flat rate. It's important to establish which type of estimate you are using, because the range for each can be very different.
Hourly quotes can seem lower than flat rate quotes, but it's important to remember that the final cost may vary by a great deal with an hourly quote. Even well planned and properly estimated freelance projects can go over budget. Your price may therefore increase a substantial amount. For example, a freelance illustration estimated to take 30 hours might take twice as long. If you are paying by the hour, you might find that your cost is much higher than you expect.
It's important to know which kind of quote you're dealing with. Having a firm budget in mind up front can really help guide you as to which type of quote will work best for your business.
Some of the best freelance illustrators in the world work on crowdspring. We have a great community - tens of thousands of designers and illustrators - that can help your with your illustration projects.
We've had clients from 100+ different countries post projects, many of which are illustration projects. crowdspring can help you find the right illustrator and reduce the need to worry about price.
This is very different from traditional design marketplaces. On crowdspring you set your own price, and illustrators post actual illustrations for you to choose from. Because you see actual illustrations, you get to choose exactly what you want.
Why take the risk of hoping someone who submits a quote lower than other illustrators will end up delivering a great illustrations for you? On crowdspring, when your project ends, you choose the illustrations you like the best. It’s that simple!
One of the toughest challenges for professional designers and illustrators is accurately estimating the cost of illustration. It is also important to consider other elements associated with a project. Illustration costs can vary a lot from market to market and even from one client to another. A wide variety of art styles, techniques, and work processes also make quoting flat or hourly rates challenging.
It's also important to remember you're not just purchasing an illustration. When you purchase an illustration for business use, you're also purchasing the rights to reproduce it in various formats and media. The more use you plan on getting out of your illustration, the more the illustration is worth. Consequently, prices for pieces of art that will be used a great deal and in many settings may be more expensive than, say, purchasing something to hang on your wall at home.
Crowdspring guarantees your satisfaction in illustration and graphic design projects. There's NO fine-print. We are not happy until you are. People are so thrilled with the designs they receive on crowdspring that we are proud to stand behind the work and make you an unconditional promise.
Ali Hissey, Founder, Hissey Fit
Steven Krane, Entrepreneur & Investor
Robert Dixon, Bob Dixon Consulting Services
