Design and illustration of cartoon characters

Looking to develop a long term relationship with a cartoon character designer to create a large range of concepts in varying themes, from children's characters to fantasy dragons and unicorns. Initially will be looking for sketches that can be developed and refined into compelling characters which will then be modelled in 3D form so each character would need to be drawn in orthographic view as well as an action shot for marketing. The first brief will look at developing six quirky animal characters that children can identify with whilst bearing in mind that adults will be purchasing the product. The project will be largely open as I wish to encourage creativity and hopefully be surprised by some of the results.

If you are interested in this please outline your availability, costs, how you like to approach projects and the time you would need to produce initial sketches and then develop each character.