What this type of person ends up doing is going to Upwork of Freelancer.com and finding someone from India/South East Asia.

What likely will happen then is they will find an incredibly inexperienced artist that has no clue how to estimate the time and cost of a project and is possibly just excited to work on anything.

So the client hires this bright, starry-eyed artist and the art quality is going to dramatically fall off a cliff within about 10 days as that artist realizes this isn't a feasible project. The client might shorten the book or reduce the illustration requirements in an effort to help, but increasingly delayed emails will occur as the artist will likely either stop responding or say something has come up to get out of this untenable commission. The client may not even be out of pocket at this point but they will be about 5 months behind schedule and eventually without an artist and a handful of art that is barely usable since not many people are going to want to style match bad art.

The client will then likely abandon the project, citing poor artists as a reason, and you can absolutely expect them to post another project within a week that states 'no-drama' somewhere in the project description.

Source: Using Upwork