Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
About Me
A course by Silja Goetz , Illustrator
About the video: About Me
Overview
“I have always liked to draw, but from leaving a well-paid job at a magazine to becoming a freelance illustrator still was a big step for me. In this lesson, I will tell you how that worked out and will show you some of my illustrations. ”
In this video lesson Silja Goetz addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story. Learn the secrets of conceptual illustration to create an eye-catching book cover using analog and digital techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hi, I'm Silja Götz, I'm a freelance illustrator, born in Germany, living in Madrid. Come in, grab a cookie, sit down. In this lesson I'll tell you how I became to be a freelance Illustrator and I'll show you some samples of my work. I've always liked to draw, and my parents told me I was good at it. Now I think that's all nice parents tell their children, of course. The difference is I believed them. So I thought pretty early, "I want to do this for a living." And I was thinking, "how can I achieve this?" I studied communication design in Nuremberg because I thought that would ...”
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Course summary for: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
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Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Silja Goetz
A course by Silja Goetz
Silja has always loved to draw, and with the encouragement of her parents, she kept it up and decided early on that she wanted to become an illustrator. She studied Communication Design in Nüremberg while working as an illustrator for a magazine about animals for children, along with some work for magazines like Elle and Cosmopolitan.
Silja worked as a layout designer for Allegra Magazine (Germany) for over two years, where she learned to see illustration from an art director’s perspective. After deciding she wanted to create illustrations instead of working with the work of others, she took a leap of faith and moved to Spain, where she started working as a freelance illustrator.
She has worked with press clients like The New Yorker, Elle, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Die Zeit, Outdoor magazine, and more, as well as on advertising projects for clients like Estrella Damm. Her book cover illustrations adorn the books of publishers like Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Gräfe und Unzer, and Doubleday.
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