Building a Portfolio for a Career in Children’s Illustration
What Are Clients Looking For?
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: What Are Clients Looking For?
Overview
“Here, I will talk about portfolios; I want to show you what agents and publishers look for when going through your portfolio. ”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: What Are Clients Looking For?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Building a Portfolio for a Career in Children’s Illustration. Kick-start your career as a children's book illustrator by building a powerful portfolio that captures the attention of publishers.
Partial transcription of the video
“ What Are Clients Looking For? Even when you know that your dream is to become a children's book illustrator, you might be confused about how to get hired to illustrate books, or maybe you're an illustrator who has been working in another field for a couple of years, but you haven't been able to make the transition into illustrating children's books. The most important thing that you need to get work as an illustrator is a good portfolio. This means, not only having your best work on display, but knowing enough about the field that you want to work in so that you have a portfolio that is t...”
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Course summary for: Building a Portfolio for a Career in Children’s Illustration
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Narrative, Portfolio Development, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Jimena S. Sarquiz
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz
Jimena S. Sarquiz is a freelance illustrator specializing in the illustration of books for children and young people. During her career, she has had the opportunity to illustrate books for different publishers in Mexico, the United States, and Europe, as well as different magazines from Editorial Televisa (Mexico). In 2010, she illustrated her first children's book. Since then, she has illustrated ten more, mostly for publishers in Mexico.
Jimena is an active participant in comic events and design fairs, where she sells her illustrations. Her work can be found on social media under the name Monitos Bonitos.
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