Building a Portfolio for a Career in Children’s Illustration
Choosing a Portfolio Project
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: Choosing a Portfolio Project
Overview
“In this lesson, I'm going to talk to you about the kinds of projects you can create to grow your children's book portfolio. Then, I will go over the advantages and disadvantages of different projects. Finally, I will choose a book to work with for this course. ”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: Choosing a Portfolio Project , 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
“ Choosing a Portfolio Project The best way to have a portfolio that can land you your dream job is by making your portfolio look like you already have that job. The way that we'll do that is by creating personal projects. Since you want to work in children's book illustration, the projects you should be taking on are illustrating children's books. You don't have to illustrate a whole book, but you do have to make a series of images, at least three to five images per project. This way, you can showcase your characters, your storytelling, your backgrounds in a series of images where you can ...”
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Course summary for: Building a Portfolio for a Career in Children’s Illustration
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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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