Building a Portfolio for a Career in Children’s Illustration
Making Your Sketches
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: Making Your Sketches
Overview
“Here, I will choose five images from my storyboard. Then I will show you how I turn my initial idea into sketches. ”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: Making Your Sketches, 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
“ Making Your Sketches My book has 12 illustrations. I'll be making sketches for half of the book. This way, my portfolio will be a mix of sketches and finished illustrations. When a potential client looks at the images, they'll know what to expect when they're working with me. Let's get to it. Here's one of the images from my storyboard that I've chosen to make into a sketch. For sketching, I'll be using a pencil brush. Procreate has a whole bunch of pencil brushes, but my favorite one is the 6B pencil. I copied it into this list of brushes that I always use that I'll be sharing with you. ...”
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Course summary for: Building a Portfolio for a Career in Children’s Illustration
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Category
Illustration, Marketing & Business -
Software
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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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