Building a Portfolio for a Career in Children’s Illustration
Working with Multiple Images
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: Working with Multiple Images
Overview
“I will show you how I work on a project that requires multiple images. Finally, I'll explain how I try to ensure that the quality of my work stays consistent throughout the whole book. ”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: Working with Multiple Images, 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
“ Working with Multiple Images When working with multiple images, I try to do as many steps as I can in bulk. I developed this habit because when I started, I would usually take a lot of time in doing my first image. As the deadline would approach, I would start taking less and less time for every image, and the quality would just take a dip from the first image to the last image. When your work does this, it makes you look very unprofessional, so now I try to see what I can do at one time and try to get that out of the way in one go, so all my images will look roughly the same by the time ...”
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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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