Building a Portfolio for a Career in Children’s Illustration
Your Final Image
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: Your Final Image
Overview
“Follow along while I focus on one of my images and add all the details to the final image. ”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: Your Final Image, 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
“ Your Final Image Up to now, I've been working on my three images at the same time. Right now, I want to turn my focus onto one of the illustrations. This way, I'll walk you through the process of how I add details to my images. Before I do anything else, I'll check the contrast of my image. I'll add a layer on top of my work and fill it in with white. Then, I'll change the layer's property from Normal to Color. That way, I can see what my illustration would look like in black and white. Color has three different properties, hue, saturation, and brightness. When I take away the saturation ...”
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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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