Building a Portfolio for a Career in Children’s Illustration
What Do I Do With My Project?
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: What Do I Do With My Project?
Overview
“So you've finished your project, now what? In this lesson, I take a look at some of the ways you can put your work to good use so it can get you closer to landing that dream job. ”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: What Do I Do With My 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
“ What Do I Do With My Project? Now that you finished your project, you might wonder what happens next. Here are some suggestions of things that you could do with your project. First, we have contests. A great motivation for doing a project is submitting it to a contest. Getting your work selected for a contest can be a great way to have the right eyes looking at your work immediately. Most illustration contests ask you to submit a series of images, either three or five images, depending on the contest. Also, most contests happen roughly at the same time of the year and the rules don't vary...”
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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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