Playful Hand-Lettering for Children’s Book Illustration
Creating the Work You Want to Get Hired For
A course by Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn , Hand-lettering Artist and Illustrator
Joined November 2020
About the video: Creating the Work You Want to Get Hired For
Overview
“What’s next? Creating the work you want to be hired for will take you a long way in building the career of your dreams. This pertains to any facet of design and illustration, as clients will hire you based upon what you present to the world. ”
In this video lesson Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn addresses the topic: Creating the Work You Want to Get Hired For, which is part of the Domestika online course: Playful Hand-Lettering for Children’s Book Illustration. Learn to create joyful lettering compositions for your book illustrations that appeal to readers of all ages.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Creating the Work You Want to Get Hired For In the last lesson, I showed you how to prep your files for clients or for printing. In this lesson, I'm going to talk to you about how to create the type of work that you want to get hired for, where to share it, and how to share it. When it comes to getting hired by clients, you will get hired by what is in your portfolio, so you want to make sure that your portfolio is full of the type of work that you would like to create. If you don't like drawing things that are sci-fi or robots, then don't put that in your portfolio, because you will get ...”
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Course summary for: Playful Hand-Lettering for Children’s Book Illustration
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Procreate -
Areas
Drawing, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Narrative, Traditional illustration

Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn
A course by Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn
Shauna Lynn is a hand-lettering artist and illustrator based in the United States. She has been drawing since she was able to hold a pencil and was always encouraged to pursue her artistic side by her creative parents. After starting an opera program at the University of North Florida, she transferred to a bachelor's of fine arts with a focus on graphic design and digital media. From there, she worked in a number of internships and had her poster design accepted by the Communication Arts Typography Competition which launched her freelance career.
Since then, Shauna has worked for clients including Adobe, Microsoft, Samsung, Twitter, and Facebook. Her work, which she creates from her home studio near Chicago, has been featured in Advanced Photoshop Magazine, PRINT Magazine, Dribbble, and more. She is also the co-author of Creative Lettering and Beyond, has hosted numerous workshops, and spoken at events including Adobe MAX 2020.
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