Sketchbookers, let’s build a portfolio together from the ground up!
The 2025 theme will be Portfolio Playground, a year-long adventure to build an illustration portfolio. Suppose you have ever dreamed of becoming a children’s book illustrator, looking into editorial illustration, making products full of illustrations, or improving your drawing of people or environment skills. In that case, this is your time to start. Consider this a safe space where we will tackle a specific topic at a time. This year's main goal is to build the confidence you need to tackle any challenges that making an illustration can bring.
Our first step will be making characters. For the first 6 months, we will dip our toes into drawing children, adults, elderly people, pets, anthropomorphic characters, and last but not least, monsters.
We have drawing session one or twice a month were we build the necessary skills to draw people and pets:
How to draw children? Or Make your own superhero child!
Easy ways to draw dogs and cats and drawing weird pets and their owners
In the next step, we will immerse ourselves in the realm of world-building. We will focus on environment and scene design, from an introduction to perspective, lighting, and outdoor spaces to complex and detailed scenes.
A Yearly subscription will get you where you want to be, with online workshops, painting meetings, photo references, and much more!
I’m here to be the art geek who does all the research so you can dive right into growing your creativity and your art skills.
With your subscription, you will also get collections of photo references to draw from different places:
-Circus.
and many more exclusive posts!
You don´t know where to start?
Here is a post with all of the newsletters I have sent:
Are you here to see my portfolio?
https://citlaflorart.myportfolio.com/
