Meet the artist
Hello, I´m Javier
I´m a self taught illustrator and designer born in Chile in 1998 which maes me 21 years old as of today. I love to draw witches and other fantasy like creatures so I recomeend you to follow me if that´s in you cup of tea and you´ll get charmed by my characters
My Studies
about Design and Illustration
As I said before, I´m for the most part a self taught illustrator, but here´s a list of classes I´ve taken that have been useful to my learning and my career in general.
Character design: illustrate your imagination
Class taken in July of 2019
This was a one session workshop by Andrea Galecio about the fundamentals concepts needed to bring a character from our imagination to the paper. It also works as a base guide for illustrators, teaching how to use vectors, textures and colors in the program Illustrator to make the best drawing possible
Express Character Design
Class taken in July of 2019
Course by Antonella Morelli with the best techniques for character design supported with sources like Joseph Campbell and his theory of the Hero´s Journey. It also includes a variety of exercises to practices the newly received knoledge.
Introduction to Branding and Logo design
Course by Cástor Vera where he taught the fundaments of Branding,followed by an intensive lecture on how to prepare a good Design Strategy in order to design te best possible logo to the specifics of each client.
Class taken in March of 2020
UX Fundamentals
Class taken in March of 2020
Course by Juan Manuel Abrigo, Maria Santos and Martin Bacigalupo, all product Designers at Bardo,a design company in Barcelona. In this classes, they explained in depth the process of UX Design with all of the roles that played a part on the job.
Finances for Freelancers
Class taken in April of 2020
Course by Elaine King in which she explains the basics for a Freelancer to be able to be in charge of one's own finances and the correct way of separating them from the personal finances. She also provided some very useful tips in the management of money.
Conceptualize and Illustrate your own Characters
Course by the Visual Artist Critos AKA Santa Satan in which he teaches the creative process for the creation of a concept/character from the research to applying textures and other final details. The final project for the course was the design of a gang of five different characters.
Class taken in May of 2020