About me

Hi, I am Sara, a freelance illustrator and designer living in a beautiful valley of the Italian Alps. I create educational and entertaining artwork for printed publications and digital projects for people of a wide age range. My clients are publishers, institutions, NGOs, and commercial clients based in Italy and worldwide.

Since childhood, drawing has been my favorite tool to explore emotions and live imaginary stories. I started by drawing comic strips depicting my schoolmates as colorful humanized animals having wild adventures.

I studied Graphic Arts at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Torino and Children's Book Illustration at the European Institute of Design in the same city. While finishing my studies in 2009, I published my first illustrations in a medical publication and a calendar for a local naturalistic park. During my career, I explored different projects and styles, creating engaging, detailed, dynamic pictures where observers can glimpse a story and connect with their emotional, empathetic side.

I have created vector art of varied complexity for my digital projects and educational work. I used a detailed painted style mixing handmade and digital painting for fiction covers, naturalistic pieces, and animals. I also made variations of line art, such as black and white or digitally colored illustrations, for conceptual images, textbooks, or kid's printed games.
Besides drawing, I adore hiking in the nearby mountains and cultivating our family vegetable garden. I am particularly interested in environmental problems. In the last few years, I have participated as an activist and art material creator in events of environmentalist groups near me.

Skills:

Illustrations for fiction and non-fiction books, digital and board games, school textbooks, and printed and digital media educational projects. Sequential art (comics): line art and digital coloring.
Traditional media skills: acrylics, watercolor, gouache, ink, pen, colored pencils, graphite, pastels.
Raster and vector digital art, 2D animation.

Design: digital graphics for social media, websites, and printed products: packaging, cover design, book layouts, interactive e-books, infographics, and icons.

Computer skills: Excellent knowledge of Adobe CC Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
Good knowledge: Adobe Animate, Adobe XD, WordPress CMS. Ms Office, Open Office.
Basic knowledge: HTML and CSS coding, responsive web design, Git.
Confident with online platforms for shared online work (Dropbox, Drive).

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Below is a list of my publications and commissioned work.

"Guida mia" - History, class V - GIUNTI Scuola - 2023
"Community Village" - Across Cultures
"Ma prière" - Éditions Anas
"Guida mia". History, Geography, class IV - GIUNTI Scuola - 2022
"SOFIA" - IRES Regione Piemonte
"Capire, Formare, Agire" - IRES Regione Piemonte
"Mon Dictionnaire Arabe-Français Illustré" - Éditions Anas
"The Islands" - Across Cultures - 2021
"The little black book of fabulous skin" - Griffin+Row - 2019
"Lawrence Littlefoot - The HiNor Landers" - Zophar Santè
"Project ConNet" - Diaconia Valdese
Roll-up design - Climalia
Voluntary graphic designer work - Italian Climate Network -
"Veterinary surgery procedures" - Veterinary Surgery Center of Sarasota - 2017

"Spruntzel" - Twinwood Animation - 2017
"Know your skin" - Griffin+Row - 2016
"Happy Calc" - Quatio
"Psychological assessments for school students" - Break Loose Publishing
"Lawrence Littlefoot - The Stone Demon's Nephew" - Zophar Santè
Calendar, "Menu vegan" campaign logo - Agire Ora Edizioni
"Vacanze Sprint". Maths - Class V - Raffaello Libri - 2015
Illustrations for the website -
"Fun Comet" - Quatio - 2014
"Learning Village" - Across Cultures - 2013
"La Narrazione" - ARAI Regione Piemonte

"Mind Play" - Break Loose Publishing - 2013
Logo design - La Riposa alpine hut
"Canine characters" - Zarbi Design Ltd
"Guida per Insegnanti" class V - Ibiscus Libri
"Guida per Insegnanti" class IV - Ibiscus Libri - 2012
"Allegro vivo multimediale" - Il Capitello - 2011
Illustrations for a website, t-shirts, leaflets - Associazione Vivi la Natura
"500 disegni" Alessandro Soncin e Fiat 500 Club Italia- Seneca editore, 2010
"San Giorgio, il drago e la rosa" - Agra editrice - 2009
"Giornata Mondiale del Libro 2009" - Agra editrice
"Manuale di chirurgia plastica pediatrica" - Edizioni CLEUP - 2007
"Calendario 2006", ill. vari. Parco Naturale del Gran Bosco di Salbertrand - 2006

Thanks for your interest!