Olena R.
Illustrator, watercolor, ink and sketch artist
🎨 Watercolor illustrator | 📚 Children's book illustrations | ✏️ Sketches, pencil and ink drawings I am a professional illustrator specializing in watercolor illustrations, with a particular focus on children's books and children's literature. I create warm, expressive, story-driven illustrations that bring characters and worlds to life—perfect for picture books, fairy tales, educational materials, and gentle narrative projects for children. Also, any other watercolor illustrations. My main strengths: 🎨 Watercolor illustration 📚 Children's book illustration ✏️ Sketches and pencil drawings ✒️ Line art and ink drawings I can illustrate: 🐻 characters and scenes from children's books 🦊 animals and nature 🙂 portraits and expressive characters 🌸 plants and flowers 🧸 objects and everyday scenes 🏡 landscapes and architecture I have a strong academic background in painting, drawing, and graphic art, as well as a deep understanding of composition, color, light, proportion, and anatomy, which allows me to create illustrations that are both artistic and technically accurate. 🛠 Tools I work with: Photoshop · Procreate · Adobe Illustrator I love collaborating with authors, publishers, and creative teams who appreciate the aesthetics of hand-painted watercolors and thoughtful visual storytelling. I would be delighted to help bring your children's book or illustration project to life🌈
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $1.2k
Billed in all: $4,806$4.8k
$125 in the last 6 months
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 17% in Portrait Art
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
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