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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🌈

🇺🇦Kyiv, Ukraine$15/hr100% JSS5.00 (20)Since Jul 2022

Earnings and projects

MRR
$208

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#112,107 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#4,146 / 14.3k
Revenue, last 30 days
$520

Last 6 months: $1.2k

World#61,800 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#2,374 / 14.3k
Total earnings
$4.7k

Billed in all: $4.8k

World#260,209 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#10,533 / 14.3k
Per project
$147

$125 in the last 6 months

World#284,922 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#10,972 / 14.3k
Projects, last 6 months
10
100% fixed0% hourly
World#18,298 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#848 / 14.3k
Projects in all
32
81% fixed19% hourly
World#92,223 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#4,060 / 14.3k

Earnings, last 30 days

$4.8k+$520 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$4.0k$4.5k$5.0kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 17% in Portrait Art

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