Tatiana Vovchek is a Lisbon-based freelance illustrator + designer specializing in children's illustrations and surface pattern design.
Before her freelance career as an illustrator Tatiana worked as a web & graphic designer and later as an Art Director in IT companies in Odessa, Ukraine. Further, Tatiana relocated to Paris, France where she worked as a web designer at Hector Kitchen/Holidog - a group of pet-related businesses under the roof of one team.
Tatiana likes working with the same clients for years which gives opportunity to polish the company's visual brand and produce products, illustrations, and books in the same style. Tatiana's pool of repeating clients are:
Hector Kitchen/Holidog (7+ years)
Plume (6 years)
Frau Hilda (2+ years)
Leaders Books (3 years)
Hector Kitchen/Holidog (7+ years)
Plume (6 years)
Frau Hilda (2+ years)
Leaders Books (3 years)
Other selected clients:
4 Seasons Hotel Montreal, Touro University California, New Generation Hub, Photofunia, The Move, Grin, IQ Friends, Trailblazing Tails, All Paws Massage.
4 Seasons Hotel Montreal, Touro University California, New Generation Hub, Photofunia, The Move, Grin, IQ Friends, Trailblazing Tails, All Paws Massage.
You can read client testimonials in Tatiana's Instagram highlight "Reviews": View testimonials.
Tatiana is creating all illustrations digitally with Microsoft Surface Pro laptop. All illustrations she creates are 100% vector which allows quick revisions and flexibility for clients to use illustrations in any size and format.
EDUCATION
2008 year - Odessa Art School by K. Kostandi.
2009 year - Masters degree in Computer science which she finished with honors at Odessa National University by I.Mechnikov.
2009 year - web design course at Odessa Computer Academy "Step".
2012 year - web design course at Odessa Learning Center "Design Class".
2014-2015 years - private lessons academic drawing, painting, live figure drawing, and watercolor art from artists Maria Guryanova, and Sergey Bozhko, group lessons at Odessa art studio “Shtrikh”.
2016 year - online watercolor course and illustration for beginners course at Kalacheva school.
2017 year - online art classes at SVS Learn Art School.
2018 year - workshop from Victoria Semykina, award-winning children’s books author and illustrator.
2018 year - workshop from Sergiy Maidukov, Ukrainian illustrator working for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian etc.
2021 year - online illustration course from Anya Kuvarzina, former lecturer at CSVPA, UK and illustrator at Bright Agency.
EXHIBITIONS
August 2022 - 5 of my works participated in a group exhibition of Lisbon aspiring artists in Le Consulat hotel in Lisbon, Portugal.
June 2022 - 5 of my works participated in the group exhibition of 12 Ukrainian artists in Oldenburg, Germany with the goal to collect funds to support Ukraine during the war. Three of my works were sold at the exhibition and in total organizers collected 4240EUR for a good cause.
October 2021 - I participated in the autumn group exhibition at Bleshyunov Odessa museum. 4 of my illustrations from the book "Odessa Funny Guide for Kids" were selected together with other Ukrainian artists and illustrators accompanying the exposition of author dolls of Alexander Bessarabov.
August 2021 - 'Collage passage' group collage art exhibition at Gallery 202 in Odessa, Ukraine.
January 2020 - I participated in the group exhibition of urban sketchers Odessa and the drink &draw community at Bleshyunov Odessa museum. 12 of my best illustrations were presented at the exhibition together with 14 other artists.
October 2019 - I participated in the exhibition of Odessa Urban sketchers group which was an open-air exhibition with 14 artists participating.
August 2019 - I participated in an open-air group exhibition of Urban Sketchers Odessa at Shevchenko Park.
December 2016 - 3 of my works participated in the Christmas exhibition “Awaiting Masquerade” at Odessa Bleshyunov Museum.
November 2016 - my illustration participated at the “SketchFest 2016” an offline exhibition held in Moscow, Russia.
TEACHING
June 2022 - February 2023 - the teaching of watercolor urban sketching course, watercolor art workshops for beginners, ArtZone Global, Lisbon, Portugal.
May 2021 - November 2021 - the teaching of fashion illustration basics course for fashion designers and illustrators, UDM fashion school, Odessa, Ukraine.
AWARDS
June 2019 -“Odessa funny guide for kids” children’s book was chosen as “The best book of the fair in the category ‘Odessika’” at 20th Ukrainian book fair in Odessa region. There were 100+ participants in the competition and about 9 winners in different categories.
May 2017 - “Alice Cat Alphabet” picture book won as the best project at the official Behance Portfolio review, Odessa, Ukraine.
July 2016 - Tatiana's illustrations were shortlisted at the "Urban Sketching" global competition with 150,000 participants entering, Kalacheva online art school.
Member, Illustrators For Hire, since 2022