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Valérie MichelVM

Valérie Michel

Illustrator

€300/day
15 projects
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Valérie

Hello there,
Are you looking for an illustrator who genuinely loves creating images with energy, creativity, and joy, through listening and exchange?
I put aside a career in textile design to get closer to what I love most: images and drawing. From my previous profession, I retained rigor in the creative process, the ability to express myself within a brief, consideration for the needs of my clients, a taste for color and patterns, and a sense of product. And since then, I have worked in the following areas:
  • Children's publishing, as an illustrator and author
  • Communication, with various agencies, to illustrate booklets, pamphlets, flyers, as well as activity reports for companies or associations
  • Business, directly, for portraits, packaging, creation of repeating patterns, greeting cards
  • Individuals, for custom invitations, unique artwork intended as gifts, covers for self-published books
  • Educational materials, illustration of manuals, instruction guides
  • And many other things too (landscape sketches, lettering, creation of images for risograph printing...)
My drawings can be done by hand or digitally. They are always imbued with a "handmade" sensibility and claim a part of sensitivity, poetry, and imagination. Very attentive to the needs and desires of my clients, I aspire to projects that allow me to invent beautiful images while always remaining demanding of myself.
Discover more on I am always curious to explore new fields, so please reach out, even for a simple inquiry.
Thank you and see you soon.
  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 20km), Dieppe (up to 10km), Rouen (up to 10km)

Experience

  • Editions Courtes et Longues
    Illustrator
    PUBLISHING
    June 20 - October 20 (4 months)
    Paris, France
    Contacted for a 32-page children's album project, I first received the author's text, previously broken down according to the number of pages. In close liaison with the publisher, I then made sketched proposals. Following their joint validation with the author and the publisher, I finalized the color plates traditionally, using pencil, marker, and pen highlights. I then carried out corrections on the digitized files. The book was released in March 2021.
    Illustration digital retouching coloring hand drawing

Reviews

5.0

Out of 13 ratings

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Agathe

SARL DOMAINE DES PLANTADES

Reviewed on 1/20/2023

Valerie is an extraordinary person! she understands the client's expectations, shows a lot of patience, I recommend her.
M

Mayline

Société Française de Physique

Reviewed on 12/22/2022

A very pleasant and motivated illustrator, who did everything to meet our very short deadlines! Thank you Valerie for your quality work and your great flexibility.

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Education

  • Textile design diploma
    E.N.S.A.D.
    2002

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