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Abraham Balcázar

Professional Illustrator

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Mexico City, Mexico
Designer and illustrator at Invertour Newspaper
Illustration at Freelance professsional Illustrator
Studied at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Joined October 22, 2020

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English
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Spanish
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About
⚜️𝐏𝐑𝐎 𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐑⚜️ 19+ years experienced. Visual and graphic narrator. Mexico City.✎ ▸Illustrated books, educational books & picture books. ▸Article & portrait illustration for Magazines. ▸Social and publicity illustration. ▸Watercolor, Pencil, Ink & Photoshop. ▸Realistic, Fantasy & conceptual. Worked since 2001 as an illustrator and designer for magazines, book publish, agencies, design boards and institutions, such as Picnic, Moi, Expansión, Inversionista, Travel & Leisure, Día Siete, Inverionista, Car Magazine, Pearson, Macmillan-Castillo, Alfaguara, Siglo XXI, Colofón, Tecolote, ILCE, JWT, Salas de Lectura and the DGP from Conaculta, among others. As coauthor, illustrated the Books “Nina Complot” (Karen Chacek, Almadía), “A, B y C the first Lesson” (Jesús Heredia, Axial) y “When Panthers weren’t black” (Fabio Morábito, FCE). Selected on the 12° y 16° editions of the Catalog of illustrators of infantile and juvenile publishing of CONACULTA, and won third place of the 19° edition. Official Mexico representative in the Bratislava Biennial of Illustration in 2011 and 2015. Winner/Los diez in the Latin American Illustration 2015. Invited Artist for the ENPEG/INBA (2013). Scholar "Young Creators" Scholarship by the The National Found for Culture and Arts(FONCA) on Graphic Narrative. Studied Design and Visual Communication, with the specialty in illustration, at the Faculty of Arts and Design -UNAM. Founding member of the Mexican Asociation of Illustrators(Asociación Mexicana de Ilustradores, AMDI).
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Experience
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Invertour Newspaper
Sep 2001 – Present
Mexico City
Designer and illustrator
Editorial design and illustration.
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Freelance professsional Illustrator
Jan 2001 – Present
Mexico City
Illustration
Illustration for different media in illustrated books, picture books, educational and scientifycillustrations, Social and publicity, editorial for magazines and newspapers.
Education
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Dec 1997 – Dec 2002
Designer and illustrator