sanyaillustration

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I'm an illustrator with over 15 years of experience from Boston, Massachusetts, with residency in Mexico City, Mexico. I specialize in editorial illustration, with a focus on figurative drawing using brush and ink.

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I’m an illustrator with over 15 years of experience from Boston, Massachusetts, with residency in Mexico City, Mexico. I specialize in editorial illustration, with a focus on figurative drawing using brush and ink. I also do much of my work digitally. I have many years of experience in printmaking – silkscreen, linocut, letterpress.

I have worked for many nonprofits including National Resources Defense Council, Oxfam Mexico, Pacific Environment, Insure Our Future, and Center for Biological Diversity, creating posters and digital illustration for social media. I’ve also illustrated a number of books, including book covers. Some of my clients have included Penguin Random House, and Mexico City Streets. I also love working on book design and I have designed interior book contents from academic reports to cookbooks.

I want to listen carefully to a client to understand their needs and deliver the results they are looking for. Looking forward to getting to work!

  • Joined October 2024

Industry experience

  • Education

Projects · 13

A series of unpublished digital illustrations for the Televisa Foundation project, "Empieza Temprano" (Begin Early), which focuses on early education and intervention of good parenting skills.

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A series of six illustrations depicting the concept of "displacement" for Word of the Day as part of the When We Fight, We Win! Podcast. Each image shows the various steps that may occur toward homelessness, as well as the community organizing that is capable of creating community power and reverse such housing displacement.

  • Illustrator

A series of six illustrations depicting the concept of "displacement" for Word of the Day as part of the When We Fight, We Win! Podcast. Each image shows the various steps that may occur toward homelessness, as well as the community organizing that is capable of creating community power and reverse such housing displacement.

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  • Vector Illustrator

A series of six illustrations depicting the concept of "displacement" for Word of the Day as part of the When We Fight, We Win! Podcast. Each image shows the various steps that may occur toward homelessness, as well as the community organizing that is capable of creating community power and reverse such housing displacement. illustrator

  • Illustrator

A series of six illustrations depicting the concept of “displacement” for

as part of the When We Fight, We Win! Podcast. Each image shows the various steps that may occur toward homelessness, as well as the community organizing that is capable of creating community power and reverse such housing displacement.

A guidebook in both English and Spanish illustrated with over 55 iconic images of the historic Roma neighborhood in Mexico City. I rendered the illustrations using two spot colors, blended at different percentages to achieve a varied palette. I illustrated the cover, a bird's-eye view of the neighborhood. illustrator bookcover

  • Book Illustrator

Work experience· 8 roles

Freelance illustrator · City of Bridges Community Land TrustMay 2025 – May 2025 · 1 mo

Create an illustration, with iterations, to be used by City of Bridges Community Land Trust to convey a community-led movement that fights displacement and protects Pittsburgh neighborhoods. Use classic woodblock-print look, using the limited palette of the organization.

Freelance illustrator and designer · Funders' Collaborative on Youth OrganizingDec 2024 – May 2025 · 6 mos

Part 1: Fully designed FCYO’s Strategic Plan long version (24 pages), Formatting for aesthetics and readability Part 2: Fully designed graphic of Strategic Framework (2 pages); Design elements should be synchronous between the two documents (colors, fonts, etc.) Part 3: Google Slides template(s) for a presentation deck, using the design elements from the Strategic Framework.

Freelance illustrator and designer · Women's Ordination ConferenceJul 2024 – Sep 2024 · 3 mos

Create poster designs featuring a Warhol-riffed Campbell soup can with text changed for the W.O.C. campaign. 70x100cm dimensions, with various color backgrounds (and two iterations of a repeating grid of cans. Uploading appropriate file types to a shared folder, work with various WOC members to make available the various iterations.

Freelance illustrator · Campus Reentry ProjectJan 2024 – Jan 2024 · 1 mo
Freelance Illustrator · Sunrise Project, Inc.Jan 2024 – Feb 2024 · 2 mos
Freelance illustrator · Fundación Televisa, Empieza Temprano campaignJan 2023 – Mar 2023 · 3 mos
Freelance illustrator · Center for Biological DiversityMar 2022 – Jun 2022 · 4 mos
Freelance illustrator · Penguin Random House - Grupo Editorial, MexicoSep 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

Education

Bachelor of Art · Massachusetts College of Art and Design2003 – 2006

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