I am an illustrator from Hyderabad, India. I started making illustrations professionally in 2015, after leaving my full-time job in social development sector and moving to Timor-Leste . I am mostly self-taught; have done courses on makeartthatsells.com to improve my illustration skills for childrens books and editorial opportunities. I am also building experience in the area of surface design. Before becoming an illustrator, I worked for almost 5 years in a social development sector in India.

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Tools I use for Illustration

• Procreate (iPad)

• Adobe Photoshop (iPad and Desktop) - I use this when a client requests for it. 

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​Experience:

1. ​Illustrated the opening spread of the book, 'Planetary Health', for Pratham Books, 2025

2. Made illustrations for the cover and the inside pages (Black and White), for the book, 'Dancing frogs and other creatures in Verse', authored by Zai Whitaker, Speaking Tiger Books, 2025

3. Illustrated the Childrens Book, 'This Land is my School'  , authored by Yogesh Maitreya, Pratham Books, India, 2024. 

4. Illustrated a series of Shloka books for Adidev Press, 2023-24

5. Made illustrations for the web series, 'Thulsivanam', Etv Win, 2022-23

6. Licensing illustrations to Zipgreets.com (USA), 2022

7. Design consultant for Communication Campaign on WHO’s PRSEAH, NCIS, August-December, 2022

8. Designing social media posts, New Concept Information Systems Pvt Ltd, June-December, 2022

9. Designed Vector based posters and banner for Asia Regional Child Labour (ARC) Programme, International Labour Organization (ILO). The designs were commissioned by New Concept Information Systems Pvt. Ltd. (NCIS) .

10. Seed packet art submission published in Uppercase Magazine.

11. Collaborated with Aparna Pallod (Author), for illustrating the Zine, 'A Guide to Pixelated Stuff'.

12. Licensed three of my artworks to Cat Socrates, Singapore. They were used for production of punch needle embroidery kits.

13. Illustration and writing for 'The Material Series: Part 1" was published on esthesiamag.com

14. Illustrated the Childrens Book, 'You won't believe it', authored by Jairaj Singh, Pratham Books, India.

15. Illustrated a storybook on stigma and discrimination faced during the pandemic. It was published by UNICEF and NCCDC

16. Created illustrations for a digital interactive tool; commissioned by NCCDC

17. Self-published a patternising book by successfully raising funds on the crowdfunding platform, wishberry.in

18. Interned with 'The Soup' magazine as an editorial illustrator.

19. Created an illustrated map of Dili, Timor-leste

20. Illustrated the Childrens' Book, 'Luna and Lupita', for Emilia Garcia; she wrote the book for her high school project. The first run was printed and distributed with funding support from International Development Organisations and individuals based out of Timor-Leste. Later, It was printed and distributed to schools by the Ministry of Education, Government of Timor-Leste. The book was also read on the National Television.

21. Illustrated posters for the Annual Christmas market, Agora Food Studio, Timor-Leste

22. Book Cover Illustrations for LELI, Timor-Leste

23. Custom illustrations (Pets and People)

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Exhibition

• Illustrations of the Book, 'This Land is my School', were selected for BIG 2025, 16th Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC), Singapore

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Contact

For enquiries, email me at rudraraju.bhargavi@gmail.com

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