José Luis Tejero (he/hIM)
¡Hola! I'm José, a Spanish illustrator from Granada, currently living in Cambridge, UK. My belief is that illustration serves society as a form of pictorial expression with infinite possibilities.
I enjoy teamwork, with a focus on listening to input from others, and adapting myself to a project’s needs. I embrace fresh challenges, along with any opportunity to create personal projects.
My work is predominantly illustrated using watercolour, with further experimentation using mixed media. Introducing nature themes and a sense of place to my stories helps evoke a range of emotions in the reader, such as joy. I use illustrative devices such as body language and composition to create characters that are energetic and emotional.
I am primarily interested in working on fiction picturebook projects, with a focus on crossover picturebooks appealing to both children and adults. I am also keen to explore comics and chapter books through illustrating action adventures, and adapting my work to non-fiction too, such as books about music, nature or history.
Website: www.tejerostudio.com
Instagram: @joseluistejero_illustration
Email: joseluis@tejerostudio.com
I DON’T WANT TO BE A CARPENTER
I created this project to try to convey an interesting conflict and a good range of emotions focusing in the relationship between father and son and by adding some personal elements. I wanted to create a simple and effective visual narrative and to study the use of light, colour and composition to achieve different feelings.
ONE DAY IN CAMBRIDGE
With this project I wanted to learn the possibilities of sequential image and to investigate action, interaction and pace through the idea of a relay of characters connected by acts of kindness and conflict in the same city. I tried to use a very simple technique to support communication. This allowed me to convey a fluid, energetic visual identity sustained through the images, which is close to how I worked in my sketchbooks.
