PDF Portfolio Feedback (Irina Kaygorodova)

It's always important to get as much feedback as possible about my portfolio, and how I can change and develop it for future clients? So receiving an email from Irina Kaygorodova in response to my PDF portfolio was a very uplifting moment. Irina was a great influence on me when I traveled to Prague last year. Reading her email was very interesting to find out what else I can do to improve my skills and how I can translate this into my children book process. 


Hi Kate,

first of all sorry for my late reply, last period here was extremely busy. And thank you very much for your words about workshop, i'm happy to hear you liked watercolor and you started to use it after visiting my studio. 

Your artworks look very interesting and I think you can also improve your technique using watercolor, for example for backgrounds, drawing sky or whatever. Also if talk about your book cover I'd suggest you to pay more attention now for typography. The Name of the book should be more visible and also you can try to do writing by your hands (even with watercolor using different size of brush), it always looks unique and cute especially for children's books. And I would do a bit more transparent background or not so good visible on every part of cover, trying to concentrate on the main personage and Header and also I would do wall as one "picture" without border in the middle of spread. Characters look so cute, so you need just to find a way how to put them together with background.

I like your portfolio logo! Will you do some typography as well? You could continue it like a ribbons on the hat.

I really would love to see your works with watercolor :) so feel free to send me just apologize in advance if I will reply slowly.

Also I wanted to ask if you don't mind I will take your words as a testimonial for my workshop video on my website? If you don't mind please send me your picture I will post it together with text.

Looking forward to hear from you,

Best regards,

Irina