Today we’d like to introduce you to Noelia Sevillano.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?

Since elementary school I loved art and creativity a lot, it’s something always have been with me.

When I reached highschool I realized that I wanted not only to be better and learn more about illustration, I wanted to be a professional. Of course that wasn’t an easy path, I had (and I still have) a lot of work to do, so I started going to an art school.

During that time I started to work as freelance to pay my own studies, and I decided to go to my first art event. Beign there was an incredible experience. That month I was so busy with studies, work and the event but that helped me a lot to know a bit more about the world which I wanted to be part.

Since then, I worked hard to make and design my own branding. Is so incredible to look back to when I started doing only stickers and little prints, and look at the present where I found that I’m designing clothes and working for other companies.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?

I didn’t know at the beginning all the work one needs to put to make their own art. At first the struggles were only in terms of skills: color theory, anatomy, perspective… there is a lot to learn. Sometimes I found myself like in a dead end. The first time I recieve a comission asking me to draw their pet in a realistic style was like “omg, how do I do this?”.

And there enters one of the struggles most artists have: their own style. When you start drawing you don’t have your own style since the moment you start, you develop it through years, you change it, amold it and learn more and more. Is interesting because you always snap the first time you need to draw or design something totally out of your comfort zone.

You can be years developing a style and in a moment… you realize that you are changing even more things to amold it to you. At the end you are what you like to draw.

As for nowadays, start your own bussiness is an entire world. You think with your art skills or your extense knowledge about desing you are ready to create a brand and start selling you to… but wait, there are much more to learn. Taxes, selling laws, a bit of how postal services work around the world, social trends, invocie apps… Oh my… Learning all that proccess is not necessary a struggle, but taking the time you need to learn all the things while you still illustrate and design definetly is.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?

This is the kind of question that seems easy to answer at the first look but it turns to be more difficult than you thought!

I always like to say that I love to put a spark of magic in everyday life, either with illustrations or accesories,
I love to design something that appeals to the soul, to the craving of beign part of a bigger and magical world. That’s why I specialize in designs with cosmic and magic aesthetic. And of course, bunnies! They are one of the maing themes in my products and I found out people really love them as much I do.

I work hard making unique deisngs, recently I started to design apparel like sweartshirts, and is something I loved so far. Can’t wait to try new things very soon!

In terms of your work and the industry, what are some of the changes you are expecting to see over the next five to ten years?

This is a hot topic recently. As a lot of fellow artists know, our biggest problem right now are AIs. There is a lot of people not knowing the impact they can have in the industry, as they think is just an automatized tool but is more deep than that.

The algorythms they used to train generative AIs is made by feeding them with everyone’s art, even if that art is protected by laws and copyright. Stealing other’s art always was a problem, but nowadays is hard to regulate.

Sadly is not only about the art theft. Big companies wants benefits and that translate in more and more artists lays off. An incredible number of talents and ideas are beign put aside to try to include automatized tools in the industry, and the ironic resides in the result: worst designs and results in a field that needs the spark of human creativity behind to provide quality and keep growing.

Pricing:

• Sweatshirts at $70
• Illustrations of Full Body: $300
• Logo designs starts at $200
• Web design starting at $2500

Contact Info:

• Website: https://Shirocreate.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shirocreate/
• LinkedIn: https://es.linkedin.com/in/shirocreate/es
• Twitter: bsky.app/profile/shirocreate.bsky.social
• Other: https://vgen.co/Shirocreate

Image Credits

Jenifer Lara
Carmen Álvarez Patino