Júlia Sardà, an illustrator in Barcelona, attended the Fine Arts University of Barcelona before working as colorist for Disney/Pixar merchandising. Following this, she created illustration and concept art for video game commissions, she considers the hardest and most useful part of her technical formation. Nowadays, Júlia is a children’s book illustrator for publishers in the U.S. and Europe. She is the illustrator of New York Times bestseller Hotel Balzaar, and she was awarded the 2024 Society of Illustrators Silver Medal for her illustrations for Godfather Death (Penguin).
Júlia has had the chance to illustrate some of her favorite classics like “Alice in Wonderland”, “ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” as well as contemporary stories in picture books like Duckworth the Difficult Child (Simon & Schuster), The Liszts (Tundra), and Moving the Millers’ Minnie Moore Mine Mansion (Candlewick).
Please note: Júlia’s website is juliasardaportabella.com. Her former site, juliasarda.com, has been hacked. Any courses or products offered on that website at this time are a scam and are not authorized by Júlia.
read moreJúlia has also illustrated non-fiction like Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein (Tundra), One Fun Day with Lewis Carroll (HMH), and A Life Electric: The Story of NIkola Tesla (Viking). Júlia works in a studio with a lot of plants which she shares with Hansel, her personal assistant and loyal cat.
