Villie Karabatzia

Villie is an illustrator based in Athens, Greece. She studied illustration at Ornerakis School of Applied Arts. She has been illustrating professionally since 2008. She has illustrated over 50 board books, stickers books, activity books, books wit flaps & sounds, puzzles, kids magazines and book covers (YA and fiction). She loves to work on books such as nonfiction, fiction and YA. Her favorite thing today is to explore themes of femininity, beauty, nature and social issues. She is highly interested in fashion illustration, commercial, book covers, portraits, editorial and patterns. She draws inspiration mostly from the female figure. She admires women and loves to notice them in everyday life, how they dress, talk, move and feel. Through her work she tries to explore herself and depict her own emotions. Villie is also influenced by dancing, music, movies and fashion. She draws with different materials and loves experimenting with gouache, acrylic, colored pencils, crayons and digital media.