ilaria campana

ilaria campana – Designer

I love illustrating children's stories about mythos, fairytales, and legends from different countries. Passionate about nature and ecology

Overview

Hi There!:)


I'm Ilaria from Italy!

I've a wide experience as illustrator in both picture books and middle grade/YA novels.


I love working in different projects and explore mythos, fairytales, legends from different countries.


I deeply focus on the story to understand how to visually convey it in the best way. I put myself in the characters shoes to get who they are and what are their role in the story. This help me to draw them and to emphasizes their capability and their features.


I love nature, animals and plants, I studied environment conservation and animal ecology for ten years, and I really love drawing animals/ antropomorphic animals, plants or whatever is connected to nature.


When not hiking a mountain following the animal tracks or building a time machine with my daughter, you can find me sitting somewhere playing with colors or doodling with my ipad :)

Services
Non-Fiction
Children’s Non-Fiction Nature
Fiction
Middle Grade Picture Books
Languages
English

Work experience

Running Press, Hachette, Usborne, Oxford University Press, Self publishers, Harper and Collins, Eli, Il battello a vapore.

Jun, 2015 — Present
working as freelance illustrator for several publishers (Running Press, Oxford University Press, Hachette,among others),

University "La Sapienza" Rome

Sep, 2010 — Jun, 2011 (10 months)
Researcher to study wild fauna

Portfolio

Cover Design Illustration Book Interior Design
Spy Skills for Girls

Wright, Carmen

Cover Design Illustration Book Interior Design
Cover Design Illustration Book Interior Design
Cover Design Illustration Book Interior Design
Cover Design Illustration Book Interior Design
Cover Design Illustration Book Interior Design
Santa's Puppy

Hapka, Catherine

Illustration Book Interior Design
Cover Design Illustration Book Interior Design

ilaria has 2 reviews

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Jamie J.

Jamie J.

Mar, 2025

Ilaria was amazing!! I couldn’t have imagined better illustrations. I’m still amazed at how she brought my characters to life. She vastly exceeded expectations and was very patient. I highly recommend her if you are looking for an illustrator and I hope to work with her again.
Gabriella T.

Gabriella T.

Feb, 2025

Ilaria does truly lovely, whimsical work. She was very thorough in providing a character samples and followed the briefing well. She is easy to communicate with and very collaborative. I'm looking forward to working with her more!

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