2020 | Category Winner + Longlist + Shortlist | Children's Publishing
- Was this project commissioned?
Commissioned - Commissioner Name
Denise Johnstone Burt - Commissioner Company
Walker Books UK - Agent
The Bright Agency - Personal Website or Portfolio Link
yasmeenismail.co.uk/
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Yasmeeny - Biography
Irish-born, Bristol-based Yasmeen Ismail is an award-winning author, illustrator and animator. Yasmeen studied at art school in her hometown, Dublin. After graduating, Yasmeen moved to London where she worked on many different projects ranging from advertising and short films to children's publishing.
After moving to London and running a successful animation production company and having worked in varying capacities within it (Director, Designer, Animator, Producer, Script-writer) Yasmeen found herself writing and illustrating picture books. From her experience with scripts and storyboards she is familiar with writing narratives and working with story lines, and is especially acquainted with editing her work and writing creatively within boundaries. In turn, and as a result of her animation background, her illustrations are bright, fluid and full of energy and movement. She has a love of watercolours, inks and paints and is moving into all sorts of other mediums. Yasmeen loves to experiment and expand in all areas of her work and is constantly trying new ways to improve her writing and drawing.
She would love to make you laugh, have fun and enjoy her books. She tries very hard to make her books work well on all levels of story, prose, artwork and humour.
She now lives in Bristol with her husband, their son and Betty the cat. - Where are you currently based?
United Kingdom - Where did you hear about the competition?
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