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 with flaps & sounds, puzzles, kids magazines and book covers (YA and fiction).


Today she loves to work on book covers and illustration.

Her favorite thing today is to explore themes of femininity and social issues.

She draws inspiration mostly from personal experiences and watching thriller movies is her favorite thing.

Through her work she tries to explore herself and depict her own emotions.


She draws with different materials and loves experimenting with gouache, acrylic, colored pencils, crayons and digital media.


If you are interested in working with her please get in touch villiek83@gmail.com


























Awards

2014
«I heART Caprice» , Caprice

Winning entry 1st place, for the '‘I heART Caprice’' competition regarding the design of the collectible package of Caprice tin cans.



Featured/Books


2021
''The CODEX Obscurus'' artbook explores the topic of witches, warlocks through the work of over 140 artists and a major Arcana tarot deck.


2011

'‘The character compendium’' 
Printed in the collective volume , Pictoplasma


Exhibitions


2021

Illustradays Festival/ My work was selected and exhibited among other illustrators at the 1st Illustration festival in Athens, Greece.


2015

Biennal of Illustrations Bratislava (Group), Bratislava Biennial (BIB), Bratislava, Slovakia.


2014

Character Selfie (Group), Pictoplasma, In Berlin and Mexico, at the museum MARCO.


2014

Sardinhas Festas de Lisboa’14 (Group), Millennium bcp Foundation gallery, Lisbon.


2014

I heART Caprice (Group), MArt space, MArt space, Athens, Greece

Winning entry 1st place regarding the design of the collectible package of Caprice tin cans.


2012

To death with a smile (Group), MUMEDI, Design Museum in Mexico, In the historic center of Mexico city.


2011

Draw me a Yeti/Missing link (Group), Pictoplasma, La Gaite Lyrique Museum Exhibition, Paris, La Gaite Lyrique Museum Exhibition

My work was selected and printed in the collective volume '‘The character compendium.’'


Clients


Little Brown and Company / Neon Squid Books / MacMillan / Usborne Publishing

Arcturus / Highlights Magazine / Auzou Editions / Townhouse Publishing

Maverick Books / Pearson Education / Oxford University Press

Pat-a-cake / Yoyo Books / Parragon/Bookwork / Cottage Press / Mollybee

Really Decent Books / Cantata Learning / Iseek / Mibblio