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Hello! I'm Rachel Fia and I'm an artist and illustrator.  I have many years practical experience with drawing as a pastime, plus 10 years of going to live figure drawing sessions. After I rekindled my creativity and love of art, I attended Eckerd College later in life for a double major in Visual Arts and Spanish language. 

I lost touch with my artist for some time again, and decided to go back to my roots of drawing.  It was then that I began using a neater form of art: colored pencils.  I've decided to focus my recent attention on children's illustrations. I spent a few years drawing children and picked out the best ones to create a line of inspirational greeting cards and art prints from the illustrations. 

I've taken some classes on children's illustration, and right around that time, I was approached to illustrate a children's book for a dermatologist. Itchy Isabella was published in 2020 and took two years to illustrate. It has over 16 human characters, and describes many skin conditions. It is about a biracial girl with eczema and her friends and family.  

On the side, I've been working on developing my skills in Procreate. I do some digital drawing, but still long for the tactile interaction of the pencils and paper. I keep a small moleskin sketchbook of graphite drawings.

I'm always looking to learn more skills and I enjoy supporting other artists. At the same time, I have many skills that I've acquired over the years and developed into unique processes for drawing. I share those skills here in my courses.  It's my pleasure to connect and grow with fellow creatives.