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Episode 18: Going After What You Want ft. Illustrator Fabiola Lara

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For this episode I got to talk to illustrator, podcaster, and youtuber Fabiola Lara. Fabiola has created work for the Los Angeles Times, the Golden Globes, Instagram and more! She has a podcast called Draws in Spanish where she interviews notable Latinx visual artists. Fabiola has an incredibly tenacious spirit and I loved hearing about her journey as an artist and person!

In this episode we talk about:

-Fabiola introduces herself

-Fabiola’s relationship with creativity as a child

-Viewing art as a hobby, not as a potential career, growing up

-Entering college after high school

-Majoring in a science degree

-Missing art and figuring out a way to get to take art classes as a science major

-Considering medical illustration

-Realizing she didn’t want a career in the medical field

-Discovering she was interested in media, tech, and social media

-Switching her major to marketing/advertising

-Getting internships in media

-Interning for Tumblr and a post-grad job falling through

-Feeling stressed and pressure about getting a job after graduation

-Dealing with negative family criticism

-Starting to get illustration commissions while working full time

-Transitioning from working a corporate job to freelancing

-Quitting her job after being accepted into an illustration program in Barcelona

-Moving to Spain

-Falling into a housing scam, the start of the pandemic, and returning back to the United States

-Freelancing as a designer and illustrator at the beginning of her freelance career

-Her first kind of illustration commissions

-How her work and freelance jobs have changed

-The evolution of her illustration style

-Work for clients vs personal work and closing that gap

-Advocating for her work

-Going from digital tools to analog tools to hone in on her style

-Self doubt as an artist

-Boundaries between identity and work-life as an artist

-What Fabiola likes to do for fun-watching tv, TikTok

-Having moved to a new city during the pandemic and finding friends being difficult

Fabiola’s website

Fabiola’s podcast Draws In Spanish

Fabiola’s YouTube Channel

Fabiola’s Instagram

Fabiola’s TikTok

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