José Santos Vila

Pseudonym: Chema Santos
Category: Illustrator and sketcher
Birth Date: 10th April 1978
Birth Place: Rial
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   Cultura
 Curriculum

Expert on Sculpture, Maestro Mateo School (Santiago de Compostela).
Expert on Illustreation, Pablo Picasso School (A Coruña).

 Work & Activities

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY: He created “Escuela de Campeones”, an online comic for the Web www.canaltaekwondo.com.
He made design and illustrations for advertising and marketing for Natural Sport Videlgi Gym and Papiro (leisure premises).
From 2005 to 2006, he worked as an illustrator and graphic designer in FYNET (http://www.fynet.net/), a firm dedicated to the “e-learning”.
2006. He illustrated an informative brochure of the Consumer Information Office of Arteixo, Galo Publicidad (http://www.galopublicidad.com/).
Nowadays, he is working as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer in several projects.
COLLABORATIONS: Illustrations for "O bosque de Nadgor", a book by Xosé Farruco Graña, for the cover of the cultural magazine “Busola” and for a children’s story for the Conference on Children’s and Youth Stories organized by Barbantia and celebrated in Rianxo.

 Other Interesting Aspects

PRIZES AND MENTIONS: 2006. He was awarded the first prize at the Second Comic Contest in O Valadouro for "Crenzas".
2005. He was awarded the first prize at the Second Comic Contest in O Valadouro for “Chico Mal Dibujado”.
2005. He was finalist at the 15th edition of the Comic and Illustration Contest of Albacete for “El Artista Adolescente”.
2005. He got a consolation prize at “Tiras contra o sexismo” First Contest, A Coruña City Council.