About Adrian Ventura
ONE SKETCH A DAY | 2013–PRESENT
An ongoing daily visual journal and independent creative project. The work ranges from natural history and wildlife to people, places, humour, current events and everyday observations. It reflects a sustained practice of looking, recording and communicating through drawing, and provides an evolving portfolio of observational illustration and visual storytelling.
An ongoing daily visual journal and independent creative project. The work ranges from natural history and wildlife to people, places, humour, current events and everyday observations. It reflects a sustained practice of looking, recording and communicating through drawing, and provides an evolving portfolio of observational illustration and visual storytelling.
Awards
- ACHIEVEMENTS
- 2025 - KS3/4 SEN Art teacher. Supported a KS4 SEN pupil whose clay portrait was selected for the Royal Academy Young Artists Exhibition, alongside work by two other pupils.
- 2014 - Nominated for a Parent/Carer Award
- 2012 - Association of Illustrators, Images 36. illustration work selected for the New Talent section.
- 2010/11 - Student Representative of the Year at Sussex Downs College / University of Brighton.
- 2004 - Graphic Designer. Contributed to the design team for V:MX, a BAFTA-winning on-demand music service; researched the initial concept and photographed graffiti that influenced its visual identity.