Hi #KidlitArtPostcard !✏️💛👋 I’m Mariana, a children’s book illustrator from Mexico, I love creating cute characters and colorful scenes✨ I’m currently seeking representation and available for kidlit projects💛
💌 mavilasketch@gmail.com
✏️marianaavilal.com
#kidlit #childrensbookillustrator #kidlitart
updating your icon as an artist is like having a makeover
LOOK at the color preservation ohhhh
Still feel very shaky and uncertain at painting after so many years of exclusively doing digital work but it’s also the first time in years that I feel excited and like an Artist 🥹
Bought a new scanner so I can make prints of my traditional art and I’m excitedddd
Couldn’t find a ceramic paint palette in a shape that I liked so I bought a little sushi plate instead, can confirm it works great
Dreaming of a Fleetwood Mac biopic with the Muppets
#sketchbook #gouache
Arwen
#sketchbook #prismacolor
Sketch from today
bought new paints to try CMYK colors in gouache and I’m already obsessed look how VIBRANT 😍 that magenta and cyan look so beautiful in person oooh I’m so excited to paint with them
Igual!!! Me encantaba Cri Cri de chiquita tenía varios de los casettes jajajja muchas gracias!🥹🥰
It’s #FantasticFourFirstSteps day so today’s sketchbook spread had to be on theme
✨gouache, prismacolors and digital retouches
✨ #sketchbookspread #mixedmedia
Thank you so much!🥰
Thank you!!🥰
La Patita de canasta y con rebozo de bolita va al mercado a comprar todas las cosas del mandado 🎶🎶
Testing some watercolors today! 🥰
Documented some of my process too
Something lurking in the shadows 🤫👀
Sketchbook spread, experimenting with gouache, color pencils and some digital retouching
#mixedmedia #gouache #sketchbook #kidlitart
Pastel teacher raccoon
#sketchbook
It angers me that we used to see art everywhere though, every little character for a brand logo or even the most low budget entertainment was made by artists and now the slop has taken over and art has been pushed out of those spaces
“AI art is getting hard to spot” it really isn’t, it’s all soulless, uninteresting compositions, characters not doing any particular action, nothing is *saying anything* and you can really tell, as “content” or “images” sure it’s out there adding noise but as art it’s not even in the conversation
Another market doodle from today
#sketchbook
omg hi!! 🥹 thank you!
Update on the markers: I like them! Very fun 🫶 or Beary Fun 🐻
#sketchbook
Art block 🤝 buying materials to try a new medium
Here’s the ladies the frenchie is Pumba and the big girl is Kiara, Kiara passed away last year
And my boy Elgy who was 13 years old when he passed in 2018 but who was my absolute soulmate dog, I love that old man 🩷
Drew my dogs 🥰🩷 #kidlit #procreateart
Terrifying to finally attempt to understand bluesky but I’m determined to stick around this time and what better timing than portfolio day to be back 🥳✏️
Hey #PortfolioDay !💛
I’m Mariana, I’m a children’s book illustrator from Mexico 🇲🇽, I love drawing cute characters and bright and colorful scenes, and I’m currently looking for work! ✨
💌 mavilasketch@gmail.com
💼 marianaavilal.com
#kidlit #childrensbookillustration
had another issue of someone selling stuff with my art on it and when I confronted them they were all “oh sorry I found these on redbubble and screenshot them I didn’t know they belonged to anyone”
they’re on my profile what does that even mean
very intimidating to start over fresh in social media
