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Mariana Avila

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kidlit illustrator 🇲🇽| she/her | contact: [email protected] | ✨ available for work + seeking representation marianaavilal.com

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Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 9

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! ✨

💌 [email protected]
💼 marianaavilal.com

#kidlit #childrensbookillustration

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Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Sep 4

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💛

💌 [email protected]
✏️marianaavilal.com

#kidlit #childrensbookillustrator #kidlitart

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Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Sep 3

updating your icon as an artist is like having a makeover

Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Aug 28

LOOK at the color preservation ohhhh

Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Aug 28

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 🥹

Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Aug 28

Bought a new scanner so I can make prints of my traditional art and I’m excitedddd

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Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Aug 1

Dreaming of a Fleetwood Mac biopic with the Muppets

#sketchbook #gouache

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Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 29

Arwen

#sketchbook #prismacolor

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Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 27

Sketch from today

Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 25

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

Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 24

Igual!!! Me encantaba Cri Cri de chiquita tenía varios de los casettes jajajja muchas gracias!🥹🥰

Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 24

It’s #FantasticFourFirstSteps day so today’s sketchbook spread had to be on theme

✨gouache, prismacolors and digital retouches
✨ #sketchbookspread #mixedmedia

Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thank you so much!🥰

Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thank you!!🥰

Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 24

La Patita de canasta y con rebozo de bolita va al mercado a comprar todas las cosas del mandado 🎶🎶

Testing some watercolors today! 🥰

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Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 20

Documented some of my process too

Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 20

Something lurking in the shadows 🤫👀

Sketchbook spread, experimenting with gouache, color pencils and some digital retouching

#mixedmedia #gouache #sketchbook #kidlitart

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Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 11

Pastel teacher raccoon

#sketchbook

Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 10

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

Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 10

“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

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Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 10

Another market doodle from today

#sketchbook

Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 10

omg hi!! 🥹 thank you!

Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 9

Update on the markers: I like them! Very fun 🫶 or Beary Fun 🐻

#sketchbook

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Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 9

Art block 🤝 buying materials to try a new medium

Mariana Avila @marianaavilal.bsky.social · Jul 9

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 🩷