Luis Lopez (he/hIM)
Luis is a Colombian Illustrator based in the UK. He completed his undergraduate degree in Filmmaking and later worked as a digital illustrator for animation.
His journey has always been about exploring visual languages to bring new stories to life, and as a children’s book illustrator, he decided to focus on the ones that evocate feelings, help to understand them and produce relatedness. Being in this course has allowed him to find a new voice to do that, one that’s finally thinking less and recognises the goosebumps that are only felt when you trust yourself.
He enjoys combining different materials and using printmaking as a main part of his process, finding emotions and looseness in the monoprint marks, the use of light, perspective and colour. In his free time, you can find him in the Cinema, reading graphic novels or saying hi to dogs on the street.
Website: www.luislopezillustration.com
Instagram: @louieartwork
Email: louieartworks@gmail.com
Grey Clouds
A dog wants to understand the feelings of his kid owner by the way this one looks at the sky. The dog can't use his words but his company to help him to see through the fear of change. To tell him it's okay to not be okay.
My Mum Knows Everyone!
A little capybara wants to spend the day with his mum in town, but he's annoyed by how easily she gets distracted by saying hi to all the adult neighbours and getting caught in very boring adult conversations. But what if all of that means something special for her?
Haircut
Graphic novel that depicts the anxiety behind the search of identity when you're a teenager. The protagonist finally decides to change the haircut he's been getting for so long, but he feels like drowning when he starts to doubt about what he wants and how he'd be seen.
