Represented by: Monica Rodriguez
Marcela is a children's book illustrator. She lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with her adorable dog-bestie-food-expert-muse Nala always by her side. Marcela is inspired by nature, storytelling, and magic. She loves creating characters, and her playful worlds always have cute animals. She graduated in advertising and worked in visual language development, but soon fell in love with the world of narrative illustration and never looked back. Being an introvert, stories were always her favorite place to go. Her work starts with sketches and explorations on paper which she later refines in Procreate. She has worked with Oxford University Press, Mame Editions, York Press, Schwager & Steinlein Verlag, Cengage Australia, McGraw-Hill Children’s Publishing, Hachette Learning, and Hangzhou Lihe Digital Technology. Loving travel and having had a French great-grandfather, Marcela lived in France for a year studying pastry and following her curiosity. She keeps traveling, now with the company of her husband. When not drawing, you can find her wandering around nature studying shapes and colors, and getting distracted with all kinds of animals she can find.
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