Rachel Joan Wallis🪻🪽illustrator open for work

I think I’m finally in a place with it where I need to ignore my anxious brain and just say fuck it and just make the damn thing

I’ve struggled with this project for ages, rewriting and rewriting, shelving it and coming back. It’s a story quite close to my heart about self worth, fear of the unknown, and grief, and I’ve been doubting my own abilities to handle the story with the care it needs.

2025 is going to be the year I finally jump back into comic making and finish my sapphic mermaid romance/drama graphic novel.

Work in progress digital illustration of two figures underwater, one a young woman with short brown hair wearing a white blouse and purple skirt, asleep with her arms tucked in, and a mermaid with blue skin and white hair wrapped around her. The young woman has a hole in her chest, and the mermaid is magically pulling out several small red gemstones from her.

WIP 🌊🐚🧜‍♀️

Wip 🌹

a watercolor illustration with a cluster of plants and greenery. the text in the middle says 'you're still growing'

Oldie from my sketchbook

Add something monochrome!

A digital color illustration of tall, thin, old growth trees in a forest which appear to lit up from within. At the center bottom of the image, a female figure drinks from a sake cup as a bloom of smoke emerges from her head. Around her are robed figures seated as if they were rock formations. Large fruit hang as abstract motifs within the trees. A panel of transparent hands, palms raised together, nests in the center of the image.

The Green Seat 🍊🌱

The first two posters in my series paying tribute to the films of the great Satoshi Kon 🎤🎬

Intermezzo Sketches!

If you'd like to see more Sketchbook bits, have a look at my Patreon!

patreon.com/hannahlock

An illustration of a girl with ginger hair looking into a mirror and caressing the face of a mirror image of herself who is looking at the viewer with a nosebleed.

Trying out weirder colour palettes

Gouache, colored pencil and ink painting on paper. The painting shows a large figure with bunny ears and short white hair with a joyful expression on their face. Rays of sun protrude from their joy and black space is behind them with sparkles and lilys of the valley framing their face. Their body is made up of different colors and swirls of clouds . Their hands are disjointed from their body in different positions. in the middle there is a yellow star and surrounding it various veins in red.

Joy 18 x 13 cm gouache, colored pencil and ink on paper

Madoka magica fanart of a giant altar like structure. Homura sits on an ornate chair as Madoka the goddess is perched over

Meguca

the siren

Moebius, illustrations for Maxwell House Coffee ads, 1989

A drawing of hot chocolate topped with marshmallows shaped like bunnies

hot chocolate 🌟 #art

Missing the Sketchbook , never saw a ballpoint pen i didn’t like

An illustrated promotional image for a survey targeting freelance illustrators. At the top is a cartoon-style drawing of a person with curly black hair, holding a brush and a pencil against a yellow background. Below, bold text reads: "Are you a freelance illustrator who has been paid for your work?" The text is underlined in purple. Smaller text explains: "Please answer my 7-question (multiple choice) survey? You can opt to stay anonymous. Aggregate results will be shared, to help fellow illustrators." A QR code and URL (illustrator-promo.paperform.co/) are included at the bottom right, with handwritten purple text reading "Thank you!" and a small purple heart nearby.

Calling freelance illustrators who have been paid for work: pls take a few mins to answer an anon 7-question (multiple choice) survey re: how you found paying work? illustrator-promo.paperform.co

Researching for my #SCBWI wkshop at #scbwiNY25 + will share aggregate results publicly.

Thank you!

🗡️𝓓𝓔𝓐𝓣𝓗🗡️

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What’s in ya’ bag?

#nationalillustrationday #risograph

Star is soooo cute

Close up artwork of an abstracted mermaid in a dark nearly black sea. with a very thin and impossibly long rainbow tail that twists around them

Illustration of a girl with white hair in a fluffy white dress and socks cradling a large blue egg that is starting to crack. She is sitting in an abstract space with a dark night sky, ocean like plants, and hills that are pink blue and orange

Close up full body illustration of an angel flying low to the ground with bright colours on a black background, the moon shining behind them

Illustration of a person made of fire curled up in the hearth of a fire place, trying to stay warm in a cold abandoned room at night with open windows, flooding on the floor

Absolutely super last minute happy #nationalillustrationday!

Here’s a little of my work 💕

Photo of a work in progress digital illustration. Two figures with orange and blue hair and red eyes, one reaching through a mirror to caress the face of the other. Neon green and red background

WIP, I've been trying to make some "uglier" colour palettes work for me lately

Absolutely, and you can become the happiest of them all

Share your sketchbooks!

The only thing I am ever orderly about is my funny little thumbnail book and nothing else.

fantastic, as u should

This is so lovely woww

Love love love