Lily Padula

Today’s arrest of @bradlander.bsky.social is just one disturbing example of what ICE does every single day across the country. It’s not interested in law and order—this is about spreading fear. New York City will not stand for it.

This is a fantastic breakdown of the broader implications of the current spectacle in comics culture.

Illustrated poster featuring the letters “May the Forest be with You” prominently in the center, a large tree takes up the far background, and in the foreground we can see lots of detailed plants, animals, and a hiker enjoying the scenery. Palette is primarily bright greens and warm browns, with accents of blue and purple

One day late sharing this lettering commission from @theglobalgoals.bsky.social ! Always love an opportunity to draw a forest.

I’m currently available for new assignments, hit me up if you need a book cover, poster, or for any other lettering projects!

a bevy of swans clamors toward a large body of water filled with stars, one swan taking the lead

Some very chaotic swans for Deloitte 🦢🦢🦢

Illustrated poster featuring the letters “May the Forest be with You” prominently in the center, a large tree takes up the far background, and in the foreground we can see lots of detailed plants, animals, and a hiker enjoying the scenery. Palette is primarily bright greens and warm browns, with accents of blue and purple

One day late sharing this lettering commission from @theglobalgoals.bsky.social ! Always love an opportunity to draw a forest.

I’m currently available for new assignments, hit me up if you need a book cover, poster, or for any other lettering projects!

“Plant blindness” personal illustration about how humans tend to favor and recognize animal species over plant ones

Spread from “Meltdown!” Published by hachette

Spread from “Meltdown!” Published by Hachette

Illustration about Curiosity, from a commissioned set of cards illustrating different character strengths aimed at kids and young adults

Hey Brian! Not sure how realistic you’re looking for but I love to draw carefully observed landscapes in a bright and friendly style- samples attached and full portfolio is at lilypadula.com

All My Friends are Plush! Sticker sheet

I don’t wanna! sticker with cute tiger cub

Isabelle from animal crossing riso print

porco Rosso sticker

welp. The thing I’ve been worried about happening for about a year finally happened. Please consider checking out my web store or giving me a boost, it’s going to be basically our only household income for a while 🫠

♡ www.stillvreni.com ♡

Another exciting project with EarthJustice, I’ll be sharing more about this series next week!

Illustration in a style inspired by Henri Matisse paper cut outs. a blue purple background and abstracted shapes of stars, planets, and galaxies, with three abstracted human figures and a sun shown in yellow in the center of the image

Another piece from my Character Strength cards, a deck I made in collaboration with HKCocoon!

This piece is called Social Awareness: “I am aware of and understand my feelings and thoughts, as well as the feelings of those around me."

Art direction by Hannah Ma and Cherry Ma

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An illustration of former serviceman Aaron Bushnell during his self-immolation on this day last year.

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal”

Remembering Aaron Bushnell’s words and the close to 100,000 people martyred by american imperialism through israel. In the year since we’ve seen so much brutality, proving the necessity for us to keep putting our skin in the game

happy 10th birthday bloodborne 🩸👽❤️💉🦑

Illustration of a friendly looking tiger using its tail to help a bunch of flightless kiwi birds reach their nest in a tall treetop

Humility, a new illustration from my character strength series! I usually see tigers used as symbols of strength and ferocity, so I wanted to flip that symbolism around for this piece. Many thanks to Cherry and Hannah from HKCocoon for commissioning me for this project!

INTRODUCTION Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling. You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse. You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life. TIPS 1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way

possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything. 2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought. 3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook. 6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.

7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case. 8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes. 9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out. 10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky." - Jasmine Mooney
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

up now in my shop!

#artshop #riso

NEW INVESTIGATION from me:

There's a secretive, and frequently abusive unit of the NYPD that's tight w/ Mayor Eric Adams

How tight? Well, the unit's leaders bought special body-cams that can live-stream footage to select users. Then they gave access to the mayor

www.propublica.org/article/eric...

Illustrated cover featuring two women running, one with blonde curly hair, the other with reddish auburn hair in a braid, through the fire trail left by a downed plane. Behind them in the silhouette of the flames we see two men in the woods hunting them with guns and flashlights.

Same image but now with type, "NO BODY NO CRIME" a novel by Tess Sharpe.

Oh hey my two beautiful girlfriends have arrived with their print treatment. Such a delight reading this book and getting to illustrate these two small town heroines for Tess Sharpe's newest book "NO BODY NO CRIME." Ty to the team at FSG!

Painting of cat holding a fish

four panel comic 1: in a dream bubble. The local bodega guys are hanging out. Theres a jingle from the door. One says “What the-“ 2: still in a dream bubble. An annoying orange car walks in pulling a little cart with a note on his collar. He says “MAOW!” 3: still a dream. The bodega man says “theres a note!” The note says “Dear Mo, my mom and dad are very hungover. Please make two bacon egg and cheese and a pedialyte. Theres $ in my collar” 4: regular panel. Im lying in bed with jesse suffering while tomtom sits on me looking stupid. I yell “pleaseeeeee tomtom! Just once in your life do something useful!”

a girl can dream
💭 #comic

Gouache painting of the iridescent clouds created by the 98% eclipse over my house, April 8th 2024

Lily Padula | Illustration and Animation

Full series can be viewed HERE: https://www.lilypadula.com/#/dscout-lllustrating-anxiety/

Illustration of large, simplified, colorful dancing figures. In the lower center of the image, a sad person sits hunched over in a black box. “This moment felt dark and empty, like I was in a small box. As if I was sitting in a dark, cold, tiny box and looking at everyone else living in huge figures of different shapes and vivid colors.”

Illustration of a woman’s head in a large fish tank with a scared expression on her face. Outside of the fish tank, tiny people carry on with normal life activities “This moment felt dark and empty, like I was in a small box. As if I was sitting in a dark, cold, tiny box and looking at everyone else living in huge figures of different shapes and vivid colors.”

Illustrations that accompanied patient reports of their anxiety, created in collaboration with DScout a few years back! Prompts for each image in alt text, the full series can be viewed here:

Really putting the “fox” in flying fox 🥹

Illustration of small people standing on large, abstract floating blocks. There’s a gap between a main group of blocks on the left, where all the people are, and the right side of the image, which contains a ladder to exit the maze of blocks

This piece is from an assignment about wage gaps in the workplace- art director wanted to avoid money imagery and asked me to tackle this dry topic with a more conceptual approach, so I decided to solve the problem with S H A P E

Never not thinking about this edo period drawing of hammerhead sharks 🥹

Illustration of a woman standing waist deep in an ocean littered with plastic waste. We can see underneath the water in the bottom half of the image. The woman is holding a bundle of plastic straws

Illustration from a few years back, done at the peak of the straw ban craze for @nbcnews.com about how the pollution problem goes way beyond straws. Many thanks to Kara for working with me on this!