Kris Merola is an illustrator based in Brooklyn, New York with a BFA in Communications Design (Illustration) from Pratt Institute.

Merola specializes in narrative illustration, but also has extensive experience with marketing, photo manipulation, arts education, and more. Merola’s chosen mediums have been leaning away from digital in recent years to counteract the rise of generative AI in the art world. Merola’s work has a focus on fun textures, shapes, and colors that reflect the dynamic world around us, but they also have an interest in themes such as isolation and strained connections that reflect on their experiences as a Queer person that have formed the person they are today.

Kris is open to work of all kinds, especially editorial illustration, book illustrations, and small branding projects. To get in touch, send an email to kmerola.illustration@gmail.com