Isabella K. Cancino (1995) is a graphite illustrator who lives and creates her work
in Riverside, CA. Being exposed to art and classic children's literature at a young
age, Cancino began finding her artistic style in what became her obsession with
drawing while aiming to embody the same classic feel as illustrators from the
books she loved.
As a self-taught artist, Isabella uses her many characters to tell a continuous story
that plays with personal emotions and lonely themes and narratives. The cold
graphite embracing the girls while they get into their mischief and the ongoing
dilemmas that the characters are presented with leave room for the audience to
question what exactly is going on? Cancino creates a body of work that she hopes
both children and adults can relate to, sympathize with, and even laugh with at
times.