Hello!

I’m Pily Prado, illustrator and graphic designer.
Born and raised in Mexico, now drawing ghosts (and everything else) from Spain.

My work lives somewhere between memory, loss, and the mystical.
I grew up surrounded by stories (real ones) about people who disappeared and the silence they left behind.
Those stories never really left me.
Now, they show up in what I draw.

The characters in my illustrations often come from real people:
The missing, the gone, the never-found.
I draw them as I imagine they would want to be remembered,
through their favorite colors, their silly clothes, their little gestures.

It’s not about recreating them exactly.
It’s about making space for them to still exist, somewhere.

With every piece, I try to hold memory gently.
To make room for both grief and joy.
And maybe, just maybe to turn a bit of absence into beauty.