pily prado
An illustrator and graphic designer.
Born and raised in Mexico, now drawing ghosts (and everything else) from Spain.
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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.
Itās not about recreating them exactly.
Itās 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.
My work is a small tribute to the lives behind the statistics to the faces we donāt see on the news anymore.
Through every illustration, I try to hold their memory with care, to remind us that behind every number, thereās a story that deserves to be remembered.
Part of what I earn goes to organizations that search for the missing.
If youād like to support them directly, Iāve left their links below.
They do real work.
If you have any inquiries, contact me at:
hola@pilyprado.com
Madres buscadoras de Sonora: madresbuscadorasdesonora@gmail.com
Centro de Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres A.C. https://cedehm.org.mx/en/
Buscadoras por la Paz: buscadorasporlapaz@gmail.com
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.
Itās not about recreating them exactly.
Itās 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.
Contact me for commisions or just to say a few nice words, I wonāt mind at all.
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