Chelen Écija

Chelen is an illustrator and a lettering artist based in Madrid. She studied her Fine Arts degree at Complutense University of Madrid and at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and then she worked in Chicago as the art director of a toy company for several years. Now she is back in Europe, working as a freelance illustrator, where she has specialized in her true passion: hand lettering and children’s illustration. Her style is witty and upbeat. Letterforms hog the spotlight in her illustrations. Serifs, sans serifs, ligatures, numerals and small caps compose her visual vocabulary and she enjoys mixing these with lovable animals and characters.