Alicia Aradilla

From graphic design to watercolour

Alicia Aradilla, a travel illustrator (Extremadura, 1989), has been professionally dedicated to watercolour since 2017, when she left her job as a graphic designer in an advertising company to travel the world and capture all its colours in her notebooks. In addition to fulfilling a dream, the trip allowed her to carry out a very ambitious project that was reflected in 13 notebooks, with more than 700 illustrations from 19 different countries, which she shared every day on Instagram, where she has more than 200,000 followers (@a.aradilla).

Collaborations and projects

Since then, she has worked as a freelance illustrator, collaborating with brands such as Heineken, HP, BtheTravelBrand, Barceló Group or Guía Repsol, among others, as well as tourism agencies and magazines such as Condé Nast Traveler. She also teaches watercolour classes on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/aradilla) and has published several books with the publishing house Anaya and Planeta.

"The Escoda Versàtil in its travel version, with a design that allows me to protect the tip when I finish a drawing and travel to my next destination, has been one of my favourite work tools these recent years."

Escoda & Alicia Aradilla:

 

“Escoda brushes have accompanied me throughout my adventure around watercolour. The Escoda Versàtil in its travel version, with a design that allows me to protect the tip when I finish a drawing and travel to my next destination, has been one of my favourite work tools these recent years. Its great absorption capacity, without losing shape at the same time, allows me great versatility in the line, being able to use the same brush for both the first brushstrokes based on larger stains and for other smaller and finishing fine details. I hope it will help me to continue filling my notebooks with colour brushstroke by brushstroke.”

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