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Hello! Thanks for visiting my website. My name is Lana Lê, and I work under the alias woolypear, a pseudonym based on my name: Lana in Italian = wool, and Lê means pear in Vietnamese.
I love drawing people and offer live portrait drawing. See my tiktok for my 60-second live portraits.
I’m a graphic designer and love designing books especially. An archive of my book design projects can be found here.
A few more things that I’m passionate about:
I’m a committee member (and social media officer) at LD Comics, a women-led comics forum – a comics community providing talks, residencies, and resources.
Additionally, I host Artist Chats, interviews with artists on the process of creating and making a career of it, live on instagram.
Kidcandoodle.com is a doodle club I created to encourage and celebrate drawing. I was inspired by my own kids’ drawings — I admire how fearlessly children draw, not worrying about whether it looks “right,” as we do when we get older.
Little Lana is a graphic novel memoir that I’m writing and drawing about my childhood. If you’re curious, you can get a peek here.
Thanks for taking a look at my work. I hope to “meet” you on instagram or twitter. Or drop me a note at woolypear [at] gmail [dot] com. I would love to hear from you.
Cheers!
Image credit: The above video of me was taken by Julie Mosley at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, leading a FRUI portrait drawing workshop.