Now booking from November
Pictures with a little ink on their elbows.
I’m Pipa Valdespino, an illustrator in Louisville, Kentucky. I draw for magazines, picture books, packaging and posters, and print a lot of it myself on a two-drum riso at Pomelo Press, my studio on Frankfort Ave.
Next fairJunebug Small Press Fair · Saturday, November 14 · Haberdash Hall, NuLu
Ed. of 100
Drawn for
- The Harbinger Quarterly
- Flicker Weekly
- Dovetail Books
- Mossgrove Cider
Selected work
Recent pictures, fresh off the drum
What I do
Four kinds of job, one way of drawing
Every picture is drawn as separate ink plates, the way a riso prints. It keeps the color bold, the files simple for printers, and the work looking like it was made by a person.
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Editorial
Covers, spots and openers for magazines and weeklies, usually turned around in two weeks.
3 projects in editorial -
Picture books
Thirty-two pages of night skies, buses and mice, from thumbnails to color separations.
3 projects in picture books -
Packaging
Tins, labels and wrappers that sit together on a shelf and stand out across a room.
3 projects in packaging -
Posters
Gig, film and fair posters, printed here in editions of a few hundred or sent to your printer.
3 projects in posters
How a commission runs
From a brief to print-ready plates
You tell me about the job, I send a fee and a timeline, and we start on a Monday. New projects can start from Monday, November 16.
Get an estimate1
Brief and quote
A short call, then a fee, a license and dates in writing.
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Sketches
Two or three pencil ideas. You pick one, or a mix.
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Color and plates
Finals drawn as separate ink plates, with one round of changes.
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Files or prints
Print-ready files for your printer, or an edition from the studio riso.
What clients say
Pipa sends sketches that already have an opinion. We ran the first idea she drew, which has never happened before.
From the shop
Prints, zines and stickers
Printed in numbered editions at the studio. Orders go out on Tuesdays and Fridays, free in the US over $75.
The newsletter
A free sticker sheet, by mail
One letter a month: new prints, fair dates and what’s on the drawing table. Sign up and I’ll mail you the Pantry Friends sticker sheet. US addresses only, I’m afraid.