Lucia Bayliss-Martinez
She/Her
Hi! I am a designer and illustrator who specialises in character design and storyboarding. I aim to visually communicate difficult topics and highlight different perspectives that are often not heard.
She/Her
The King’s Flag is original children’s book aimed at 6 to 8 year olds made for the Macmillan Brief.
The story follows King Dolores as he struggles to create a flag that would represent all of his Kingdom. Through his journey, he meets multiple characters who introduce him to new perspectives while he struggles to try and find his own.
One is a weaver who believes in beauty and celebration, a knight who believes in courage for others and an astronomer who believes in strategy and planning. But the final decision is for Dolores to decide what he believes in?
Group Project: Maria Panasiuk and Lucia Bayliss-Martinez
This is a concertina book that explores the feelings and experiences people might face while having this discussion with their friends. This comic explores both sides of the discussion giving the book its second name, ‘How To Listen To Your Friend Who Just Got Back Together With Their Ex’.
The comic shows the abstract thoughts and feelings of the experience with the 2 friends discussing. The book is aimed at helping bring commentary to the situation by helping people experience both sides and prompting them to discuss amongst themselves.
Secret 7” is a brief about making music album for 1 artist out of the 6 chosen where artist from all around the UK can apply anonymously. I made my album cover to the song ‘Beautiful People’ By Jessica Ware.
The Office Dog is a one image comic that utilizes sarcastic humour to highlight the sexual harassment commentary that is still prevalent in UK to this day. It plays on common tropes in the office and small parts of harassment that can make a office job grow into a toxic environment.
Lost in Translation is a short animation based on the communication lost in multiple cultural houses holds from 2 different generations. The wordless animation follows a older teen and their grandfather as they spend the day together while not being able to communicate a single word.
They awkwardly begin at the grandfather’s home as they slowly bond through the grandfather giving her a dried flower. As the relationship beginnings to grow, the day seems all the more fun as it draws to a close ending with granddaughter drawing a fully bloomed flower showing that they have grown closer together.
