

pily prado
An illustrator and graphic designer.
Born and raised in Mexico, now drawing ghosts
(and everything else) from Spain.
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My work lives somewhere between memory, loss and the mystical.
I grew up surrounded by real stories about people who disappeared and the silence they left behind. Those stories never really left me.
Now, they show up in what I draw.
The characters in my illustrations often come from real people: the missing, the gone, the never-found.
I draw them as I imagine they would want to be remembered: through their favorite colors, their silly clothes, their small gestures.
It’s not about recreating them exactly, it's about making space for them to still exist, somewhere.
With every piece, I try to hold memories gently to make room for both grief and joy.
And maybe, just maybe, to turn a bit of absence into beauty.
My work is a quiet tribute to the lives behind the statistics, to the faces we no longer see in the news.
Part of what I earn goes to organizations that search for the missing.
If you’d like to support them directly, you’ll find their links below.
They do real work.
If you have any inquiries, contact me at:
hola@pilyprado.com


Madres buscadoras de Sonora: madresbuscadorasdesonora@gmail.com
Centro de Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres A.C. https://cedehm.org.mx/en/
Buscadoras por la Paz: buscadorasporlapaz@gmail.com



My work lives between memory, loss, and the mystical.
I grew up surrounded by real stories of people who disappeared and the silence they left behind. Those stories still shape what I draw today.
Many of my characters are inspired by real people the missing, the gone, the never-found. I draw them as I imagine they would want to be remembered: through their colors, their clothes, their small gestures.
It’s not about recreating them exactly, but about making space for them to still exist.
Through each piece, I try to hold memory gently, allowing grief and joy to coexist, and turning absence into something tender.
Part of my earnings supports organizations that search for the missing.
Their links are shared below.
An illustrator and
graphic designer.
Born and raised in Mexico, now drawing ghosts
(and everything else) from Spain.

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I joyfully welcome commissions, collaborations and licensing opportunities.
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