Melissa Mathieu is a digital illustrator based in Montreal & Tokyo. She has always found great pleasure and fun in drawing. Her artistic references and inspiration come from fashion editorials, Japanese animations, gastronomy, personal memories, and cute aesthetics. Her style revolves mostly around watercolors, pastel colors, as well as soft and cute looks and concepts. She mainly works with self-portraits and illustrations of black women but enjoys working on a great variety of subject matters. She mainly known for the children's book series Lili-Rose. Her illustrations have been featured in The Montreal Gazette, Bust Magazine and Groupe Media TFO. She has also collaborated with Une école montréalaise pour tous, Ville de Montréal and Fédération Autonome de l'Enseignement 

(FAE).

Today, Melissa is pursuing other enriching challenges in Japan, in the field of education, where she is enjoying immersing herself in a culture totally different from her own, learning a new language while enjoying discovering the world of teaching. Combining her love for languages and arts, Melissa is currently exploring new pedagogical techniques to encourage young people to develop their creative minds as they learn a second language.  

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Melissa has a particular talent for capturing the essence of her characters with great facial expressions and expressive body language.