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hello @ karlamonterrosa.com

I’m an illustrator and animator who finds inspiration in everyday misfortunes. My work reflects a world in which shame doesn’t exist and characters live in the tender breach between childhood and maturity.

I was born and raised in sunny San Salvador, El Salvador, and I currently live in rainy Vancouver, BC - making my home in the unceded, ancestral, and occupied traditional lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Watuth Nations.
I studied traditional drawing at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design and went on to graduate from Emily Carr University of Art + Design with a BFA in Animation in 2013. My latest short film, Lo 100to, was one of 6 projects selected to be produced by The National Film Board of Canada as part of the Hothouse 13 Program.

Hire me to direct and design for animation, illustrate a picture book or advertising campaign, or loop some gifs for your brand.

For bigger projects that require everything from concept to compositing, I work in collaboration with my good friend and favorite animation director Natty Boonmasiri as Holy Peach.

Select clients: Microsoft, The LA Times, The Georgia Straight, CBC, The National Film Board of Canada, Titmouse, Inc., WATTS, Anxiety Canada, Point Blank Creative, London Drugs

CBC Exhibitionists: Zine Tutorial
Directed by Joella Cabalu and shot by Josephine Anderson