I am Amandina, a Chilean illustrator and cultural manager based in Barcelona.
I am Amandina, a Chilean illustrator and cultural manager based in Barcelona. My work combines drawing, storytelling, and research to explore identity, care, mental health, gender, social rights, and everyday experiences. I work across editorial illustration, books, graphic novels, posters, tarot, and visual communication, using both traditional media and digital intervention.
Every year, the Barcelona Municipal Library Network distributes illustrated hand fans for the summer. This time, the central theme was "amb la lectura tot roda" (with reading, everything rolls). Drawing on summer motifs, I used the concept of a beach ball to depict various scenes typical of this season in Barcelona, all of them related to reading. Gouache, 2024 and 2025.
A non-technical guide to understanding obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), presented as a graphic novel in the form of a memoir. Through four central questions, how to exist, how to relate to others, how to inhabit a body, and how to live with OCD, it portrays the experiences, anecdotes, images, and thoughts that intertwine within this mental landscape. Moving beyond conventional notions of OCD, "Augurio" seeks to describe what a life shaped by obsessions and compulsions is truly like: the daily routine, friendships, relationships, and life in the city, where every decision becomes part of a larger pattern; a fragile yet extraordinary balance. Final project for the CFGS in Illustration at Escola Massana. Winner of the 2023 Junceda "Future Professionals" Award. 216 pages. Ink and digital intervention.
Created by Tetas que Alimentan a Colombian community dedicated to supporting motherhood through a respectful, inclusive, and empathetic lens. This tarot deck offers a symbolic space for mothers to process, express, and heal the emotions and experiences that arise during the postpartum period. The cards draw upon traditional tarot symbolism, adapted to the context of child-rearing, while incorporating colors and elements inspired by Colombian imagery. Gouache and digital editing, 2022.
DeJusticia is a Colombian NGO dedicated to promoting human rights through research and the publication of guides and documents that facilitate access to information, public debate, and litigation. For this project, they needed illustrations for a guide for children and adolescents about defending their rights regarding gender expression, a guide based on the case of Rubén, a teenager who was expelled from school due to his sexual orientation. Digital, 2024.
A mother braids her daughter’s hair, who arrives with a tangled head and a troubled heart. "Mamá, hazme una trenza" is a collection of advice passed down from generation to generation, covering everything from the simplest, everyday matters to life’s profound questions. Through the symbolic act of braiding, the mother imparts memories and ancestral wisdom, mirroring the continuous thread that is woven from one generation to the next as the hair is braided. Published by Vegueta Ediciones (Barcelona), 2024. Selected for The BRAW Amazing Bookshelf, Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2026.
Trabajo en roles de coordinación gráfica para la Feria Fragua 2025-2026 en Santiago, Chile. Incluye ilustración para campaña de recaudación de fondos, risografía y apoyo en la producción de piezas gráficas asociadas a la feria y sus actividades.
Author of“Mamá, hazme una trenza,” a book about intergenerational advice, memory, ancestral wisdom, care, and the symbolic act of weaving hair.
Developed 22 tarot card illustrations for a postpartum tarot deck, translating traditional tarot archetypes into a respectful, inclusive, and empathetic context of motherhood and postpartum experience.
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