Can I Sleep Here? Baby Penguin

Ella Bailey is a freelance illustrator currently living in Devon, in the UK. She studied illustration at Falmouth university, and has since gone on to work for clients such as Hodder Children's Books, Simon and Schuster UK and Flying Eye Books. Her art can mostly be found in children's picture books. She works mainly digitally, likes to incorporate lots of texture in her artwork and enjoys using limited yet lively colour palettes. Some of her favourite things to draw include children, animals and ghosts.

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