Michelle Ambrose is an illustrator from Tucson, Arizona. She is currently in her final year at The Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, where she is working towards her BFA in Illustration. In the years following her graduation in March of 2024, she hopes to move to southwest Florida with her fiance and start a career focusing on children’s books and commission-based freelance illustration.
Michelle spends most of her free time at home with her dogs Frankie, Sansa, and Crowley, working on various school projects and personal work. Her dogs are also huge sources of inspiration and often are (at least loosely) featured in her work. Another large source of inspiration and motivation is music. Michelle can’t create without her headphones on.
Michelle works primarily digitally, with Photoshop, but also loves a good traditional pencil or ink drawing. She focuses on her fun, bright children’s book style with thick outlines, but is enjoying branching out to freelance work where she does things such as pet portraits.