Hi! My name's Melissa Lee, and I'm an illustrator and surface pattern designer living in the hilly forests of Northern California. Alongside doing freelance and art licensing work (I’m a proud Riley Blake Designs fabric designer!), I've spent much of my time cultivating my love of sharing what I know and encouraging others to nourish their creative side through teaching online art courses on Skillshare and Arbington. I love making patterns, character art, and watercolor paintings. I'm endlessly inspired by animals and nature (whether living today or extinct), science fiction and fantasy, space and astrology, witchy things, and bees.

Always bees.

If you're curious to learn what I know, check out my classes on Skillshare, (where I’m a Top Teacher to over 55k students) and get 1 month of free membership through my link: skl.sh/3Olrxd5

Random fact about me: I own a ball python named Tony Ssstark.

Portfolio: https://melissaleedesign.com/patterns

Contact: melissaleedesign@gmail.com