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Lisa Rose

@thelisabelle

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illustrator, pasta-based cryptid.
📍bristol, uk
burnt out but somewhat around & available.

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1st of July sketches & a splash of colour 🌞⭐️ by @thelisabelle

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3 months ago

EAL 2026 / install & opening night
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It's been an incredibly hectic and sweaty couple days, but I'm so happy I got the chance to exhibit at @eroticartexhibition again this year, and managed to make some time to help with install and stay in London for the duration (mostly going on sidequests - more about that later).

The team behind EAL are absolutely amazing and lovely, the install team put in the workkkkk, and the opening night was such a whirlwind of really wonderful people and chats (and lots of wine). I'm often quite anxious at events like this but it was genuinely so nice and fun. And I even managed to get ONE good and not too awkward photo of me with my work, which I count as a win!

It's on til Sunday so make sure you pop in, it's absolutely worth it, plus there's workshops and performances and socials throughout! by @thelisabelle

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4 months ago

What a dream to finally contribute to @thescreeverzine ‘s Daria-themed zine! And get to be on the cover as well 💜 I’ve been meaning to submit to it since probably around issue 1? which was also when I bought the first run of this tote, still one of my most loved possessions, some idk 7-8 years ago or slightly more. A huge thank you to Lee for sending me another! I obviously wanted to create a piece celebrating Daria and Jane, got sidetracked by also drawing Quinn being a diva, but am so happy with how they both turned out. One of the earlier stage sketches was going to be a whole wall full of candid photos of them, and while I ended up going another direction I’m glad I still managed to incorporate a couple.
There are still a few issues left but not many so run and grab one soon, there’s a brilliant selection of artists and it’s a gorgeous lil product of love for his old show that resonated with so many of us and still has a special place in our hearts ✨ by @thelisabelle

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5 months ago

😈she just wants to playyyy😈

Had an absolutely lovely time at @ghoulgangcollective , thank you everyone who stopped for a chat and bought some prints 💜 I was entirely fuelled by anxiety, caffeine, cake, and you positive comments and love 💜 by @thelisabelle

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5 months ago

more cute march sketches, accompanied by existential dread. by @thelisabelle

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6 months ago

Lisa Rose Illustration
@thelisabelle

“Lisa Rose is a Bristol-based cryptid, peddler of queer art and illustrated smut, creating bold illustrations of realistic bodies and capturing everyday acts of intimacy and empowerment inspired by female & queer experiences, with a good dash of pop culture thrown in"

🦇 WITCH, PLEASE - BRISTOL 🦇
Goth + Alt Art Fayre
Trinity, Bristol
19th April 12-5

50 alternative artists & makers, bar, food, charity raffle, free entry 😈

#bristolevents #weirdbristol #bristolartists #bristolcreatives #ghoulgang by @thelisabelle

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6 months ago

Quinn my beloved 💖 (and if you scroll far enough, some extra snippets of another piece that will also feature on the next Daria-themed zine from @thescreeverzine )

It’s been so interesting rewatching Daria as an adult and seeing Quinn in a whole new light. Particularly as I identified so much with Daria as a teenager, with a sister that felt so much like her at the time. It’s like watching a whole new show, and I absolutely adore her - confident, outgoing, socially smart, kinda maybe polyam? A queen 👑 by @thelisabelle

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6 months ago

trying to sketch more often, sketch from reference, sketch rough just to get ideas down, sketch things I don’t usually draw, sketch without getting too precious about it by @thelisabelle

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7 months ago

Straight from the #2016 archives - turns out it was actually a pretty huge and pivotal year for me!
- lots of drawing, all traditional media, didn’t get into digital til 2017 when I got my first iPad (still the one I use today)
- co-ran Comic Creative Jam events
- quit my job at an unnamed shop that traumatised me for life lmao
- went to California for/with an incredible bestie, her family made me feel like an additional daughter 💜
- got my first big surge in IG followers/popularity doing inktober
- ran my first Lino printing workshop & made my first zine about it!
- made some hand drawn illustrations that have never seen the light of day
- moved in with a (now ex) partner, first time doing that
- had 3/4 of my rats
- was maybe briefly a full time freelance illustrator??
- co-organised one (maybe more?) LaDIYfest events in Bristol
- started watching Star Trek, I’m still obsessed (though tos doesn’t do much for me tbh)
- just drew…a lot. And made lots of merch/did a bunch of markets.
Idk probably did a lot of other cool & fun stuff I can’t remember, and went through some shitty stuff I also can’t remember. Looking back I definitely made plenty of pieces I still absolutely adore (the mirror one is framed and hanging in my living room to this day, the helga one I lost soon after making and can’t find file or original anywhereeee so might have to redraw it tbh). Feels like a very different vibe to right now, both in how the world works, how IG and connecting through it works, how I feel about my creativity and in the way I approach it. I look at photos from this year and see so much hopefulness and energy (though I’m sure there were plenty of lows that weren’t shared online), I’m a little jealous ngl. by @thelisabelle

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9 months ago

goodbye 2025 you fickle bitch.
the highs were alright but the lows were fucking devastating.

The good stuff (in no particular order):
- incredible friends
- getting to see family more
- an unbelievable trip to Cape Town
- an unlikely weekend in Ibiza
- lots of time spent in bed with Casper
- a wedding (not mine)
- a festival (not working)
- the best hair year I've maybe ever had
- lots of dressing up
- reconnecting with old friends
- two aquarium trips
- feeling loved
- making and eating lots of great food
- some gigs, some dancing (never enough though)
- letting myself feel more
- a job I feel settled in but also care about a lot
- doing some arty things, including workshops & meetups as @artratsbristol and exhibiting in London
- getting a new studio space (although it's still barely been used)

Some of the bad stuff:
- losing Casper, my heart, my shadow
- feeling aimless
- being real fucking depressed
- crying so much the skin on my cheeks was raw
- never having any fucking money
- I mean, the state of the world, have you seen it
- finishing clearing my grandparents' flat & saying goodbye to it forever
- never being able to get rid of enough clutter

So bring on 2026, I hope you'll be at least a little more gentle. by @thelisabelle

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9 months ago

Sharing a few more pics of the time I spent at @silverandsteelstudios earlier in the year as part of their “Friends of the Gallery” project, when they invited a group of local artists to try silversmithing for (mostly) the first time. It was so great to see how everyone’s practice changed and adapted to the medium, and how we all created pieces that are so different from our usual work, yet so intrinsically & obviously ours.

I really wanted to try my hand at wax carving and ended up using both hard wax to carve into, and soft wax to shape, and am so in love with the pendants I made. I had so many ideas for potential designs, but the ones I chose still somehow took on a life of their own through the process and I absolutely adore and am tickled by the fact they both ended up with moving, fidgety parts - the lips have their own piercing on a totally disconnected ring so it spins and moves, and the harness has the tiniest chain on it that is only attached at the carved o-rings (thank you so much @bethanymaysilver for suggesting this was possible and for painstakingly soldering it on!).

I might post more about these if you want to see more, they’re also both still available at @silverandsteelstudios if you want to make them yours 💜 Silver & Steel also very recently got broken into and robbed so they could definitely do with some extra support! They’re an absolutely incredible space for jewellery makers and jewellery lovers, as well as anyone curious about trying silversmithing.

#silversmithing #bristolcreatives #bristolartists #silverjewellery #silverpendants by @thelisabelle

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9 months ago

Digging out the festive prints & dredging up some festive spirit for December, just for you.

Come find me:
✨ @oldcastlegreenbristol / Sun 7th & Sun 21st Dec 10am-2pm
💖 @clubloveltd / Sat 13th 10pm til late!

#bristolxmas #bristolxmasmarket #alternativexmas #alternativeart by @thelisabelle

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10 months ago