​Leah Han
Illustrator
A Note From Leah
Dear visitor,
I’m Leah.
I am an illustrator and also a visual artist at heart. Most days you will find me drawing quietly in my cozy corner of the world, moving between digital illustrations and hand-drawn sketches. One side of my practice is shaped by clean, crafted, design-minded digital illustration, work that lives in both my commissions and my personal explorations.The other side is softer. Sketchbooks, pencils, colors, and the intuition I have carried since I was four years old.
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Hand drawing is where I return to myself.It is where my instincts wake up and where ideas feel raw and honest. Digital work allows me to refine those ideas into something polished and complete. These two ways of creating form the rhythm of my artistic life.
Alongside my personal work, I collaborate with brands and editorial clients across fashion, lifestyle, beauty and culture. I bring my visual identity into each project with care, making sure the imagery carries emotional clarity and narrative depth while meeting the needs of campaigns, packaging, and storytelling-driven content. I love the process of shaping a world for a client, while still keeping the intimacy and poetry that define my own voice.
My dream is simple. I hope to make art every day inside a small and warm world of my own. I want my outer life to stay peaceful and playful, very much like the picture above that my boyfriend captured when I was balancing on a cat shelf for fun. And I want my inner life to be full of imagination, like a universe I can explore and expand through my work. I admire how Miyazaki disappears into his own world and I hope to grow my own version of that.
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For the past two years, I have been exploring themes of solitude and self companionship as a woman. I spend a lot of time alone and instead of loneliness I have discovered something quietly beautiful in that space. It gives me room to breathe, to listen, and to understand what I truly want. My series A Little Escape and Moments of Her Own came from this feeling. ​
Animals appear often in my work. Maybe it is because in real life I dream of having a small companion someday. I travel between Europe and China so it is not possible for now. But inside my drawings, I already live with them.
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I am still on my adventure in art and in life.
I am happy to welcome you into the small universe I am building.
If you wish to follow the journey, I would love to share it with you.
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Wishing you gentle days,
Leah
