Fran Meneses, aka Frannerd, is well recognized for her pastel aesthetic. Born in Chile and currently based in Berlin, where she shares a home with her husband and cats, she recalls drawing by the age of three. “I’ve been drawing for as long as I could remember,” she relayed in an interview with Alive as Always. “My parents have always supported handmade hobbies (drawing, reading, playing outside); as far away as we could from the TV, everything was cool.”\n\n\n\n
Having grown up, she went on to study Graphic Design – a practice which forms the basis for her work to this day. “By the end of the second year I was doing an internship in a local newspaper and for some reason, all the designers and journalists knew that I had interests in the illustration field,” she explained. “So they asked me if I can illustrate an article because they ran out of pictures for that particular subject. Long story short: I illustrated that article and the feeling of seeing my illustration published was the most amazing thing.”\n\n\n\n