Story-rich illustration
& digital art

Surreal landscapes, bizarre monsters, fantastical characters. Work that has appeared in galleries, games, books, films, and beyond.

Work
Small Works

Quick studies and one-off experiments — looser, faster, and a little more playful.

Christmas Cards

An annual illustration tradition, every year since 2007.

Chris Leavens is a Los Angeles-based illustrator and digital artist whose work explores surreal landscapes, strange creatures, and the kind of places that feel like they exist just on the edge of a dream.

His illustrations have appeared in galleries, video games, books, magazines, TV shows, and feature films.

Working primarily in vector and digital media, Chris brings a hand-crafted feeling to work that is precise and endlessly scalable.

He has worked in-house at Disney and taken on contract work for companies including Tiny Speck, Google, and Oxford University Press.

Outside of illustration, he designs and builds furniture, and spends time running and hiking.

Chris Leavens