Lucas Baratta
Lucas Baratta is an Illustrator who works in both digital and traditional mediums, and is based in London. Baratta enjoys storytelling and takes inspiration from mythology and folklore, which is the focus for a lot of his work. He gained his passion for creating characters from reading comics from a young age and is motivated to tell different kinds of stories and reinvent old ones in new ways.
Tags
- Illustration
![Comic Page](/static/0682a4f634c337205e8d23854b7343d9/1780c/lucas-baratta-a9c0cc86-56ae-49ec-9e54-b8bd2993679c-2024-05-09_17-28-17_219292.jpg)
Comic Page – Opening pages of Lucas Baratta's comic adaptation of The Bacchae.
![Tarot Card](/static/c2df14b3f740d1fd940ec75a0777cc38/a9312/lucas-baratta-5ba82d4b-e882-4bf2-9a23-4e97f7fbd8f1-2024-05-09_17-18-23_806507.jpg)
Tarot Card – One of the tarot cards created for a set inspired by Arthurian folklore, with this specific card being a representation of the Fisher King.
![Lyric Book Page](/static/80b42ec858fc7ab6c18c7abd8123d4f8/574c9/lucas-baratta-f9a7fb7c-b8c0-4202-959e-076dcbf4dac4-2024-05-09_17-18-22_274273.jpg)
Lyric Book Page – An illustration for a project where Lucas Baratta had to create a lyric book for a song they liked. Lucas Baratta chose the song Hum Hallelujah by Fall Out Boy.
![Franz Kafka Book Page](/static/2d53145e1be04813b35359ce8dc7e6e1/5d7ca/lucas-baratta-6e9ea063-13ec-4b16-9de4-7287dacf9548-2024-05-09_17-24-53_463596.jpg)
Franz Kafka Book Page – A page from the children’s book Baratta had to create, about the life of a famous person, they Franz Kafka.
![Museum sketch](/static/ded5597700e544f494e52d6649bff6e3/9a4c1/lucas-baratta-4a6b7737-db7c-43ee-b6f9-a69b118a4c0f-2024-05-09_17-31-15_515824.jpg)
Museum sketch – A drawing of a statue of Samson and the Philistines done on a school trip to the V&A.