About me

Aaliyah Willets is an illustrator located in Connecticut. She works mainly in traditional graphite pencil and goes in afterward to finish off a piece with digital coloring. Aaliyah enjoys creating editorial and poster artwork. She loves to draw portraits and pieces that relate to her interests of music and fantasy. She aims by the end of the year to create art pieces on old objects made of metal by doing bodywork and painting to bring new life to objects deemed unusable and trash. 

Education

University of Hartford 2025- Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Illustration 

Accomplishments

Sophomore Portfolio Winner, Hartford Art School, 2023

Tales of Halloween by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra , Bushnell Theatre, Hartford, CT, 2024

The Dark Crystal Alternative Movie Poster, AMP- Alternative Movie Posters, 2024

Queen of the Damned Alternative Movie Poster, AMP, 2025

Nightmare on Canvas, University of Hartford, Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, CT, 2025. 

Featured in the zine Heavy Handed- No. 1, 2025

Aaliyah currently has her Famous Guitarist series on loan to the University of Hartford for their Art on Campus, where her artwork will be displayed on campus for the next 2 years, 2025-2027

Featured in Divid Magazine: Issue 14, 2025

Aaliyah is also working on an upcoming book project