Melissa Lee is an illustrator and surface pattern designer living in Northern California. Alongside her freelance and art licensing work she has spent much of her time cultivating the love of sharing what she knows and encouraging others to nourish their creative side, by teaching online art courses. Melissa loves making patterns, character art, and watercolor paintings. She is endlessly inspired by animals and nature (whether living today or extinct), science fiction and fantasy, space and astrology, witchy things, and bees.