Artist, Mikayla Hammock, is an Alabamian illustrator, currently based in Glendale, Arizona. She creates illustrations using pen and ink with the pointillism technique. Her style is inspired by the combination of scientific illustration and surrealism. She studied art, marketing, and sales at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. While in college, she began her art career showing her work in arts festivals, galleries, markets, and pop ups. She is currently working as an elementary art teacher.
Her drawings are created using pen and ink, as well as watercolor. In her work, she depicts animals, formed by smaller illustrations of their habitats. Her work seeks to capture the intricacies and whimsy of nature. She illustrates scenes that take the shape of a larger subject. The scenes within the drawings tell the viewer about the subject as they form its shape. This encourages them to look at the piece longer as they notice more and more smaller illustrations within it. She has worked extensively with animal themes. She uses this style of a drawing within a drawing to tell the subjects’ stories.