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Laura Sorvala ✏️
@laurasorvala.bsky.social
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Illustrator and graphic recorder with a knack for translating ideas into delightful visuals. Live event scribe, idea illustrator, comic artist, research collaborator. www.laurasorvala.com

When not drawing: Dog mum, DnD player, allotment beginner. She/her.
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No cheating, last photo of your pet
August 21, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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And here we are, things growing well. Peas keep cropping! #AllotmentLife
Potato plants at an allotment: they are about a metre high and producing lavender coloured flowers. View through netting: a bed of brassica plants growing well, they are calabrese sprouting broccoli. In the foreground are the long stems of garlic. A wild mess of tall pea plants, held up by jute netting. The plants are almost 6 foot tall, probably more than that! Lots of pea pods on there and they are tasty peas. A broader view of part of the allotment plot: two raised beds with nasturtiums, spinach, chives and startof butternut squashes. There's a very much home made A-frame tied together from different iron pipes and grid fence panels.
July 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Looking to visualise customer feedback? Here's an example of how I took residents' wishes for a new community facility and drew it into an inspiring visual summary. Now the client is using the illustration to guide more conversation and decision making, see how on their website: lnkd.in/e6bsjztk
A colourful illustration depicting community activities: crafts, making, cooking, exercise, walking, new parent clubs, flexible working, forest school… the image shows people of different ages, genders, ages and ethnicities. The content is based on what residents say they want to see in their community.
June 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Absolute gem of a post in our local FB marketplace (I live in a small South Valleys town). Anyone wanting witch cat vibes, lemme know and I can hook you up
A photo of a garden statue representing a mix between a furry gargoyle and an evil, witchy cat. The cat’s front paws are cradling a cauldron that has symbols like pentagrams and eyes on it. But wait, that is not all! The cat has a hole in its mouth so that when you burn an incense cone inside it, the smoke comes out of its mouth. 15/10 Frontal view of said cat cauldron, showing a wisp of smoke A screenshot of the post in our local FB marketplace. Title: MY IN-LAWS HATE ME CHRISTMAS PRESENT (yes, in all caps). The cost is £10 and description says: I have no idea how to describe this item other than my in laws hate me. It’s an incense cone burning thing that belongs in the very bowels of hell.
June 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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While I struggle with episodes of health issues and low energy, I fully appreciate the times I have the capacity to do stuff. Like, make a pond in the back garden, complete its pebble slope for critter friends (one can hope).
May 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Been toiling away at the allotment this week, busy time! Successes and failures: Tomatoes going strong, my neighbour Ray is supplying me with rain water from his tap system, peas are flowering, planted calabrese and sweetcorn.
A mesh covered veg plot with small calabrese sprouting broccoli plants just planted in. in the foreground are tall leaves of garlic. A close up photo of a lovely pea flower with creamy white colour and huge pea leaves behind it. You can see jute netting in the background and the plant is happily climbing along it.
May 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Drew some peculiar fish, of course
May 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Live drawing today about all things digital health and innovation for @cardiffuni.bsky.social
Photo of me in front of a big white paper ready for drawing. I’m a Middle Ages white cis woman with a blond curly bob, glasses and a teal top with white polka dots on. Finished graphic recording showcasing different digital health projects and ideas. The image is hand illustrated with text and comic book like images of people and items
May 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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And today cleared weeds around this rose, put in an old washing up tub as a pond and started on a wattle dead hedge kind of thing. I’ll plant some comfrey and nasturtiums here, maybe a sweet pea trellis too
May 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Lots of progress and feels so good to see it! Maris pipers are in, two raised beds ready for butternut squash (need to build a strong arch trellis) and spinach to go in the shade underneath. Started to cover the square for sweetcorn too.
May 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Surprises include a rhubarb and a blueberry(!)
May 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Living my allotment core era - next to pea canes and netting to protect the plants from pigeons
May 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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I have a functioning greenhouse! Been fixing glass panels and have two types of cordon tomato growing here: Galina cherry and Gardeners Ecstasy (both from Real Seeds)
May 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Want something positive to look at and learn with on this Earth Day?

Go have a look at our Climate Comic Activity Pack, a free resource with printouts for all sorts of climate and sustainability related things to do: www.climatecomic.co.uk

#EarthDay #ClimateChange @merrynthomas.bsky.social
A spread from an online flip book about climate change related activities. This page has two games on it: climate bingo and a climate themed snakes and ladders. The bingo sheets have illustrated icons for things like plastic, grow your own, co-housing, mending, recycling and so on. The snakes and ladders has orange and yellow squares with things like "you cut down a forest!" or "you invested in clean energy! Advance 4 squares"
April 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I have availability in May for event #illustration, #DigitalScribing and studio projects such as report visual summaries. Have a look at my work at lnkd.in/eVSB9UCv and get in touch to chat about potential events or projects!

Here's a recent #GraphicRecording of mine:
A visual summary drawn live at an event about improving public funding allocation in the UK and how that could reduce geographical inequalities. The image shows metaphors such as group of people about to jump off a cliff on a paraglider (embracing risk and failure), icons for topics such as justice, reporting, government buildings, networks, tick lists.
April 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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What a great bunch of people and meaningful research projects. Some details form my live illustration below. #academia #strategy #impact #funding #community #research
Hand drawn illustration showing a scene in a local cafe with two researchers and a local old gentleman. The image shows how research is embedded in the community. Several excited people are excitedly looking at a 3D landscape that depicts a research community. Three things that note success are: identifying opportunities, sharpening focus and defining next steps
March 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Drawing live visual summary for the @openuniversity.bsky.social internal workshop about developing a research community in Wales 💡✍️ #research #university #impact #illustration #graphicrecording
March 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Ok workwise, I recently helped digitally scribe a wonderful academic project launch for Working With Dementia. They are doing great work looking at supporting people and employers to look at different options to stay in work and not having to just quit after a diagnosis.
An illustrated visual summary about the economic costs and benefits of dementia and workplaces. It mentions concerns about upholding welfare in a society and facing challenges such as ageing population and a shortage of workers. An illustrated visual summary about work and wellbeing: how work forms a part of an employees identity so it's crucial to look at career guidance with dementia to find different paths forward. An illustrated visual summary about inclusive workplaces. It depicts two stories: one of Maq, an Asian man who lives with dementia and had a diagnosis out of the blue. The second story is about Alice, who cares for her husband with dementia and finds getting support complicated. An illustrated visual summary about the vision for this network on Working With Dementia. focus on education, training, and valuing older workers.
March 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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It's Friday, so here are some Rufus classic poses: The Prawn, The Roach (about to transform into a shark), The Sploot, and finally, The Pious Brother.
A black and grey scruffy dog is curled up with legs stretched out together, like a prawn. He is sleeping on a dark green blanket. A black and grey scruffy dog is on his back with legs up in the air, also twisted sideways into a half moon shape. on e front leg is straight up, claiming to be gracious. Unfortunately you can also see his hairy willy and balls (sorry). A black and grey scruffy dog is lying on the floor on his belly. he is a long boi with his back legs out to the side like a frog's, we call this splooting. Why he is splooting with his head towards the corner of my room, no one knows. He might be pensive, or sulking. A middle aged woman with short, blond curly hair and glasses is sat outside in a garden at night. She is wrapped up in a big black kuddly and has a grey and black scruffy dog on her lap. The dog is wrapped up in its own grey blanket which makes him look like a monk, washing lady, peasant or a jedi. He looks into the camera with an air of ennui and entitlement.
March 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Looking for live or other illustration work? I have some availability from April onwards. Get in touch if you have something in mind! Some recent work here from graphic recording and digital scribing to icons.
March 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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It’s a city of museums apparently but with this glorious weather I opted for walking around
March 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Walking around the old bits of Basel is very cute
March 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Paging @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social for this great use of animal skulls
March 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Work trip to Basel has been great. Can’t show the work but clients are fab, started the event with play dough and had some traditional Swiss food and good rants.
March 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Guess where I’m staying tonight for a job tomorrow…
A dark corner of a pub with wood panelling holds space for a machine of some kind. It looks like an arcade machine, copied, sad and forgotten, using the corporate chain mascot, a soft toy chef, as the main focus, drawing in hungry children while they wait for their unlimited buffet. It is a closed off box where you pay money to get a “prize every time”. A garish neon pink light illuminates the almost empty container of prizes. How old are they? What relevance does this machine have for the future worker and their developing morals?
January 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM