Christabel Lobo is an Abu Dhabi-based writer, guidebook author and illustrator whose work explores travel, memory, and culture.

She creates illustrations—mostly through gouache, patterns, and texture—rooted in everyday rituals, from desert landscapes and popular snacks to folk‑floral patterns and architectural facades.

Drawing on two decades of fieldwork for feature publications and travel guidebooks, her art is an invitation to pause and see the familiar as inherited landscape.

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Illustrations

As an illustrator and pattern designer, I work across a mix of mediums—gouache, Procreate, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and more recently, Procreate Dreams for animations and motion design. My work usually starts with something I notice while traveling: a pattern, a color, a texture, a meal, a small detail that won’t leave me alone. This page is where those sketches, surface patterns, and illustrations live.