Yasmitha Keerththanan is a London-based final-year Illustration for Communication student. Her work comes from personal experience and everyday life, particularly around migration, care, and working while studying. Balancing university with part-time work and family responsibilities has had a strong influence on the way she approaches storytelling and image-making.

She is interested in creating illustrations that focus on mood, emotion, and quiet moments. Her work often combines cinematic compositions with strong contrast and colour, taking inspiration from books, films, and observation. Themes of identity, memory, and human connection appear throughout her practice, often through character-based scenes and narrative imagery.

Yasmitha is especially interested in editorial illustration, book cover design, and storytelling through images. Her aim is to create work that feels personal, reflective, and open-ended.