Chiara Berrugi is an illustrator and concept artist from Pisa, Italy. 

She specializes in character / creature themed works.

After training as a biological chemical technician, she decides to bring her studies into art.

She has extensive experience in the field of illustration and the design industry, gained throughout her career, covering the role of graphic designer and illustrator, both for private clients and for Italian and foreign companies. Her expertise is in painting animals, characters and creatures and creating the environments in which they live, so as to make them perceive as credible.

She has extensive experience with tools and media ranging from traditional painting techniques to advanced 2D and 3D digital techniques.
Her styles vary according to the context treated, moving from the realistic genre to the comics genre.

She is a colorist for Closure Comics.

When Chiara is not working as an artist, she works as a chemistry/microbiology teacher in high school.

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In her free time, she loves taking walks by the sea or in nature, eating good food, and reading books.​

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