Abstract art and abstract illustration. 3D illustration and 3D elements. Hand-drawn illustrations and doodles. Vector illustration. Surrealism design. Line art and line drawing. Watercolor and watercolour. Oil painting. Retro and vintage-inspired styles, including 70s-90s aesthetics. Wall art and canvas prints. Graphic design (a related, high-volume term). Fashion illustration services and freelance fashion illustrator. Digital art tools and digital art tutorials (informational searches). Custom illustrations (for branding or web design).

sarah alinia ziazi
visual problem solver

Hello, I’m Sarah - an illustrator and a muralist based in Toronto. Inspired by the conscious impact of consumerism, I aim to create thoughtful artworks that complement ethics and illustration.

Sarah Alinia Ziazi. Silhouette of a woman sitting on a chair, with various abstract shapes and objects surrounding her in a dark background.

featured work

Knix

Symmetrical art featuring two nude women sitting with legs crossed, facing opposite directions, with arms raised. Above them is a large, stylized flower with pink, purple, and brown petals, connecting to smaller flowers and green stems, creating a mirror image.

Fineline

Wavelength

Colorful mural painted on a small building in a park, featuring abstract human figures, flowers, and geometric shapes in bright colors.

Richmond Hill

Abstract, symmetrical illustration with shapes resembling a face with lips, eyes, a nose, and a chin, using earthy tones and geometric elements.

Corporate Mural

Illustration of women serving and enjoying food at a gathering, with a table set with candles and flowers, and a background with geometric decorations.

Cooking Up Feminism

Colorful abstract pattern with geometric shapes, lines, and doodles in shades of pink, purple, yellow, green, red, and blue on a cream background.

Restaurants Canada

Colorful street mural featuring abstract portraits of a woman and a man, with soda bottles and fries at the bottom, set against a pink background.

Outside the Box

Abstract illustration of three women and a man with various houseplants, furniture, pendant lights, and a wall clock in a modern interior.

Ontario Principles' Council, Winter 2024

Illustration of six stylized portraits of diverse individuals with microphones, set against a dark background, promoting the Scarborough Arts event 'BY WAY OF COMMUNITY' at a scrapbook symposium in 2022, with logos of Toronto, Ontario Arts Council, STC Arts, and Scarborough Arts.

Collection of logos of various media outlets, organizations, and cultural entities including Google, The Globe and Mail, Restaurants Canada, The Drake Hotel, Doctors Without Borders, Knix, Variety, Destination Canada, Nice, Vice, Toronto, Stripe, Scarborough Arts, StreetARToronto, Juxtapoz.

Colorful geometric illustration of four profiles of women and four vases with flowers, arranged in vertical panels.

StreetARToronto

The Reverence, Outside the Box, StreetARToronto. Spray-painted traffic signal box. Dimensions: 34 x 60 inches.

The Reverence is a graphic celebration of the diversity within Toronto. This utility box captures our City’s multicultural metropolis through vibrant colours and dynamic illustrative nuances. I hope to inspire viewers to promote and participate in an increasingly unified front throughout all communities.

Black background with the word 'FUELFELINE' in large, stylized black letters.

Fineline is a marketplace pioneering a collaborative love letter between artists and buyers. By fostering local creatives to develop skills and also to thrive in this economy, valuable buyers are guided to make their homes more meaningful with purposeful artworks.

The Flora Compositions is a series of three illustrative prints I created for the Fineline experience. Inspired by the juxtaposition between the beauty of the feminine energy and the adjacent beauty of floral imagery, these illustrations are meant to evoke a divine transcendence captured in relation with each other.

Shop Prints

Private Client

The Presence, Corporate Client Commission.
Hand-painted interior wall. Dimensions: 13 x 8 ft.

Richmond Hill 150th Anniversary

Colorful illustration of people and animals with flowers, candles, and musical notes in a geometric, abstract style.

The Community, Morgan Boyle Park, Richmond Hill 150th Anniversary.
Hand-painted storage bunker. Dimensions: 8 x 10 ft.

Colorful abstract painting of a man standing next to a tall vase with a flower, surrounded by geometric patterns, painted on a small building outdoors, with trees and a clear sky in the background.

Colorful mural on a small building, depicting abstracted human figures, flowers, and shapes in a geometric style, in a park near a baseball field.

Colorful mural of two abstract human figures and various geometric shapes on a yellow wall, located outdoors near a baseball field.

Colorful mural of two women, one with a cane and the other with a purse, surrounded by abstract shapes and flowers, on a small building in a park with a baseball field in the background.

Colorful mural painted on a small building, depicting abstract human figures, plants, and geometric shapes, set against a background of trees and a blue sky.

Baseball field with a painted utility box, green trees, blue sky, and some clouds.

Colorful mural of two people, one woman and one man, sitting and playing guitar, surrounded by abstract flowers, a dog, a vase with a flower, and musical notes on the exterior wall of a small building in a park.

The Palomas

An abstract digital illustration of a woman with dark hair, red lips, and red high heels, sitting with knees up, holding a phone, with a neutral background.

Illustration of three women, each in a different yoga pose, stacked vertically with one holding a red flag.

Illustration of three women with their bodies and faces blending together, wearing different colored high heels, standing on a beige background.

Illustration of four nude women with various skin tones, wearing colorful high heels, embracing and interacting with each other.

Illustration of multiple diverse women, mostly nude and wearing high-heeled shoes, arranged in a stacked formation, with one woman in the top right corner holding a phone.

Color-coded bar chart with five rectangular segments in different shades of teal, blue, green, and yellow.

A row of five colorful rectangular cards or blocks in pink, purple, orange, and lavender colors.

A row of six rectangular color swatches ranging from dark blue to beige.

Six color swatches from orange to red shades.

Wavelength, Summer Thing

Wavelength Music champions Toronto’s independent music and arts scenes. I was lucky enough to be commissioned to create a poster series for their highly anticipated annual summer music festival, Summer Thing. This was a fantastic opportunity to blend my passion for design and art within the assigned theme of “solar punk!”

Event poster for 'Wavelength Summer Thing' at Trillium Park in Toronto on August 18, 2023. Features names of performers Lex Leosis, Sebastian Gaskin, TLO+ESTYR, and programming details. The poster has purple, orange, and pink decorative elements, inc

Posters for the 'Wavelength Summer Thing' art event in Toronto, August 2023, curated by Daniel Monkman, featuring artists Gustavo, Kat Duma, Crasher, Lee, and Paradise, with details about date, location, and sponsors.

Event poster for "Wavelength Summer Thing" at Trillium Park in Toronto on August 20, 2023, curated by Daniel Monkman, featuring theme language and sunset. The poster has decorative elements like columns, geometric shapes, and symbols, with details ab

Cooking Up Feminism

This client-based project was created for Mariam Magsi’s cookbook, Cooking Up Feminism, an intersectional journey between food and feminism. Filled with intergenerational recipes created from the hands of empowered mothers, aunties, grannies and youth alike, Cooking Up Feminism takes readers on a culinary journey through the flavours and spices of migratory cuisines.

The cover was inspired by the ingredients of the colourful pages inside the book: turmeric, red chillies, graham masala, wheat, lassi, fragrant curries and chai, amongst other spices.

Colour Scheme

Top row features shades of brown from light to dark. Middle row displays shades of blue, orange, red, green, black, and beige. Bottom row contains shades of blue, orange, pink, purple, and beige.

Abstract colorful geometric artwork with shapes resembling moons, stars, flowers, and a palsy of cacti.

Stylized drawing of a scientific instrument with purple circles, a yellow shape, red lines, and a green and red frame, set against a beige background.

Abstract illustration featuring potted plants, a lemon slice, and a pitcher with a glass, using bold outlines and vibrant colors.

Colorful abstract illustration with candles, flowers, geometric shapes, and words like 'belonging,' 'innovation,' 'accountability,' 'collaboration,' and 'integrity' in a vibrant style.

Colorful wall mural with various abstract shapes, symbols, and words such as 'joy,' 'belonging,' 'innovation,' 'accountability,' 'collaboration,' and 'integrity' written on a pink shape. The mural features artistic depictions of a candelabra, a flower, a lemon, and other geometric designs in green, yellow, red, blue, and black.

Restaurants Canada

The Foodie Expereince, Restaurants Canada’s 80th Anniversary, 2024.
Hand-painted interior wall. Dimensions: 22 x 9 ft.

Digital illustration of a woman with dark skin, long hair, wearing pink underwear with a gold letter 'k', posing with her back to the viewer.

As a Knix Ambassador, I’ve been fortunate enough to be a part of an incredibly inclusive community of creatives and entrepreneurs. As an Illustrator, I’ve created branding modules inspired by Kinx’s core values to make consumers feel comfortable in their skin and live unapologetically free.

Digital illustration of a woman in pink lingerie, showing her back and side, with long brown hair.

sarah alinia ziazivisual problem solver

StreetARToronto

Private Client

Richmond Hill 150th Anniversary

The Palomas

Wavelength, Summer Thing

Cooking Up Feminism

Restaurants Canada

sarah alinia ziazi
visual problem solver