Ula Patoka is a California-based illustrator with twenty years of experience across fashion, brand, and editorial work, including projects for Mastercard, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Johnson & Johnson, and other international brands. Her fashion illustration is rooted in the lineage of Gruau and Lopez, refined through a contemporary editorial sensibility — expressive, elegant, and attentive to the relationship between visual language and brand identity. Her portfolio spans commissioned and licensed artwork created for fashion brands, creative agencies, editorial teams, authors, musicians, and cultural organizations across the US and Europe. Projects have included campaigns, lookbooks, packaging, product collaborations, editorial features, fashion illustration, and portraiture. Each piece reflects an emphasis on precision, character, and visual storytelling — from runway figures and stylized portraits to campaign illustrations developed to capture the mood and identity of a collection.