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She/her. Illustrator and letterer in Amsterdam. I come here to unhinge ❤️ Folio: jessicacruickshank.com 🎨 repped worldwide by Jacky Winter
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Hello, I would just like to celebrate the fact that this slimy, sluggy F I made for 36 days of type in 2023 has made it into a client brief as a folio reference for the very first time. Please please please someone pay me to draw slugs. Thanks.

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Ode to Dutch girls who are always whizzing by me on their bikes with their hair tucked so perfectly into their scarves

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A client just thanked me for delivering on time. Do illustrators not deliver on time on a regular enough basis that we need to be thanked??

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

By that logic, why can’t Israelis? Somehow that would be bigotry but this isn’t.

submitted 17 days ago • 20 comments

Hi Bluesky do you like gardening content? Because I’ve just started seeds for the year

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I somehow ~completely~ missed that the Super Bowl happened. How do I make sure this happens again.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Now that I have finished the pigeons I’m working on a whole batch of celebrity portraits in black and white and it is going to be a grind. Similarly to the pigeons, a lot of grey. It’s for a pretty cool book though about famous folks who are neurospicy 💫

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Me, to every pigeon: YOU ARE NO LONGER A REFERENCE!!!!

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Note for future self: when you are drawing a portrait of a real person, research the person to make sure you’re not drawing a pencil in their left hand while they are actually right handed 🙄

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I have a couple of people I chat to in Gaza ❤️ I’m always like “how are you? Are you safe?” And they’re like “I got shot at but I’m fine. Tell me about you, how are you” and I don’t want to just be like, WELL I’m reallllly struggling to draw these pigeons, foreshortening is hard

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I'm working late tonight drawing a lot of pigeons. It takes me about 30 minutes to draw two small pigeons, and they are probably less than 1.5cm wide on the cover of this book. I have been drawing pigeons for at least 6 hours. The one I called "foot pigeon" is no longer placed near a foot. AMA

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Have you ever spent so ridiculously drawing something that you end up overworking it and making it look like AI 😭 fuck

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I have 6 active book cover projects at the moment and it’s basically an even split between books aimed at 10 year olds and books aimed at horny book club readers

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A lil screenshot snackie for the blue place. What I'm working on today 🌱

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haha here's another one. I don't think this style really works for me but it's kinda fun. I do like my wobbly serif lettering though

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

About two years ago I started doing some exploration of a kids book style and I just never got around to posting it anywhere. So here you go blue place, you can have it.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Idk

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I’ve forgotten how to be new to social media HELP

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Hi, Blue Place! This month marks 10 years since quitting my advertising job so I could try and be an illustrator. So for my first post, here is one of the first illos I created as someone trying to be a ~serious illustrator~ and clearly I was just discovering textures

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