Shop / Election Collection

Potatoes! I love potatoes and eat them almost every day. Inspired by this deep love, I made an I Vote Potato design last year and uploaded it to my Society6 account. It was more out off silliness than anything else, but it turned out to be the best-selling design in my entire shop!

Since I don't just love potatoes, I decided to develop a whole Election Collection (including a new I Vote Potato design, which I like much better than the old one!). Society6 is a print-on-demand website and they offer a great range of products, so you can get these designs as prints, phone cases, bags, mugs, t-shirts and so much more. What do you vote?

Tracktown / Hand-Lettering and Poster

If you've ever met me, you know that I love to run! It's good advice not to start talking to me about it because I'll never shut up. Also, I'm living proof that you don't have to be good at it to enjoy it: I am a pretty slow runner, but it's one of my favourite things to do!

So when one of my favourite runners, Alexi Pappas, got in touch to ask if I wanted to work on her and Jeremy Teicher's second feature film Tracktown, I was super excited!
Over the weeks that followed, I hand-lettered the title, the opening/closing credits of the film and some related elements, such as the pattern used around the edge of the poster. It was so much fun. Even more so because I loved the film! I think anybody who pursues a dream that people around them can't quite understand will be able to relate to Tracktown. I won't give too much of the story away, but if you're near Eugene, Oregon - go and see the screening on July 5th!

Shop / The Badass Print

The Badass is an illustration I made as part of the MATS bootcamp class. The assignment was based loosely on Tarot cards but I veered off and created my own character, a badass illustrator with a ginger cat sidekick. It was so much fun! The illustration is now available as a professional quality giclee print from my Etsy shop. Meow!

Sketchbook Adventure / Petrie Museum

Last week I took my trusty sketchbook on a trip to the Petrie Museum! London of course has amazing, huge museums and I love them, but they're something so exciting to go to the little ones that perhaps not everybody has heard of. The Petrie Museum is part of UCL and is home to around 80,000 objects from ancient Egypt and Sudan.

It's basically a museum with cabinets over cabinets full of interesting objects, my dream place for drawing! There were so many beautiful, strange and funny things to see. I always like to look out for peculiar and interesting characters. Afterwards I went to the beautiful Gower Street Waterstones just around the corner which has three floors full of books and a great cafe on the ground floor. Can't wait to take my sketchbook on more adventures this summer! Where do you like to take your sketchbook?

EXHIBITION / Hello Kitty & 99 Friends

Hello Kitty & 99 Friends is a group exhibition at PIQ in Grand Central Station in New York. I love Sanrio and I love NYC so I was so excited when I was asked to draw Patty and Jimmy for this show! I thought it would also be fun to share some of the sketchbook drawings I made in the process. Recently I've been sharing a lot of sketchbook work on my Instagram + YouTube and it seems that many people love sketchbooks as much as I do, which makes me happy! If you want to catch the Hello Kitty & 99 friends exhibition, be quick! It's on until May 14th.

Shop / Puppy Love Greeting Card

I have just added this new Puppy Love greeting card to my Etsy Shop! 

Did you know that I have 42  greeting card designs in my shop for all different occasions? If there's any kind of greeting card you'd like to see, let me know! I'm always interested in new ideas. Have a great weekend!

Petite Louise / Postcard Collection

Another thing I've been meaning to tell you about for a while is this black and white postcard collection which is available exclusively at the lovely Petite Louise shop! I'm so happy to have my work in Richarda's lovely shop, alongside many of my favourite illustrators.

Shop /Fran & Anke Postcard Set

Hurrah! My super illustrator friend Fran and I schemed over tea and cookies and made a limited edition postcard set! It's Love/Friendship themed and there's six different postcards that you can put on your wall or send to all your special friends. It's available here in my Etsy shop.

Glamour Magazine / Max Lip Balm

Do you remember Max the cat, the character I illustrated for the Korean beauty brand Too Cool For School? He looked pretty satisfied to have his own page in the January 2016 issue of German Glamour magazine. And with a true cat friend on the cover!

226plus Magazine / Perspektiven Schenken

Another festive thing I drew last year - this was for the German 226plus Magazine.

Good Magazine / Cover Illustration

I love drawing Christmassy things so I was excited to be asked to do the December cover of Good Magazine again! The year has started very busy and now that I'm getting around to catching up with this blog. Christmas seems ages ago. Especially with this warm winter we're having - some magnolias have started to blossom and there are daffodils everywhere. But one can always dream of tea and cookies with penguins.

Pattern Project / December 2015

Happy New Year! This is my final pattern round-up of the December patterns. Mushroom Girls, Little Santas, Christmas Trees and Little Piglets. As usual they're available here, in my Society6 shop. There won't be weekly patterns in 2016 but I'm planning to keep this blog updated more regularly with new work. Stay tuned!

Merry Christmas 2015

M E R R Y   C H R I S T M A S ! 

I hope you are all having a wonderful & relaxing Christmas! Thank you so much for following this little blog and supporting my work. I love to draw and share my work with you!  I'm already excited to return to my desk in the new year and draw up a storm. Until then, stay warm & eat lots of yummy food!

MATS B / Make Art That Sells

This autumn I decided to sign up for the Lilla Rogers MATS B (Make Art That Sells) Class. It's a five week class with a new assignment every Wednesday, to be completed by Sunday. This was great fun and also pretty intense to juggle on top of my other illustration commissions! Every week we learned about a new market. First Paper, then Baby Apparel, Scrapbooking, Editorial and Party Paper. There were interesting interviews with art directors and artists as well as Lilla's weekly review of the assignments. I look forward to doing the Bootcamp class next year as well.

All projects I created during this class are available for licensing, get in touch if you're interested!

Pattern Project / November 2015

Oh my, it's time for my penultimate Pattern Project round-up! Rainbows, skulls, dots and lucky bugs! I will miss this next year but I have an endless list of other projects I've been waiting to get to. Are you making long lists of projects and goals this time of year, too? I'm already excited about 2016!

Mollie Makes / Hold Your Horses

My 'Hold Your Horses' phone case is featured in the German edition of Mollie Makes magazine as part of their holiday gift guide! It's available here: http://bit.ly/pferdemaedchen, as well as a lot of other products with my illustrations. 

SHOP / Christmas Coupon

It's that time of year again! My little shop is fully stocked with prints, cards and little gifts. Here's a little coupon for you as a thank you for following and supporting my work! Wishing you all a very cozy Christmas time.

Frankie Magazine / Anne Of Green Gables

After a super busy two months, I'm finally catching up on blog posts! This beautiful issue of Frankie Magazine with the beautiful cover by Monika Forsberg came out a little while ago. Inside you can find my cover for Anne Of Green Gables, one of my all time favourite books! I am forever sad not to have glorious ginger hair and freckles, but at least I get to draw them as much as I want.

Pattern Project / October 2015

It's time for my monthly round-up of patterns! Mushrooms, ferns, pretzels and underpants this month, what a mix. Only eight more patterns until the year is over, eeek! Have a peek here at all 44 patterns I've done this year so far: 

https://society6.com/linotte/collection/pattern-project

Shop / New Postcards

I added 16 new and colourful postcards to my Etsy shop! This range was created for Captain Card, a shop in Potsdam, Germany. Lots of cats, bunnies and peculiar creatures - all of my favourite things to draw! If you're interested in carrying these wholesale that's amazing, simply contact Captain Card directly.
And if there's anything you'd like me to stock in my Etsy shop, let me know and I will try to make it happen. Meow!