Welcome to the first day of Christmas! I am starting this off with an illustration of a traditional Adventcalendar. Every day until Christmas Eve you open one door with a special something inside. Usually chocolate. It’s a great way to start the day by nibbling on Christmas candy while consuming that first cup of glorious coffee. To start off the giveaways I will share with you one of my Merry …
Today is the 1st Advent aka the 4th Sunday before Christmas and I want to take this day as a chance to announce my 24 Days of Christmas event! Just like people celebrate the 4 Sundays before Christmas, especially in Germany, we also celebrate with Christmas Calendars that have one door for every day of December until the 24th. Following that tradition I will be posting daily Christmas illustrations and accompanying gifts …
It’s that time of year again. So in order to be prepared for sending and giving out cards during the festive season, I have prepared a few items from my Society6 store. And you know what? Today everything is 20% off + free shipping! It’s that day, you know, Black Friday after all. You don’t want the card to say anything? Don’t worry, here are some prints without the words. …
I have been posting my attempts at calligraphy on a tumblr blog made for this purpose. Check it out at Pica learns Calligraphy ! Those are just a few examples of the posts you can find there. I also post all of those to my instagram feed. I just prefer a blog format, because I like to write things about what I do and it’s not pleasant to do on a …
It was a long time coming. Earlier this year I decided to create my first font, based on my hand writing. It was created entirely digital with a tablet and in Adobe Illustrator. It does not contain all glyphs, but more than I had planned to begin with anyway. As of now it has already over 16K downloads on dafont, which is quite a bit surprise. I assume not many …
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Let’s get this started, shall we? I am Anne, a designer and illustrator from Germany. I have always been drawing and painting and eventually ended up turning it into a career. In this blog I am going to talk about everything in and between design and illustration, but not limited to that. There will be articles, features, freebies, tutorials, and maybe even interviews at some point. This is not my first, …
