Now Based in Atlanta, GA, where she shares a home with her husband, child, and two cats, Wiehle’s backdrop is very different. “Even though Atlanta did seem alien to me in the beginning, I have grown to love it and am very thankful for all the creative people that I have met and become friends with,” she shared in an interview Lake. “I still travel back to Germany as much as I can, so I can spend time with my family and friends and get my fill of the German breakfast and riding the train around Europe.”

Her childhood backdrop also shows up in her illustrations, both in terms of subjects and style. Having illustrated a fair share of children’s books, Wiehle’s illustrations very clearly appeal to a younger audience, with her animals full of character and spunk.

“I have always been drawing and ‘creating’ things and never really wanted to do anything else,” she says. “I think I would be completely terrible at an office job.” Luckily for us, she shares her creations online.

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“Creating a book is an incredibly exciting and terribly frustrating experience,” admitted the Italian author in an interview with The Picture Book Review. Still, she finds that the “aha-insight moment”, when it happens, is amazing. “I’m not a very methodical person and I tend to scribble down stories,” she shared, explaining her creative process. “When I first come up with a story, it seems perfect (it never is). Then comes the part that I have to make concrete all of the things that I have in my head and that’s when the trouble begins.”

Like all good things in life, her work requires some decision making and, regrettingly, some compromise. According to Coppo, working on a book can be a taxing exercise. “Often I fall in love with the idea and lose sight of the bigger picture,” she says. “In practical terms, it comes down to making compromises.”

But creating picture books also means she gets to do the two things she enjoys best: drawing and writing. “The idea to give this form to my stories came quite naturally,” she admits.

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“I use a mix of medias and have a spontaneous approach,” she remarked once, in an interview with Bibelot Magazine. “It’s often collage, but not necessarily photo-based.” Sometimes, the collage work is based on painting and drawing. “I draw and paint, then I cut things up and see what happens,” says D’Aquino, adding that “being contrary by nature,” she doesn’t like to stay inside any box that is too pre-defined.

Based in New York, she has illustrated three books so far, on top of regular features in publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Financial Times. But D’Aquino’s experimental approach to illustration and collage art, has also attracted commercial brands, collaborating with brands as big as Anthropologie, Conde Nast Traveler, and Chronicle Books.

“Some of the best things I’ve made are mistakes,” she says, “however – this does not imply sitting and waiting is any kind of effective choice.” Take a look at some of her creative observations in the gallery below:

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His hard work hasn’t gone unnoticed, earning him international recognition and prestigious awards that include the Silver Medal by the Society of Illustrators and the White Raven Award. He also has an impressive following online, with little over 10k fans on Instagram.

“Since my childhood, I  had the dream of traveling and drawing animals and plants as an explorer of the nineteenth century, with the aim to become an illustrator for magazines such as National Geographic,” he told Sense of Creativity. Indeed, a taste for adventure seems to guide Giordano’s career choices.

Born in a small coastal town in Liguria, Italy to a Filipina mother and Swiss father, Giordano now lives in Tokyo. “Tokyo is a box full of colorful things from all over the world, a concentrate of interesting selected stuff, which catch my attention,” he says. “I like walking around the city and pick up some little treasures, like a vintage Japanese book from a second-hand market, a delicate ceramic from a hidden tiny shop,  or a little crazy character stored in a forgotten box.”

Visit his creative universe through his Instagram page:

The post Philip Giordano’s Illustrations Are All Fun and Games appeared first on TettyBetty.

It all began with the birth of her first child. “I designed her birth announcement and I really loved working on the illustrations,” she relayed in an interview with the Printed blog. Soon, an experimentation with color and shapes began. “My first illustrations were mainly colorful animals, personalized name prints and cartoons,” she says.

Years later, and now a proud mother of two, her brand is steadily growing, introducing more designs and merchandise. With a background in fashion design, Poppekins provides a different sort of creative outlet for van der Meer.

And with two small children running around, inspiration is aplenty. “They inspire me every day with their curious outlook on life and all the funny things they say,” she admits. “Their colorful toys and books give me so much inspiration too.”

Here’s a brand that both children and parents can enjoy!

The post This Children’s Brand Aims to Put a Smile on Your Face appeared first on TettyBetty.

Her artwork can be found on greetings cards, gift-wrap, packaging, and stationery all over the world. But Hughes is really in her element when illustrating children’s books. These books include There’s a Pig Up My Nose, written by John Dougherty; Daddy’s Sandwich by Pip Jones; and The Birthday Invitation by Lucy Rowland.

“Children’s books are an endless source of inspiration and wonder for me,” she told Love Print Studio. “Though my work is very ‘illustrative’, I often look to painters and fine artists for inspiration,” she says. “I think it’s good for illustrators to look beyond their peers in order to keep their work looking fresh. Some of my current favorites include Emil Nolde, Anselm Kiefer, and Peter Doig.”

“Most of the illustrations start with an urge to draw a particular thing,” she went on to explain. “I’ll make a few drawings of the subject, sometimes 2 or 3, sometimes even more! Then I scan the drawing or painting and clean it up on the computer.”

Below you’ll find some samples of her work.

The post Laura Hughes’ Illustrations Cater to a Younger Audience appeared first on TettyBetty.

Inspired (and influenced) by her two young girls, Stickley enjoys writing and illustrating stories for children. Trained originally as a printed textile designer, her illustrations are a mixture of shapes, patterns, and textures.

“When I was little, I was always making and doing, be it cooking, coloring, sewing, painting, drawing… I’d always be creating something or another,” recalled Stickley. “I think things really took hold at school when I had a wonderful art teacher, who encouraged me to apply for a Textile Design degree. Training and working as a printed textile designer, illustration naturally went hand in hand with designing prints. I’ve been very lucky that I’ve been able to transfer this into illustrating for books.”

Explaining her creative process itself, she admits to using a lot of different processes to draw, using oil pastels, the mono-printed line combined with a collaged pattern, pen and ink, and paper cutting and paint. “I quite like a blank sheet of paper and often doodle on older, more worn out bits of paper I’ve collected over the years,” she says. “It adds another element to the illustration, I think.”

Check out some of her work in the gallery below.

The post Lisa Stickley’s Art Is Childish, But In a Good Way appeared first on TettyBetty.

The project ended up becoming a real hit with both regular customers and people who wanted to wear something created by their own child. You can check out some examples of this one-of-a-kind jewelry below.

The post Children’s Illustrations Turns into Adorable Jewelry appeared first on TettyBetty.

Now Based in Atlanta, GA, where she shares a home with her husband, child, and two cats, Wiehle’s backdrop is very different. “Even though Atlanta did seem alien to me in the beginning, I have grown to love it and am very thankful for all the creative people that I have met and become friends with,” she shared in an interview Lake. “I still travel back to Germany as much as I can, so I can spend time with my family and friends and get my fill of the German breakfast and riding the train around Europe.”

Her childhood backdrop also shows up in her illustrations, both in terms of subjects and style. Having illustrated a fair share of children’s books, Wiehle’s illustrations very clearly appeal to a younger audience, with her animals full of character and spunk.

“I have always been drawing and ‘creating’ things and never really wanted to do anything else,” she says. “I think I would be completely terrible at an office job.” Luckily for us, she shares her creations online.

The post Introduce Your Children to the Animal Kingdom with the help of Katrin Wiehle appeared first on TettyBetty.

“Creating a book is an incredibly exciting and terribly frustrating experience,” admitted the Italian author in an interview with The Picture Book Review. Still, she finds that the “aha-insight moment”, when it happens, is amazing. “I’m not a very methodical person and I tend to scribble down stories,” she shared, explaining her creative process. “When I first come up with a story, it seems perfect (it never is). Then comes the part that I have to make concrete all of the things that I have in my head and that’s when the trouble begins.”

Like all good things in life, her work requires some decision making and, regrettingly, some compromise. According to Coppo, working on a book can be a taxing exercise. “Often I fall in love with the idea and lose sight of the bigger picture,” she says. “In practical terms, it comes down to making compromises.”

But creating picture books also means she gets to do the two things she enjoys best: drawing and writing. “The idea to give this form to my stories came quite naturally,” she admits.

The post Marianna Coppo Works Hard — Plays Harder appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I use a mix of medias and have a spontaneous approach,” she remarked once, in an interview with Bibelot Magazine. “It’s often collage, but not necessarily photo-based.” Sometimes, the collage work is based on painting and drawing. “I draw and paint, then I cut things up and see what happens,” says D’Aquino, adding that “being contrary by nature,” she doesn’t like to stay inside any box that is too pre-defined.

Based in New York, she has illustrated three books so far, on top of regular features in publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Financial Times. But D’Aquino’s experimental approach to illustration and collage art, has also attracted commercial brands, collaborating with brands as big as Anthropologie, Conde Nast Traveler, and Chronicle Books.

“Some of the best things I’ve made are mistakes,” she says, “however – this does not imply sitting and waiting is any kind of effective choice.” Take a look at some of her creative observations in the gallery below:

The post Andrea D’Aquino’s Creative Approach Is Messy and Spontaneous appeared first on TettyBetty.

His hard work hasn’t gone unnoticed, earning him international recognition and prestigious awards that include the Silver Medal by the Society of Illustrators and the White Raven Award. He also has an impressive following online, with little over 10k fans on Instagram.

“Since my childhood, I  had the dream of traveling and drawing animals and plants as an explorer of the nineteenth century, with the aim to become an illustrator for magazines such as National Geographic,” he told Sense of Creativity. Indeed, a taste for adventure seems to guide Giordano’s career choices.

Born in a small coastal town in Liguria, Italy to a Filipina mother and Swiss father, Giordano now lives in Tokyo. “Tokyo is a box full of colorful things from all over the world, a concentrate of interesting selected stuff, which catch my attention,” he says. “I like walking around the city and pick up some little treasures, like a vintage Japanese book from a second-hand market, a delicate ceramic from a hidden tiny shop,  or a little crazy character stored in a forgotten box.”

Visit his creative universe through his Instagram page:

The post Philip Giordano’s Illustrations Are All Fun and Games appeared first on TettyBetty.

It all began with the birth of her first child. “I designed her birth announcement and I really loved working on the illustrations,” she relayed in an interview with the Printed blog. Soon, an experimentation with color and shapes began. “My first illustrations were mainly colorful animals, personalized name prints and cartoons,” she says.

Years later, and now a proud mother of two, her brand is steadily growing, introducing more designs and merchandise. With a background in fashion design, Poppekins provides a different sort of creative outlet for van der Meer.

And with two small children running around, inspiration is aplenty. “They inspire me every day with their curious outlook on life and all the funny things they say,” she admits. “Their colorful toys and books give me so much inspiration too.”

Here’s a brand that both children and parents can enjoy!

The post This Children’s Brand Aims to Put a Smile on Your Face appeared first on TettyBetty.

Her artwork can be found on greetings cards, gift-wrap, packaging, and stationery all over the world. But Hughes is really in her element when illustrating children’s books. These books include There’s a Pig Up My Nose, written by John Dougherty; Daddy’s Sandwich by Pip Jones; and The Birthday Invitation by Lucy Rowland.

“Children’s books are an endless source of inspiration and wonder for me,” she told Love Print Studio. “Though my work is very ‘illustrative’, I often look to painters and fine artists for inspiration,” she says. “I think it’s good for illustrators to look beyond their peers in order to keep their work looking fresh. Some of my current favorites include Emil Nolde, Anselm Kiefer, and Peter Doig.”

“Most of the illustrations start with an urge to draw a particular thing,” she went on to explain. “I’ll make a few drawings of the subject, sometimes 2 or 3, sometimes even more! Then I scan the drawing or painting and clean it up on the computer.”

Below you’ll find some samples of her work.

The post Laura Hughes’ Illustrations Cater to a Younger Audience appeared first on TettyBetty.

Inspired (and influenced) by her two young girls, Stickley enjoys writing and illustrating stories for children. Trained originally as a printed textile designer, her illustrations are a mixture of shapes, patterns, and textures.

“When I was little, I was always making and doing, be it cooking, coloring, sewing, painting, drawing… I’d always be creating something or another,” recalled Stickley. “I think things really took hold at school when I had a wonderful art teacher, who encouraged me to apply for a Textile Design degree. Training and working as a printed textile designer, illustration naturally went hand in hand with designing prints. I’ve been very lucky that I’ve been able to transfer this into illustrating for books.”

Explaining her creative process itself, she admits to using a lot of different processes to draw, using oil pastels, the mono-printed line combined with a collaged pattern, pen and ink, and paper cutting and paint. “I quite like a blank sheet of paper and often doodle on older, more worn out bits of paper I’ve collected over the years,” she says. “It adds another element to the illustration, I think.”

Check out some of her work in the gallery below.

The post Lisa Stickley’s Art Is Childish, But In a Good Way appeared first on TettyBetty.

The project ended up becoming a real hit with both regular customers and people who wanted to wear something created by their own child. You can check out some examples of this one-of-a-kind jewelry below.

The post Children’s Illustrations Turns into Adorable Jewelry appeared first on TettyBetty.