This talented artist creates cute illustrations of animals hanging out on Japan’s streets or enjoying Japanese culture. The artworks are part of their project Meronpan, which has been ongoing for more than a year and often stars other people’s pets.

Despite looking simple, the process of creating these adorable pieces is long and has several phases. The artist first makes a sketch, then fills the work with ink and watercolors, and finally puts the finishing touches with the help of digital editing.

Still, the final outcome is more than worth it is as the artist’s illustrations are calming and immensely enjoyable. We just want to travel to Japan and experience the culture like these adorable pets are doing.

Check out more of them below.

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Known for her delicate style of illustrating, her work features tender, whimsical, and furry cute animals colored in soft, earthly colors. According to Stajner, she enjoys painting these characters the most, capturing their minute details (from fur to whiskers).

Each illustration begins with some preparations, through animal studies or observation of animals in real life, after which a lot of sketching is done. The final painting is made mainly with watercolors and gouache, as well as colored pencils, with some digital finishing touches.

Based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Stajner also runs her own Etsy store. In an interview with Lake she reflected that her dream project would include drawing bunnies, squirrels, fawns, and hedgehogs for paper products. “Like greeting cards, wrapping paper, planners, and other similar things,” she noted. “Drawing and designing, having that creative control over the product line. And not having a tight deadline or problems with people who will help you execute your idea. A dream project would be a non-stressful one.”

Inspired by the children illustrations of illustrators like Beatrix Potter and Lisbeth Zwerger, Stajner’s work will remind you of the joys of childhood. Show her some love on Instagram.

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Barton primarily works with digital tools, sometimes adding watercolor for effect. She describes her style as “magical-realism-animal-gothic” and has been creating such works since 2017 when she completed her BFA in Illustration.

“I hark back a lot to my childhood in Idaho, as well as looking to my current environment in Utah, to inform my work. I’d like to capture the strange emotions that I always felt in rural and empty places, and the daydreams I’ve had there. It’s those liminal spaces that I like best, and I’m interested in the structures that bring the human world into nature—radio towers, houses, power lines—especially in the absence of humans themselves,” she said to This is Colossal. 

Scroll down to see her art.

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“I’ve always loved alienation and fantasizing, daydreaming,” Hoekstra writes on his website. “As a child, I had all kinds of theories about how the world worked. At the Academy, I was able to rediscover this and process this into my work. How things work is a fascination of mine and in many drawings, you can find this. I open up appliances and objects and freely change what is inside. Often a subject gets a completely different feeling or meaning. I play with form, meaning, and function, while new combinations arise. Often surprising, strange and funny but also with a strange kind of logic, a fantastic and surreal world.”

See his work below.

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This talented artist creates cute illustrations of animals hanging out on Japan’s streets or enjoying Japanese culture. The artworks are part of their project Meronpan, which has been ongoing for more than a year and often stars other people’s pets.

Despite looking simple, the process of creating these adorable pieces is long and has several phases. The artist first makes a sketch, then fills the work with ink and watercolors, and finally puts the finishing touches with the help of digital editing.

Still, the final outcome is more than worth it is as the artist’s illustrations are calming and immensely enjoyable. We just want to travel to Japan and experience the culture like these adorable pets are doing.

Check out more of them below.

The post Cute Illustrations of Animals Enjoying Japanese Culture appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.

Known for her delicate style of illustrating, her work features tender, whimsical, and furry cute animals colored in soft, earthly colors. According to Stajner, she enjoys painting these characters the most, capturing their minute details (from fur to whiskers).

Each illustration begins with some preparations, through animal studies or observation of animals in real life, after which a lot of sketching is done. The final painting is made mainly with watercolors and gouache, as well as colored pencils, with some digital finishing touches.

Based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Stajner also runs her own Etsy store. In an interview with Lake she reflected that her dream project would include drawing bunnies, squirrels, fawns, and hedgehogs for paper products. “Like greeting cards, wrapping paper, planners, and other similar things,” she noted. “Drawing and designing, having that creative control over the product line. And not having a tight deadline or problems with people who will help you execute your idea. A dream project would be a non-stressful one.”

Inspired by the children illustrations of illustrators like Beatrix Potter and Lisbeth Zwerger, Stajner’s work will remind you of the joys of childhood. Show her some love on Instagram.

The post Add Some Whimsical Critters to Your Instagram Feed appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.

Barton primarily works with digital tools, sometimes adding watercolor for effect. She describes her style as “magical-realism-animal-gothic” and has been creating such works since 2017 when she completed her BFA in Illustration.

“I hark back a lot to my childhood in Idaho, as well as looking to my current environment in Utah, to inform my work. I’d like to capture the strange emotions that I always felt in rural and empty places, and the daydreams I’ve had there. It’s those liminal spaces that I like best, and I’m interested in the structures that bring the human world into nature—radio towers, houses, power lines—especially in the absence of humans themselves,” she said to This is Colossal. 

Scroll down to see her art.

The post Jenna Barton’s Creepy Illustrations Feature Shadowy Animals appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.

“I’ve always loved alienation and fantasizing, daydreaming,” Hoekstra writes on his website. “As a child, I had all kinds of theories about how the world worked. At the Academy, I was able to rediscover this and process this into my work. How things work is a fascination of mine and in many drawings, you can find this. I open up appliances and objects and freely change what is inside. Often a subject gets a completely different feeling or meaning. I play with form, meaning, and function, while new combinations arise. Often surprising, strange and funny but also with a strange kind of logic, a fantastic and surreal world.”

See his work below.

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