Jessica Cruickshank

Cuuute cute cute cute! 🎉

I’m gonna try get this cover up on my website / IG this week, and I’ll include the other cover option I created that didn’t get chosen 😉

I’m lucky I get the best covers to work on 😍

You are very sweet, thank you ❤️

The letter F made out of peach-coloured rotting wood, intertwined with spotted yellow leaves, being devoured by multiple sparkly banana slugs who are leaving their sweet slimy little trails all over the place

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.

I also do not know how to ride a bike and I live in Amsterdam AMA

My hair does not stay in my scarf. Even when I’m just walking. I do not know how to scarf chicly

Black ink sketch of a girl on a bike with her hair tucked until her scarf. Except I didn’t actually draw the bike

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

I just realised that it's never occurred to me to thank a client for delivering feedback on time. Even though this is such a rare occurrence (at least in publishing) that I probably should be thanking them

Ooooh good point. On the anxiety front I am also prone to sending work in at least a day early 😆

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??

Rows of pak choy seedlings planted in a small raised bed

Pupdate: my little baby choys are now in their big boy bed on the balcony

Omfg

Please do!

Ooh I see! If you wanna know anything about getting book cover work, feel free to reach out with qs anytime :)

Screenshot of headline for WSJ Opinion: if Indians and Pakistanis can relocate, why can’t Gazans? By Sadanand Dhume Feb 12, 2025

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

A container of pak choy and choy sum seedlings growing under grow lights indoors

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

I’ve never been brave enough to just send one. I’ve done two! But not one

I just did a project where I sent 5 because I’m a loser, and they picked the first sketch and said 10/10 no notes go straight to final 😭

Talk about it!!!! ❤️

I always thought it was in like, September or another warmer month, but maybe I’m confusing it with Fat Bear Week

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

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 💫

You’re a new freelancer? You’re a pro!! Also hiiii

Soooo how was it..

Hand pointing to pigeons pecking on bare ground

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

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 🙄

BREAKING NEWS foot pigeon has moved back to its place next to the boy's foot

He’s just spotted your chips and he’s a-comin’

digital painting of closeup of a pigeon face

🐦

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