Janna Krupinski is an artist and surface designer that primarily works digitally or traditionally with gouache and water colors. She’s inspired by anything that sparks her imagination and enjoys painting animals and giving them a bit of character. Her aim when creating is giving an illustration a little story that puts a smile on people’s faces.

Based in her lovely hometown of Hamburg in the North of Germany, Janna Krupinski is an illustrator with a gift for drawing the cutest animals (among other things). Coming from a crafty household with her mom being an art teacher, Janna was always encouraged to be creative. After graduating as a Graphic Designer she had been working for several years in German advertising companies as Art Director and later as Creative Director. In 2012, Janna decided to freelance and started drawing and painting regularly again. Since taking the leap into freelancing, the focus of Janna’s work slowly but steadily shifted from advertising towards illustration which she is now doing full time.

As an illustrator she is working with German greeting card companies and book publishers, had her work featured in FLOW Magazine and has also licensed her designs to clients like American Greetings, Calypso Cards, The Christmas Tree Shops,  Design House Greetings, Eccolo, Loloi Rugs, Papyrus, Peter Pauper Press, Pier 1, Robert Kaufman, Sellers Publishing, Shannon Bridge Pottery,  TAG, World Market and Studio Oh!

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