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An illustration of various animals and a person gathered against a bright yellow background. A lion, elephant, and pink flamingos are joined by a person riding a deer and a large green snake.

Bright, nicely deadpan narratives from illustrator Jenn Liv

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Date
3 March 2015

Toronto-based illustrator and cartoonist Jenn Liv is a whizz with colour. With sustained attention to detail, she illustrates often quite stereotypical moments but always with a twist. There’s a great battle between two knights on a cliff edge at sunset, both just giving up; a romantic moment, flowers, a white dress, a gust of wind and the man just nonchalantly wandering off.

Jenn graduated last year and has since been publishing her comics and illustrating for Blueprint Magazine, BOOM! Studios and exhibited with the Light Grey Art Lab. Her work has a nice, socially perceptive sense of humour to it and a great sense of purpose in terms of process and application.

An illustration of two people embracing on a bed in a room with blue walls. Beneath the bed, a third figure with a wide smile peers out from under the frame.
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Jenn Liv: Doubts About Us

An illustration of a person with red hair watering a child’s head with a yellow watering can. The child wears a yellow polka-dot dress and striped tights, looking grumpy as a pink flower blooms from their head. They stand in a field of sunflowers against a bright green background.
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Jenn Liv: Green

An illustration of a figure in six stages against a pink background. They start in a yellow T-shirt and gradually pull it up to reveal a blue, horned creature underneath.
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Jenn Liv: Take It Off

An illustration of two figures in armour standing on separate cliffs, facing a giant sea serpent. The creature coils through the water under a yellow sun and a red sky.
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Jenn Liv: You Just Want To Call It Quits

An illustration of a person in a yellow suit and wide-brimmed hat carrying another person in their arms. They are set against a surreal, colourful landscape of pink and yellow hills.
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Jenn Liv: I Don’t Need A Man

An illustration of a person with dark hair and pink lips, their face framed by two hands. The hands and the person's eyes are filled with colourful, stylised fish swimming in blue water.
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Jenn Liv: Cat’s Eyes

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Billie Muraben

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Billie studied illustration at Camberwell College of Art before completing an MA in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art. She joined It’s Nice That as a Freelance Editorial Assistant back in January 2015 and continues to work with us on a freelance basis.

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