A woman with glasses and earrings sits at a wooden table with her hands folded, in front of a colorful, abstract floral mural. She is wearing a red T-shirt and a smartwatch on her left wrist.

About the Artist

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Illustration, 2D Animation, Hand lettering, Surface Design, Calligraphy, Video Production

Esther is a multidisciplinary freelance illustrator based in Michigan, US. She works with both traditional and digital media in an iterative process.

Favorite topics

Food Illustration, Nature Illustration, Illustrated Handlettering and Calligraphy, Animated Illustration

Street Creds

Her art has been licensed by multiple companies including Cloud9 Fabrics. Her work has been featured multiple times by the UPPERCASE Magazine and was named as Top 100 Surface Pattern Designers by UPPERCASE Magazine in 2019. She has 6 years of Top Teacher on Skillshare experience with over 46,000 students and well over 1.6 million minutes between her classes, including 8 Staff Pick classes. Her creative design projects are also featured in Spoonflower Blog, Skillshare Blog, and Print and Pattern Blog.

Esther

  • is fluent in popular digital tools like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Procreate App, Procreate Dreams for Animation, etc.

  • works with both vector illustration and raster illustration,

  • has a Master of Arts degree in Advertising, and worked as an Art Director in an ad agency.

  • is very comfortable working with analog and digital media.

  • has a high-functioning working knowledge of 2D animation and video production using Adobe After Effects, Procreate App, Procreate Dream App, and Adobe Premiere Pro

  • loves quilting, sewing, and pottery in addition to illustration

Clients

MSU Broad Art Museum logo with stylized building graphic and text
Uppercase logo with a stylized arrow pointing upward
Logo with a stylized blue cloud and the text 'Cloud9 Fabrics' beneath it.
Close-up of the word 'Spoonflower' in dark teal text.
Illustration of the acronym 'SCBWI' in large, 3D block letters with green fill and black outline. Below, the full name 'Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators' is written in handwritten-style black font.

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Creative Process

A slice of layered cake with pink icing and decorative pink spirals on top, placed on a white plate with a blue rim, against a background of a blue sky and a checkered surface.

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Work with Esther 〰️

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Close-up of a tiled surface featuring a pattern of small green four-leaf clovers on a blue and white checkered background.
Close-up of a light blue, checkered tablecloth with small green four-leaf clover patterns.