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Hello, I’m Sophie. I’m an illustrator who loves strange characters, imaginative worlds, and the details that make them feel real.

My advantage: a recognizable style for both characters and architecture, coupled with a fast, steady workflow.

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I specialize in:✧ book illustration ✧ character design ✧ editorial and independent publications ✧ prints, postcards, and merchandise

I work with Publishers · Editors · Creative Studios · Independent Authors

ANTIHYPE

Illustration Series · Portrait

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Challenge: Give each musician a clear character and unify four distinct faces into a single band aesthetic.Idea: A strict palette of red, black, and white, employing rough, sketchy lines, and a unique swirling background for each individual.Result: Four portraits, unified by a single visual language. What it shows: I can imbue real people with a strong, recognizable visual identity.

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BOOKER, CD, HAN ZAMAY AND… SLAVA KPSS!!!

BRIT-POP

Illustration Series · Portrait

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Challenge: Make famous faces recognizable while maintaining a consistent aesthetic.Idea: A red, white, and blue palette, employing flat shapes and geometric stripes in the background. The feel is calm and graphic, a departure from the Antihype series.Result: Four portraits rendered in a unified, clean style.What it shows: My ability to adapt my portrait style to suit different moods and historical eras.

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Gallagher brothers, Brett Lewis Anderson, Jarvis Cocker, Justine Elinor Frischmann, Damon Albarn

Bug alphabet

Illustration Series · Product Design

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Challenge: Integrate each letter into the image so it becomes a part of the scene, rather than just a label on it. Idea: Each letter transforms into an element from the bugs' world—a building, a lily of the valley. Because the bugs are tiny and the letters are massive, every scene evokes a small narrative with its own distinct mood. This particular piece is quiet and rainy, featuring two bugs holding each other beneath a giant flower. Process: The final illustrations were adapted for industrial design, allowing the same visual world to translate onto real products. Result: Six illustrated letters, one cohesive bug world, and product designs derived from the artwork. What it shows: I can build a consistent world, maintain its continuity across a series, and successfully apply it to tangible products.

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alphabet in interior

Every day is a music day

Illustration series · Product Design

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Challenge: To capture the essence of music in a miniature format.Idea: The instruments are the protagonists. Tiny figures stand alongside them, while flowers and sound waves fill the space. A black background and green tones establish a unified mood for the entire set.Result: A collection of 13 postcards unified by a single palette.What it shows: My ability to create small objects that people wish to send and keep.

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Cute and unique postcards!

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Cute and unique postcards!

Original size 1920x1080

Cute and unique postcards!

Original size 1920x1080

Cute and unique postcards!

Original size 1920x1080

Cute and unique postcards!

Golden towns

Illustration series · Landscape · Architecture

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Challenge: Make every location instantly recognizable, yet render it with the utmost simplicity and flatness.Idea: Reduce each landscape and building to its primary forms—a tower, an arch, a roofline. Utilize flat color, minimal figures, and only subtle textures.Result: Thirteen simple, flat illustrations. Each location remains easily identifiable.What it shows: I can simplify architecture without sacrificing its inherent character.

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Wonderful postcards of the Golden Ring landscapes!

THE LITTLE MERMAID

Zenina | ILLUSTRATOR PORTFOLIO
Project created at 30.10.2026
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