Two full over and six black and gold illustrations created for Fable England.

Shop the collection here.

Jessica was awarded an Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund. For this project, she created an illustration in Adobe Fresco and added subtle movement.

Prints available here.

A fox head holding dogwoods in its mouth, created for Something in the Woods, which opened October 1, 2018 at Blockfort in Columbus, Ohio.

I also created screen printed bandanas for the show, showing the fox and dogwoods surrounded by two snakes.

The show was curated by Logan Schmitt.

Prints available here.
Stickers available here.

Illustrations for Orgabon, a Korean kids’ skincare brand. Illustrations appeared on various products from lotion to soap.

Illustration of the Green Man, created for Heirloom Rustic Ales.

Prints available here.

Full color, limited-edition zine featuring illustrations and short essays about gardening. Printed on FSC certified newsprint with eco-friendly inks.

Written, illustrated, and designed by Ginnie Hsu, Jessica Roux, and Libby VanderPloeg.

24 pages, saddle stitched, 6.7” x 9.8”

Jessica has two essays with accompanying illustrations in this issue.

Order the zine here.
Floral Lung prints available here.

For more information, see thegardenpeople.co

Full color, limited-edition zine featuring illustrations and short essays. Printed on FSC certified newsprint with eco-friendly inks.

From tea blends to cozy clothes, this issue is teeming with hygge and waiting to be read curled up under a blanket next to a crackling fire. Written, photographed, illustrated, and designed by Ginnie Hsu, Jessica Roux, and Libby VanderPloeg.

32 pages, saddle stitched, 6.7” x 9.8”

Jessica has one essay with accompanying illustrations and photographs in this issue, and she illustrated the cover.

Order here

For more information, see thegardenpeople.co

Wine label illustrations created for Micro Ktima Bokola, a winery based in Greece.

Illustration of a barn owl for Heirloom Rustic Ales’ beer cans.

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

This illustration was later turned into woven blankets.

Prints available here.
Woven blankets available here.
Postcards available here.

A personal illustration of a magpie and moth under a cloche jar, with the title referencing the nursery rhyme “One for Sorrow.” Created to play with transparencies on printed stickers.

Prints available here.
Stickers available here.
Postcards available here.

Illustration created for Adobe Fresco as part of their ambassador program.

You can see how Jessica created this illustration here.

Prints available here.

Illustration for Lenny Letter for a story by Bett Williams, The Wild Kindness. The story focused on magic mushrooms as therapy.

AD: Kristine Mar

Prints available here.

Illustrations for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition The Last Knight. I illustrated 30 coats of arms of the individuals who received gifts of armor from Maximillian I.

The first illustration shows the sample illustration, from which we moved into a more linework-focused style for the final artwork.

Photos and artwork c/o the Met

Illustration for Wild as Heck, who turned this design into a beautiful, wearable hat.

Order one here.

Illustration for Wild as Heck, who turned this design into a beautiful, wearable hat.

Order one here.

I Dwell in Possibility, a personal piece created for the WOWxWOW show Evolution of the Essence.

Prints available here.
Stickers available here.
Postcards available here.

Illustration for the New York Times for an article in the Travel section, focusing on choosing a travel agent.

Art director: Minh Uong

Illustration created for Adobe’s social media channels. Jessica hosted the adobedrawing theme of gardening.

Prints available here.

Illustration created for Heirloom Rustic Ales and Ivory Bill Brewing. Inspired by the Ghent Altarpiece and the intense detail of Northern Renaissance paintings.

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Illustration of a coyote surrounded by sunflowers and wheat for Heirloom Rustic Ales, a new brewery in Oklahoma. This illustration announced the grand opening date and time and was created to be shared on various social media channels.

Prints available here.

Illustrations which appeared in the Summer/Fall 2024 issue of the Garden People. The comic shows a sweet bee taking a nap in a flower, something I wish I could do! There is also an essay on my favorite tomato varieties to try.

Order the Summer/Fall 24 Garden People issue here.

Illustration created for use as a beer label from Heirloom Rustic Ales. Celebrating their six year anniversary, this artwork shows a Victorian woman sitting in front of a fireplace, with six candles representing each year Heirloom has been open. The wallpaper, dress, and color choices for this piece were inspired by the history of Scheele's Green, an arsenic containing pigment popularized in the Victorian era.

Prints available here.

Illustration created for my Domestika course, Natural Illustration with Digital Painting. In this course, I teach students my process for creating detailed illustrations through a combination of traditional and digital media.

Take the course here.
Prints available here.
Postcards available here.

Illustration created for Heirloom Rustic Ales’ Temple Dream brew. Inspired by the magic and mythos of white harts.

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Prints available here.

Island Warmer, an illustration created for Heirloom Rustic Ales.

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Beer label illustration for Heirloom Rustic Ale’s Celestial Mechanics. The Tulsa-based brewery asked me to create an illustration inspired by the name of the brew, and I was inspired by fantastical orreries.

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Prints available here.

Beer label illustration for Heirloom Rustic Ales’ brew Chapel Visitor. The Tulsa-based brewery asked me to create an illustration based off the beer’s name, and I was inspired by themes of memento mori and Flemish still life paintings.

Prints available here.

Main illustration and spot illustration for an article in the Washington Post about reducing food waste at Thanksgiving.

Art director: Marissa Vonesh

Repeat pattern design of black and white beetles, created for Pop Ya Tot, an Australian baby brand. This was used on the Snug as a Bug swaddle.

Photos c/o Pop Ya Tot

Beer label illustration for Heirloom Rustic Ales, featuring a Nightjar bird with a blue ribbon.

Prints available here.

Beer label illustration for Heirloom Rustic Ale’s Light Magic. The Tulsa-based brewery asked me to create an illustration based off the first projectors, often called magic lanterns. Each slide in the magic lantern is a previous beer label I illustrated for Heirloom.

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Illustration of a Great Indian Hornbill, created for a benefit to help the Thailand Hornbill Project. I created a limited edition series of 5 signed, hand-embellished prints with gold watercolor details.

Illustrations for Heirloom Rustic Ales’ winter 2019 merchandise, inspired by secret societies and dark magic.

Prints available here.

Beer label illustration for Heirloom Rustic Ale’s beer Myth, Lore, Chant. The Tulsa-based brewery asked me to create an illustration based off the beer’s name, and I was inspired by Greek mythology associated with the Calydonian boar hunt.

Photo of bottle c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Prints available here.

Vintage-inspired spot illustrations for the Harpeth Hotel located in downtown Franklin, Tennessee. Each illustration focuses on an aspect of Franklin’s history, including things like Ben Franklin’s glasses, an acoustic guitar for Music City, a whiskey barrel, a cannon for Franklin’s role in the Civil War, and more.

AD: Ryan Mikesell, ASO Advertising

Frozen Bloom, an illustration created for Heirloom Rustic Ales.

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Prints available here.

Illustration for Outside Online for a story about Sami, a cat that went missing. I included lots of details from the story, including lost posters, a drop of blood, rose leaves, a crystal ball, and a swooping owl. 

AD: Chris Thompson

Beer label illustration for Heirloom Rustic Ale’s L’Internationale Volume II. The Tulsa-based brewery asked me to create an illustration that incorporated a wheat scythe, a skull mask, and a female brewer.

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Prints available here.

Illustration of Lady Bird Johnson for the March 2018 issue of Smithsonian Magazine. Lady Bird Johnson was the answer to an Ask Smithsonian question about the political advocacy of First Ladies. Every illustration for the Ask Smithsonian section of the magazine is designed in and around the letter Q (second image).

AD: Heather Palmateer

Illustration created for Public Radio Tulsa’s collaboration with Heirloom Rustic Ales. The bugs have little headphones on because they are listening to the Moth!

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Beer can illustration for Heirloom Rustic Ale’s Plains Beer. The Tulsa-based brewery asked me to create an illustration featuring a classic Oklahoma landscape.

Photos c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Beer can illustration for Heirloom Rustic Ale’s Longear Lager. The Tulsa-based brewery asked me to create an illustration featuring a longear sunfish, Lepomis megalotis, to help raise money for their local chapter of Trout Unlimited.

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Illustrations for TALON, a jewelry brand, focusing on different collections’ themes and subject matter.

Prints available here.

Spot illustrations for Taproot’s BUILD issue 35, for an article focusing on building beaver habitats.

AD: Rachel McDonald

Poster created for the Wood Brothers’ 2018-2019 winter tour. 6 color screen print, printed by Triple Stamp Press.

Cover illustration for Taproot Magazine, MYTH, issue 17. I am Taproot's 2016 cover artist, and this is the first of four covers I'll be illustrating for them. For MYTH, I focused on folklore like the tortoise and the hare, mythology like the golden apple and pan flute, and imagery of magic and luck, like the wishbone and mugwort. 

AD: Amanda Blake Soule

Prints available here.

Illustration for author Emily Hawkins. Emily is the author of A Natural History of Fairies. She requested a Victorian stack of books featuring her initials, EH.

Beer label illustration for Heirloom Rustic Ales’ brew Splinter Sleep. The Tulsa-based brewery asked me to create an illustration based off the beer’s name, and I was inspired by albino polycephalic snakes, surrounded by hellebore flowers, which mean overcoming scandal in the Victorian Language of Flowers.

Photos c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Prints available here.

An illustration of a bat surrounded by bioluminescent flowers for Heirloom Rustic Ales’ Ravedeath brew.

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Prints available here.

Illustration of a haunted, veiled woman for Heirloom Rustic Ales’ beer Old, Old Story.

Photos c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

An illustration of ships in a bottle, created for Heirloom Rustic Ales’ cans of Whitecaps.

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Prints available here.

Beer label illustration for Heirloom Rustic Ale’s Plains Beer. Each label I illustrated features flora and fauna native to Oklahoma for the Tulsa-based brewery. Plains Beer incorporates a leaping antelope surrounded by wild plains flowers and plants.

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Breaking, Rectifying - a new illustration for (inhabit), which opened September 7, 2018 at Helikon Gallery. The show was curated by John Vogl and is filled with amazing nature themed artwork from female illustrators and artists.

This illustration is about life cycles in nature and focuses on the Tulip Breaking Virus, which causes beautiful streaks of color in tulips that eventually, through out generations of tulips, breaks and weakens the tulip’s genetic line until it can no longer survive.

Prints available here.
Postcards available here.
Framed original available here.

Strength, inspired by the strength Tarot card, created initially for the Louder Coalition, organization dedicated to supporting and empowering survivors of sexual violence. The organization is no longer in operation, but the message of strength lives on.

The strength Tarot card traditionally shows a woman holding the mouth of a lion. The card is about expressing inner strength, enduring obstacles with composure, and understanding compassion and self-worth.

Prints available here.
Postcards available here.

A pirate map, inspired by vintage maps, created for Pop Ya Tot, an Australian baby brand. This was used on the Treasure Map swaddle.

Photos c/o Pop Ya Tot

Spot illustrations for Taproot Magazine’s Forage issue, for an essay about foraging for food and collecting black trumpet mushrooms with goats.

AD: Rachel McDonald

Poster for Process Group agency for Al Mulinetto Winery, advertising their Nocino, a type of liqueur made from green walnuts. The label for Al Mulinetto’s Nocino features a dapper rhino, so we incorporated a rhino enjoying the liqueur surrounded by green walnuts and leaves.

This illustration won the Bronze 2018 Swiss Poster Award in the Commercial Regional category.

AD: Fabian Bertschinger

Fig and Goat Cheese Pizza, for the Light Grey Art Lab show Foodies, which opened Friday, April 27th, 2018. 90 artists from around the world created artwork depicting their favorite recipe, as well as recipe cards for the show. This recipe is both gluten free and vegetarian, and one of my personal favorites.

Framed prints, unframed prints, and recipe cards are available in the Light Grey Shop.

Beware, the Black Shuck for the Light Grey Art Lab show Calamity, curated by Teagan White. Calamity opened Friday, October 28 in Minneapolis, MN.

A little about the lore that inspired the illustration: The Black Shuck is a ghostly, shaggy-haired black dog of British lore - and an omen of death. It prowls along the coastline and into forests, with its malevolent eyes glowing in the mist. To meet the Black Shuck would mean one’s death would occur before the end of the year.

Prints available here.

The Pelasgian Creation Myth, an illustration for Botanica, a show celebrating the origin of our Earth, at Light Grey Art Lab. 

In the ancient Greek Pelasgian Creation Myth, the Goddess of All Things took the form of a dove, and from her egg all life sprouted forth. Her mate, the serpent Ophion, coiled around the egg until it hatched, spilling out the beautiful, the bizarre, and the decadent flora of the world. Passion flowers, figs, rafflesia, pitcher plants, titan arum and more erupted and covered the barren landscape.

Prints available here.
Postcards available here.
Stickers available here.

A jumping fox, illustrated as part of a branding project for Zephyr & Luna, a France-based photographer.

"Tricksters" was created for the Tall Tales gallery show at ICON9, the Illustration Conference. The show opened July 8th, 2016 at the Lion's Nest Gallery in Austin, Texas. 

This illustration focuses on the trickster tall tales of Br'er Fox and Br'er Rabbit, popular stories in the Southern United States. 

Prints available here.
Postcards available here.

Beer label illustration for Heirloom Rustic Ale’s The Figure and The Vow. The Tulsa-based brewery asked me to create an illustration based off the beer’s name, and I was inspired by themes of surrealism and court portraiture.

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Prints available here.

Cover illustration for Taproot Magazine, PRESERVE, issue 18. I am Taproot's 2016 cover artist, and this is the second of four covers I've illustrated for them. For PRESERVE, I focused on food preservation techniques, including canning, pickling, drying herbs, and making jams.

AD: Amanda Blake Soule

Prints available here.

Illustration for Hudson Valley Seed Company's Joker Lettuce seed packet. I illustrated a three card tarot spread, featuring the classic imagery of the Fool card, but with Frank Morton (the creator of this lettuce type) as the fool, standing on a big lettuce head dropping seeds. On the left is the Three of Cups, for celebration; on the right is the Ace of Wands, for creative new beginnings. 

AD: Ken Greene

Seed packets available through Hudson Valley Seed Company here.

Artwork created for the album cover of the band Dahlia, for their first album. Each of the four death head moths represent one member of the band, surrounded by dahlias and other flowers. 

Prints available here.

Illustration for Heirloom Rustic Ale’s Relict beer. Each label I illustrated features flora and fauna native to Oklahoma for the Tulsa-based brewery. Relict features a jackalope jumping over a reliquary, barley, and laurels.

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Prints available here.

Beer label illustration for Heirloom Rustic Ale’s Sky Islands beer. Each label I illustrated features flora and fauna native to Oklahoma for the Tulsa-based brewery. Sky Islands incorporates a two scissor-tailed flycatchers with coneflowers surrounding a sky island, a unique geological feature of the area.

Illustration for the Light Grey Art Lab show Tobeyou, which opened March 3rd, 2017. The show was about personal narratives, so I chose to illustrate one of my first pets, Salty the ferret. Salty was always frolicking around, full of playful energy - even when she became sick and lost most of her hair. She was a good luck symbol to me, even though weasels are often associated with bad omens - so I illustrated good luck symbols around her, like acorns, a wishbone, a ladybug, a snail, a key, and a four leaf clover.

Prints available here.
Postcards available here.

Beer label illustration for Heirloom Rustic Ale’s Plague Doctor. The Tulsa-based brewery asked me to create an illustration featuring a plague doctor’s mask. I included several sweet-smelling plants that would have been used inside the mask historically.

Photos c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Prints available here.

Illustration for the September issue of Cincinnati Magazine, about ginseng as a cash crop. You can read it here.

AD: Megan Scherer

A Christmas ornament illustrated for Wendell August Forge, who forged it by hand and embellished it with Swarovski crystals. This was their annual Oh Christmas Tree ornament, themed “When Heaven and Nature Sing.”

AD: Emily Hendrie

Photos c/o Wendell August Forge

Lyra was created for Light Grey Art Lab's show Cosmos, celebrating the illuminated night sky with constellations and astral bodies. The illustrations were turned into a fiberoptic light display, as well as a tarot and oracle deck.

The show ran from October 30 - November 23rd at Light Grey Art Lab in Minneapolis, MN.

About the constellation: The great musician Orpheus was said to have the ability to charm all living things with his music. His instrument of choice was the lyre -- invented by Hermes, but perfected by Orpheus. Upon his death, Orpheus’ lyre was cast into the river, but Zeus ordered an eagle to retrieve the instrument. Zeus placed Lyra and Eagle among the stars.

Tarot and Oracle deck available in the Light Grey shop.

Almost Wild, Foundling for a WOWxWOW show, Room of a Thousand Doors. Limited edition signed and numbered archival prints with gold foil details are sold out.

Open edition prints available here.

Illustration of a mourning dove carrying a snowdrop flower, created for the WOWxWOW show “Monochromagic,” in which all artwork was monochrome.

Prints available here.

Three floral illustrations showing various growth states of a saucer magnolia. Each illustration shows the plant growing progressively larger, for a PDF book on growth marketing from Intercom.

AD: Matt Yow

Illustration for the band Fireside Collective for their new single, Whippoorwill.

Prints available here.

Illustration of a bison head for Heirloom Rustic Ales, a new brewery in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The bison was created for their branding and used on crowler labels (picture 2). I also painted a mural at the brewery of the bison head (picture 3).

Illustration for Good Looking Objects, a jewelry brand by Melinda Ryan, featuring the jewelry she creates alongside some lovely objects and Victorian-inspired imagery. Front and center is her Garden Gate necklace.

Illustration for the Fiction section of the New Yorker, for a story called "Flower Hunters." The story is about a woman living in Florida on Halloween, obsessed with naturalist William Bartram, and worrying about a sinkhole opening up under her home.

AD: Aviva Michaelov

Memento Mori, created for Ten Paces & Draw’s Occult swap. Ten Paces & Draw is a collaborative illustration challenge where artists create a sketch around a theme, then are given another illustrator’s sketch from the same theme to complete.

Prints available here.

An Egyptian vulture, created for the Artwork for Aves annual fundraiser to raise money for VulPro.

Prints available here.

Specimens, Collections and Curiosities is a collection of words and illustrations celebrating the natural world. From bones to flowers and moths to mushrooms, it explores the fleeting nature of time, the desire to collect, and the inherent beauty of flora and fauna. This book uses illustrated transparent overlays over each of the color illustrations. It totals 36 pages, including 24 color pages and 12 transparent pages.

Signed and numbered limited run of 50 (sold out).

Prints of the Snake and Magnolias can be found here.
Postcards of the Snake and Magnolias can be found here.

Beer can illustration for Heirloom Rustic Ale’s Cavern Hymn. The Tulsa-based brewery asked me to create an illustration of a cave with an underground river.

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Illustration for Maryland-based fine art wedding photographer Kate Ann Photography. We wanted to make a logo that incorporated lots of ferns and captured her distinct and beautiful photography style.

Illustration created for Heirloom Rustic Ales, depicting a witch brewing a butterfly pea flower potion.

Prints available here.

Cover illustration for Taproot Magazine, WANDER, issue 19. I am Taproot's 2016 cover artist, and this is the third of four covers I've illustrated for them. For WANDER, I focused on camping, hiking, and exploring in the great outdoors.

AD: Amanda Blake Soule

Prints available here.

A private commission of a sleeping fox, accompanied by some Fleet Foxes lyrics. It says "no room for an orchard, who knows what's in store".

Prints available here.
Postcards available here.

Beer can illustration for Florida Stories, a brew by Heirloom Rustic Ales. Featuring a pelican soaring over a swampy Florida landscape, featuring a colorful and fictitious Cormorant Club.

Beer label illustration for Heirloom Rustic Ale’s Cathedral Beer and cans. Each label I illustrated features flora and fauna native to Oklahoma for the Tulsa-based brewery. Cathedral incorporates a coyote framed in an ornate altar piece, surrounded by decorative hops.

Photo c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

Illustrations for Beekman 1802 products and package designs, including a goat, several spot illustrations, and an illustration of the Beekman 1802 farmhouse.

CD: Ayesha Bshero

Illustration for The Boston Globe for a section called "My First Home." The author writes about growing up in Brighton Beach in New York City, and the difference between experiencing the city and the beach.

AD: Jane Martin 

Illustrations for three beer labels created for Heirloom Rustic Ales. The first, Eternal Aimless, was inspired by the Greek mythology of the Underworld. The second was created for their two year anniversary party. The third was inspired by Charon, the ferryman of the Underworld in Greek mythology.

Photos c/o Heirloom Rustic Ales

I illustrated the Longbottom, Malfoy, Weasley, Potter, Black, Sayre, and Gaunt Family Trees and Portraits for Pottermore, the website for Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World. 

For the Longbottom's, the portrait shows Neville with his grandmother who raised him, his pet toad Trevor, and a framed picture of his parents in the background. For the Malfoy's, the portrait shows a young Draco with his parents Lucius and Narcissa. For the Weasley's, the portrait shows their family trip to Egypt from the third book, the Prisoner of Azkaban. For the Potter's, the portrait shows Lily holding baby Harry, with James holding their cat. For the Black's, the portrait shows a young Sirius and his brother, Regulus, with their parents outside Number 12 Grimmauld Place. For the Sayre's, the portrait shows the four founders of the US wizarding school Ilvermorny (James, Isolt, Chadwick and Webster), along with James and Isolt's twin daughters as infants and with the Pukwudgie William. For the Gaunt's, the portrait shows Merope looking out the window at Tom Riddle Senior, with her father Marvolo and brother Morfin living in squalor.

You can interact with the Longbottom family tree here.

You can interact with the Malfoy family tree here.

You can interact with the Weasley family tree here.

You can interact with the Potter family tree here.

You can interact with the Black family tree here.

You can interact with the Sayre family tree here.

You can interact with the Gaunt family tree here.

Illustration of Peppered Moths for the Light Grey Art Lab show "Camouflage," which opened May 26th, 2017. 

The show featured work about blending in and adapting to your environment, so I focused on the evolution of the peppered moth: Almost all the peppered moths were light-colored, flecked with black spots, well-camouflaged against the trees and lichens they landed on, until the Industrial Revolution in England. The trees became blackened by the pollutants and soot in the air during this time period, and the darker peppered moths flourished because they could now blend into the trees. Since then, the light colored peppered moths have become common once more, due to the improved air quality. They once again blend into their environment.

Prints available here.

Specimens, Collections and Curiosities II is a collection of words and illustrations celebrating the natural world, as a follow-up to the first zine of the same name. From healing crystals to flowers, reading tea leaves to tarot, it explores the idea of the magic in nature and the inherent beauty of flora and fauna. This book uses illustrated transparent overlays over each of the color illustrations.

Signed and numbered limited run of 100 (sold out). 

Prints of the Snake and Peonies available here.

Personal illustration of a badger surrounded by berries, leaves, flowers and a key.

Prints available here.

Illustration for the Art of Eating, for an article about the wine of Lessona and Carema, in northwest Italy.

AD: Edward Behr

Food illustrations for the July / August issue of Zest Magazine, a Maine-based food magazine. The article was about planning a dinner party when a lot of your guests have dietary restrictions, like gluten free, vegan, or pescetarian. 

AD: Nancy Gordon

A personal illustration about how red foxes are encroaching upon arctic foxes' territory due to climate change.

Prints available here.