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Kristina Gehrmann
@kristinagehrmann.bsky.social
Freelance illustrator for books & publishing. Fantasy, romance, history.
Clients include: HarperCollins, Penguin, Hachette, Darrington Press, book boxes etc.
She/her, deaf. #NoAI

www.kristinagehrmann.com
info@kristinagehrmann.com
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Hi #PortfolioDay! I’m an illustrator with a focus on fantasy, history & narrative illustration.

My dream is to illustrate more book covers with beautiful badass characters, especially women in armor. Please make it happen, universe 🙏

🌎 www.kristinagehrmann.com
📩 info@kristinagehrmann.com
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Happy Lunar New Year! 🐴 Year of the horse but I haven't drawn the illustration yet. You'll have to deal with this dragon instead
February 17, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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❤️🦄 새해복 많이 받으세요!

Happy Lunar New Year! I've been experimenting with traditional Korean paints for this illustration inspired by "The Unicorn in Captivity" - using elements from Minwha 민화 but also fantasy and tarot cards. Truly a mixture of everything!
February 17, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Random question!
Who is the earliest born person you can remember meeting?

For me it was one of my great-grandmas (and the only one I remember seeing in person), whom I met as a kid. She was born in 1907.
February 17, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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watercolor is less 'painting' and more of putting down a stroke and going wow i really shouldnt have done that
February 17, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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Dreaming of Spring
(aka 73 hours of painting leaves in CSP. you know, for fun!)
#art 🦢🐡
February 13, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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Second illustration from Cynthia Sheppard’s course at Smarter Artschool. The focus was on showing the story through characters interactions. I struggled a lot with ideas for the second part of the course, but I like what I came up with.
February 13, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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Morgawr, Sea Serpent of Falmouth Bay.
February 12, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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✨A midsummer's swim ✨

This year's valentine's drawing of my boys got a little bit out of hand 😌❤️
February 12, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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This spring I'm launching a brand new Mini Book Of Monsters! Diddy little creatures to put giggles in your tummy and smiles on your face. Get notified of launch here:
buff.ly/MbjucyL

This is Gareth. He enjoys crochet and making friends.

#monster #cutemonster #monsterbook #watercolour #art
February 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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I keep seeing authors getting duped by AI users pretending to be artists (and then sadly realising it when everyone calls their book AI slop).

These grifters are everywhere and I don't have a solution, but I have a few pointers:
February 11, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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gosh well :( artwork for a cancelled book cover
February 10, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Oh, your love is sunlight.

#art #oc #dnd #ocsky
February 10, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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dancing dragons
February 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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Remembering that time my man Solomon beat the very literal hell out of @kovah.bsky.social's Aysel. Good times, good times ;)

#Sulbook #illustration #fantasy
February 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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Lace Harding - The World

Tarot merch made for @dragonageannual.art

[ #jasperdraws #dragonage #dragonageannual ]
February 9, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Here are the cover illustrations I did for the special @illumicrate.bsky.social edition of VENGEFUL by V. E. Schwab!

This is the combined version of the acetate dust jacket (with the characters) and the case cover (with the city). I posted the cover for Vicious on a separate post.
February 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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February 8, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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The Knight's Favorite

A wildcard for a medieval-themed tarot (that might or might not happen in the near future) where I had complete artistic freedom for the subject! ✨
So I went with "what if courtly love at the tournament, but make it gay?" 💜

Client: 78 Tarot
February 7, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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A mixed-media commission for @lindwyrm.bsky.social of Mirssa 💙

acrylic gouache on hot press paper

[ #art #commissions ]
February 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
The Knight's Favorite

A wildcard for a medieval-themed tarot (that might or might not happen in the near future) where I had complete artistic freedom for the subject! ✨
So I went with "what if courtly love at the tournament, but make it gay?" 💜

Client: 78 Tarot
February 7, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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The quality of art is not the quality of the art; if it were, art would begin and end w/photorealism. The quality of art is in the quality of the artist's observations. Some of the greatest novels have workmanlike prose; they are carried by jaw-dropping truths about human life. Or take cartooning--
February 7, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.

Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 7, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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"The Lovers" from Tarot of the Owls 💜
Art by Elisabeth Alba
Written by Pamela Chen
Published by Llewellyn Worldwide

Signed art prints and signed decks (in full size and adorable mini!) at albaillustration.etsy.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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'The Deaths of River Dart'

AD: Fen Inkwright
#fantasyart #D&D #TTRPG
February 6, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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𝖂𝖍𝖆𝖑𝖊 𝕱𝖆𝖑𝖑
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COEYandSHY.com
A personal piece part of a larger ongoing project 🩶 detail shots attached-
January 30, 2026 at 11:22 PM