ILLUSTRATION & GRAPHIC DESIGN BLOG: Karen Justl

BIO: Karen Justl is an illustrator and graphic designer. She holds an MDes (Masters of Design) from the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto, Ontario. She is a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba where she received her BFA Honors in Painting at The University of Manitoba. She is also an interdisciplinary visual artist researching caricature, facial expression, body language, illustration techniques and Freud's theories of slapstick humour & the uncanny. Her illustrations have been published across Canada in Applied Arts, subTerrain Magazine, Chesterfield, Kiss Machine, Herizons MB, Pilot Project and Crow's Toes. She teaches in the Digital Lab at the Toronto School of Art and in Continuing Studies at OCAD University.

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the animation of K. Justl illustrations



illustrations from:
The Bird (cage)
a new illustrated story
published, 2009

written by Sandy Groebner
Illustrated by Karen Justl

click here for the pdf







New Herizons illustration
summer 2009






































new subTerrain illustration
published summer 2009






new paintings on wood
and a new puppet named Penny Arcade



















new drawings
facial expression and body language







































































































































































































and
Nick Cave, goth icon