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Art and Design, Digital Painter, Fine Art, Illustration, Commercial Illustrator, Designer, Textile Designer, Character Designer, Stylist, Graphic Design and Digital Art, Toy and Product Design, Toy Designer, Designer, Designer, Writing
Iris Luckhaus is a freelance illustrator, stylist and designer since 1996 and Master of Design since 2000 (UdK Berlin). Her passion is visual storytelling, always with a friendly approach and often in details noone might see at first sight.
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The wonderful “52 Aces Reloaded” poker deck by Zeixs – Books for Designers, for which I felt honoured to illustrate the Queen of Hearts, is being printed now, there is an awesome website about the whole deck and you can already make a reservation for your own copy! ➔ Anthologies // 52 Aces Reloaded // [...]
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The wonderful “52 Aces Reloaded” poker deck by Zeixs – Books for Designers, for which I felt honoured to illustrate the Queen of Hearts, is being printed now, there is an awesome website about the whole deck and you can already make a reservation for your own copy! ➔ Anthologies // 52 Aces Reloaded // [...]
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Besides to some wonderful new projects I am not supposed to talk about yet, I started to experiment with some new styles very different to my usual, very time consuming outlines last month. This illustration is based on a fairy tale work I drew years ago.
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On Lily Lux‘s website, there will be another advent calendar starting on December 1st! There, you will find another little illustration and holiday for each of the 24 days until christmas. Happy finding and a splendid time before christmas! Above some of our favourite little calendar doors, and below the whole picture:
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After posting our two dimensional Do it yourself advent calendar here a few days ago and working on our own calendars, we would now like to present three examples for spontaneous people (or nightshifters, or late gifters) of how to personalize the calendar for your favourite person: Im the image above, the calendar with little [...]
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At Lily Lux, the winter officially starts today – with the first door in our advent calendar and some other news: We just uploaded some new wintery wallpapers with illustrations from our books and two special pages we made lately, and since last fall we also offer the wallpapers in vertical smartphone formats!! Furthermore, there [...]
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At Lily Lux‘, we now have a new waving, twinkling, charming lucky cat for the winter which you are welcome to use as a banner for your site or your blog. Code, instructions and some more Lily Lux banners you’ll find on her networks page, and some more pre-christmas gifts and games are to be [...]
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Once again this year, we have eight collapsible gift tags with pictures from Lily Lux wonderful world for you – to download, print out, cut and use for your own gifts. Happy packaging and a splendid christmas anticipation to all of you!
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Lily Lux hat ganz eindeutig die allerwunderbarsten Fans der ganzen Welt, denn die bauen ganze Wohnungen für unsere Kühlschrankmagneten! Und ich kann dieses liebevoll arrangierte Bild jetzt unmöglich nicht weiterzeigen… Dankeschön, liebe Mani Engel! Und falls das jemand gern nachbauen würde: wir haben nachgefragt, und dieser Raum stammt aus “Tamaras Haus”; die schicke Vierzimmerwohnung ist [...]
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Bei Lily Lux gibt es nun eine eigene Pinnwand für Winterliche Köstlichkeiten – dort können Sie Lieblingsrezepte teilen, ansehen und nachbacken! Immer wieder spannend finden wir regionale oder historische Spezialitäten, von denen wir noch nie zuvor gehört haben. Außerdem gibt es eine kleine Umfrage zum liebsten Advents- und Weihnachtsgebäck – auf dem ersten Platz liegen [...]
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We felt honoured to be invited to take part in the Illustrie’s advent calendar projekt, and we are very happy about our own star on their “Walk of Art & Fame”!!! The advent calendar project is all about the awesome Mr. Sven Elch, employee of the “Santa & Sons” company, and his very special adventures [...]
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Frohe Weihnachten und ein großartiges neues Jahr! ✭ Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! ✭ Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année! ✭ Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo! ✭ ¡Feliz Navidad y próspero Año Nuevo! ✭ Prettige Kerstdagen en Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! Detail views: PS. As a little bonus, you can see some more about this card on my blog [...]
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We hope you all had a wonderful new years’ night with lots of lucky oracles and arrived well in the new year. May Twothousandandtwelve be a great, memorable and blissful year for all of you! My New years’ resolution: Blog bilingual again. And find some way to switch.
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This is how my christmas card evolved: from snippety sketches (above) to the straightened pose, development of background and details, and the full layout in progress. Figure 1: Pose and revised sketch Figure 2: Pose, straigtened and coloured Figure 3: Pose, straigtened and coloured, plus simple background Figure 4: Archive for christmas and new years [...]
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“(…) Todays post is all about the truly awesome and fantastical Iris Luckhaus. (…) Iris is a really fabulous illustrator, designer and stylist from Germany. (…) She creates really stunning and incredibly detailed images full of gorgeous colours and bold outlines. Her work is often very girly and fun, with sultry pouting pin-up type girls dressed up [...]
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We hope you all had some really wonderful christmas holiday with lots of great presents, the very best of glorious christmas foods and, first of all, some heart-warming company!
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Here you can see my cleaned, reduced and printed postcards (10,4 x 14,8 cm, folded) and gift tags (7,4 x 10,5 cm, folded) of this years christmas card in a vertical format.
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We just added some fresh postcards to Lily Lux’ electronic greetings today to celebrate Valentine’s day! Next to the seasonal illustrations and delights you may know from our books, we have some animated cards as well and two Valentine specials for lovers and friends and those in need of a hottie! Plus a little snowdrop [...]
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It’s a great pleasure for me to introduce you to my Queen of Hearts! I illustrated and designed this card for the amazing “52 Aces Reloaded” poker deck by Zeixs – Books for Designers which will be published later this year. I look very much forward to that! Right now, Zeixs are showing a preview [...]
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After writing a bit about research and reasons in the post about my Queen of Hearts I made two weeks ago for the 52 Aces Reloaded poker deck by Zeixs, I would now like to show some of my decision boards and part of the evolution of this card. Sketches and relating the double pose [...]
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I just started to scan some of my small, simple in between sketches and to try out some new styles… which is great, great fun. I usually draw these sketches when (a) I wait for something, like a clients’ feedback and (b) they feel fitting… and this one was made whilst a storm was roaring [...]
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Today is the day that happens only every four years! And we celebrate that with raspberry cheesecake (four candles, one for each year in between) and snowdrops. Furthermore, spring is approaching soon! We’re refreshing the Lily Lux pages for you with electronic greeting cards, wallpapers and some other surprises…
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Isn’t his an extraordinary beautiful Cube book? I first thought I was hallucinating when I discovered the mockup cover of the Zeixs Cube “Magazine & Book Design” (Attention, this book isn’t available in stores (yet)!), admittedly at third sight – I am still stunned about this nice surprise of seeing our Lily in such an [...]
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We almost missed it: I already published 500 posts in this blog (the exact N° 500 was the Queen of Hearts !)! This is going to be celebrated, with our favourite guest Lux (as seen above), a little cake for
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Right in time for the inception of spring, we uploaded some fresh seasonal wallpapers for you at Lily Lux. Furthermore, we made new special gifts for our dear Facebook users which you can send to your own or your friends’ profiles. Have fun and a lovely spring!
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