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Yvie Johnson

Pets

Tortoises who ride go-karts or hares that roller skate. Yvie enjoys drawing animals, with a pen and ink digital brush, particularly in anthropomorphic styles.

Portrait illustration of a light coloured rabbit standing upright on a square platform with the markings 2023, which is out in the open water. The rabbit is wearing a one-piece striped swimsuit, swimming goggles and a swim hat. The rabbit is adjusting the goggles with its front paws, whilst it looks out over the water. The background is a distant hill and seaside town. The sun is rising on the horizon, casting sparkling light across the water. Seagulls are flying in the sky over the water.
Acorn Hat Digital illustration by Yvie Johnson. A woodland scene of two ‘amanita muscaria’ or ‘Fly Agaric’ mushrooms on grass. The left mushroom has a field mouse wearing long brown pants and a green roll-neck long-sleeve top sat with both its elbows resting on its knees and its hands holding up its head, as it gazes upwards to the person in front of it. It has a little acorn hat with an oak leaf coming from it. Its long tail is twirled and resting on the mushroom. The person sat on the right mushroom is a white-skinned child wearing a large apron hat with a large oak leaf coming from it. They have curly ginger hair and are gesturing animatedly with their right open hand whilst their left hand holds open a green paperback book. They have two front teeth showing and they have a gap between the teeth. They are wearing a hip-length mustard anorak with a hood, brown leggings and red ankle boots. The background is a dark sky filled with stars.
Digital illustration by Yvie Johnson is an image of the ocean, with a whale swimming underneath the water, light streaming through the water towards the whale, with and lots of coral and small marine life at the bottom of the image. Above the ocean water level is a mountain range, three birds flying in the sky just above the skyline. Behind the mountains are clouds stretched across the sky, the sky is colourful and also arched over the mountains going from light yellow at the sky line to purple at the top of the image where there are faint stars.
Square illustration of a blue tit, sitting on a beech tree branch, wearing a bonnet, a bow tie and braces, playing a banjo. There is a sky background. A smaller branch with leaves in the foreground. The bird is looking up towards the words "Ballad of the Beaky Blinders, and more great songs". The words are hand lettered. There are musical notes floating in the air. The sunlight is coming through the clouds behind the words. The image is set out like a vinyl album cover. Next to the bird it reads "featuring Sailor Swift and the Starlings". The top left of the image reads "The Blue Tit Banjo Band". The bottom left reads "Goldcrest Phonograms".
Digital illustration, by Yvie Johnson, of a green Wood Dragon floating in a figure of 8 through a dark forest. It has its eyes and mouth open and a light smile. It has flowing orange hair, moustache and beard filled with leaves and flowers. There are flowers, mushrooms and foliage in the foreground, and reads "2024" with stars around it. The background is a forest of birch trees with two lanterns lighting up the dragon. There are lots of glowing flower stars across the image.
Illustration: A person wearing a coral orange top with stripes of blue inverted triangles in a mandala-esque design and jeans, blue belt and blue shoes, sits on a stool with their eyes closed, and head raised hopefully looking towards the light. They have purple hair that flows down their shoulders, with a yellow barrette on one side, pinned above their right ear. In one hand, they are holding onto a blue leash that’s tied around a dog with black and white fur, wearing an orange coat. Their other hand is holding down a pull chain that lights up a yellow spotlight above them. A bulb that is attached to an orange bulb holder is visible. The background is in dark blue with twinkling stars shown in light blue. There is imagery of sunflowers in three places in the illustration–four sunflowers growing from the ground beside the stool that they are sitting on, on the left side of the top they are wearing, and as a brown line illustration on their left arm.
Digital illustration of a small white dog riding a red tricycle with the help of stilts attached to its hind feet so it can reach the pedals, whilst it is sat on the seat. It is wearing aviator goggles and a brown flying cap. Its short ears are pointed upwards. It’s holding its front paws on the handlebars and leaning forward over the handlebars. The tricycle has three thin wheel one at the front and two at the backs. The background is a long landscape image in a grungy green. There is a shadow of the tricyclist on the ground.
Digital illustration of a grey hare wearing retro blue and stripes roller skates with yellow wheels on its hind feet, wearing aviator goggles and flying cap on its head and a long orange scarf that trails out behind it. Its long ears also trail out behind it. Its left hind leg and roller skate is on the ground whilst the right hind leg is kicking back. It’s holding its front paws behind its back and leaning forward. The background is a long landscape image in a grungy blue. There is a small shadow of the skater on the ground.
Digital illustration of a tortoise riding a red vintage go-kart, wearing aviator goggles and a flying cap with its straps trailing backwards. Its front paws are holding onto the steering wheel and it is leaning forward over the steering wheel. Its back paws are reaching down to the pedals underneath the kart. The go-kart has four thin wheels. The background is a long landscape image in a grungy blue. There is a shadow of the rider on the ground.
Digital illustration of a crab floating in space wearing large headphones that are attached by a curling wire to a boombox stereo. The crab has its eyes closed and is smiling, as if listening to music from the stereo. The background has a constellation of stars and is a long landscape image in a grungy half-tone gradient of blue.