Ada Jusic Illustration and Animation

Fellow BCS speakers...are you familiar with the work papundak/papundek? My dad used it as an endearment that he said meant "little child" but the only ref I can find online is a TV character played by a Croatian actor??

Brightly coloured poster for animated film nova seed. A slim green figure floats inside a tank covered in pipes and tubes, masked figures bearing weapons climb the tank towards a lion like character who stands at the top. Looming overhead is a large sinister figure with a skull head, his hands clawed above the smaller figures.

Watched Nova seed on prime the other day and loved it, always cool to be reminded that things don't have to be super polished or use the most cutting edge tech to tell an engaging story. Also loved that all the sound effects were just like...someone vocalising. Lol

A black and white digital drawing of 4 young people huddled in the corner of a cell

WIP

(FYI I recieve no profits from Sea Watch, Amnesty or Bike project sales, they are just neat things I am proud of that support a good cause!)

And finally my graphic novel about the lived experiences of young refugees and displaced people is also available for purchase:
shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/The...

I recently designed a gift card illustration for The Bike project, which provides refugees with 2nd hand bikes and cycling lessons. The cards aren't available to buy but if you are looking for a good cause to donate to, please support their work!
shop.thebikeproject.co.uk

You can also buy these cute greetings cards I designed for Amnesty Intl. They're currently on sale! www.naturalcollection.com/shop/amnesty...

Meant to do this before Xmas but here's a little thread of where you can buy my work or support causes I'm involved in!
Starting with this kids jumper I designed for Sea Watch, who provide civil sea rescue for refugees and migrants:
shop.sea-watch.org/Kids-Sweater...

Nothing cheers me up quite like my cat appearing from behind a curtain and going mmmreowrrr?

This was one of my favourite books as a child, I found a copying a charity shop recently and now it's my son's favourite too ❤️

Kids Sweater No Borders Just Horizons Unisex Bright Blue - Sea-Watch , 35,00 € Endlich auch langärmlige Support-Kleidung für die kleinen Sea-Watch Unterstützenden! Kuschelige Bio-Baumwolle und schöner Print   Design: No Borders Just Ho

I'm delighted to announce that a kids sweater I designed for @seawatch_intl is now available in their store! Sea Watch provides civil sea rescue along Europe's borders.
(I do not make any profit from this, the money goes towards supporting their work)
shop.sea-watch.org/Kids-Sweater...

An animation rig next to a desk with mac desktop computer, above the desk is a shelf full of art materials

A desk with mac desktop computer and additional monitor, above Is a shelf full of art supplies. There are numerous personal effects on and around the desk suck as photos, artwork and stationery.

The animation rig and desk from a different angle, here we are looking at them straight on. We can also see another small desk on the right with a cutting board on it and storage units behind it.

An animation rig with umbrella lights either side , to the left is a small desk with a cutting board on top of it and storage units.

There is a desk temporarily available in my studio in Dalston, London! Pls pm me for details.

Y'know what's hard to draw? Clothing! Some of the best lessons in drawing drapery ever published were in the Famous Artists School's Cartooning course. Out of print for 60 years! But there are scans & a pdf on a defunct blog archived at the wayback machine. #comics
web.archive.org/web/20110727...

A set of black and silver shelves on which are gold pots full of markers of various colours, pencil cases and a yellow box with a smiley face on it

Spending a quiet afternoon doing one of my favourite studio activities...sorting my markers 😆

A 9 box grid with the artists photo in the middle, (a 26 year old white woman with shoulder length dark hair) the surrounding boxes show different examples of the artists work and a photo of her promoting her comic book with a white woman of a similar age and long fair hair in a polka sot dress and a young black man with curly dark hair in a blue shirt and dark trousers. They are stood in a bookshop

Lots of different projects going on in 2023! From my first graphic novel being published to illustrating the hostile environment to making a big return to live illustration after the pandemic! You can see more work on my insta @adajusic . Looking forward to showing you 2024...

Kinda fell out of the habit of posting on here and then my dad passed away suddenly. I do still plan to post artwork here but it'll probably take me a little while to get round to it

I'm at that point in the day when I can't focus on the work anymore but i don't have anything else to do except chores so I'll sit here half assing for another hour

Wow I've never met one in the wild

So the best way to reduce our carbon footprint appears to be getting rid of the 1%

Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says ‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality

This whole deal where we have ordinary people desperately calculating their carbon footprint before considering the most trivial action while the wealthy do nothing at all is the most monumental scam and con job. Absolutely intolerable.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

About to do an hour and a half of brand training for a client, which I'm pretty sure could just be a document instead

The Moral Triangle: Palestine, Israel, and Germany A conversation about “peace and justice and freedom for all Palestinians and Israelis” with Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor.

Had an amazing conversation with Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor about the relationship between Israelis, Palestinians, and Germans for @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

A brightly coloured illustration of discussions at a conference on the theme of Innovation. The image features mostly text, with small symbolic drawings.

Day 2 of the innovation conference at Cambridge University

I had two tank tops with Chinese dragons on them and I would wear them both together 😭

I actually had one of these in the 2000s, it was a top/bustier hybrid that was popular for a while, the pointy bit was to make it look more bustier-lile and mine also had shitty boning that did nothing structurally.

Ah nuts I thought I could add alt text later, the photo shows a brightly coloured, hand drawn graphic illustrating a seminar on innovation taped to a long rectangular easel board.

My hand holding up a copy of Better Homes and Gardens: Potato Recipes, promising 90 fresh takes on spuds

Samwise Gamgee went on to a thriving career in lifestyle magazine publishing

Day 1 of a 3 Day innovation conference at Cambridge University

I hope to raise my kids to be ambitious—not to think about war, missiles, rockets. Every day, I see a fear in their eyes that I can’t do much about. It’s very painful. If you have kids, you know how horrible it is not to be able to comfort them, to ensure they are alright, to make them hope for anything beyond living one more day. We want to live freely like other people—to grow scientifically and economically, to walk in the street without fearing bombardments, to make plans. We want to be able to learn, think, grow, travel, dream—to feel like we are really human. Not to think only about meeting our basic needs. This is what life has always been about for us, and now—I want the world to know—we are being eradicated en masse. This is not what life should look like.

Two weeks ago, Jewish Currents interviewed three doctors in Gaza to show the world the direness of their situation. The story was just updated to reflect one of the doctors was killed by an airstrike in his own home, making this quote even more gutting. jewishcurrents.org/we-have-lost...

pulled over a little way down the road to find 3 other cars (!) In the same situation, and then it claimed a 5th car right after us🙃