Sarah Nutzhorn makes drawings

LULU'S MONSTERS

The main character is Lulu and she struggles with several things. Being pre-teen, having an annoying sister, feeling lonely, being bullied by Alice, who she describes as a monster, and not having the courage to stand up to Alice. You see, Lulu & Alice used to be friends until Lulu told Alice a secret. Typical!

Then there is the relationship with Ingrid, Lulu’s new BFF. Soon into their friendship Lulu writes a love letter to Ingrid.

Lulu has a diary and here you’ll get a lot of insights about Lulu’s feelings.

Lulu also has everyday chapters in which she is SUPER pre-teen. Whenever Lulu experiences something bad with Alice / Ingrid, it affects the family, especially her sister, Nono.

Nono is a side character, but the most important side character. Nono's chapters support Lulu's themes of fear, being bullied, and the LGBTQ+ topic. Nono has chapters called "Slime Time", where she daydreams about stopping a monster and saving “Lulu the cat”, which is about receiving love from her real sister Lulu.

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Main themes are bullying, fear & friendship. Secondary themes are sister love, self love, having dark thoughts & LGBTQ+.

The target group is 10-12 year old kids, 4th & 5th grade, parents, or adults who like graphic novels.

I started the book in December 2019. Originally I made an English, a Danish, and a German version of the book. It has been through 2 revisions and a Danish school class. Part of the German version has later been read in a Swiss school class and the English version has been read by friends, family & nice helpful strangers.

I have now decided to self-publish, and if you go to my Webshop, you can buy the English version.

All this will get me closer to my goal; getting the book out to kids, so they can read it, have new thoughts about these topics and hopefully talk to others about them.

PS This is a one-woman business, and I print in small batches at a time. This means that you can help me! How? When reading my book, you will probably find some spelling mistakes and other stuff, that I didn't notice. Please let me know and I will add the correction before my next print plot. This way you can help me make the book even better than it already is.

Thanks for helping.

I made two stickers for Kole, who is super nice and runs MAISON JULIE with his wife Julie. This is a concept of 2 shops: Second Love, a downstairs and second-hand clothing boutique. La Maison is upstairs, here, you can get new clothing and design objects for your living room. Since the interior is colorful and has a lot of different beautiful patterns, I wanted my stickers to reflect that. Well, mostly the color part. I added a small ghost to each sticker for fun. Can you find them? Size: 12×9 cm.

The nice people you see here are from Human and Kind Gmbh, Brandit Gmbh and friends. Some with animals, some without. The first one is a self portrait with my cat.

These posters are part of the themes “Be kind”, "Brixton", "Whitechapel" & “Anger”.

This is how a fun camping trip in the forest could look like, if you were me.

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I made this illustration first in Procreate, then added textures & shadows in PhotoShop and ended up adding the forest background that Midjourney so kindly made for me 🤖🌲 (regarding the background piece) I gave it some prompts, picked one image suggestion to work with, tweaked that 3 times, told Mj to change specific areas, took it to PhotoShop and removed some birds & stones/changed specific areas and there you have it, a beautiful backdrop of a forest.

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Well done Mj or was it well done me? 🤔 I don’t know yet!

I wanted this illustration to have a Wes Anderson kind of feel but just a little and in my own way. The compass, bag, briefcase, arrow, toy gun, table tennis bat and the posture of the kid are definitely inspired from “Moonrise kingdom”. Ditto the tent with the little flag on top of course.

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EDITORIAL 1

I found this article on the web, title: “Crying” plants.

https://www.popsci.com/science/do-plants-makes-sounds-stressed/

Originally the article just had pictures, so these illustrations here is my take on it.

Magazine Mockup by Anthony Boyd Graphics. https://www.anthonyboyd.graphics/?utm_source=file_shortcuts&utm_medium=downloaded_files

If you don’t want to read the article, here’s a short recap & quote from NPR:

"Crying" Plants, scientists have recently uncovered the ultrasonic sounds of distressed plants drifting through the air. Researchers positioned two microphones by tomato and tobacco plants that were varyingly cut, dehydrated or well-maintained as controls. The researchers then used machine learning to identify the type of distress each plant was experiencing — with a roughly 70% accuracy rate. The sounds are out of the range of hearing for most humans — though within range for small, hyperlocal critters like mice and moths.

EDITORIAL 2

I made these illustrations after listening to the Lex Fridman Podcast: Episode #367 with Sam Altman & Episode #371 with Max Tegmark.

Sam Altman is the CEO for OpenAI the company that built ChatGPT.

Sam said something like this: “If we can build it we will, and someone else will have to make the restrictions.”

Max Tegmark is a physicist & researcher at MIT & the author of the book “Life 3.0”. He got this question: “AI - The Best thing that happened to humanity vs. the worst!?”

Max said something like this: “Will AI be an amplifier for humans? Or will we as humans be greedy, wanting money & power and only realizing that it’s too late just when we’re looking down the edge and going over it?”

The 2.5 robots we see clearly as robots and they help us. The 3.0 robots look like humans and will not be clear if they help or control us.

This is a hot topic and could be an article in WIRED, Times, Mashable, The Guardian, Fast Company magazine.

I made the illustrations as a spot illustration, a cover page illustration and a gif. The cover is a mockup, and I got the inspiration from an old The Guardian Weekly magazine, which I liked.

I imagine the article as being set up as an interview. The spot illustration shows the developer in flow creating and it tells Sam Altman’s story. The cover illustration shows Max Tegmark’s point of view.

I made 5 fox illustrations for the small, unique and beautiful boutique “reve de renard”. The fox was simplified and hand painted by skiltemaling.dk. The owner of reve de renard is SUPER nice and I would recommend everyone to visit the shop on Istedgade 124, Cph. V. in Denmark. Go Go Go!

PS starting in August, when you buy from her webshop, you'll get one of my fox cards.

Illustration & logo for Hugo who runs an online antiquarian book shop. He sells both English & Danish books and he’s a super nice guy. You can contact him on instagram: @hugosboeger maybe he has just the book you haven’t been able to find for years!

1. Viking theme in day & night colour combination.

In 2016 I made 12 burgers, one for each month of the year. Recipes, design, photos & after work on pics are all done by myself.

You can find the recipes for these burgers on my instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/sarahnutzhorn/

January // The Cabbage Bacon Burger

February // The Green Veggie Burger

March // The Chicken Tomato Burger

April // The Yellow Easter Burger

May // The Danish Open Sandwich Burger

June // The Fish and Chips Burger

July // The Quick Umami Burger

August //  The Green Pork Burger

September // The Swiss Burger

October // The Forest Burger

November // The Pumpkin Burger

December // The Danish Christmas Burger

Food can be fun and still taste good! These burgers are the next step in my burger making career. Here LOOKS and FUN are just as important as TASTINESS and FLAVOURS. I will add burgers as I create these new “wonders”.

This is where I always start when making delicious food. Different colours, flavours and textures are very important to me, when getting inspired to make food. I hope these pictures will inspire you to also make great food.

These food pics are just here to inspire and they are a part of my burgers from 2016. You can find the recipes here:

https://www.instagram.com/sarahnutzhorn/

More food pictures from my 2016 burgers. You can find the recipes here:

https://www.instagram.com/sarahnutzhorn/

These drawings are part of my first burger project, Burger No.1. Every month in 2016 I made a burger and info drawings about the ingredients in the monthly burger. Here you see some of them.

The kind people from Human and Kind asked me to do their logo and 2 characters for a story: Human Doing vs. Human Being

The first character is “Human Doing”, which is half brain, half heart, bad mood, walking upwards through life and always comparing yourself to others.

The second character is “Human Being”, which is whole hearted and brain, connection with the gut, fantastic mood and surfing on the waves of life. Here we are in flow with the universe and using our full potential.

This is my trip to Norway and back. It´s my daily diary as drawings. It´s quite funny. Enjoy!

These characters were made for Aye Aye’s Project Human.

“With this project we try to give inspiration and positive vibes to young people based on our own experience as mothers to young sprouts. It´s a journey about transformation and growth.”

Topics: Gender equality and social justice awareness, foreign placement, bullying, teenage gossiping, emotional well-being, diversity, body hair, creativity & power, sheep & wolf, positivity, energy, instant gratification & pleasure, expectations “It´s okay to be you”, focus on own gifts, body image, how to LOVE your body, Stereotypes, Changing perspective of: “I´m not good enough, I´m fat, stupid and not perfect!” with a fun and artistic twist. Enabling young people in-transition to be powerful, smart and able.

Here you see both illustrated cards & collage-like invites.

1 illustrated card : Birthday.

2 illustrated card : Valentine.

3 illustrated card : Get well soon wish.

4 Christmas card : 21 + 24. I put my phone on a tripod, took one pic of the background, put countdown on, and then took a lot of pics of me & my family in different positions. No one was happy with themselves in just one photo, so I cut all of us out and added a bunch of fun stuff = December fun.

5 invite : This is an invite, where 2 friends were turning 50 and it’s all about having a good time in the sun.

This app is called “Moo food - where does food come from?” and it´s for kids between 2 and 4 years old. The app gives you 9 short films to learn from and 9 easy interactive food games for you to play with. And it´s in 4 languages: English, German, French and Danish.

Concept, wireframes, design & illustrations: Sarah Nutzhorn. Film editing: Sofie Schytz Juul. Sound design: Soffie Viemose. App development: Mikkel Selsøe Sørensen from Shape Apps.

Up until 2021 you could download it for FREE for iPad, but in 2020 I was told by Apple Developer to build and submit a new version of my app using Xcode 11 or later, which I didn’t wanted to pay for.

Now you can get an idea about it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozwv3ROQu5s : Instructional video

https://vimeo.com/793341941 : Loading

https://vimeo.com/796389777 : Ox

https://vimeo.com/796387947 : Fish

https://vimeo.com/796364419 : Sausages

https://vimeo.com/796367674 : Bananas

https://vimeo.com/796371783 : Milk

https://vimeo.com/796378000 : Eggs

https://vimeo.com/796381666 : Mushrooms

https://vimeo.com/796383978 : Carrots

https://vimeo.com/796385664 : Apples

Ricolab is the little new motorboat send out by the mothership Ricola. I did their identity with logo, icons, website and drawings for a video.

The project ended up with 3 yearly report booklets put together by the very skilled & kind Binkert Partnerinnen ladies. I feel so lucky to have been a part of this female powering team! Thanks!

To put the logo on T-shirts I used 2 free templates from www.bechance.net, who deserves a “Big Thank You” from me. The left template is made by Max Fatfullin and the right template is made by Vaynstudios.

Since this was a 3 year project, the website is now closed.

This is a children’s book, that isn´t finished yet. I started it some years ago and put it aside. Maybe one day it will get the right text and will be published as a real book. For now my illustrations are here for you to enjoy and you are allowed to create your own story.

The main character is the little mechanical bird, who flies out to meet new friends, learn about the world and in the end comes back home.

These are the animals from the children´s book. I made them into a mix of different animals, so they could have a mix of personality and attitude. The main character is Mechanical Bird and his archenemy is the Camel.

The good guys are: Mechanical Bird, Insideout Teddy, Beaverowl, Bird with long legs, Rabbitbear, Grebe, Sleeping Wolf, Wolf in Sheep´s clothing and Rabbitfox.

The bad guys are: the Camel, the Priest, the small Rooster, the Puffin Zebra, the Crane Weasel and the End.