Jana Heidersdorf Illustration

Hullo, I'm Jana, an illustrator from Germany. Nowadays this is a semi personal blog. You can contact me via [email protected]

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Just wanted to pop in and say, your cover for Don't Let The Forest In is BEAUTIFUL. I haven't spent that long looking at all the beauty and detail on a book cover for a long time, and even better, it matches the book perfectly. You are an amazing illustrator!

Thank you so much!! This was such a great project to work on and I'm so glad the cover resonates with people!

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Oh hey I made more videos!

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Wurmpalast All artworks for an Edgar Allan Poe inspired project by German musician RiG. Wurmpalast is a re-telling of Ligeia. You can check out the project here. Prints | Instagram | Portfolio

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I didn't do a whole lot of personal work last year, but I did fill this sketchbook!

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I've made some more videos last year! This is for those of you getting ready to do the whole freelancing thing!

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Dryad's Tears personal artwork

Submerged in water, alder wood doesn't rot. Prints | Instagram | Portfolio

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Hazelthorn Book cover illustration for CG Drews' novel Hazelthorn published Fall 2025 by Feiwel & Friends. It's a gothic botanical horror YA novel and will also feature some interior illustrations of mine. Prints | Instagram | Portfolio

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A little video of me doodling from imagination while rambling about video editing and drawing as a self compassion practice.

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A Dark Fairytale Back cover illustration for CG Drews' novel Don't Let The Forest In published by Feiwel & Friends. It's a lush queer dark academia forest horror YA novel and also features some interior illustrations of mine. Prints | Instagram | Portfolio

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Always appreciate reading through the hashtags of reblogs not just for the lovely comments but also because you are just so much better than me at finding good hashtags for my art. I'm taking notes O.O

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Wurmpalast Cover artworks for an Edgar Allan Poe inspired project by German musician RiG. Wurmpalast is a re-telling of Ligeia. You can check out the project here. Prints | Instagram | Portfolio

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Somebody I Know personal work Prints | Instagram | Portfolio

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Somebody I Know (process & inspiration)

Last autumn I had the great fortune of seeing the wonderful Petra Hermannova and several other fantastic musicians perform at Kleiner Wasserspeicher in Berlin, a hidden yet superbly spooky and awe-inducing location. 'Ritual' was a bewitching show and the evening rife with inspiration. I've been meaning to capture a fleeting instant of emotion in a piece of art ever since because my moblie phone pics aren't doing the evening justice, however as with most of my personal projects I didn't get around to it for a good while. Today I've finally managed to sit down and work out the exact composition and mood I want to evoke. I don't usually work with photos like this and it's honestly daunting to start out with something feeling quite finished as my initial 'sketch'. A part of me want to finish this piece digitally, simply using the photo as an underpainting, but I originally invisioned this piece with lots of cloudy watercolour textures. And that's what I'll be going for. Starting from scratch on a piece of paper. Maybe I won't be able to capture the exact mood again, maybe I will. Either way, I wanted to share this part of the process with you, so that however the final piece will turn out, we will always have this 'sketch'.

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Somebody I Know personal work Prints | Instagram | Portfolio

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Don't Let The Forest In Book cover illustration for CG Drews' novel Don't Let The Forest In published this October by Feiwel & Friends. It's a lush queer dark academia forest horror YA novel and will also feature some interior illustrations of mine. Prints | Instagram | Portfolio

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Illustrations for the limited special edition of Joe Hill's Horns published by Lividian Press

Prints | Instagram | Portfolio

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You can find the original artworks in my shop.

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Illustrations for the limited special edition of Joe Hill's Horns published by Lividian Press

Prints | Instagram | Portfolio

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Oi I'm back for a bit--how is everybody doing???