HELLO!
I'm an artist and a designer specialized in
illustration and editorial design
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!RECENT WORK!
EXHIBITIONS
Group exhibition "The Cowboy Plague"
18.10.2025 - 23.01.2026 / Bästard Space, Tallinn
A look at how Western cowboy culture has infected local scenes and left its mark on art, fashion, style, and imagery.
The last smoke break before I go / 2025
WANTED / 2025
Exhibition "Tüdruk"
(Eng Girl)
09.01 - 01.02.2025 / Kivi bar, Tartu
I am still a girl. Just a girl. Not quite a real woman who is big and important. A woman who is not deterred by anything and knows in which direction she is moving and what she wants. I'm afraid of the confusing feelings that flow inside me and often slip out.
I'm afraid it will make me seem fragile, weak and insecure.Deep down I know that this girl hides herself inside every woman.
The illustrations in the exhibition are full of pink (as it’s usual for a proper girl) and are created using mixed media - combining digital art with analog material (graffiti and pencil). All illustrations are digitally created, but to give the impression of a digitally analog print, I printed out the artwork and scanned it back in. The home printer left streaks on the print from the uneven distribution of the ink, and I absolutely loved the roughness and crispness I got after processing it.
I value different textures and emphasize their quality. I feel that they add a lot to the work - I don't think I can create art without them.The exhibition consisted of 10 works.
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Here are various illustrations made from 2022 - 2025.
Since there are only selected works here, you can see all of them on my Instagram account!
WANTED
October 2025
Free
September 2025
The last smoke break before I leave
July 2025
And you took my fucking lighter...
Created
February 2025
Intrepid Extravaganza exhibition
The illustration symbolizes the search for yourself and the passion to dig deep inside yourself.The feeling
that I am faded and trapped in my own shadow. Lost.But that's not it.
That's not me.My hungry hands search for the lost fragments of my body, grope at my heart and soul.
Digging and scraping deeper to bring back to light everything that is left in the shadow.
So that I can build myself up exactly for
who
I was created to be.
*
Red emphasizes the courage and the passion to dig deep inside yourself and to learn to know yourself again. All the pain and feelings that come with this search. All the blood that flows inside you makes you whole and, in a primitive sense, human. The star, as the last hope and signpost, guides you to where your true nature lies.
Ikarus
August 2024
Cover art for Ikarus - a song composed by an Estonian musician Ookean.
You make me sick
January 2024
woof woof.
How women stole friendship from men
October 2023
An illustration for an article about the history of friendships between women - the good and bad sides that come with it
Caution, angry fan
January 2023
Illustration for an article in an estonian newspaper Müürileht. The article is written about the masculinity and toxic behavour in modern fandoms.
RAW
January 2023
Just raw and meaty.
Xylentol (Xy)
September 2022
Xylentol is my Dungeons & Dragons character - a high-elf fighter (Eldritch Knight), who's blind in one eye because of her haunted past.Eldritch Knight is a fighters class archetype where a fighter combines the martial mastery common to all fighters with a careful study of magic. So - she's a pretty strong frontline fighter with a few spells in her pocket.
Illustrations for
Värske Rõhk
July 2022
These illustrations were created for an Estonian literature magazine Värske Rõhk. They depict four different types of writings: two works of criticism and two prose.
!["Olemise talumatu kohin"](assets/images/gallery02/942dbd5c_original.jpg?v=2a4f987f ""Olemise talumatu kohin"")
!["Isaklausel"](assets/images/gallery02/bbae76a4_original.jpg?v=2a4f987f ""Isaklausel"")
!["Kehad ja korteripeod"](assets/images/gallery02/ea182bfd_original.jpg?v=2a4f987f ""Kehad ja korteripeod"")
!["Valge mees heaoluühiskonna piire kompamas"](assets/images/gallery02/0f4ef669_original.jpg?v=2a4f987f ""Valge mees heaoluühiskonna piire kompamas"")
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GRAPHIC DESIGN
POSTERS
Various event posters for BÄSTARD SPACE / @bastard_space
2025 - 2026
Home cafe "AUGUST"
Kalamaja days 2025
A home café named after the famous sun-kissed cat in Kalamaja!Our menu included savory and sweet food, Shashlik and potato pancakes. There was an art corner where local artists from Kalamaja sold their art, and we offered face painting for children and more daring adults. Friendly mini-chickens were brought out for little entertainment and you could possibly see the man of the house himself - August!
The design of the home cafe was supposed to be friendly, warm and inviting - like August himself!'Our goal was to be more family friendly and we thought the bubbly design of August would bring in more children as well.
Font
Advanced Typography course in Pallas University of Applied Sciences
Spring 2023
A self-made font named Toothpaste.
Each letter is made in Illustrator and the font was later put together in Glyphs.
Logo rebrand
Pictography course in Pallas University of Applied Sciences
Spring 2023
A logo rebrand made for a small cafe called Meka in Tallinn, Estonia that offers warm homemade foods.Since the cafe isn't very active on it's branding or even social-media presence I wanted it's new face to be a bit more colorful, friendlier and even more eye-catching than before so it would stand out next to it's competitors in the area and invite even more customers to the cafe.
BOOKS & PRINTS
"Shine"
March 2026
The short comic was created for the 100th issue of Värske Rõhk!The comic is about loving yourself, accepting yourself, even if it seems difficult at times. I often fear that I don't fit in the room, that I don't belong anywhere. This is actually the inner saboteur who shouldn't be in the room.Who actually cares - your mistakes make you a person. Just love yourself as you are and find your own shine *ੈ✩‧₊˚
The comic is followed by a short interview ˖⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ˚₊‧⁺˖
"If I would find my passion again"
Fall 2024
Video sound design: David Ocean Kaljurand
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The mini-zine and a print are for sale, get them from here!
The mini-zine "If I would find my passion again" was born from my creative block. The overwhelming pressure to create something perfect often robs me of all desire to draw anything.I remember how I loved drawing as a child. I never once thought that things don't fit together, that the lines are so crooked and that no one likes my picture. I only drew what I loved. I think my inner tension is what robs me of that passion. That's why creating this zine was a lot of fun - I felt crazy freedom and I haven't felt such fucking joy in drawing for so long. It felt good to revisit the childlike wonder and the freedom that I've been missing in my art.
Artist's book "Öö"
Bachelor thesis project in Pallas University of Applied Sciences
Spring 2024
Supervisors: Carolina Pihelgas, Liisi Grünberg
Video sound design: Ookean / @riimvesi
As part of my thesis, I created an artist's book titled “Öö” (Eng night) combining different formats, elements, and materials. The goal was to create an engaging, visual, and interactive story, with a strong emphasis on illustrations created digitally and scanned from analogue materials. The interactivity of the book is based on the added elements - small cards are added to the pages with paperclips and each holds a hidden message. The artist's book is binded by hand.The book has a cohesive narrative written in poetic form. The poetry explores personal feelings and experiences, with the central theme being the night: all the love and sadness, tenderness and anger hidden in the darkness. During the work, my interest in poetry deepened and and through writing I learned to appreciate the power and beauty of words and poetry.
nädalaid vaid sulle
mõttes viimseid sõnu ette ladusin
kui mõtled
“kuhu kadusid?”
ei suudaks seda tunnistadasa siiani ei tea, kui palju tagasi ma hoidsin
rinnul pea,
mul laususid sa, vines"vahepeal on parem, kui kõike välja ei näita"sõnad, mida pole lausunud
jätsin kirjas enda kohta täitma
su vastus, vaikusesse hajunud
tean vaid,
sa nutsid terve pühapäeva.
Future Book
Graphic Design course in Hochschule Hannover
Winter 2024
A story about an astronaut venturing in deep space, leaving behind marks of himself for the universe to witness.The book was a concept, an idea of what a future book could be. Free of it's usual simple book format, in my mind a future book
The book pages were created in different formats.
All of the text and images were created with the help of AI (photos were later edited)
Magazine VIVIDA
Editorial Design course in Hochschule Hannover
Winter 2024
A youth magazine VIVIDA created for an Editorial Design course. The goal was to create a new magazine concept with chosen texts and photos.
All of the photos were edited to create a consistent style and give it a more youthful and artistic look.The material was taken from Dazed & Confused Magazine.
Graffiti posters
Illustration course in Hochschule Hannover
Winter 2024
After doing some research on an abandoned apartment complex in Hannover, Germany, I became interested in the purpose and form of graffiti tags in abandoned places. In support of the research I also tried out some tags and made some prints.I was facinated by the textures and forms I was able to create with a spray can.Since I was in Hannover for such a short time, the idea of leaving a mark behind really intrigued me. Therefore became the title
"I WAS HERE"
Booklet THE GAP
Editorial Design course in Hochschule Hannover
Winter 2024
This 30 page booklet was created with an inspirational text by Ira Glass.
The booklet is meant to be a play between the font and illustrations, creating a cohesive style altogether.Font: Yapari. Power Type™ Foundry
SHOP
Viimane suitsupaus enne, kui ma lähen
October 2025
From the "The Cowboy Plague" exhibition at Bästard.
Digital print with a modified frame.SIZE:
Frame: 32x42x3.3 cm
With the chain: 34x94.5x3.3 cm
200€ (+shipping)
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Loodud
February 2025
Digital print with a modified frame.SIZE:
52x62x2.5 cm
250€ (+shipping)
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Tüdrukulik kinnisidee
January 2025
From my solo exhibition "Tüdruk"
A3 size (29.7 x 42 cm)
Printed and framed by ArtSmart.
High quality wooden frame with anti-reflective glass - Artglass.
170€ (+shipping)
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Kehaväline
January 2025
From my solo exhibition "Tüdruk"
A3 size (29.7 x 42 cm)
Printed and framed by ArtSmart.
High quality wooden frame with anti-reflective glass - Artglass.
170€ (+shipping)
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Täheke, Täheke
January 2025
From my solo exhibition "Tüdruk"
A3 size (29.7 x 42 cm)
Printed and framed by ArtSmart.
High quality wooden frame with anti-reflective glass - Artglass.
170€ (+shipping)
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Viha iha
January 2025
From my solo exhibition "Tüdruk"
A3 size (29.7 x 42 cm)
Printed and framed by ArtSmart.
High quality wooden frame with anti-reflective glass - Artglass.
170€ (+shipping)
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01 _Gr2ff _lille6is
January 2025
From my solo exhibition "Tüdruk"
Print size (with passepartout) - 20 x 25 cm
Printed by ArtSmart.
Wood frame - Ikea (23 x 28 cm)
30€ (+shipping)
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02 _Gr2ff _lille6is
January 2025
From my solo exhibition "Tüdruk"
Print size (with passepartout) - 20 x 25 cm
Printed by ArtSmart.
Wood frame - Ikea (23 x 28 cm)
30€ (+shipping)
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Kallis
January 2025
From my solo exhibition "Tüdruk"
Print size - 20 x 25 cm
Printed by ArtSmart.
Wood frame - Ikea (23 x 28 cm)
30€ (+shipping)
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! All of my art books are available in BÄSTARD shop and gallery in Tallinn and in KETT Gallery in Tartu !
"If I would find my passion again"
The mini-zine "If I would find my passion again" was born from my creative block. The overwhelming pressure to create something perfect often robs me of all desire to draw anything.I remember how I loved drawing as a child. I never once thought that things don't fit together, that the lines are so crooked and that no one likes my picture. I only drew what I loved. I think my inner tension is what robs me of that passion. That's why creating this zine was a lot of fun - I felt crazy freedom and I haven't felt such fucking joy in drawing for so long. It felt good to revisit the childlike wonder and the freedom that I've been missing in my art.
8€ (+shipping by snail mail)
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SHOP
! All of my prints and postcards are available in BÄSTARD shop and gallery in Tallinn and in KETT Gallery in Tartu !
! A4 PRINTS !
The last smoke break before I leave
("Viimane suitsupaus enne, kui ma lähen")
A4 size (29.7 x 21 cm)
15€ (+shipping)
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Girly obsession
("Tüdrukulik kinnisidee")
A4 size (29.7 x 21 cm)
15€ (+shipping)
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! A5 PRINTS !
Free
("Vaba")
Print packaged with a sticker and a poem
A5 size (14.8 x 21 cm)
12€ (+shipping)
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Sometimes I imagine, that I'm a horse
("Vahepeal ma kujutan ette, et olen hobune")
A5 size (14.8 x 21 cm)
9€ (+shipping)
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SHOP
! All of my stickers are available in BÄSTARD shop and gallery in Tallinn and in KETT Gallery in Tartu !
Tüdruk.
4 stickers from the exhibition series "Tüdruk" ("Girl")
9€ (+shipping)
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ABOUT
Hello!
I'm Looja aka Romy Nõulik, a 25 y.o. independent artist and designer from Tallinn, Estonia, who belongs in a meadow surrounded by horses, beautiful flowers and glitter. My illustrations are cartoonish and inspired by my deepest feelings, which are sometimes difficult to explain in words, and by different textures and analog materials such as graffiti and pencil.I've been drawing ever since I was a child but decided to invest into a Wacom tablet in 2020 and have been doing digital art since then!Art is like an escape for me, a chance to show my feelings boldly without fear or judgment that I'm weak. I'm not afraid to share my feelings through art because it should be raw and full of me. Art should be personal and it doesn't matter if no one else understands #yolo
After my exchange semester in Germany, Hochschule Hannover, I found my love for editorial design and creating books and prints. My future goal is to really refine my skills in that part of graphic design and art and to start releasing more of my own products while also implementing mixed media in my art.
Education:
2020 - 2024 - Pallas University of Applied Sciences - Media and Advertisement Design
2023 - 2024 (Erasmus+) - Hochschule Hannover - Visual communicationWork experience:
2025 - ... - BÄSTARD, Social Media & Events CoordinatorInternships:
2023 Ruum414 - Design internship
2022 BOP! Animation - Animation internship
2021 Reflex - Design internshipExhibitions:
2025 Group exhibition. The Cowboy Plague. Bästard, Tallinn
2025 Group exhibition. You weren't supposed to like this. Bästard, Tallinn
2025 Group exhibition of illustrations for Müürileht. Fruity Latte, Telliskivi Outdoor Gallery, Tallinn
2025 Group auction exhibition. Osta Noort Kunsti (Eng Buy Young Art), Roheline Saal, Tallinn
2025 Multidisciplinary group exhibition. Alternative multimedia festival Intrepid Extravaganza. Erinevate Tubade Klubi, Tallinn
2025 Solo exhibition. Tüdruk. Kivi bar, Tartu
2023 Graphic design exhibition by the Department of Media Design students at Pallas University of Applied Sciences. Supermarket. Pallas Gallery, Tartu
CONTACT
If you wish to commission or buy my work, you can reach me here!
You can also contact me on my social media! :)
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Based in Tallinn, Estonia