ABOUT
Janaina Medeiros is a Brazilian artist and freelance illustrator. She creates magical and whimsical artworks inspired by fairy tales, folktales and mythological stories as they are old and mysterious stories that have sparked her imagination since childhood.
“Moons, stars and other esoteric symbols are elements present in her work, which are part of her aesthetic influenced by Art Nouveau, Pre-Raphaelites, and Japanese anime and manga." – Beautiful Bizarre, 2024.
You can find Janaina’s work featured on books, comics, magazines, oracles and exhibited in art galleries.
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Selected Clients
DC Comics, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Editora Wish, Hay House Publishing, FairyLoot, The Bookish Box, Black Fox Press.
Collaboration
Every Day Original, Changeling Artist Collective, Chiaroscuro Studios.
Press
Cozy Witch Tarot Deck, Andrews McMeel | Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Issue 47 | Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #8, Variant cover, DC Comics | ImagineFX, Issue 183 | Infected By Art, Vol.8 & Vol.7 | A Dança da Floresta, Editora Wish | Art Quarter, Vol.17 | Wonder Woman: Black & Gold #3, Variant cover, DC Comics | Reflected Realms box, FairyLoot | Women Are Some Kind of Magic boxed set, Andrews McMeel.
→ Complete list of commercial and published works.
Education
2015-2019 – Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB).
Exhibitions & Shows
2023 – P.S. The 8th Annual Postcard Show, Nucleus Portland – Portland, OR, United States.
2020 – Draw Me Like One of Your Final Girls, Spoke Art – San Francisco, CA, United States.
2020 – Silent Transmissions and MicroVisions 3, WOW x WOW Gallery (online).
2020 – Power In Numbers 5, Nucleus Portland – Portland, OR, United States.
2018 – Small Art For A Big Cause, Light Grey Art Lab – Minneapolis, MN, United States.
2017 – TOBEYOU, Light Grey Art Lab – Minneapolis, MN, United States.
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