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mocculere @mocculere.com · 28/08/2025

PONS is doing great. Is that site also run by AI now? Instead of translation it does rhymes now.

Screenshot of PONS dictionary, where "miš" (mouse in Slovene) translates to English as fish.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 19/05/2025

Growing a new habit with some of our hens - they like to stand on my shoulder while I'm scooping their poop!

Selfie of me and Casilda, the hen, who is standing on my shoulder. We are looking at you!

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 12/05/2025

As my Spanish is advancing, I'm now reading chapter books and am feeling quite proud about it. I finished reading this one last night:

A book Los escribidores de cartas by Beatriz Osés, illustrated by Kike Ibáñez

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 14/04/2025

Read In Limbo by @jdebbiel.bsky.social yesterday and ohhh it was good. Highly recommend!

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 19/02/2025

Picopaco has been sitting on my desk for over a week now. It’s here. Finally. And it’s real. Very real. Or is it? Can you see it too? Picopaco hits the shelves this spring, on April 3rd. You can preorder it now (which would be of great help!) here: flyingeyebooks.com/book/picopac... Thank you!!

I'm holding my first solo picture book in hands, an awkward selfie!

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 29/01/2025

Tomorrow I'm sending out my monthly newsletter, saying a bit more about Picopaco and the things I've enjoyed this month! If you would like to, add your name to the readers' list: substack.com/@mocculere

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 01/01/2025

I only have 14 copies left of my dear Mr. Mole calendar. It's 21€ now + shipping. Shipping worldwide. Please share if you can! mocculere.etsy.com/listing/1802...

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 29/12/2024

I'm changing my profile picture across all online platforms, so here it is! I made a lot of earthworm friends this year, as I worked in our vegetable garden. I like to hold them and watch them stretch and shrink. Some are super slimy, too!

Illustration of a big headed kid with a worm sitting on top of the head

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 29/11/2024

Tomorrow I'm posting my monthly newsletter - this time about upcoming exhibitions, Mr. Mole and the fact it's been a year and a half since I've been sharing Childhood Memories! You can add your name to readers' list and get it straight into your inbox: mocculere.substack.com

Sketchbook drawing done with black pen and pencil

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 22/11/2024

If you want a calendar for 2025, Mr. Mole would be happy to keep you company throughout the year! mocculere.etsy.com/listing/1802... (if you don't buy at Etsy, do message me!)

Illustrated wall calendar 2025 "A Year With Mr. Mole"

Calendar's monthly spread showing an illustration of a mole driving a yellow car

Calendar's monthly spread showing an illustration of a mole taking a bath

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 16/11/2024

I sharpen them with a regular sharpener but store all the shavings in separate containers so I can still use them later on!

tiny brown glass containers with white cap

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 31/10/2024

My Mr. Mole calendars are here!! mocculere.etsy.com/listing/1802...

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 22/10/2024

This week's comic #mojcica is one of my favourite ones, drawing-wise. It's about my teeth (which I'm terribly conscious of now as an adult but had a completely different feelings about as a kid). It publishes this Thursday! www.mocculere.com/comics

Drawing of a child at dentist's, lying on the big chair while the dentist is sitting in a high chair, arms on hips, paying attention to what the child is saying.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 16/10/2024

Here is a mock up of my calendar for next year!! It's currently in print and I plan on putting it online by the end of this month, if all goes as planned. Excited for this one!

Mock up of a calendar. The title says 2024 A Year With Mr. Mole Calendar and features 7 differently posed and dressed moles. The calendar is placed on pink background and has a green strip on top.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 08/10/2024

Happy #PortfolioDay 🌻 My name is Mojca and I'm a picture book illustrator. I love story telling, making up characters and their communities. 📧 Contact: hello@mocculere.com 🎨 Portfolio: www.mocculere.com Here are some of my latest works:

A mole is buying one carrot at a market at rabbit's stall.

Two kids sitting vis-a-vis, ready to paint each others' faces.

A mouse, wearing a light green dress, is looking at you with her big eyes.

Ants entering underground ant nest that is filled with ants working.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 18/09/2024

I think I found a good place to trust my art prints with! I want to do a nice shop update by the end of the year, including this fine Mr. Mole to be the star of the shop's display window!

Drawing of a mole, holding his head up proudly, showing off new pair of jeans

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 16/09/2024

An intense over the weekend kind of project represents a new zine! If the process wasn't so fun and my expectations low, I wouldn't have had it finished so quickly. It's about ulnar tunnel entrapment and how I now call Ulnar my friend. You can read it on my website: www.mocculere.com/moj-prijatel...

Zine cover showing a person with a hand held by their face. The palm also wears a smiley face.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 13/09/2024

This is how my sketch to finished art looks like when I draw my Childhood Memories comics. What I focus at in the sketch stage is the idea and the feeling I want to capture. Then I redraw the lines, fixing it here and there to make it neater. Hope that's helpful!

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 12/09/2024

Today's Childhood Memories comic is about (almost) joining a school choir with my fellow shy classmate. You can read it here: mocculere.substack.com/p/comic-63-c...

Illustration of a teacher in a green blouse looking at two little kids staring at her. The teacher is hand-gesturing them to enter a room.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 17/06/2024

I found these two lovely feathers yesterday while taking a walk in a gorge where lots of vultures live. Besides the vultures I've spotted wood pigeons too, but I don't think any of these belong to them. 🪶 Anyone has any clue? (I tried google lens but no good matches were found)

A bird feather on black surface. The feather is white with a brown tip. The lower part is fluffy.

Bird feather on black surface. The feather is long, white at the bottom, brownish grey at the top with streaks in between.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 11/06/2024

So happy with how this illustration turned out 🌸💖 I was commissioned to illustrate a poem by Ana Svetel, which tells a story of a butterfly painter, who wakes up at dawn to prepare their paints and brushes. It was such a fun project to work on with so little pressure that I felt like a little kid!

Photo from a bird perspective of a magazine spread lying flat on a black desk. There is an open laptop on the top left corner and art supplies on the right. A hand is holding the magazine.

Close up photo of a collage drawing of flowers and below it, there is the magazine opened. The title of the text in the magazine is written in black and spells "Slikar", which means painter in Slovene.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 03/04/2024

✏️ Sketch on Procreate, a kid in a pushchair.

Digital drawing of a baby in a pushchair, waving at you.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 28/03/2024

Today's comic is about a picnic basket that contained a set of (let me exaggerate here) fine porcelain (end of exaggeration) cups, plates and even a teapot! My sister has most of our toys stored in her house now and she sent me these photos this morning ❤️ open.substack.com/pub/mocculer...

Photo of a tea set basket with white cups, plates and a tea pot with an image of a bear.

Close up photo of a tea set basket with white cups, plates and a tea pot with an image of a bear.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 07/03/2024

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! My name is Mojca and I'm a picture book illustrator & cartoonist of Childhood Memories, which you can find on my Substack! 🌐 www.mocculere.com ✉️ hello@mocculere.com (Reusing last year's card as it's still one of my favourites.)

Postcard with a big red title saying Mocculere and below website address and representation info. The background is light yellow. On right hand side is a girl sitting on the floor, drawing tulips on a big piece of paper.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 05/03/2024

My favourite frame from the last comic strip "Permanent Marker II". Me and my sister went too far over the line with decorating our foreheads. New comic comes out on Thursday! mocculere.substack.com/s/childhood-...

Drawing of two kids sitting on the floor. Background is yellow. The kid on left has a long braid and is opening a pen. The one on right has a hair band, exposing their forehead, and is looking at the other one.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 27/02/2024

Wood pigeon on their way to brunch. 🪶 I've shared this little fella on IG stories and it's now my most viewed story ever. I wonder, why?

Drawing of a wood pigeon in mid-flight, with its wings up. It has grey wings and tail, white belly, pink chest and green head. In the background are colourful blobs of treetops with white branches peeking out.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 13/02/2024

Hi Brian, thank you for this great opportunity!

Drawing of a kid with bob-cut hairstyle, writing a letter on a round table, leaning on left hand to support his big head. There is a calendar hanging on the wall, slippers on the floor and an empty glass and a pencil sharpeners on the table.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 29/01/2024

I might be late to this but – Substack now has this "Block AI training" setting that is automatically turned off (classic!). I don't know how effective this setting is, but it exists. In case you haven't noticed this, go turn it on!

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 08/01/2024

First read book of this year. & my first book in Spanish! I am proud of myself. I can now read stuff 7yo Spanish kids can!!

Left hand holding a slim book on top of a grey blanket. The book's cover has a blue outline and a colourful drawing of twi characters in the center, on a white backgroud. The title is "Mini, detective", above is it author's name "Christine Nöslinger".

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 16/12/2023

When I'm not drawing, I'm building my future home. As a little kid, who felt okay doing what most girls did, and also because I often times appeared (and still do) clumsy and slow, I never got exposed to working with construction tools, so consequently never grew interest in "manly" hobbies. But -

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 15/12/2023

Can anyone explain what am I seeing on the screen of Silhouette Studio? :'-) These are supposedly stickers, ready to be cut on Silhouette Cameo 4. I've used this exact file for 10+ times but now it's not working.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 30/11/2023

The hair is finally cut and I really, really like it! The initial idea was to cut it even shorter in the back but then I would look like how I did in high school and we don't want to go back there. The only part left untouched, literally, were my bangs.

Black and white selfie of a human being who just cut her hair shorter.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 28/11/2023

Campo Flicker, a special woodpecker / colour study, oil & wax pastel. 🪶 📸 Inspired by a photo by @/leonardocasadei_aves (on instagram)

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 22/11/2023

House Finch / colour study, using wax & oil pastels.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 02/11/2023

Tomorrow starts the annual P.S. Show at Nucleus Portland Gallery! Here is one of the original postcards I've submitted this year, titled 'Picking Flowers'.

Photograph of a drawing in process, on top of a black surface. The sheet of paper is covered with colourful clouds/blobs and in the bottom-right quarter of it is a frog with a backpack picking flowers.

Scanned drawing of a colourful meadow and a tiny frogs with a backpack picking flowers.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 25/10/2023

My comics are now being published monthly in a Slovene literary magazine for kids. Best part of it is that #mojcica exists outside of the digital world! I'm so happy this happened 💖 All thanks to the editorial team who heartwarmingly invited me to join!

Cover of a magazine with a title Galeb on a light pink background. A drawing of a little girl is holding the magazine which is much bigger than her.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 23/10/2023

With the drop of temperatures I'm thinking of winter and ice-cream kids I drew couple of years ago. I'm still very fond of them and am thinking of bringing them back, somehow!

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 22/10/2023

Some of the Bat Brothers I turned into stickers! I drew the colourful textures with wax pastels, scanned it and then used it for the colour fill. I really like how magical it turned out ✨ I'll do something similar for my next sticker pack – I'm thinking stars! What do you think?

Drawing of a purple/pink bat flying in the starry night. The bat is spreading its wings, looking at you.

Drawing of a blue/purple/red bat sleeping in the starry night. The bat is upside down, with its eyes closed.

Drawing of a pink/yellow/blue bat sitting on the floor, thinking. He looks a bit worried.

Drawing of a purple/blue/red bat waving. The bat is holding his left hand up, has a big nose and is looking at you. Wave back!

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 22/10/2023

Hi! My name is Mojca and I'm a Slovene picture book illustrator based in Spain. Attached I'm showing some of my art pieces in different styles that might fit the project. My portfolio: www.mocculere.com

4-framed comic strip showing a girl getting scared of potato beetles. Top left: she is looking at a beetle sitting on a rock. Top right: She is sitting in the car looking inside a box of matches. Bottom left: she opens a box of matches. Bottom right: Again in the car, she freaks out because the beetles escape the box.

Illustration of pigs enjoying their time at the beach.

Illustration of an eraser in a shape of an orange basket ball and a red coloured pencil sunbathing on the beach, surrounded by seashells. Both are wearing sunglasses.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 19/10/2023

Today's comic is up! mocculere.substack.com/p/comic-16-t... Every Thursday I post my childhood memories #mojcica in a form of comic strips to my Substack. You can subscribe and get it straight into your inbox next week :-) Here is one of the frames from today's comic:

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 14/10/2023

I made new sticker pack named BAT BROTHERS! One of the brothers is a bit extra and is covered in glitter. They might be the cutest stickers I made so far? mocculere.etsy.com/listing/1585...

Stickers packs, which are mainly purple, lying on black surface. Each pack consists of 6 bat stickers, one of them is covered in glitter.

Stickers of bats displayed on black surface.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 11/10/2023

Flipping through the pages of my recent picture book POBEGLA RADIRKA for what seems like a hundredth time and still now getting used to the feeling. Here is a short preview of its content. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebook

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 09/10/2023

Almost 10 years ago I drew a comic about Harald!!

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 16/09/2023

I just saw that Etsy offers a lovely discount this weekend which means all my prints are now 5$ off. If you would like my Goose to decorate your space, do take a look here: mocculere.etsy.com and use code GET5 This offer does not even affect me as a small business owner, isn't that great?

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 15/09/2023

Here is a sweet reminder to pat your pet if you haven't in the last 5 minutes or so. (sketch from the last commissioned family portrait)

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 12/09/2023

This rarely happens but I find the story of Bunny so unsatisfyingly weird that I keep on catching myself rushing through the pages to finally find a point where it will make some sense. Am I reading it wrong? Weird is good, weird is actually great, but here something is lacking.

Book cover of the book Bunny, written by Mona Awad. The cover is hot pink with a yellow title spreading over a real life bunny who is in black and pink colour.

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 07/09/2023

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day🌷 My name is Mojca and I'm a Slovene illustrator based in Spain. Currently looking for new picture book projects! 📮 hello@mocculere.com (me) ✉️ lorna@bell-lomax.co.uk (agent) 🎨 www.mocculere.com (portfolio)

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 05/09/2023

Quote a post with some blue art. Illustration from POBEGLA RADIRKA, picture book that comes out in two days!

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mocculere @mocculere.com · 05/09/2023

POBEGLA RADIRKA, Mojca Fatur, Mocculere, založba Chiara (Slovenia), 7th September 2023. Currently available only in Slovene language. www.zalozba-chiara.si/zalozba-chiara/1610-pobegla-radirka

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