Joyful illustrations and practical tools for creative businesses.
Hello, I’m Larissa!
After years of beautiful work that barely broke even, I'm testing a new approach: building AI-powered workflows for the boring business stuff (pricing, planning, admin) so creatives can focus on making work they love.
Follow my 12-week experiment building tools for illustrators and designers who love making work but hate running a business.
LATEST POSTS
LATEST POSTS
When you've got one day to refresh your portfolio and a toddler who doesn't care about your deadlines, you get creative. Here's what happened when I handed the mockup work to ChatGPT and discovered where AI actually saves time—and where it absolutely doesn't.
I Had 24 Hours Portfolio Deadline. ChatGPT Generated the Mock-ups
Sometimes you build the thing before you understand the problem. This is about what happened when I got excited about AI automation, created a planning system I thought I needed, and then had to figure out what the hell I was actually trying to solve.
I Built an AI Planning Tool for a Workflow I Don't Actually Have
I was halfway through a sketch when my son woke early from his nap—and I realised the problem wasn't my creativity. It was the math. This is what happened when I stopped trying to run a pre-baby business on post-baby time, and started rebuilding from scratch.