Claire Hubbard

@emseeitch

Scottish illustrator, designer and comics creator based in Leeds She/Her

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Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· 25d

Day 2 of Kirkstall Art Trail! A robin visited us earlier! 😭 It’s been a great weekend so far and we’re only a tiny part of the trail. Come along if you can! #Leeds #KirkstallArtTrail

Close up of my table showing notebooks, tea towels, comics and other animal themed things!

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· 25d

I’ve been so busy volunteering for Kirkstall Art Trail I forgot to tell anyone I’m at Kirkstall Art Trail! At venue 22a Hollybush TCV. I’m in a barn again! Here 11-5 today and tomorrow. Come and say hello!

My table in a stone barn. My table is full of animal themed prints, stationery and textile items

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· 27d

Many, if not most of the books I had as a child were about cats! And I still have some to this day :) I especially loved the Maisie series

Photo of books: Jenny and the Cat Club, The Cat with Two Tales, Maisie’s Mystery Tour and That Fat Cat

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· 29d

I’m Claire, an illustrator, designer and comic creator specialising in characterful illustration for education, storytelling and play! I’m available for: 💭 comics 📚 picture books 🎲 games 🎁 products 🎓 learning resources Get in touch: claire@emseeitch.com More at www.emseeitch.com #PortfolioDay

my hand holding a tunnel book consisting of four layers of an illustrated scene: a squirrel reading a book in a cosy squirrel home interior while their housemate climbs a ladder into a dark attic full of ghosts and spiders

A snippet of a comic telling the story of the community purchase of a woodland in Scotland. Happy visitors are biking, chatting, exploring and making memories in various woodland scenes across five panels

Four boxes wrapped in different animal themed wrapping paper: cats, crocodiles and alligators, crows and beavers

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Jul 6

Set a few made-to-order Switch pouches off to their new owners last week! First time making a batch that included both Switch Lite and Switch 2 - I marvelled at the difference in size and weight between the two models. No wonder my hands hurt while playing handheld nowadays 🥲

my hand holding up a Switch 2 and Switch Lite clad in my custom designed pouches featuring pallas cats and rain frog prints

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Jul 6

I have, sort of! I’m interested in exploring animals’ experience of the world, and how to depict it in ways humans can understand through comics. Here’s a section of my short comic Moonlight Sonar-ta (with glimpses of the bat POV using the sonar analogy)

a comic page depicting a bat using echolocation to find prey and avoid predation. The echolocation is represented in panels as marine sonar detection technology

a comic page depicting a bat using echolocation to find prey and navigate home. The echolocation is represented in panels as marine sonar detection technology

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Jul 4

(Hope these pictures load 😅) Set up at Meanwood Valley Urban Farm Summer Fair in AN ACTUAL BARN 😍 I can chickens in the coop behind me! 🐓🐓🐓 Absolutely love this gem of a place, it’s so nice for a wander. Pop by if you’re in the area! #Leeds #Meanwood #Illustration

My table showing animal themed prints, notebooks, tea towels, comics, zip cases, gift wrap and stickers. It’s in a barn!

My view showing the rest of the barn, other traders, and trees outside the barn entrance

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Jun 25

Post something spooky/scary/gross from your childhood (books, tv, games, toys, whatever) that helped turn you into the horror weirdo you are today 👻

screenshot from 1980s claymation The Trap Door featuring Berk, a bipedal blue thing and Boni, a skull

cards and packaging from the game “Tummy Ache”. The cards show food and drink in various states of decomposition and ickiness

Box set of 4 pop up books: The Mini Monster Pop-Up Box. One page is open showing a pop-up creepy ghoulie thing

Front cover of my extremely well worn copy of Usborne “How to Draw Ghosts, Vampires and Haunted Houses”

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Jun 25

🦀 See a crab, post a crab 🦀 Part of an inktober from 8 years ago, inspired by an increasingly overheating Earth.

A greyscale ink drawing of a crab atop a half-buried human skull, surrounded by flying beetles. Other human skulls are scattered in the background. For the 8th day’s prompt: Crab + Insect

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Jun 21

So glad to be able to bring a full range of tea towels to a market for the first time in a few years! Here at Craft & Flea til 4pm, a lovely cool respite from the unrelenting heat 😎

My stall at Craft & Flea market in Left Bank, Leeds. My work is cute, colourful and animal-themed!

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Jun 20

I’m haunting Left Bank once more for another fantastic Craft & Flea tomorrow! Well worth a lookee if you’re in the area.

I’m trading at Craft & Flea Leeds, Sun 21st June 11am-4pm

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Jun 1

I’m reprinting my most popular tea towels that have been sold out for years, including bat, crow, frog, otter and cat designs! 🧵 Printed in small batches so limited quantities of each 📮 Available on back order, shipping July! 🇬🇧 www.emseeitch.com/shop/tea-tow... 🌎️ emseeitch.etsy.com #ShopSmall

a cotton tea towel hanging from a peg with an illustrated bat pattern in a grey, black and yellow colour palette

close up of a cotton tea towel with an illustrated pallas cat pattern in a grey, black and pink colour palette

part of a cotton tea towel with an illustrated crow pattern in a grey, black and pink colour palette

part of a cotton tea towel with an illustrated frog pattern in a multicoloured palette

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· May 28

I’m always late to #WorldOtterDay every year, without fail. But hey ho, here are my otters wearing plaid shirts! Gift wrap of this design is especially popular and I suspect people are buying it for their plaid-clad partners and pals 👀🏁

illustrated sea otters wall wearing red, blue or yellow plaid shirts. One otter is holding an urchin, two otters are holding hands, another otter is holding a baby otter, who is also wearing a teeny tiny plaid shirt

the same otter design, made into a fabric pouch for Nintendo Switch

the same otter design, made into a tea towel

a pile of gift wrapped boxes featuring axolotls, cats and the sea otter design

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· May 24

I’m back at Left Bank once again (they can’t keep me away) on Monday for the Bank Holiday Market! This one has a focus on books, stationery and illustration which sounds like 💫 THE DREAM 💫 Pop by and say hello if you’re in the area! #Leeds #Art

Bank holiday market, Monday 25th May 10-4pm, books, art, zines, illustrations, stationery. Free entry tickets via leftbankleeds.org.uk. Cardigan rd, Leeds LS6 ILJ. Cafe bar open all day

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· May 18

I’ve been accepted to exhibit at @sequential-scot.bsky.social this August! It’s been years since I did a con in Glasgow and I’m so excited to come back 💗 (I’ve been talking everyone’s ear off about how exciting the Scottish indie comics scene is because of events like this)

poster for Sequential Scotland at Doubletree Hilton Glasgow, 10am-5pm, 8th August 2026

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· May 18

Heelo www.emseeitch.com/shop/p/eel-c...

Blue and white cyanotype print of a friendly looking eel with a speech bubble saying “Heelo”, held up against a leafy background

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· May 17

Today! Here til 4pm selling cute things and new prints! ⭐️

A closeup of my stall, mainly showing lino and cyanotype prints featuring British wildlife

A closeup of my stall showing animal patterned zip cases and tea towels

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· May 16

A bit late to posting this but I’ll be at the Craft & Flea in Wakefield tomorrow! Come along and say hello if you’re in town!

Promo image saying “I’m trading at Craft & Flea Wakefield Sun 17th May, WX Exchange 11-4”

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Apr 29

I’m thrilled to announce that Switch pouches are BACK! And ...Switch 2 pouches are now part of the gang! 🌟 Designed and sewn by yours truly, these slimline pouches keep your precious consoles protected from knocks and scratches, and look pretty cute to boot! www.emseeitch.com/shop/p/ninte...

photo of a Switch 2 being extracted from a new Switch 2 pouch! The pouch has a cute raccoon patterned print and there are hand drawn arrows and text highlighting its features: cute prints, padded lining, snug fit and slimline design

photo of a Switch 2 pouch with Switch 2 fully inserted, against a garden background

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Apr 26

I can’t claim that my notebooks have been used by Picasso and the like, but I can guarantee that the covers are 100% human illustrated and the product photography was shot in my actual garden that exists. (No, really!) If you like what you see, check out my wee shoppe 🦝 www.emseeitch.com/shop

My hand holding a six notebooks fanned out against a leafy, flowery background. The notebooks feature cute illustrated animals including frogs, raccoons, Pallas cats, bats, axolotls and crows

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Apr 24

For all my fellow corvid crazies out there, this print’s for you 🖤💜 #LinoPrinting #Rook #Illustration

Lino print of a purple rook with a small bone in its beak, against a background of gravestones

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Apr 23

I’m happy to announce that for the first time since the original Kickstarter campaign... Burds, Baists and Bugs: Wildlife Poems in Scots is now available to residents in USA, Canada, Australia and NZ via my reopened Etsy shop! emseeitch.etsy.com/listing/4489... #Scots #ScotsLanguage #Poetry

my hand holding a copy of Burds, Baists and Bugs against a bushy background

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Apr 16

I’m back at Left Bank Leeds on Sunday 26th April, this time for my first ever Craft and Flea market 🐾 Really excited for this one! I’ll be restocking zip cases that sold out last week, and will be debuting the latest in my developing series of wildlife lino prints!

Text: I’m trading at Craft & Flea Leeds
Photo backdrop is a close up of my stall featuring illustrated cards, comics and zip cases

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Apr 15

Did some more lino printing today

Printed black and violet print of a rook in a graveyard, being peeled back from the black inked plate

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Apr 14

Hiya #PortfolioDay, I’m a Leeds-based illustrator specialising an characterful illustration for education, storytelling and play! I’m available to work on comics, children’s publishing, science communication, workshop toolkits, board games and more. See more of my work here: www.emseeitch.com

An isometric illustration of a town hall, school and surrounding roads and paths. The school roof is cut away revealing a cafeteria full of schoolchildren

A 3D illustrated scene AKA tunnel book featuring a squirrel sitting on an armchair reading a book while another squirrel ascends a ladder into an attic full of ghosts

A three-colour lino print of a toad as seen from above, surrounded by fallen leaves and sticks

A section of a comic following a mole as she gives you a tour of her house

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Apr 7

Just got a fresh batch of animal patterned gift wrap in, so it’s restocked on my shop! Featuring crows, bats, otters, raccoons, frogs, cats and books, Pallas’ cats and axolotls 🐾 Check out the full range here: www.emseeitch.com/shop/gift-wrap

a roll of gift wrap featuring illustrated cats and books and a box wrapped in the same design

closeup of bat patterned gift wrap covering a pile of boxes

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Apr 6

I’m at the Ceramics, Homeware and Art market at Left Bank Leeds today! Here til 4pm 🌟 www.leftbankleeds.org.uk/events/ceram...

My table displaying cards, zip cases notebooks and such!

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Apr 2

I’m back on my sewing machine! Making zip cases in teeny tiny batches (literally only one of each) from a luxuriously thick and durable cotton fabric. I'll be debuting these at the Ceramics, Homeware and Art Market at Left Bank Leeds this Easter Monday 🌟 www.leftbankleeds.org.uk/events/ceram...

my hand holding three handmade cotton zip cases featuring cute rain frogs, raccoons and Pallas cats against a backdrop of red tulips

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Mar 29

Sold out of Batalogues at Make a Zine Day :o Thank you to everyone who stopped by. Had some lovely chats and left very inspired by everyone else’s zines and DIY print media in general

Open pages of Batalogue zine showing illustrations of Honduran white bats and hoary bat

Claire Hubbard@emseeitch· Mar 25

I’ll be at Make a Zine Day this Saturday 28th March helping with the Leeds Arts Uni MA Illustration course table! We’ll be selling a selection of our work including some experimental wildlife-themed zines and prints from me 🦇 museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/whats-on/mak...