Published!

Amazingly, I haven’t written a blog post about this yet. Last year (or possibly before that), I saw on the Zeixs website that they were accepting submissions for their Illustration book based on character design. Back then I was still new to the whole illustration thing but I decided to give it a go with only a few characters under my belt. I heard nothing back so I forgot all about it. Then a couple of months back a friend, who also submitted work, was googling her name to make sure her website came up with it, when she came across a strange german link. Upon clicking it she discovered that we both had been published in the book!!

Zeixs book

 

I didn’t quite believe it but I rushed on to Amazon and bought a copy. Lo and behold, there I was. Unfortunately some time had passed so the web link I provided was no longer in use, but hey who cares… I’m in a book! :)

Here’s a really bad photo of my pages…

Book

 

Here’s the link if you want to buy it for yourself:

http://www.zeixs.com/books/cubes/illustration2/?lang=en

Free Shipping!

There is currently free shipping from my store!

http://society6.com/IllustrationbyJulia?promo=f98ae2

Offer expires on Dec 9th so hurry! You can buy things like this…

Fairy print  pusscat printOwl tote

(I have the Owl tote bag – it’s awesome)

Burst Magazine Take 2

I’m happy to say I’ve been featured in Burst magazine again! This time in a “Mixed” issue with all different types of creatives. Owlie has even made an appearance on the Welcome page :)

Definitely download and have a read; it’s free and full of loads of awesome designers, illustrators, etc!

http://burstmagazine.co.uk/project/issue-10-mixed/

Hipster Owlie

This little idea has been rattling around in my noggin for a couple of weeks so I finally decided to put pen to…computer. I hadn’t drawn my little mascot in a while and I decided to make her ultra-hip as it’s super cool to draw owls these days, but she was around before that :P (seriously, she’s just a doodle I did aaaaages ago that grew to eventually be my logo. Honest!)

Do you like her glasses?

The Owl and the Pussycat

Since I love to draw owls and cats, this illustration seemed pretty inevitable! I’ve been meaning to do it for ages and finally found the time. Overall it took about 6 hours.

I’m particularly pleased with the water! Feel free to let me know what you think.

Snow is falling…

Ahh december; a month I dread. Christmas and all that jazz wouldn’t be so bad except for the constant pressure TO BUY PRESENTS NOW!! I hate the crowding and the panic. And now to top it all off there’s about a foot of snow to contend with as well! Huzzah for December. So, to sum up my feelings for this wonderful time of year I did a quick illustration which can also be used as an iphone wallpaper. Enjoy!

Something non-owly will be coming soon. Promise!

I would be…

I’ve been working on it for a while and at last I can reveal my entry for the ‘I would be’ project run by Tahgasa Bertram…

..I’m not saying I’d be a very good Astrophysicist, but it would be a cool job! I’m a space nerd.

(Been having a few issues with colour settings on my moniter recently so I really hope the colours don’t look weird. They’re supposed to be quite muted…)

Hoot!

Recently I decided to represent myself in my work using an owl. I can’t really explain the decision, only that I think owls rock and I like to draw them. Plus they like books and stuff (if children’s books are to be believed!). I’ve had a little Dr.Watson-esque owl floating around without a purpose for a while, so I decided to put it to work in a name plate type thingy for my Twitter wallpaper….

I’m really pleased with it! Really like the palette too.