Julia Shea

Julia Shea

@jsheaart.bsky.social

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🌞 jr designer @ little simon & simon spotlight
🌙 illustrator, list-maker, friend to all dogs

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Catching the tail end of #PortfolioDay ! Hi, I’m Julia Shea, I’m an illustrator and designer! I love drawing kids, creatures, and magic 💖 I also do a lot of hand-lettering! Go to www.julia-shea.com for more work and my contact info ✨#kidlitart

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Posting a #CoverReveal or #BookBirthday? Credit the ILLUSTRATOR. Not only are you helping boost the artist but it shows people that you or your publisher hired a HUMAN artist. Esp for cover reveals, also credit book designer. #PicturesMeanBusiness art by @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social #KidLit 🧵👇🏼

Daydreaming about a cool rainy day 🫠 #kidlitart

Next substack posts will be a big delicious sketchbook tour (I’m almost done with my current one), and a recap of Milkwood when I go in a few weeks! Subscribe if you want to have that come directly to your inbox 🌞

Howdy! New post just went live on my substack! I share some half-finished WIPs and talk about feeling stuck in perfectionism! Link: juliashea.substack.com/p/letting-th...

Howdy! New post just went live on my substack! I share some half-finished WIPs and talk about feeling stuck in perfectionism! Link: juliashea.substack.com/p/letting-th...

My claim to fame is that I got to place the Geisel honor on the cover image of Worm & Caterpillar! The only other option for placement was over Worm's face, though that got vetoed pretty quick. Congratulations Kaz!!!!

2024 ALSC Awards. Got my Geisel honor! What a pleasure to be in the same room with my writing and illustration heroes. Thank you to the Geisel Awards Committee and librarians everywhere who champion great books for young readers. #geiselaward #wormandcaterpillararefriends #alaac24

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Submissions are open for the Pitch-Perfect Translation Grant. First #SCBWI member grant specifically for translators! Go to Member Home > My awards for details.

New grant! The SCBWI Pitch-Perfect #Translation Grant assists children’s book translators in developing a specific project into English, which is not currently under contract. Up to two winners will be selected. Submissions open in July 2024! www.scbwi.org/pitch-perfec...

Pitch-Perfect Translation Grantwww.scbwi.org The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators provides the resources, professional networking, and community-building opportunities that support writers, illustrators, and translators throug...

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if you are an author with a book coming out tomorrow… please still tell me about it!!! don’t feel bad about yelling about your book!!!!

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Here’s the #StarterPack I made for ACTIVE #Kidlit Illustrators on Bluesky! This opt-in pack features #KidLitArt folks who have been actively posting (more than once a week) on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/2TG6ZBR

Active KidLit illustrators on BlueSkybsky.app Join the conversation

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Entering the dog days of summer! My illustration was inspired by the photograph on the right from @housecatillustration’s #tekenuurtje drawing challenge on IG. #kidlit #kidlitart #dogillustration #illustration

The most on brand video I’ve watched to date

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make something terrible!

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Thinking about re-drawing this spread. I like it a lot but I don't think it fits my portfolio at the moment. #kidlitart

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⛈️ memories of summer ☔️ #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration

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Writers! Take regular breaks away from the keyboard. HERE'S WHY. #DebbieOhiComics #KidLit

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working on a presentation for tomorrow and I couldn't resist making space to slag on AI. Good work resonates because it's human.

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THE CARTOONISTS CLUB, a new graphic novel, combines Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud’s trademark charm, reliability, and comics expertise to blend narrative, how-to, and the enchanting art of comics to inspire a new generation of young cartoonists. Coming from Scholastic/Graphix 4/1/2025!

I’ve been rotating between feeling like all three of these characters lately! Right now I’m the main purple one (tendinitis flaring, brain juiced to the rind), but I hope to be the kitten making magic soon :’) how are y’all feeling, creatively? #kidlitart #illustration

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Please note July's #KidLitArtPostcard event is getting pushed out one week due to the 4th of July holiday. You have an extra week to make a great promo piece #kidlitart illustrators. And an extra week for #kidlit art directors, editors, and agents to come on over to Bluesky.

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If you see this, post something pink! 💓 #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration

If you see this, post something pink! 💓 #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration

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#kidlitart friends! An open call! Please boost this signal. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Hi, #kidlit artists! I'm seeking a MG (ages 9-12) illustrator for a coming-of-age mystery story featuring friendship, adventure, and an elusive white wolf. Would LOVE to find an Indigenous NA illustrator. Respond here with images and a link to your folio. Please no DMs. Agents welcome to email.

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W is for WALK. A very charming duck walking for this week of Animal Alphabets project. #AnimalAlphabets #ThePenguinsFamily #violin #penguin #animal #fun #kidlitart #kidlitartist #art #illustration #childrenspublishing #childrenillustration #illustrator #JulianaMotzko

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Little Kitty in the flowers!!

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This is my fav image and I think about it so often because like... I DO love my puter!!! because all my friends are inside it!!!

It’s Pink Day! If you see this, post something pink from your portfolio! #illustration

Happy Pink Day! (I didn't know a day like this existed! Apparently it is also National Hydration Day!) If you see this, post something pink from your portfolio! 💖 #art #nostalgia

Share your lines vs colored art! 🌈 happy pride month, this is a mock book cover for a story I’m playing with 🤭 #art

Share your lines vs coloured art

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If you see this, quote reply with something summery from your portfolio! 😎 #kidlitart

If you see this, quote reply with something summery from your portfolio🌞 #kidlitart #illustration

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If you see this, quote reply with something summery from your portfolio 🍦 #kidlitart #illustration

If you see this, quote reply with something summery from your portfolio! 🦀 #kidlit #kidlitart

Summertime shock and horror! 🐸 Thank you for the guidance on quote reposts, can you tell I’m new to the platform? 😅 #kidlitart

If you see this, quote reply with something summery from your portfolio!😎🌞🏖️ #KidLitArt #Illustration

Thank you so much #kidlit community for the warmest welcome ever!! 🥹💖 And please bear with me while I learn how the platform works 😅