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# Lucy Dillamore Illustration

Childrens Illustrator and Author

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- [Craft Markets 2023](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/craft-markets-2023/) - I'm very excited to be at a few craft markets this autumn / winter period! I'll be selling greetings cards, christmas cards, bookmarks, prints, signed books and more! I also have a card reader now so will be able to accept contactless card payments, and card payments! 🎃 Bells Pumpkin Patch - Sunday 15th October
- [Pupcakes Dog Rescue 2025 Calendar](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/pupcakes-2025-calendar/) - I had the pleasure of illustrating the 10th anniversary edition of the Pupcakes Dog Rescue calendar this year! Grab one quick while you can as they would make a lovely Christmas present for someone, and go towards a fantastic cause! Each page features a different seasonal illustration of dogs that Pupcakes have rehomed. Grab one
- [Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust - Editorial Commission](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/royal-cornwall-hospitals-nhs-trust-editorial-commission/) - I recently had the exciting opportunity to create imagery for the first editorial commission I've had. Using procreate and a colour pallette provided to me by the designer, I some Cornwall themed illustrations for the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust - Annual Report & Accounts 2019-2020 Check them all out here! https://issuu.com/royalcor.../docs/annual-report-19-20-final
- [Mono printing Bunnies](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/mono-printing-bunnies/) - At uni we recently had a Mono Printing tutorial and today in a spare couple of hours I decided to have a go at creating some imagery! Using reference from a video of my late rabbit Sooty, I created a print from laying the paper over the ink and simply drawing onto it. As a
- [3 weeks to go and Finalising my Pieces!](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/3-weeks-go-finalising-pieces/) - With less than 3 weeks to go I am certainly feeling the pressure of deadline: mainly because of the added pressure of preparing everything I'd want to be printed on fabric and other materials. The fabric printing deadline for hand-in is next Tuesday the 12th May which I discovered today and the textiles technician at
- [Initial Ideas](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/initial-ideas/) - Some initial Ideas on what I could focus my project/s on. - Another Reportage Project I feel like there were things in BA5 that I still want to try out. I felt like as I was ill in the two weeks up to hand in my work maybe wasn't as good as it could have
- [Collages for Tomorrow 14/11/2013](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/collages-tomorrow-14112013/) - Right now, I feel pretty stuck. I made some simple collages today to present tomorrow of symbols in the story but I don't think I like them. They are only ideas on how I can bring the final imagery together but I still feel unsure. I think what I'm struggling with is a way of
- [Second day back and Refining Ideas](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/second-day-back-refining-ideas/) - For the majority of the day we worked in our pairs for our collaborative task which ends next Friday. This has seemed like quite a short task for a two week project as my partner and I seem to have decided what we are going to talk about and how we are going to document
- [More In-Depth Ideas for BA6 Project Proposal](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/more-in-depth-ideas-for-ba6-project-proposal/) - Here I will expand upon some of my ideas for what to do for BA6 and relate them to things such as, what I need more of in my portfolio, what I need to improve on, what I enjoy and what I’ve not had the chance to try etc. NARRATIVE The Yellow Wallpaper: This is
- [End of our Collaboration Project and Final Outcomes](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/end-collaboration-project-final-outcomes/) - Today was the end of our collaboration projects! Below are a selection of photos of our final piece. The quality wasn't fantastic due to the dim lighting in the studio at the time but I hope to get some better images eventually. As seen our final piece bought together our conversation, creating a story through
- [Spending the day Thumbnailing and thinking about ideas.](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/spending-day-thumbnailing-thinking-ideas/) - As stated in the title, I have spent the day thumbnailing the areas I've highlighted in my copy of 'Flowers for Algernon'. By doing this and going through the book a final time I was able to really think about how best to illustrate this book and plan my time carefully. All in all I
- [First week back, BA8 begins.](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/first-week-back-ba8-begins/) - After a long an much needed Christmas break, we started back at uni this Monday with about half a year till we graduate! Last term was definitely the most stressful term I've ever experienced however it really paid off as I got a much higher mark that I expected and got another first! This has
- [Initial Imagery - Flowers for Algernon](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/initial-imagery/) - Over the past couple of days I've been playing around with ink to create different imagery for my 'Flowers for Algernon' project. Here are a few examples. Above I tried to make a really rough, gharish blurry face by letting the ink run each other which came out in an interesting way I thought. However
- [Videos from BA6 up at last!](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/videos-ba6-last/) - This week I'm hoping to have completely re - designed my website complete with the work from BA6 (our last uni project) which is all very exciting. Progress in the things I have been doing have been hindered however as I have fallen ill. Despite this I've managed to upload my vidoes / experimental films
- [Feedback, my project proposals and progress so far](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/nua-year-2/feedback-my-project-proposals-and-progress-so-far/) - It’s been a long week of reading for me! I posted a thread on Reddit asking for advice http://www.reddit.com/r/AskLiteraryStudies/comments/1a7nqa/help_on_an_interesting_story_to_illustrate/ on what would be a good story to illustrate. I spent time reading through these stories and after much debating went with ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ which I mentioned previously, purely because I have background knowledge of
- [UK Greetings competition card designs](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/uk-greetings-competition-card-designs/) - These are the final 6 designs I submitted to the UK Greetings card competition. I looked at designs of the back of cards in supermarkets to aid me in my card design, I tried to keep it looking professional.
- [Figure behind the wallpaper - The Yellow Wallpaper](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/figure-behind-the-wallpaper/) - Even though this was only a rough idea in my 'The Yellow Wallpaper' project, I’m pretty happy with the effect I ended up with! As you can hopefully see, I tried to create a figure (abstract as it is) behind the wallpaper. To do this I used the layering of oil pastel. I think this
- [Boston Sketches over Easter](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/nua-year-2/boston-sketches-over-easter-2/) - As mentioned before, I went into the town over Easter and here are some of the sketches I came up with. This is quite a generic and obvious thing to draw when looking at Boston as it is almost like a mascot or symbol of the town. I don't think this serves much more
- [Flowers for Algernon Progress - Sunday 24th November](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/sunday-24th-november/) - Today I managed to mount everything I have so far which allowed me to think about where my ideas were headed once again. I've mounted everything on white card but am considering re mounting a couple of bits onto different coloured paper as some images are rather white themselves and get lost in the paper.
- [My Easter Card Design in Amelia's Magazine!](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/my-easter-card-design-in-amelias-magazine/) - This Easter I decided to enter an open brief for artists ran by Amelia's Magazine around the theme of Easter. My Easter card design which I scanned and coloured on photoshop can be seen By clicking on this link! As I mentioned in the article, I really wanted to create something which captured what I
- [UEA Collaboration, final images!](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/uea-collaboration-final-images/) - Today I've bought together some final images from my collaboration with UEA student Connie Cubitt. As seen, the images are very experimental. We had a total change of story in the last week of the collaboration so they images are a little rushed. Each responds to a particular quote to the story and I collaged
- [Initial ideas for The Yellow Wallpaper and Boston project progress](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/initial-ideas-for-the-yellow-wallpaper-and-boston-project-progress/) - The Yellow Wallpaper Today I went through the story a number of times, highlighting interesting words and phrases about the story and started to play around with some different materials to see what sort of colours I can create. The photo below is an example of this. It feels good to get stuck into creating
- [UEA Collaboration Progress!](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/uea-collaboration-progress/) - Here are some images of my project so far with UEA student Connie Cubitt. The images aren't necessarily the final images and are responses from workshops and my own ideas. At present themes of the text revolve much around isolation and depression but this could change.
- [Sketches from Spain](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/sketches-from-spain/) - In the last two weeks I had to go to Spain for my granddad's funeral. With no internet and/or shops in walking distance and no access to a car, I tried to do a few sketches of things around me just to keep drawing. They aren’t very impressive in my opinion and some worked more
- [Graphic Design Collaboration Progress](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/graphic-design-collaboration-progress/) - Alongside my other projects I've been working on my collaboration with a Graphic Design student in rebranding Pilgrims Cheese. So far, I've created a set of patterns with oil pastel inspired by some of the textures of the Bayeux Tapestry and photoshopped them over the illustrations of the characters which my collaborator created. Ultimately I
- [The Paper Watch Project Site is up!](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/paper-watch-project-site/) - In the summer I took part in the Paper Watch Project, ran by Templar Publishing where illustrators and designers designed paper watches to raise money for Breast Cancer Care. The watch I designed can be see in the images below and on the site which is very exciting! As seen I went for an autumn theme
- [Pilgrims Cheese Project](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/pilgrims-cheese-project/) - Now that I have graduated and the degree show is over I have a chance to blog about the final outcomes for the Pilgrims Cheese Collaboration I did. The images below show my illustrations in action at the degree show in my collaborator's space. This was a project which took up a lot of my
- [A scene from ' The Jungle Book'](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/a-scene-from-the-jungle-book/) - I came across a competition to illustrate a scene from 'The Jungle book' by Art of the Imagination through a group on LinkedIn. Below is what I have come up with. I took a favourite quote of mine from the story as inspiration- “A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the
- [My Norwich University of the Arts BA(Hons) Illustration Experience 2011-2014](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/nua-experience-2011-2014/) - It's been over a month since I last wrote a blog post, and a busy month it has been! In this time I've handed in my last ever project as a NUA Illustration student, discovered that I've achieved a First Class Honours in BA Illustration and achieved a place on MA Children's Book Illustration at
- [Observation and Experiment Term 1 in my MA at Cambridge School of Art](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/ma-childrens-book-illustration/observation-experiment-term-1/) - The first term of my Masters is officially over as I handed in all six of my sketchbooks nearly two weeks ago now. After a much needed rest I thought I would reflect upon the term and give an idea of the progress I made during it. This project is a foundation to the course
- [Pen Drawings](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/pen-drawings/) - A few drawings using a little graphite pencil, a fine liner and a felt tip! I'm quite happy with these and the eyes which are no longer dots. I might pursue this method of working but maybe see what happens if I use a brush pen instead of the graphite perhaps.
- [The first year of my MA in Children's Book Illustration (Cambridge School of Art, ARU) is complete!](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/the-first-year-of-my-ma-is-complete/) - Indeed, my first academic year as an MA Children's Book Illustration student has come to an end already! It's been a long and somewhat confusing term but I have learnt so much, and so much over the course of the year! To think that before I was on this course I hardly did any observational
- [Sketch of Rachael in KFC](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/ma-childrens-book-illustration/rachael-kfc/) - Having had a break from uni work after handing it all in a couple of weeks ago I thought I'd try and get back into the swing of drawing. This is one of the first things I've drawn back in public since of my sister, Rachael in KFC. Not an amazing drawing but perhaps interesting
- [Visiting my old Secondary School, Boston High School](https://lucydillamore.com/blog/visiting-my-old-secondary-school/) - Recently I was kindly asked to return to my old Secondary School and sixth form, Boston High School, to talk to pupils on International Women's Day about my progress and uni courses. I had the chance to talk to sixth formers and a class of year 8's and took pretty much every project I've done
- [Bologna Sketches](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/4246/) - Here are a few images from my sketchbook from a recent trip to Bologna.
- [My first Book Launch!](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/my-first-book-launch/) - I had a really fantastic day at my first book launch celebrating my debut picture book 'Nipper and the Lunchbox'. Many thanks to Costa, Pescod Square in Boston for hosting me! It was so lovely to see and meet everyone that came from far and wide, and see some cute Nipper fans! Child's Play had
- [Nipper is featured on BBC Radio Lincolnshire!](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/nipper-is-featured-on-bbc-radio-lincolnshire/) - I was recently very excited to be invited to BBC Radio Lincolnshire to talk about 'Nipper and the Lunchbox' and film a short video drawing Nipper for social media!
- [Joint Book Launch at Heffers with Emily Haworth-Booth](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/joint-book-launch-at-heffers-with-emily-haworth-booth/) - I recently had my first joint book launch in Heffers , Cambridge with the lovely Emily Haworth-Booth who was a fellow part time MA graduate, and who's book 'The King Who Banned The Dark' you should definitely check out! It was great to see some of my course mates and tutors again, and really nice
- [House of Illustration Drawing a Day Challenge](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/house-of-illustration-drawing-a-day-challenge/) - This September the House of Illustration announced a daily drawing challenge, where participants create a 1x1 inch drawing every day of the month as inspired by John Vernon Lord's 366 miniature daily drawings he made in 2016 I'm happy to say I completed the challenge and here are my finished images! They're also featured in
- [Visiting Boston West Academy](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/vising-boston-west-academy/) - I recently had the pleasure of visiting Boston West Academy in Boston, Lincolnshire for my first ever author visit to a school! I spent the day with Year 2 and it was a very busy one! In the morning we started by me introducing myself and showing the children (the first out of the to
- [Nipper is featured on Endeavour fm!](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/nipper-is-featured-on-endeavour-fm/) - Today was the first time I've ever been on the radio! I was kindly invited to join Dylan on Boston's local radio station Endeavourfm to discuss all things 'Nipper and the Lunchbox' on the breakfast show. As someone who has admittedly always been known as shy and an extremely nervous public speaker, this was a
- [Visiting my old primary school, Tower Road Academy](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/visiting-my-old-primary-school-tower-road-academy/) - I was so excited recently to be invited to my old primary school, Tower Road Academy for an author day with Reception and Key Stage One! We had a very busy day that started out with an assembly where I introduced myself, why I was there and where I'd come from. It was very surreal
- [Thank you NHS Print](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/thank-you-nhs-print/) - When I drew this image in support of our amazing NHS I had so many people message me asking to by a copy so I decided to sell them for £5 a print and donate all proceeds to the United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust - my local NHS trust. In total I raised £270! Thank you
- [Boston Standard Business Awards 2018](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/boston-standard-business-awards-2018/) - I recently found out that I had been nominated for a 'Boston Standard Business Award,' in the category 'Young Achiever'. It was great to hear about so many local independent businesses that are doing really well and meet some new people at the awards ceremony. Many thanks to whoever nominated me for this award :)
- [Head & Home Decluttering - Logo Design](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/head-home-decluttering-logo-design/) - I recently had the pleasure of designing the logo for 'Head and Home Decluttering' which is a decluttering and mental health service based in Suffolk/Norfolk. They can be found here > https://headandhomedecluttering.co.uk/ If you would like commission me to design a logo for your small business, then please email me on lucy@lucydillamore.com. I charge £500
- [The Bookmark Project](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/the-bookmark-project/) - The Bookmark Project is an auction that takes place in May every year. All the money raised goes towards projects at Katiyo Primary School in Zimbabwe.
- [Boston High School Young Journalists Interview](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/boston-high-school-interview/) - I was recently interviewed by a lovely student at my old secondary school, Boston High School, Lincolnshire. I hope my answers are of help to some budding author / illustrators! You can check out the article below. https://yjastudents.wixsite.com/bostonhighschool-2/post/a-talk-with-lucy-dillamore
- [Ukraine Postcards](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/ukraine-postcards/) - Like everyone, my thoughts and prayers have been with the people of Ukraine these past couple of weeks It's a small thing, but I've made some A6 postcards to sell, with the aim to raise funds to help. The reverse is blank for your own message and I have 100 copies to sell. Apart from
- [Boston Book Festival 2021](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/boston-book-festival-2021/) - I had such a fantastic day at my first ever book festival - Boston Book Festival 2021! Boston Book Festival is a brand new Book Festival in Boston Lincolnshire and it ran from the 17th to 19th September 2021. During the Friday I spent the full day running 'Nipper and the Lunchbox' themed story workshops
- [Papperlapapp Magazine Feature](https://lucydillamore.com/uncategorized/papperlapapp-magazine-feature/) - I was so excited when Papperlapapp magazine invited me to illustrate a story for their latest issue, 'Chaos and Order'! For those that don't know, Papperlapapp is a bilingual children's magazine. Each edition of the magazine features parallel bilingual text, which is printed in German and one other language prevalent within immigrant communities in Austria,
- [Easter Cards](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/easter-cards/) - Over the Easter holidays I set myself the task of designing and illustrating my own Easter Cards! I kept them quite simple, using oil pastel to create different coloured patterned eggs. I scanned in the illustrations and corrected a yellow egg using photoshop as the contrast wasn't as great as the other eggs. The image
- [2 Day Collaborative Workshop](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/nua-year-2/2-day-collaborative-workshop/) - Over the past 2 days at uni, we were put into random pairs and given the task to respond to a word between the two of us and present final illustrations for it today (Friday). Initially I thought this was going to go badly as both me and my partner have very different styles and
- [The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Final book & Project Summary](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/the-yellow-wallpaper-charlotte-perkins-gilman-final-book-project-summary-2/) - This has been another really beneficial term in me developing and improving my working practice. I started the term with ways I’d like to work; expressive, experiential and more organised - all of which I have tried to do to the best of my ability. Like any project I think I could have done even
- [NUA Year 2 Illustration Exhibition - The Stew Gallery, Norwich](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/nua-year-2/nua-year-2-illustration-exhibition-the-stew-gallery-norwich-2/) - Our course have organised an exhibition this week for the work we've done over this year. This is the first (not counting ones at school) actual exhibition I have ever been part of and I was really nervous about it on the opening night! I'd been so pre occupied with creating a logo in the
- [Breaking Bad Father's Day Card](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/breaking-bad-fathers-day-card/) - As it was father's day today and my dad loves Breaking Bad I tried to do a very fast card for him with him alongside the characters! It's very rough and I'm not used to drawing people or 'cartoony' things as mentioned before but he and other people seemed to like it!
- [Paper Watch Project with Templar Books](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/paper-watch-project-with-templar-books/) - I've been waiting for a couple of weeks now for a paper watch to arrive as part of a project I volunteered to take part in with Templar Books. (Below= The paper watch in it's packaging, who knows what it will look like once I've done!) More can be read about the project here- http://templarpublishing.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-paper-watch-project_23.html
- [Internship with Puck Collective](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/internship-with-puck-collective/) - This weekend I traveled down to London for an internship with Puck Collective. It took place in Boxpark in Shoreditch which I discovered was a 'pop up mall' where the collective displayed prints and various other illustrated items for sale. This was an insightful opportunity for me to see first hand an aspect of free
- [Paper Watch Project - Final Paper Watch!](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/paper-watch-project-final-paper-watch/) - So this week I finished my paper watch for Templar Books' 'paper watch project'. I was debating on what sort of theme to go with for a while as I wanted to do something colorful and something in which I could use oil pastel - therefore I couldn't do anything extremely detailed on such a
- [3 different cats](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/3-different-cats/) - Whilst waiting for paint to dry and inspired from the previous posts and recent youtube cat videos I've stumbled across, here are a few watercolour and ink cats I created. I thought it might be nice to make a couple more of these to create a set. Very random but I like how they turned
- [Student Capital Theory - 'Student of the week'](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/student-capital-theory-student-of-the-week/) - I was recently featured as 'Student of the week' in the blog Student Capital Theory, talking about my experiences over this summer building up my portfolio and the search for work experience in preparation for this upcoming academic year. The blog was started by an Education student at the University of York and is based
- [Ohhdeer Pillow Fight Competition Entry](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/ohhdeer-pillow-fight-competition-entry/) - I was recently encouraged to enter a competition with Ohhdeer to put some of my illustrations onto pillows! Obviously I've been very busy with uni work so I used an image I created in one of our projects last year as well as a couple of personal images I created recently. The idea is that
- [The Paper Watch Project Results!](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/paper-watch-project-results/) - Over the past few weeks I have been bombarding my poor social media followers with info about Templar Book's Paper Watch Project That I was involved in and tonight, the bidding ended on the watches, the project is over! I'm over the moon to say that my watch sold for £20! All week I had
- [15/11/2013 Pop Up Show](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/15112013-pop-show/) - Today we had a pop up show to show the progression of our ideas so far. I wasn't looking forward to this as I feel like my ideas are still a little 'all over the place'. However, When taking time to lay out everything, I could see a progression in my ideas. This was really
- [Exhibition at The Playhouse](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/exhibition-playhouse/) - My year group have recently had a small exhibition in The Playhouse in Norwich and here are a few photos of the piece of work I displayed there: an oil pastel drawing of a bulbul bird. The exhibition ran for a couple of weeks and seemed to go down well from comments overheard from
- [UEA Collaboration- The final show and the final imagery!](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/uea-collaboration-final-show-final-imagery/) - In my last post about my collaboration with Connie Cubitt, a UEA creative writing student, I mentioned some final imagery which I had created. Before print the next day I made some small changes and arranged the images into the 'traditional penguin spreads' of which we were instructed to do. I placed the quotes which
- [BA8: The Color Purple- Updates and Progress](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/ba8-color-purple-updates-progress/) - This post should provide an overall progress summary of my project so far which is illustrating / creating a visual response to 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker. I haven't blogged much about this at all yet so hopefully this will provide a detailed reflective summary of the work so far! To begin, I created
- [Shrinkles for Clutter City](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/shrinkles-clutter-city/) - This week I created some jewellery for Clutter City out of Shrinkles! I'd never tried this before and had always been curious of how well they'd turn out I used some frosted ones and normal plain ones and created some hand drawn teacup jewellery. Next time I will probably try inkjet shrinkles to print onto rather than
- [BA8 progress after 2 crits](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/ba8-progress-2-crits/) - Unfortunately it has been a while since I have been able reflect in detail on my progress and learning so far. Thankfully I have made a lot of progress in the past couple of weeks I feel! The image below is from almost 2 weeks ago or perhaps less where I laid all my work
- [The Color Purple- Imagery printed onto Fabric!](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/color-purple-imagery-printed-onto-fabric/) - This week my imagery was printed onto fabric which is something I've never done before and a very exciting part of this project for me! 'The Color Purple' is an epistolary novel, made up of letters in communication between protagonist Celie and eventually her sister Nettie. Individually, the letters don't bear much meaning but when
- [My Final Piece!](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/final-piece/) - This week and last week has been an incredibly stressful week in pushing to get my final piece perfect for the fabric printing deadline which was this Tuesday. I spent a long time making sure the piece was right and it went through a lot of changes but now I think it is up to
- [Thoughts on my upcoming MA Children's Book Illustration!](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/thoughts-upcoming-ma-childrens-book-illustration/) - About three weeks ago I was over the moon to learn that I'd been accepted onto MA Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University on a part time basis over 2.5 years! I think I'd always known an MA was right for me since the end of second year at university
- [Sketching Sooty](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/sketching-sooty/) - In preparation for lots of observational, first hand drawing in my MA I have been drawing my pet rabbit Sooty who is ten years old in August! The first image is one of my sketchbook pages using charcoal and the other more refined images are ones I actually did first hand also. I was pretty
- [Observation and Experiment](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/ma-childrens-book-illustration/observation-experiment/) - For my first ever project as a Cambridge School of Art student I'll be completing the module 'Observation and Experiment' which involves very much what is stated in the title. For this we had to chose a theme to base lots of first hand, observational drawing around. I decided to focus this around my home
- [Mother's Day Card](https://lucydillamore.com/personal-work/mothers-day-card/) - Here is a simple pencil drawn Mother's Day card I made for my Mum!
- [A 'Back to the Future' Birthday Card for Dad](https://lucydillamore.com/blog/a-back-to-the-future-birthday-card-for-dad/) - It was my dear old Dad's birthday recently and as always I made him a card. This year I went for a 'back to the future' theme and the card showcases Dad next to Marty McFly in a scene from Back to the Future III. I was pretty happy with this! I used ink and
- [Dry point printing](https://lucydillamore.com/uniprojects/dry-point-printing/) - Throughout this term at uni we've been having different print tutorials in Anglia Ruskin's amazing print rooms. Today we did some dry point printing and worked in groups of three to create prints based on seasons: ours was autumn! The process involved scratching / drawing into clear plastic firstly to create the image and for

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- [About](https://lucydillamore.com/about/) - Hello there! I'm an children's illustrator / author living in Lincolnshire, UK. My debut picture book 'Nipper and the Lunchbox' (Child's Play) was published in the UK, USA and Australia in 2018. The book also has three co-editions (danish, dutch and turkish) and features in the 2018 Peters' calendar. In 2019 it was nominated for
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## Portfolio

- [The Fox and the Songbird](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/the-fox-and-the-songbird-2/) - Taken from a dummy book I'm working on.
- [Bear Shop](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/bear-shop/) - Drawn for the Colour Collective challenge.
- [Cuddles](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/cuddles/)
- [Rufus](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/rufus-3/) - Spread from a picture book I'm working on
- [Coco and Goldie - A tale of two tails](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/coco-and-goldie-a-tale-of-two-tails/) - Spreads from a picture book idea I'm working on based on my dogs, Coco and Goldie!
- [Observational Sketchbook Drawings](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/observational-sketchbook-drawings/) - Observational drawings taken straight from my sketchbook.
- [Mermaid](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/mermaid/) - A lovely 'Draw this in your Style' challenge popped up on my feed by @janepicaart on instagram and I had to have a go!
- [Red and Grey](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/red-and-grey/) - Red and Grey is a picture book story I am developing about two squirrels who agree on everything - apart from whether it's better to live in the forest or the city!
- [Red and Grey](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/red-and-grey-city-scene/) - Snippets from a picture book idea based on a red and grey squirrel, set in New York.
- [Lily & Grandad](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/garden/) - This is an image taken from a garden themed picture book idea. The story features a girl and her grandad. I used gouache and layers of watercolour pencils to create the piece.
- [Taylor Swift Eras Fanart](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/taylor-swift-eras-fanart/) - A series of illustrations inspired by Taylor Swift (my favourite artist of course) 's upcoming Eras Tour. Each illustration is inspired by one of her albums.
- [Daisy's Sandcastle - Beach Scene](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/beach-scene/) - Development work for a picture book story I'm working on about a girl and her seagull friend at the beach. Created using gouache paint and watercolour pencil.
- [Coco and Goldie](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/coco-and-goldie/) - Spreads from a picture book idea I’m working on based on my dogs, Coco and Goldie!
- [Camping](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/camping/) - Camping illustration drawn for the Colour Collective challenge.
- [Rufus](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/rufus/) - Developmental work from a picture book I'm working on, set in Paris.
- [Swimmers](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/swimmers/) - Drawn for the Colour Collective challenge.
- [Daisy's Sandcastle](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/seaside/) - Development work from a story I'm working on about a seagull and a girl at the seaside
- [Lily](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/lily/) - Character development work from a project I'm working on.
- [Nipper and the Lunchbox](https://lucydillamore.com/portfolio/nipper-and-the-lunchbox/) - Nipper and the Lunchbox is my debut picture book as an author / illustrator. It is based on a real life rescue dog called Nipper and his real life owner Richard. It was published by Child's Play in 2018 in the UK, USA and Australia and has both Danish, Dutch and Turkish co editions. The

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