Adolie writes:

“Hi Lilla,
Last week I made a new series, with cute and retro child.
It will be postcard for La Marelle, my french editor ;-) with watercolor, acrylic”

Jillian writes:

“I have been dreaming about making magazine covers, and had to have a play today!!”

John writes:

Hi Lilla,

I recently completed 9 spots and 1 cover illustration for Wellesley Magazine.
It was a fantastic project to work on. Here are a few of my favorites from the set.

Adoliw writes:

“Hi Lilla,
Here is an original illustration for a big Canadian charity ball,
Ink, watercolor, acrylic and color pen
My best.”

Mike writes:

“Here’s a map that I did for the cover Atlanta’s Creative Loafing.

It’s based off of another map that I did of a few of my favorite
spots in my hometown. Check out my “Favorite Places in Atlanta”
print here.

See more of Jillian’s work here.

Trina writes:

“Hi Lilla

Each month I illustrate the opinion column in the UK journal Bulletin which is the short name for The Official Magazine of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

I love illustrating for specialist and trade magazines as often the text is very dense and sometimes dry and uses language specific to it’s field…so I have to go away and look the occasional word up and find things out. I love getting a glimpse into a world that can be very known to it’s readers but new and unknown to me.

In Bulletin some of the articles are taken from research papers others are sometimes personal stories from the speech therapists or their service users. The second type tend to stay with me longer – like the one about a man with a stutter whose career advisor’s only advice was to apply for jobs that wouldn’t involve speaking….after a few years he took no notice and went on to have a very successful career (the illustration of boy on a ladder).”

Trina writes:

“Hi Lilla

I loved illustrating this book so much!

It was for Running Press and written by Meg Cox. It’s packed full of great suggestions on how to create personal family rituals and traditions – it has a really imaginative and cosy feeling text. I’ve worked as a nanny and also as an au pair many times over the years and as I drew these pictures it was amazing how many memories and wonderful days spend in the company of children came flooding back to me!

I also loved the challenge of working in two colours plus tints for the interior illustrations and as well as the forty illustrations I also produced a few repeat patterns that were used as backgrounds throughout the book.
I’ve included the two colour roughs I did for the cover.”

Jennifer Gasoi, singer of the album Throw a Penny in the Wishing Well wrote us:

“I’m getting amazing feedback from my fans re: Adolie’s artwork. The inside of the CD is gorgeous too.”

You can see and hear more of the album here. – Julia

Susy writes:

“hello Lilla,
I wanted share a project. I have been working on quite a a number pieces for selvedge magazine. It’s so nice to touch and handle as a publication; tactile, dense, and no nonsense!
One assignment thatI was processing is a set of illustrations about dyeing with natural dyes and the slow food movement.`Permaculture in California’ Is one of writer’s projects.
The pieces are written extremely densely..it’s sometimes hard for me to penetrate the text to make the illustrations I am going to do.SO I have to make a start..here goes…

I just start…I was just relating to the colours that might be distilled from various plants…they give variable colors depending where they come from in the world..and even between counties…I was amazed.