Julian Plum

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Couldn’t resist remaking this theater ghost light image as a properly moody black and white charcoal drawing.

Portfolio: www.davidhohn.com
Represented by: @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social

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Illustration of two siblings eating Taiwanese night market fried noodles at a well light stall manned by an auntie prepping more noodles

Hi #KidLitArtPostcard!

I’m Erica, an #illustrator seeking representation. I love drawing little moments and illustrating grand stories. I also work in a lot of styles focusing on intent, story, colour, and light!

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thank you!! it is my love letter to my past self and all current and future Weird Animal Kids. may they remain strong and strange

thank you!! I am highkey obsessed with the kid's expression in the toad one. me too kiddo. I get you.

An illustrated postcard with five spot illustrations of a kid mimicking animal movements. She crawls like an inchworm, sits like a toad, runs like a chipmunk, bows like a crane, and howls like a coyote. It reads in hand-lettered text, "Julian Plum, represented by Naomi Davis at BookEnds Literary, hello@julianplum.com"

Hello #KidLitArtPostcard day!! My name is Julian! I'm a queer 🏳️‍⚧️ picture book illustrator working in gouache and I would love to illustrate more cute picture books about weird little critters!

I'm represented by Naomi Davis @bookendsliterary.bsky.social
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Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! Grateful for how ubiquitous the Lunar New Year has become, and that so many more kids today (including my own) get to share it and celebrate it proudly!

Currently seeking representation for picture books!

#kidlitart #picturebookillustration #scbwiillustrators

my super cool pal Sarah Nicole Kennedy illustrated this and I am so proud!! it's so good!! happy book birthday!!!

White and yellow graphic with the logo for Lee & Low Books at the top. The graphic is titled “Contact the Governor Day - March 2nd”. Beneath the title is an illustration of a child with long blonde hair riding on the back of an open book that appears to be flying through the air. The child has one of their arms outreached, holding up a fist. There are two smaller open books flying on either side of them. At the bottom, body text says, “Swipe through for simple action items to help protect the Freedom to Read!”

Want to help defend our freedom to read? Join our friends at Lee & Low in celebrating Contact the Governor Day — happening TODAY, March 2nd!

Visit the link below for downloadable assets, pre-written letter templates, and more resources ⬇️

🔗 bit.ly/CTGday

SUCH a good book! It really is wild. I think visually new- and old-growth forests are easy enough to distinguish but there's so much that goes on under the surface, too. Robin Wall Kimmerer goes into it a little bit in Braiding Sweetgrass, too, as well as in Gathering Moss.

so I just want to say that it's worth fighting for amid everything else we need to fight for. We have to stand up for our land and our woods and our forests. we have to be better caretakers and better partners in this relationship we can't help but be part of.

When a forest is clear-cut, we are not only losing trees and habitat: we are losing mosses, ephemerals, herbs and animals and fungi and mycorrhizal networks that have taken forever to form. it is an incalculable loss of diversity and life and connection and it is HARD to rebuild.

I don't want to prophesy doom. We can grow them back, and also there is a staggering amount of biodiversity dependent on growth networks and relationships in an old-growth forest that take time and effort to replicate and we are still working to understand them all.

there are a hundred thousand things to fight. I want to speak for a moment about old-growth forests. without our voices to translate they are voiceless, and if they are clear-cut we will not get them back, full stop. they are gone. we can grow something new in their place, yes. but they are gone.

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production.

you have until March 23rd to comment.

i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

it's so fun to work with a lump in your throat and lead in your belly actually. I love it. all my cutest and best paintings are made this way. 🫠

is it fun or terrifying to be writing secret things for secret trans kidlit stuff today? who's to say! what am I feeling right now? WHO KNOWS! not me! something, that's for sure!

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

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Keep Minnesota Housed! Much of the medía has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction. Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds! #keepMNhoused

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation.

Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

That is SUCH a good point! Maybe I'll let them decide what makes more sense? It seems like it would be good to do it on a weekend early in the day so, you know, actual children can be there for the launch of the book for children, and then an illustration demo would absolutely make sense! thank you!

I didn't even consider a private for-friends party! oh, so much to consider! Maybe I can do both :|a

Carol, you are the absolute most generous font of information, thank you!! Buffalo Street is a great indie and will definitely have intel for me, super smart to reach out and ask. I'll do that! gonna make a big splash for this book :)

friends, colleagues, help a guy out: if I want to do a launch party for my debut picture book, is it better to do that on publication day? the following weekend? During the day? In the evening? Does this change if I am only the illustrator and not the author?? am I overthinking this?? HELP

Painting the ceiling too is such a power move, it looks SO good! My dream is to slowly paint my studio and then my whole house until it looks like a folktale threw up in all over it but alas. time.

It takes courage to believe a wish can take flight. WINGS SARAH GUILLORY jlg GOLD STANDARD Book cover of young girl holding egg with whooping crane flying behind her.

A WISH WITH WINGS was named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! Out May 2026!
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Dark blue graphic featuring a collage of square photo frames in the background, each frame depicting a close-up illustration of a book cover drawn by artist Nikkolas Smith. The slide is titled “BHM Spotlight: Nikkolas Smith”, and in front of the cover art collage is a headshot of author-illustrator Nikkolas Smith.

For your consideration this #BlackHistoryMonth—and beyond—let us introduce you to the work of award-winning author-illustrator Nikkolas Smith!

Dickinsonia my love, my light, my beautiful taxonomically-confusing quilt, you are perfect. I might even like you slightly more than charnia (sorry charnia!!!)

Photo of my ye olde trans rights and trans knights stickers

Photo of my Jekyll's potion wooden pins.

Photo of my victorian mourning jewellery button badges set

Photo of my spooky bookshelf print.

obligatory shoppe is now open post to support me in my top surgery recovery! thank you so much! ✨💖🏳️‍⚧️

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every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com

*of trans men, character limits strike me again. Thanks for adding this point, I wanted to add!

100%! they are absolutely not thinking trans men. when they do we get harassed too. this line of logic hurts gnc cis women too and positions them even more as "other". That and it just hurts to see whole piles of cis folks piling onto these jokes like "haha yeah we'd hate those gross guys!"