Julie Dillon (born in 1982) is an American artist specializing in

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''Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews'', July 8, 2009. Accessed 1-28-2013 A freelance illustrator, Dillon has created images for games, book and magazine covers, and covers for musical albums. Dillon's work has been nominated for the Chesley Award three times; she won the 2010 Chesley Award for Best Unpublished Color for "Planetary Alignment" (subsequently published as a cover for ''

Clarkesworld Magazine ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (ISSN 1937-7843) is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It released its first issue October 1, 2006 and has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Elizabe ...

''), as well as the 2011 Chesley Award for "The Dala Horse" in Best Interior Illustration. She was nominated for the

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for Best Artist in 2012 and received the

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in 2014, 2015, and 2017. She also received two Chesley Awards in 2015 for the Best Cover Illustrations for a magazine and a hardback book. Dillon lives and works in California.

Biography

Dillon received a BFA in Fine Arts from Sacramento State University in 2005, with continued education at the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco and Watts Atelier. In a 2009 interview, Dillon highlighted

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, John William Waterhouse and Andrew Jones as artists who have influenced her work. Dillon recently completed art for the Llewellyn Worldwide Astrology 2014 calendar. In 2014 Dillon successfully ran a kickstarter campaign to fund self-publication of a fantasy art collection titled ''Imagined Realms: Book 1''. In 2015 Dillon successfully ran a kickstarter campaign to fund self-publication of a second collection with a science fiction theme, titled ''Imagined Realms: Book 2''.Imagined Realms: Book 2 - Earth and Sky by Julie Dillon
Crowd-funded project on kickstarter.com. Accessed 04-06-2015

Awards and nominations

* Winner of Best Color Work, Best Artist, and Best in Show at ArmadilloCon Art Show * Included in ''Spectrum 17'', ''Spectrum 18'', and ''Spectrum 19'' * "Artificial Dreams" featured as the cover art for Corel Painter 12’s 20th Anniversary

Bibliography

Notable covers

* "Snow, Glass, Apples" by Neil Gaiman (Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab chapter book) * ''Crossed Genres'', Issue 12 (Nov 2009) * "Honeycomb", ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (September 2010) * "The Never Never Wizard of Apalachicola", by Jason Sanford - used in Issue 20 of ''InterGalactic Medicine Show'' (Dec 2010), as well as on the cover of ''InterGalactic Awards Anthology, Volume I'', both edited by Edmund R. Schubert and

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* "Nautili", ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (February 2011) * "Gold Sea", ''Lightspeed Magazine'' (May 2011) * "Under the Surface", by Nina Kiriki Hoffman - Issue 25, ''InterGalactic Medicine Show'' (Nov 2011) * "Planetary Alignment", ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (November 2011) * "Breaking Through", ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (October 2012) * ''Luck of the Draw'', by

Piers Anthony Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born 6 August 1934) is an American author in the science fiction and Fantasy (genre), fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is best known for his :Xanth books, long-running novel series set in ...

(December 2012) * ''The Dark is Rising'', by

Susan Cooper Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English author of children's books. She is best known for '' The Dark Is Rising'', a contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales, which incorporates British mythology such as the Arthurian le ...

(June 2013) * ''Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History'', edited by Rose Fox and

Daniel José Older Daniel José Older is an American fantasy and young adult fiction writer. His work includes the ''Shadowshaper'' ''Cypher'' series as well as novels in the ''Star'' ''Wars'' series. Career Older's career as a writer began in 2014, in the back ...

(January 2014)

References

External links

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''Lightspeed Magazine'' Artist Spotlight: Julie Dillon
by Erin Stocks
The Process of Creating "Nautili"
by Julie Dillon
The Incredible Digital Artwork of Julie Dillon
by Melody Nieves, Mar 3rd 2012 {{DEFAULTSORT:Dillon, Julie 1982 births Living people American illustrators American speculative fiction artists American women illustrators Analog Science Fiction and Fact people Artists from California Fantasy artists Science fiction artists 21st-century American women