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Camille Whitcher
@camillew.bsky.social
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Illustrator/author; csacbi👩🏻‍🎓, BESEA 日🇯🇵英🇬🇧ミックス🌟 she/her 🚫No AI/NFT🙅🏻‍♀️
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Rep'd by @tinyfairyhunter.bsky.social of ASH Literary Agency

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I missed #KidLitArtPostcard yesterday as I was sitting waiting for surgery in a hospital for hours... only to be told that my procedure had been cancelled😔. I also missed my rollerskating lesson😭🛼
Anyway, this is last month's that I forgot to post here 😅

#kidlitart #UKKidLit
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Hey all! I have an announcement 😬...
Proud to say I'm now represented by agent Paula Weiman @tinyfairyhunter.bsky.social of ASH Literary Agency🥳🙌🏼🎊

And now I need to get back to work. Thank you for reading😅

ashliterary.com#camillewhitc...
August 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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My longlisted entry for the Folio Book Illustration Award.
Researched quite a few things that gross me out, namely eye injuries and insects😅. The spider is a jorō-gumo. V. pretty V. creepy😬.
Graphite drawing w/ digital colouring using Affinity Photo😊

#bookillustration #rapunzel #foliobia
An illustration of tangled thorns and insects in the evening blue light. A closer look reveals a scratched up hand reaching out and a partially hidden face with the eye scratched and blinded.
July 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I got longlisted for the @foliosociety.bsky.social Book Illustration Award! 🥳

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration #foliobia
July 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Happy #PortfolioDay! I'm Camille, a UK based #kidlit illustrator/auther. Here's a few of my illos.
You can find more here...
www.camillewhitcher.co.uk ☺️
and here...
www.instagram.com/milly_of_bunston
🌻
#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration
July 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Apparently 23 days since I last posted😭.
So here's me continuing to share this year's calendar illos🥹. This is April😁.

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration
A brown haired girl walks her corgi in the rain. Both are wearing yellow raincoats. The girl also wears red boots and carries a light blue umbrella.
July 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Another illustration post from this year's calendar... here's March😁

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration
A girl with red rimmed glasses and her large white fluffy dog poke their heads out of the rear passenger window of a big yellow car... with tongues out in the wind.
June 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Illustration for February from my calendar this year😁

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration
#aquarium
View in an aquarium. A woman carrying a baby, the baby offers her dummy to a large fish. A girl stands palms against the aquarium glass, showing her toy bunny to a ray.
June 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Forgot to post my #kidlitartpostcard here😅
Happy first Thursday of the month! 🤗

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration
A little girl sits on a doorstep doing up her shoelaces as a brown dachshund approaches with some bunch of tulips in his mouth to offer her.
June 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I'm not good at social media🙃. Haven't posted here in 5 months😑. So now... I'm gonna scan with some pics from my 2025 calendar (so far!)😅.
Here is January😁

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration
A girl surrounded by cats on a pink couch in a pink room reading. It's dark, gloomy, and rainy outside.
June 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Quick #topnine post before 2024 is over. Hope you've all had a lovely year. No "new year, new me", just will carry on making little improvements where possible - try not to beat myself up over the "shoulda, woulda, coulda"s. Here's to 2025🥂

#kidlitart #UKKidLit #childrensbookillustration #topnine
December 31, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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If anyone is interested in purchasing my 2025 calendar, here's the link to my Insta post with more details. Only a handful left now🥲

www.instagram.com/p/DBJLhsTKBj...

#kidlitart #UKKidLit #childrensbookillustration
Photo of the cover of my 2025 calendar. Illustration features a close-up of the rear passenger window of a yellow car with a child and white dog both with their tongues out as the car speeds along.
December 10, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Last 2024 calendar illustration post!
December😊

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration
Two little elfin folk sitting on a hill at night wearing Santa style outfits watching the Aurora Borealis.
December 10, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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2024 calendar illustration for November 🤗

#UKKidLit #KidLitUK #childrensbookillustration #kidlitart #madeinaffinity
Digitally coloured pencil illustration of a squirrel stalking a little elfin person who is carrying a sack of collected acorns
December 7, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Continuing my calendar posts....October!

#Illustration #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration #UKKidLit #KidLitUK
Night time illustration of two elfin folk in a little grassy hole with a lamp light having a little secret meeting, maybe telling stories...
December 3, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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September illustration from this year's calendar😊

#Illustration #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration #UKKidLit #KidLitUK
Illustration of 5 little elfin folk walking in a line each carrying wheat stems. The cheeky one at the back is smacking the one in front of her over the head with the stem.
December 2, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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As it's now December, I really need to catch up posting pics from this year's calendar😆
Here's August...
#Illustration #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration #UKKidLit #KidLit
Digitally coloured pencil drawing of two tiny elfin folk harvesting redcurrants.
December 1, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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If you see this, post a fungi 🍄

[This is an oldie but I always loved using bleach and quink to get this glowy effect]

#Illustration #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration #UKKidLit #KidLitUK #art
Quink ink and bleach painting of a tiny forest spirit napping amongst glowing fungi
November 30, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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I'm posting the July illustration from my calendar this year....oh, and coincidentally, it's #nationalillustrationday! 🥳
#Illustration #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration #UKKidLit #KidLitUK
A digitally coloured pencil illustration of two tiny elfin folk with large daisy parasols taking a walk in a lush green forest.
November 29, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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QRP with your skull art

The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains

#Illustration #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration #UKKidLit #KidLitUK
In a Cave....A skeleton apparition with red hair tangled in a thorn tree looms over a little person wearing a hooded cape.
November 27, 2024 at 8:58 PM
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Another 2024 calendar pic catch up post... this is for June...🌼
#Illustration #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration #UKKidLit #KidLitUK
Illustration of two elfin girls peeking out of dandelions and daisies, checking to see if the coast is clear.
November 27, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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🌼Tiny bunny painting!🌼

If you see this, post a bunny!
A 2 inch square painting of a loafing fluffy white bunny eating a dandelion.
November 26, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie
Image of a grotesque alien face, perhaps from Original Star Trek? Caption in image 'every morning when I first wake up: "I must alter myself into a life-form which can exist on this planet."'
November 26, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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Repost you from a fifteen my era🥹

Me in Japan (maybe Osaka?🤔) a few months before my 3rd birthday. Holding my aunt's hand, wearing a dress my mum made (she made one for herself in the same fabric).
November 21, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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Continuing with my posting of this year's calendar pics....here's May😊
#Illustration #kidlitart #childrensbookillustration #UKKidLit #KidLitUK
Picture of a tiny elfin person snoozing whilst fishing at a pond. A curious water hole swims towards them....
November 19, 2024 at 9:32 AM