Nicola Schofield
@nicolaschofield.com
Children's book illustrator and author in the UK. Urbansketcher. Creating colourful worlds & characters
🌐 https://nicolaschofield.com
✏️ https://nicolaschofield.com/newsletter/
💌 [email protected]
Represented by Sally Kim at ABLA
#kidLitArt
🌐 https://nicolaschofield.com
✏️ https://nicolaschofield.com/newsletter/
💌 [email protected]
Represented by Sally Kim at ABLA
#kidLitArt
This is a pencil and watercolour sketch I did on location of a derelict building near where I live. You can see the trees growing out of it.
This was ages ago though and I've watched it be renovated and restored over the last few years.
#walktosee #architecture #sketch
This was ages ago though and I've watched it be renovated and restored over the last few years.
#walktosee #architecture #sketch
January 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This is a pencil and watercolour sketch I did on location of a derelict building near where I live. You can see the trees growing out of it.
This was ages ago though and I've watched it be renovated and restored over the last few years.
#walktosee #architecture #sketch
This was ages ago though and I've watched it be renovated and restored over the last few years.
#walktosee #architecture #sketch
#kidlitartpostcard day snuck up on me!
But I spent some time at the end of 2025 organising my files & illustrations and found lots of old traditional stuff that I still love
So have this watercolour (+ a bit of white acrylic for the feathers) of some budgies
#kidlitart #painting #birds
But I spent some time at the end of 2025 organising my files & illustrations and found lots of old traditional stuff that I still love
So have this watercolour (+ a bit of white acrylic for the feathers) of some budgies
#kidlitart #painting #birds
January 8, 2026 at 4:37 PM
#kidlitartpostcard day snuck up on me!
But I spent some time at the end of 2025 organising my files & illustrations and found lots of old traditional stuff that I still love
So have this watercolour (+ a bit of white acrylic for the feathers) of some budgies
#kidlitart #painting #birds
But I spent some time at the end of 2025 organising my files & illustrations and found lots of old traditional stuff that I still love
So have this watercolour (+ a bit of white acrylic for the feathers) of some budgies
#kidlitart #painting #birds
Art and artist 2025
I hope you're spending the week between Christmas and New Year relaxing, having fun, and being creative
Actually, I wish that for you for every week of 2026
#kidlitart #illustration
I hope you're spending the week between Christmas and New Year relaxing, having fun, and being creative
Actually, I wish that for you for every week of 2026
#kidlitart #illustration
December 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Art and artist 2025
I hope you're spending the week between Christmas and New Year relaxing, having fun, and being creative
Actually, I wish that for you for every week of 2026
#kidlitart #illustration
I hope you're spending the week between Christmas and New Year relaxing, having fun, and being creative
Actually, I wish that for you for every week of 2026
#kidlitart #illustration
I've been having a go at creating some new colour palettes. I wanted something with a bright pink/purple. I super like this combo!
#kidlitart
#kidlitart
December 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I've been having a go at creating some new colour palettes. I wanted something with a bright pink/purple. I super like this combo!
#kidlitart
#kidlitart
December 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Happy December #kidlitartpostcard day!
When does winter feel like it's truly started for you?
More work here:
🌐 Nicolaschofield.com
I'm open for picturebook work in 2026. contact my lovely agent @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
#kidlitart #illustration #picturebooks
When does winter feel like it's truly started for you?
More work here:
🌐 Nicolaschofield.com
I'm open for picturebook work in 2026. contact my lovely agent @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
#kidlitart #illustration #picturebooks
December 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Happy December #kidlitartpostcard day!
When does winter feel like it's truly started for you?
More work here:
🌐 Nicolaschofield.com
I'm open for picturebook work in 2026. contact my lovely agent @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
#kidlitart #illustration #picturebooks
When does winter feel like it's truly started for you?
More work here:
🌐 Nicolaschofield.com
I'm open for picturebook work in 2026. contact my lovely agent @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
#kidlitart #illustration #picturebooks
I completely forgot to post the last day of Folktale week!
Here's an illustration of the whole (hole) journey.
You see a light up ahead and realise, as you pop out of the hole, that the sun is rising. You've been falling all night. Tonight you'll bring sandwiches!
#folktaleweek
#kidlitart
Here's an illustration of the whole (hole) journey.
You see a light up ahead and realise, as you pop out of the hole, that the sun is rising. You've been falling all night. Tonight you'll bring sandwiches!
#folktaleweek
#kidlitart
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I completely forgot to post the last day of Folktale week!
Here's an illustration of the whole (hole) journey.
You see a light up ahead and realise, as you pop out of the hole, that the sun is rising. You've been falling all night. Tonight you'll bring sandwiches!
#folktaleweek
#kidlitart
Here's an illustration of the whole (hole) journey.
You see a light up ahead and realise, as you pop out of the hole, that the sun is rising. You've been falling all night. Tonight you'll bring sandwiches!
#folktaleweek
#kidlitart
Folktale week day 6: storm
You'd hoped the charm would send you home, or at least to Kansas. But instead you are swept up in a storm. Not knowing which way is up or down any more, you continue to fall.
#folktaleweek
#folktaleweek2025
#kidlitart
You'd hoped the charm would send you home, or at least to Kansas. But instead you are swept up in a storm. Not knowing which way is up or down any more, you continue to fall.
#folktaleweek
#folktaleweek2025
#kidlitart
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Folktale week day 6: storm
You'd hoped the charm would send you home, or at least to Kansas. But instead you are swept up in a storm. Not knowing which way is up or down any more, you continue to fall.
#folktaleweek
#folktaleweek2025
#kidlitart
You'd hoped the charm would send you home, or at least to Kansas. But instead you are swept up in a storm. Not knowing which way is up or down any more, you continue to fall.
#folktaleweek
#folktaleweek2025
#kidlitart
Folktale week day 5: charm
How long have you been falling now? Minutes? Hours? Days!?
All you know is, you're hungry. You need a way to get home. You start repeating a little charm to yourself. If it worked for Dorothy...
#folktaleweek
#kidlitart
#folktaleweek2025
How long have you been falling now? Minutes? Hours? Days!?
All you know is, you're hungry. You need a way to get home. You start repeating a little charm to yourself. If it worked for Dorothy...
#folktaleweek
#kidlitart
#folktaleweek2025
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Folktale week day 5: charm
How long have you been falling now? Minutes? Hours? Days!?
All you know is, you're hungry. You need a way to get home. You start repeating a little charm to yourself. If it worked for Dorothy...
#folktaleweek
#kidlitart
#folktaleweek2025
How long have you been falling now? Minutes? Hours? Days!?
All you know is, you're hungry. You need a way to get home. You start repeating a little charm to yourself. If it worked for Dorothy...
#folktaleweek
#kidlitart
#folktaleweek2025
Folktale week day 4: book
So I guess you live in this hole now? Falling forever. Better get used to it I suppose. Luckily it seems to have its own library. You read Alice in Wonderland and think perhaps she was here before you.
#folktaleweek
#folktaleweek2025
#kidlitart
So I guess you live in this hole now? Falling forever. Better get used to it I suppose. Luckily it seems to have its own library. You read Alice in Wonderland and think perhaps she was here before you.
#folktaleweek
#folktaleweek2025
#kidlitart
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Folktale week day 4: book
So I guess you live in this hole now? Falling forever. Better get used to it I suppose. Luckily it seems to have its own library. You read Alice in Wonderland and think perhaps she was here before you.
#folktaleweek
#folktaleweek2025
#kidlitart
So I guess you live in this hole now? Falling forever. Better get used to it I suppose. Luckily it seems to have its own library. You read Alice in Wonderland and think perhaps she was here before you.
#folktaleweek
#folktaleweek2025
#kidlitart
Folktale week day 3: rain
You realise the bottom of this hole is nowhere in sight and relax a little. Droplets of water splash in your face. It must be raining up there!
#folktaleweek
#folktaleweek2025
#kidlitart
You realise the bottom of this hole is nowhere in sight and relax a little. Droplets of water splash in your face. It must be raining up there!
#folktaleweek
#folktaleweek2025
#kidlitart
November 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Folktale week day 3: rain
You realise the bottom of this hole is nowhere in sight and relax a little. Droplets of water splash in your face. It must be raining up there!
#folktaleweek
#folktaleweek2025
#kidlitart
You realise the bottom of this hole is nowhere in sight and relax a little. Droplets of water splash in your face. It must be raining up there!
#folktaleweek
#folktaleweek2025
#kidlitart
Folktale week day 2: Echo
You shout for help as you fall, but the sound just echoes emptily all around you.
#folktaleweek
#folktaleweek2025
#kidlitart
#watercolour
@folktaleweek.bsky.social
You shout for help as you fall, but the sound just echoes emptily all around you.
#folktaleweek
#folktaleweek2025
#kidlitart
#watercolour
@folktaleweek.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Folktale week day 2: Echo
You shout for help as you fall, but the sound just echoes emptily all around you.
#folktaleweek
#folktaleweek2025
#kidlitart
#watercolour
@folktaleweek.bsky.social
You shout for help as you fall, but the sound just echoes emptily all around you.
#folktaleweek
#folktaleweek2025
#kidlitart
#watercolour
@folktaleweek.bsky.social
Folktale week day 1: Night
Walking home on a moonless November night, you trip and fall down a hole that definitely probably wasn't there yesterday.
#folktaleweek
#kidlitart
#folktaleweeknight
#folktaleweek2025
Walking home on a moonless November night, you trip and fall down a hole that definitely probably wasn't there yesterday.
#folktaleweek
#kidlitart
#folktaleweeknight
#folktaleweek2025
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Folktale week day 1: Night
Walking home on a moonless November night, you trip and fall down a hole that definitely probably wasn't there yesterday.
#folktaleweek
#kidlitart
#folktaleweeknight
#folktaleweek2025
Walking home on a moonless November night, you trip and fall down a hole that definitely probably wasn't there yesterday.
#folktaleweek
#kidlitart
#folktaleweeknight
#folktaleweek2025
Today I've been crafting snowmen from felt and toilet roll tubes with my four-year-old ⛄
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Today I've been crafting snowmen from felt and toilet roll tubes with my four-year-old ⛄
Flying by the seat of my pants this year!
With two days left until it starts, I've decided I'm joining Folktale week!
Who else is taking part?
#folktaleweek
#illustration
#kidlitart
@folktaleweek.bsky.social
With two days left until it starts, I've decided I'm joining Folktale week!
Who else is taking part?
#folktaleweek
#illustration
#kidlitart
@folktaleweek.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Flying by the seat of my pants this year!
With two days left until it starts, I've decided I'm joining Folktale week!
Who else is taking part?
#folktaleweek
#illustration
#kidlitart
@folktaleweek.bsky.social
With two days left until it starts, I've decided I'm joining Folktale week!
Who else is taking part?
#folktaleweek
#illustration
#kidlitart
@folktaleweek.bsky.social
It's an autumnal #kidlitartpostcard day!
The trees are busy changing colour & flinging leaves off in all directions. Huge piles sit around periodically crunchy and soggy. Winter is approaching fast!
🌐 Nicolaschofield.com
Rep by @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
#kidlitart
The trees are busy changing colour & flinging leaves off in all directions. Huge piles sit around periodically crunchy and soggy. Winter is approaching fast!
🌐 Nicolaschofield.com
Rep by @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
#kidlitart
November 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It's an autumnal #kidlitartpostcard day!
The trees are busy changing colour & flinging leaves off in all directions. Huge piles sit around periodically crunchy and soggy. Winter is approaching fast!
🌐 Nicolaschofield.com
Rep by @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
#kidlitart
The trees are busy changing colour & flinging leaves off in all directions. Huge piles sit around periodically crunchy and soggy. Winter is approaching fast!
🌐 Nicolaschofield.com
Rep by @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
#kidlitart
October 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Hello #portfolioday !
I am a #kidlit illustrator (of many things) and author (of picturebooks) and here is a little snapshot of my portfolio.
For a closer look, head to NicolaSchofield.com
I'm repped by @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
#kitlitart #pb #illustration
I am a #kidlit illustrator (of many things) and author (of picturebooks) and here is a little snapshot of my portfolio.
For a closer look, head to NicolaSchofield.com
I'm repped by @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
#kitlitart #pb #illustration
October 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Hello #portfolioday !
I am a #kidlit illustrator (of many things) and author (of picturebooks) and here is a little snapshot of my portfolio.
For a closer look, head to NicolaSchofield.com
I'm repped by @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
#kitlitart #pb #illustration
I am a #kidlit illustrator (of many things) and author (of picturebooks) and here is a little snapshot of my portfolio.
For a closer look, head to NicolaSchofield.com
I'm repped by @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
#kitlitart #pb #illustration
I love the variety of seed delivery / dispersement systems trees have come up with!
These four can all be seen 20 seconds walk from my house this month!
Some hurt more than others if they land on your head 🙃
#kidlitart #illustration #autumn
These four can all be seen 20 seconds walk from my house this month!
Some hurt more than others if they land on your head 🙃
#kidlitart #illustration #autumn
October 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I love the variety of seed delivery / dispersement systems trees have come up with!
These four can all be seen 20 seconds walk from my house this month!
Some hurt more than others if they land on your head 🙃
#kidlitart #illustration #autumn
These four can all be seen 20 seconds walk from my house this month!
Some hurt more than others if they land on your head 🙃
#kidlitart #illustration #autumn
October 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I wasn't completely happy with my #kidlitartpostcard this month, so I've been redoing it. Here's the result! I prefer the colour palette here and I also worked as if I were making it traditionally. (My previous version I tried out aaaaallll the new procreate brushes 😅)
#kidlitart #illustration
#kidlitart #illustration
October 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I wasn't completely happy with my #kidlitartpostcard this month, so I've been redoing it. Here's the result! I prefer the colour palette here and I also worked as if I were making it traditionally. (My previous version I tried out aaaaallll the new procreate brushes 😅)
#kidlitart #illustration
#kidlitart #illustration
Look at this acorn. So shiny!
It just fell on my head.
It just fell on my head.
October 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Look at this acorn. So shiny!
It just fell on my head.
It just fell on my head.
It's #kidlitartpostcard day!
I'm a UK based author-illustrator, available to work on picturebooks and black and white interiors. I also have a few of my own dummies ready.
🌐 NicolaSchofield.com
Get in touch with me or my lovely agent @sallymkim.bsky.social
#kidlitart @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
I'm a UK based author-illustrator, available to work on picturebooks and black and white interiors. I also have a few of my own dummies ready.
🌐 NicolaSchofield.com
Get in touch with me or my lovely agent @sallymkim.bsky.social
#kidlitart @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
It's #kidlitartpostcard day!
I'm a UK based author-illustrator, available to work on picturebooks and black and white interiors. I also have a few of my own dummies ready.
🌐 NicolaSchofield.com
Get in touch with me or my lovely agent @sallymkim.bsky.social
#kidlitart @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
I'm a UK based author-illustrator, available to work on picturebooks and black and white interiors. I also have a few of my own dummies ready.
🌐 NicolaSchofield.com
Get in touch with me or my lovely agent @sallymkim.bsky.social
#kidlitart @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
September 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM