Julie Dillon

Julie Dillon (born in 1982) is an American artist specializing in science fiction and fantasy art.

A freelance illustrator, Dillon has created images for games, book and magazine covers, and covers for musical albums.

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 Alphonse Mucha, Jon Foster, John William Waterhouse and Andrew Jones as artists who have influenced her work.

Dillon's work has been nominated for the Chesley Award five times; she won the 2010 Chesley Award for Best Unpublished Color for "Planetary Alignment" (subsequently published as a cover for Clarkesworld Magazine), as well as the 2011 Chesley Award for "The Dala Horse" in Best Interior Illustration.

She was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Artist in 2012 and received the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist in 2014, 2015, and 2017.

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.

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.

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.