Zoë van Dijk

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The cover and slipcase. Artwork by Zoë van Dijk.

Title page. Artwork by Zoë van Dijk.

Double-page spread. Artwork by Zoë van Dijk.

Wow, @foliosociety.bsky.social’s illustrated edition of Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven looks gorgeous! Stunning artwork by @creepcaptain.bsky.social! www.foliosociety.com/row/station-...

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Julie you’re on fire!! 😍 so many beautiful drawings

Hmmm! I'm not opposed to it but it I think it would be only if someone else organized it, I am unfortunately usually too busy to put together things like that on my own :,) Classes are great because I can just dip in for two hours -- someone else did all the heavy infrastructure work

Slide that says HELLO. MY NAME IS ZOE VAN DIJK. alongside a picture of me as a child dressed as a cat smiling like a ding dong.

I am a professional.

Another hour and a half talk with unhinged slideshow: complete

Things I talk about -- how to organize your promotional e-mailing list and find art directors to e-mail! How to invoice! How to read a contract! How to ask for more money! And most importantly, how to not be an asshole - the most underappreciated and underutilized skillset in the commercial arts!!

Boromir saying "one does not simply sign a contract without reading it."

Doing a business of illustration talk over zoom today. I love talking about running a freelance business & granular topics like contracts, soft skills and promo e-mailing. If anybody ever wants me to do a zoom talk for your class, please do reach out! I don't bite! But I do make terrible memes. 🥺

Me and Carmen Pizarro at Emerald City Comicon

We out here!

Omg two of my favorite cuties in one booth what. A DREAM.

tattooing is great. I need to pay my rent tho lol.

Crop of an illustration mid progress. A beleaguered looking man in a black tunic and red cape with shoulder length black hair holds a sword in one hand and the figure of a woman in the other, her arm slung around his shoulder and a pink glowing crystal in her hand. Behind them a ball of flames illuminates their silhouettes.

In progress: our tired prince simply cannot believe this shit.

Look at that juicy tailllll

These are all so fantastic Ashley!

Cover art for Forest of the Pygmies, part of the Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar series by Isabel Allende, featuring a crocodile and a leopard twisting around each other with water splashing around them

Here's the final piece of cover art I made for the new edition of the Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar Series by Isabel Allende. This is for the third and final book, Forest of the Pygmies!

Many thanks to AD Lucia Baez

I first read it when I was 12 or 13 😭 and I found it really powerful!

And they're done! I'm so happy with how this turned out. I'm starting to feel a little more confident in being able to produce finished illustrations in traditional media, not just studies. 😊This is watercolor + gouache., with a little bit of color pencil and pastel for final touches.

I KNOW. Like, god bless this man who she frequently describes as being plain to borderline ugly. It's so boring that love stories now are based on the groundbreaking premise that "two extremely hot people, *against all odds*, find each other and fall in love"

Deerskin! such a beautiful fairytale of a book full of trauma but also, dogs 😌 wonderful dogs

You're telling me, I just reread a fantasy book I love from '93 that ends in the main character period blood blasting the floor of a throne room during a wedding. Hell yeah, the spice must flow.

Will never stop reposting Rose Schmits's beautiful cryptid vessels any time they show up on my feed.

There are so many fantasy and sci fi books I love from the 80s/90s that would never COULD NEVER be published today and its such a loss.

Art & Nationality ☀️

Thank you 😌❤️

Photo of my X-Files artwork and Kissing artwork on semi gloss paper with my signature in the corner.

Shipping off some prints to a fundraiser in Kansas City I’m donating them to. Always nice to see my work as a big juicy piece of physical paper

New work.

This Thursday at the Revue Cinema - Designing the Movies presents a 60th anniversary screening of the classic, hugely influential BLOW UP.

Starring David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave, this is a must watch!

revuecinema.ca/films/design...

I'm not religious but it's statements like these that make me crave a bigger, worse hell. Hell 2

Illustration, in greens, ochres and yellowish neutrals -- view from above through the limbs of a tree, dark green leaves frame Kirsten, with short blonde hair, wearing a blue dress, crouched over the prophet in the middle of a road. He is laying flat on his black, in old torn up and patched pants, suspenders and a dirty grey tshirt. She is closing his eyes. A pool of blood spreads underneath his head. Around them, three knives and a shotgun radiate out from their figures. It's a sunny day.

Death of the prophet, one of seven interior illustrations for Folio Society's edition of STATION ELEVEN. This was such an interesting piece to draw -- the death of the prophet happens in the middle of the day, in summer. A sunny death scene is a delicate challenge. It goes on sale tomorrow!