disability

I’m thrilled to announce that I’m the illustrator attached to the book ‘Find Your Fabulous’ by author, confidence educator and motivational speaker Vie Portland of Vieness CIC.

Vie has published several inclusive children’s books, but this will be her first non-fiction book, based on the inclusive confidence building workshops she runs in schools around the UK. It will be our first time working together and our shared values make this a really exciting project to be a part of.

It’s currently in the crowdfunding stage, with an early sketch shown above!

The book illustrations will consciously depict children with visible disabilities and neuro-diversity. You can also choose a funding option whereby your child’s likeness will be included in the book!

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Bunny’s Burrow is an app being produced by developer Jed Merrington with the aim to close the gender learning gap at Key Stage 2. I designed the lead Bunny character and produced 22 illustrations showing his full range of moods and emotions, and the character partaking in several activities. These will be shown as static images or lightly animated within the app.

The designs are specifically aimed to encourage boys, with dyslexia and other learning disabilities to engage with short narrative story creation using the app with a phone or tablet. The illustrations being full vector based and editable by the app developers was an important aspect of the brief, as was consistency of the character design.

Literacy, dyslexia support and encouraging children to engage with creative writing and creating stories is something really close to my heart, I was thrilled to work on this project.

Lottie Thomson

hello@lottiethomson.com – Childrens illustrator available for book commissions, editorial and freelance work.

Find Your Fabulous – Children’s Non-Fiction Book on Self Confidence.

Bunny Character illustrations – For Bunny’s Burrow – Children’s literacy app.