I'm Julie Mapes, a comic creator and textile designer.
I studied textile design at DJCAD, graduating in 2017. In that time, I won an RSA Eddie Squires award for innovative, sustainable textiles as well as winning a competition hosted by Brora, my entry for which was named by The Telegraph as one of the "22 Snazzy Jumpers of 2016."
I cycled around the Baltic Sea in 2018, filling sketchbooks as I went. This experience awakened something in me that I wanted to keep alive even after I returned home, and so I began my several-year-long Daily Drawing project, which I kept up even while working full-time as a knitwear supervisor at Eribe Knitwear (2019 - present).
After procuring an iPad in 2022, I quickly adapted to the digital workflow, but I still enjoy painting traditionally as well. I consider being able to use both traditional and digital media to be one of my strengths.
When I'm not busy climbing rocks and travelling the world, I'm working om comics and attending as many conventions as I can!