Blayne Fox

is a professional children’s book illustrator & in-house comic artist for Astronewt Studio. Specializing in narrative nonfiction and animal pov, she's prolific in Photoshop with over a decade of digital painting experience. She uses her self-taught knowledge to bring stories to life through her expressive and diverse array of characters. Her work has been featured in multiple major publications by clients such as Scholastic, Brown Books, National Geographic Kids, Discovery Channel, Yale University, as well as smaller-scale projects directly with authors and numerous educational publishers. Blayne’s art style is cinematic, vivid, and dynamically composed of semi-realistic characters embodying diverse voices and backgrounds. Animal characters stand out with whimsical, expressive body language and studied anatomy from her love of wildlife and rescue. When not drawing animals, her focus on incorporating BIPOC and LGBTQ+ characters is of personal importance to her as a queer artist. Her next publishing goal is to obtain a literary agent that will help her achieve a lifelong dream of becoming an author/illustrator. Over the course of her career, she’s learned cohesive production during the picture book process, and having that inside knowledge only inspires her to create books that leave readers in awe after every ending.