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Realize your dreams and make your own path with a service year. Animation by Tumblr Creatr, Lily Padula

All the places you’ll go! What will you accomplish in a year? Learn more at the Service Year Exchange. Animation by Tumblr Creatr, Lily Padula

Will you choose to make an impact? Find out how at the Service Year Exchange. Animation by Tumblr Creatr, Lily Padula

Thanks to Creatr, Lily Padula for this logo remix of our campaign, Serve A Year!  To learn more about how you can serve a year, check out theService year Exchangetoday!

Illustration done for The Boston Globe book review, about a novel called “The Boy in the Field” which follows three siblings lives after they discover a nearly dead man in a field near their house.

Illustration for NBC news, about teenage children who wish to get vaccinated against their parents wishes.

Older illustration for The New York Times, about tensions between airbnb landlords and renters.

Illustration for The Atlantic, on the enduring mystery of whales and human’s long and fraught relationship with them. I’ve always had recurring dreams with whales, so this was a very dear assignment to get. Many thanks to my AD Arsh!

Illustration done for The New York Times on the immorality of the CRISPR babies and editing the human genome.

©Lily Padula 2018

Illustration for Longreads, to accompany a great essay meditating on the similarities between pregnancy and possession and how pop culture has long conflated the two.

“This moment felt like the movie The Truman Show. On my end, I was happy and unbothered…I didn’t think there was anything I needed to know, while everyone around me knew something I didn’t… this moment felt like betrayal, but of self.”

This is one of my favorite projects from 2018. I illustrated 8 different people’s description of their anxiety as part of a book project for DScout. As someone who suffers from anxiety, it was a truly wonderful opportunity to help bring visuals to others’ experiences with the condition. 

“I feel small, surrounded by foreign objects like aliens or whatnot. I'm helpless and can’t reach towards anyone to help.”

This is one of my favorite projects from 2018. I illustrated 8 different people’s description of their anxiety as part of a book project for DScout. As someone who suffers from anxiety, it was a truly wonderful opportunity to help bring visuals to others’ experiences with the condition.

“…it felt like I was in this huge empty room and everyone was watching me from the sidelines, not helping with my tasks, but judging my every move.”

This is one of my favorite projects from 2018. I illustrated 8 different people’s description of their anxiety as part of a book project for DScout. As someone who suffers from anxiety, it was a truly wonderful opportunity to help bring visuals to others’ experiences with the condition. 

“This moment felt like I was being shouted at by a million people at once and I wasn’t sure who to turn to first. I was unsure who to choose and it was very stressful.”

This is one of my favorite projects from 2018. I illustrated 8 different people’s description of their anxiety as part of a book project for DScout. As someone who suffers from anxiety, it was a truly wonderful opportunity to help bring visuals to others’ experiences with the condition. 

“This moment felt dark and empty, like I was in a small box. As if I was sitting in a dark, cold, tiny box and looking at everyone else living in huge figures of different shapes and vivid colors.”

This is one of my favorite projects from 2018. I illustrated 8 different people’s description of their anxiety as part of a book project for DScout. As someone who suffers from anxiety, it was a truly wonderful opportunity to help bring visuals to others’ experiences with the condition. 

“This moment felt like translucent panic. It felt like an alternate world where I was a goldfish in a tank watching humans go about their normal lives. What was watching around me looked normal. What I was feeling was a feeling that I have been through before.. but both of these things together created a situation that shrank me down to goldfish size.”

This is one of my favorite projects from 2018. I illustrated 8 different people’s description of their anxiety as part of a book project for DScout. As someone who suffers from anxiety, it was a truly wonderful opportunity to help bring visuals to others’ experiences with the condition.

“It felt like there was a certain shape I had to be, and I didn’t seem to fit in right. I was too large, and I was not what the guideline wanted me to be.”

This is one of my favorite projects from 2018. I illustrated 8 different people’s description of their anxiety as part of a book project for DScout. As someone who suffers from anxiety, it was a truly wonderful opportunity to help bring visuals to others’ experiences with the condition.

My animation for NPR’s invisibilia podcast, on Maladaptive Daydreaming! So excited to share this one!