Yulia Drobova

Yulia Drobova is an illustrator, author, visual artist and educator based in Berlin, Germany, whose practice spans editorial illustration, publishing, children's books and visual storytelling, combining traditional and digital techniques. She has illustrated picture books for publishers in Germany, Austria and Russia, including Plötzlich bist du da (Shnipps Verlag, 2022), Immer wenn wir (ACHSE Verlag, 2024) and Loshadki (Samokat, 2024), and wrote and illustrated Hello Tashkent (2025). She was among the winners of the Bologna Children's Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition in 2021–2024 and 2026, and has taught illustration and collage workshops, including at the Tashkent International Animation Festival.