Teachers: Please name the illustrator when you read to students. Discuss the art. Invite illustrators to visit. Show next generation that art in book was created by a HUMAN, that their work matters. www.picturesmeanbusiness.com/teachers/ #PicturesMeanBusiness Art @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social #EduSky

At what point do long cardigans come back in style I am READY

FAIRY BOMB 💣

This is the most important thing I’ve ever designed with my graphic design degree. This is my purpose 🧚‍♀️✨

All my work in progress paintings from the last 5 months 🙌 I haven’t painted traditionally for five years before this so it’s nice to know I got better ☺️

Owl dinner🦉🥀🐇 I got green light to post my illustration for the "Dark Fairies" zine, that you can support right now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/but...

Penguin Random House is looking for new queer voices and is currently taking unagented submissions for fiction and nonfiction by LGBTQ+ writers. www.instagram.com/p/DI9PlxCRp38/ #BookSky #QueerBookSky #LGBTQBooks #WritingCommunity 🌈📚

New #illustration sketch based on the discourse from last year where most women would rather face a bear than a man in the forest. I’ve been in a bit of a rut with where I want to go with my freelance work with the state of everything so trying to focus on personal work 🤞

Hi #porfolioday ! My name is Kaylie I’m a book cover and editorial portrait illustrator in NYC. I focus on showing women’s complexity with bright bold colors. I’m available for freelance work! 💕✨ Email: [email protected] Website: www.kayliependletonart.com

Looks like this #Portfolioday I even accumulated enough art to choose from😊 Hi, I'm Oly, I love to draw fantasy stuff and, if I'm lucky, also some romance💖 I enjoy working with books, games and character private commissions✨️ ✉️: [email protected]

Why is it when I take all my vitamins like I’m supposed to I get rewarded with a stomach ache whhdhfkssnk I’m dying

New #illustration and design for the beloved classic “The Good Earth” in partnership with the author’s estate. Had a great time illustrating this story 🌾🖼️

Show me how you draw / paint women

Let’s show off our blue art! Requote with 💙💙💙

New cover for Passing by Nella Larson for Open Road 💙✉️

I have to say there is nothing like walking around midtown in my docs which make me 6’1” and therefore taller than most of the finance guys…it’s the small pleasures

So I was having a lil crisis and blurred all of my #illustration work and then swirled it and look at this color palette?? Honestly I would love to see what other illustrators swirl looks like!

As this particular #WomensHistoryMonth is extra important this year, I thought I would share some portraits I did long before Bluesky, here is my painting of Emily Dickinson. “Not knowing when dawn will come, I open every door.”

As this particular #WomensHistoryMonth is extra important this year, I thought I would share some from my portrait series I did long before Bluesky, starting with Maya Angelou. “Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”

If only I could pencil in my own eyebrows that well 👀

The Sands is an Earth Genasi trapped beneath the ruins of a flying city that studied time magic. The city's magic prevented them from dying; instead, they remained trapped for so long that their bodies disintegrated and turned to sand. Now, they oversee the passage of time. ⏳✨ #tarot #dnd #ttrpg

Put some finishing details on this redraw 🌊 I like both the new and old version for different reasons, which do you like more? #fantasypainting

Thom Browne FW25 🐦‍⬛🪶🏵

I tried cropping in on a piece I did a few months ago and I think it’s better this way? One of my recent favorites in my brush quality for sure 🥀

When both of the Thursday afternoon meetings get cancelled !

HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you. 👁️👁️👄👁️👁️ It could be anything else, but I know what I’m known for lmao #art #furbies #toomanyeyes

$3,000,000 and counting raised during the 18th Project for Awesome. Join in, and support great orgs like Save the Children and Partners in Health. projectforawesome.com

When you don’t do quarterly taxes because you didn’t plan on doing that much freelance work last year and now you have to live with the consequences of paying it’s all at once

You know the political state isn’t good when the stressful dystopian sci-fi titles seem fun to draw! And somehow got approval with the vertical type I’ll take any small wins at this point

If you see this, quote with your Night/Dark art! I have so many dark #art pieces but this is one of my favorites 🖤

This website is so fun compared to the rest of the internet currently, go check it out! Folly studio keeps it fresh 🙌

Workin away! I think the iPhone has a personal vendetta against showing accurate colors, I would let it slide if we were back in 2013 but alas here we are and yellows cease to exist!

Not Girl Scout cookies being six dollars now… this is one the thing when I’m old that I’m gonna pull the “back in my day they were only 3 dollars!”

Sometimes I wish my brain compiled thoughts like this … and be color coded!

me, looking at my work #art #design

It’s out and eee fully funded in under an hour! Absolutely loved working together with the incredible @lostincult.co.uk team to create the cover for Legacy of Kain: The Book of Nosgoth! ❤️‍🔥 Back it now! ❤️‍🔥

New book cover for HER WICKED ROOTS by @tanyapell.bsky.social AD/Design: Danielle Mazzella di Bosco at Gallery Books @ Gallery Books

Within my first 2 years of transitioning from freelance to being an in-house designer, I’ve already been in the middle of a Hachette acquisition and massive layoffs. It was so hard seeing the many people who have built UNSQ/Sterling for over 15 years let go last week

Happy Saturday sketch time

adobe should spend a little less time doing ai shit and a little more time making it so when you copy and paste an image with a transparent background the transparency comes with it

Just finalized the redesigned package of the short story collection, Lotería. It was so fun to give this book a new life (or the absence of life I should say) it’s a real spooky one!

Happy MLK Day. I hope this adds positivity to ur feed :) Last fall the Southern Poverty Law Center reached out to me to create a portrait of Ketanji Brown Jackson for their 2025 Donor Calendar. It was an honor to work with the SPLW which has been at the forefront of the civil rights movement.

Rising up. Back on the street. -2025

Not TikTok coming back in less than 12 hours that was so dramatic I just spent this morning trying to curate Reels but the algorithm suckksss somehow half of them on my feed aren’t in English?? Meta wtf are you doingggg Anyway Tik tok and Bluesky ftw!

the poster!! here it is

Ok #booksky, let’s talk. 👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books. 👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!

A few things I will miss from TikTok: - All the new cafes in nyc -Watching amazing artists paint live and see thier process -Those Myers Briggs INTJ moodboards that make me feel so cool DABLOONS

Before this I didn’t paint on a physical canvas for a few years but wanted to get back into painting last fall. I was unsure of how it would go, but I was presently suprised on how much my digital painting transferred over :) more to come!

As a student I didn’t understand why people wanted to teach illustration but now that done a few lectures and mentorships, it’s so rewarding to give new illustrators all the resources I wish someone had told me!

Happened to come across this, may be useful if you are an artist (or know of one) impacted by the LA fires.