Hello #portfolioday 👋 Here’s a summery #illustration I made for @bookendsliterary.bsky.social Summer lookbook (rep’d by @sophiesheumaker.bsky.social for books) 🎨 More work/contact info at: bryonycrane.com 🔍 Looking for any lovely PB/MG/children’s-adjacent projects

Monkey character details from my Jungle Book illustration. Loved drawing these! ✏️🐒 #kidlitart #middlegrade #illustration

Hello #kidlitartpostcard day! 👋 Looking for any PB/MG/children’s-adjacent #illustration projects that you think I could be a good fit for! 🎨 bryonycrane.com ✉️ [email protected] 📚 Rep’d by @sophiesheumaker.bsky.social Sophie Sheumaker at BookEnds Literary

I’ve done a long-overdue portfolio update and I think it’s looking pretty good 🎨🎉 - please go and have a little peek! bryonycrane.com #kidlitart #childrensillustration #illustrator

A middle-grade / chapter book sample I made for my portfolio. Really love the textures and characters in this one, and working in only 2 colours was challenging but really fun! 🦭 #kidlitart #childrensillustration

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! Here’s a fun one from #vintagebookweek. 👀 Looking for fun, colourful PB/MG/children’s-adjacent illustration projects with cheeky characters 🎨. 📚 Agent: @sophiesheumaker.bsky.social at @bookendsliterary.bsky.social 📒 More at bryonycrane.com & instagram.com/bryonycrane

Finally finished my picturebook dummy & I'm really proud of it! If you're an editor/art director & would like to see it, let me know (or Sophie at BookEnds). It's about a hermit crab who doesn't want to leave his shell. (And not remotely autobiographical, how dare you even suggest it 👀🐚) #kidlitart

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! 💌 Always looking for fun, colorful PB, MG & children’s-adjacent projects! 📚Rep’d for book work by @sophiesheumaker.bsky.social at @bookendsliterary.bsky.social 🎨 Portfolio bryonycrane.com ✏️ More in-process work and life nonsense at instagram.com/bryonycrane

This #kidlitartpostcard you get a sneaky look at a picture book that I have coming out next month. www.anawiththekey.com [email protected] If you want to work together give me a shout. I'm great at answering emails :) Oh and I'm seeking representation as well so you know.

Happy World Book Day! Here in the UK children dressed up as their favourite book characters. Also happy #kidlitartpostcard If you are an editor or art director and would like to know about my dummy book 'Ghowl' let me or my agent, @sophiesheumaker.bsky.social, know. www.lelesaa.com

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! 💌 Always looking for fun, colorful PB, MG & children’s-adjacent projects! 📚Rep’d for book work by @sophiesheumaker.bsky.social at @bookendsliterary.bsky.social 🎨 Portfolio bryonycrane.com ✏️ More in-process work and life nonsense at instagram.com/bryonycrane

Finally finished my picturebook dummy & I'm really proud of it! If you're an editor/art director & would like to see it, let me know (or Sophie at BookEnds). It's about a hermit crab who doesn't want to leave his shell. (And not remotely autobiographical, how dare you even suggest it 👀🐚) #kidlitart

It’s #kidlitartpostcard day again! Looking for fun, colourful illustration work… PB/MG/early reader, or any children’s-adjacent projects! 🎨 More at bryonycrane.com ✏️ @bryonycrane everywhere else!

Here’s some fun warm-up #sketchbook stuff I’ve been doing with the Birbfest prompts ✏️

Hello from my January studio burrow where I try to finish my next picture book dummy with the flu 🤧 😅 #kidlitart

Ahhhh, how nice and relaxing is it to open a social app and actually have the entire feed just filled with illustrations… new discoveries and people you follow and want to see. What a treat!

Happy festive #kidlitartpostcard day ⛄️❄️ I’m Bryony, a #kidlitart illustrator in love with colour and making fun, playful work for kids! Looking for projects for the new year, inc PB/middle grade/early reader & kids editorial illustration. Rep’d by Sophie at BookEnds Literary 🎨 bryonycrane.com

Couldn’t resist the day 3 title for the Imagined Book Cover challenge today - ‘A House In The Peppertree’ 🌳. Trying to be a bit more loose with my peppers and foliage 👀🌶️ #kidlitart #kidlituk #illustration

My agency is not yet on Bluesky, but I figured it’d be nice to put together a starter pack of the authors and/or illustrators of BookEnds Literary who’ve already made it here. Say hi to my agency siblings! #starterpack #booksky #kidlit go.bsky.app/Uw5hJaE

My map of children's independent bookshops is updated regularly. Most provide an online service and they're all run by people who can make well-informed book recommendations. Make sure you support your local one if you want to keep it. Any missing, please let me know. padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...

I've put together a #starterpack of illustrators based in, or focused on, UK publishing bsky.app/starter-pack... Do let me know if your name should be there :) #kidlit #kidlitUK #UKkidlit #kidliART #illustrator #illustrators

How lovely to see all the #kidlit people flocking here & discover new pals. Thanks for the follows! If you’ve discovered me today - hello 👋 I’m still sleepily acclimatising to BlueSky, so please check out more of my work or come say hi on IG here: ✨ instagram.com/bryonycrane/ Or 🎨 bryonycrane.com

Heyyy, #KidLitArtPostcard day! I'm Julian, a queer picture book author & illustrator working in gouache. I love stories about the hidden corners of the natural world & would love to work on a book exploring the world below the soil! 🍂🪱 🌿 rep'd by Naomi Davis at BookEnds Literary 🎨 julianplum.com

Hi #kidlitartpostcard Wasn't sure if I was feeling up to posting today, but I hope this cozy piece brings you some comfort today. I'm available for new projects. Please reach out to my agent at [email protected] for inquiries. You can find more of my work here: Lilisteations.com

Hello #PortfolioDay 👋 I’m Bryony, a children’s author/illustrator in love with vibrant colour & making silly, sweet character-driven work. Looking for any kidlit-adjacent work including PB, non-fic & Middle-grade. Rep’d by James & Sophie at BookEnds Literary 💼 bryonycrane.com

Hello #KidLitArtPostcard 📮 I’m Bryony, a children’s illustrator in love with vibrant colour & creating funny, sweet characters. Looking for any kid-adjacent projects inc PB, middle-grade & non-fiction ✏️ 🎨 More at bryonycrane.com 📚 Rep’d by @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social & Sophie at BookEnds Literary

Pro tip for browsing art shares, especially large ones with tons of replies: If you’re interested in seeing a mix of artists you haven’t seen before, instead of just the most-liked replies in the thread, you can go to settings -> Thread Preferences, and change the Sort Replies to be random 🙂

I forgot to come here for #kidlitartpostcard ! Mostly because testing Glazing the art took all day 😅 Hello! I make illustration for kids that’s full of vibrant colour, & playful characters. Looking for new projects! Rep by @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social & Sophie at BookEnds Literary. 🎨 bryonycrane.com

Hello #Kidlitartpostcard day! I love making colourful & fun character-driven work for kids 🎨 - looking for PB/middle grade projects, or children’s-adjacent illustration work! Rep’d by @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social & Sophie at BookEnds. bryonycrane.com And @bryonycrane on all the other platforms!

Trying to work in only 3 colours… it’s hard! 👀🎨 I’m thinking about making little riso prints of these - what do you think?

Hello, publishing folk! Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! 🌞 My name is Denis, and I'm a mixed media #kidlit illustrator available for work in board books and picture books. 🌐 www.denisillustrates.com 📚 represented by Susan Hawk at Upstart Crow Literary

Sorry I forget about you every month until #KidLitArtPostcard day, Blue Sky. Here’s a new #middlegrade sample as I’d love to get some illustration work in that space! More at bryonycrane.com 🎨 Thanks for looking, & please share it around if you like it!

#KidLitArtPostcard Day again! Here's a sample from one of my dummy picture books. If you'd like to find out more, or think l'd be a good fit for a different book project, contact my agents James or Sophie at BookEnds Literary 📚 I'm also available for any other illustration projects ✉️ bryonycrane.com

New illustration inspired by my littlest's unstoppable bedtime stuffed animal parade 😅🧸🦧🦙🐰🐸 Who's your favourite plushie? Mine's the orangutan (and that, the 2metre snake and the giant dragon do actually exist in reality. RIP my dreams of ever having a tidy house 🪦) #kidlitart

Hello #KidLitArtPostcard day! I’m Bryony, a children’s illustrator in love with vibrant colour & silly characters, looking for all children’s illustration + kid-adjacent work! Rep’d by James & Sophie at BookEnds Literary. 🎨 More work at bryonycrane.com And @bryonycrane on the other apps! 👋

Graphic novel adaptations of classic books rarely reach the levels of intense care that we are seeing with the new Watership Down. I interview the adaptor, the artist, and Richard Adams' two daughters on my site today: afuse8production.slj.com/2023/10/12/r...

Happy October #KidLitArtPostcard 🦉 I'm an illustrator and author, based in Sofia, Bulgaria. I love bold expressive lines, wonky shapes, textures and I think vignettes make everything look better! Feel free to get in touch. 📚 represented by Susan Hawk at Upstart Crow Lit 🌐 www.denisillustrates.com

Didn’t get the memo 👀🌭🎉. Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day- I didn’t make one this time but I made this! I’m an illustrator in love with vibrant colour & drawing weird/silly/lovely stuff for kids. Looking for all weird/silly/lovely #KidLitArt projects (are we hashtagging? Who knows!) 🎨 bryonycrane.com

Little new thing that I really liked, but of course nobody saw on IG 😅 maybe someone will actually see it on their feed here! This came out of a workshop on atmosphere with Benji Davies that I took at the beginning of the month ✨

There are only 48 HOURS left to make MIRENDA AND THE GOLDEN HORNS happen on Kickstarter! There's really no other book like it, and it could really use your help! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gri...

Feeling pretty spread thin over all these new social media platforms! 🥵 This is looking promising so far, although I’m not sure yet what to post & where! I’ve mostly been living on IG stories, so if you’ve just discovered me on here please do go over and give me a follow! instagram.com/bryonycrane/

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Forgot about this place for a while so I missed #KidLitArtPostcard ! I'm Bryony, an illustrator in love with vibrant colour, making playful, character-driven work for children. Looking for #kidlit work in PB, MG covers etc, & any fun kids-adjacent work! Rep'd by BookEnds Literary. bryonycrane.com

Hello! 👋 Finally got an invite (thanks @charlenedraws.bsky.social !) I’m Bryony, an illustrator from the UK in love with vibrant colour & making lovely playful #KidLitArt work 🎨 Rep’d by BookEnds Literary for 📚 & I’m also up for any other fun #illustration projects! http://bryonycrane.com