My hill: kids are naturally creative and artistic. You give kids paper and something to draw with and you will get the wildest shit ever created. It's an actual tragedy & horrifically anti-human to be shoving AI on them and encouraging them to stunt that essential part of themselves.

To publishers & authors posting book covers: Please credit the illustrator. Doing a #CoverReveal? Credit illustrator & designer. Not only does this help boost artist but it shows people that you hired a HUMAN artist. #PicturesMeanBusiness Art @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social #BookSky #BookBirthday

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

Great doc pushing back on AI integration in K-12 schools by tackling 4 common arguments.

It's my birthday, I'm level 46 today, can I ask for reposts of my work and my links? 👉👈 I'm Michał from Poland, I draw and paint - portraits and figurative - graphite, oils and digital. michalputo.art/hub/ patreon.com/michalputo_art ko-fi.com/michalputo/s... www.inprnt.com/gallery/mich...

Happy #kidlitartpostcardday🪿🔺🫐 A lil story about big HERO. I'm rep'd by @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social I'd love to illustrate projects related to: ▸ Fantasy & adventure narratives ▸ Goofy/playful humor ▸ Multiculturalism #kidlit #kidlitartpostcard #illustration

Rainshine. Like the way life is heavy & beautiful at once. This #kidlitartpostcard day, I’m finding sunshine in the people I love—I hope you are too! As an illustrator who specializes in stories about wrangling big emotions, I create characters who discover that small is mighty & tender is strong.

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! I’m Rachel Gozhansky, a #kidlit illustrator/writer, available to work on PB, CB, MG or other kid-related project. I’m also seeking representation. #kidlitart

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! Hello agents, art directors & editors. I'm Jessica, a children's book author-illustrator based in Los Angeles. I'm currently seeking representation. This month I'm sharing my recent portrait of Dr. Carla Hayden. 📚🇺🇸 My portfolio: illustratedbyjessica.com/childrens-pu...

Hello #kidlitartpostcard ! I am Charlene Chua & I illustrate books for kids. 🌟Open for 2026 projects for PB, GN, board & chapter books🌟 Portfolio - charlenechua.com Agent - Tracy Marchini @bookendsliterary.bsky.social #kidlitart #kidlit

Dance party in the kitchen to celebrate #kidlitartpostcard day! Hi, I am Rachel, a children’s illustrator seeking representation. RachelIllustration.com #kidlitart #childrensillustration #kidlitpostcard #kidlitartpostcardday

Dance Party: new illustration inspired by the May #scbwidrawthis prompt and my nephew’s visit last month where he showed off his moves in our kitchen. #scbwiillustrators #kidlitart #mixedmediaillustration Tried some new techniques. Used watercolor, watercolor pencils, colored pencils and marker.

kind of obsessed with 2025 pride merch...I'm calling it cowardcore.

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Happy Friday Friends! Here's some good news to push you into the weekend! HB 3225 did NOT make it to the Senate floor! Congratulations & thank you to everyone who worked on this! Make sure to celebrate!

Let loose and just dance! For SCBWI’s monthly prompt, I was excited to create an illustration of some children having fun! When I was a kid, my favorite music to dance to was upbeat jazz, so I imagine these kids dancing to something similar! #scbwidrawthis #scbwiillustrators #scbwi #kidlitart

Just Dance 🪩🎶🕺🏼💃🏽 #scbwidrawthis #scbwiillustrators #scbwi @scbwi.bsky.social #paperart #kidlitart #illustrator #paperartist #kidlitillustration #bearart #childrensbook

Dance Party: new illustration inspired by the May #scbwidrawthis prompt and my nephew’s visit last month where he showed off his moves in our kitchen. #scbwiillustrators #kidlitart #mixedmediaillustration Tried some new techniques. Used watercolor, watercolor pencils, colored pencils and marker.

People who rely on those tools are generally less competent and cause more work for their coworkers. The time I spend on code reviews since my employer began allowing LLM code completion has quadrupled. Spending all my time making sure others don’t screw up sucks and makes me resent them.

Employees who use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at work face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from colleagues and managers, according to a new study.

Impeaching judges and changing their constitutional authority just because the president doesn’t like their rulings is an abuse of power and must be stopped. Call your elected officials and tell them to oppose the No Rogue Rulings Act! 5calls.org/issue/federa...

Post a pic of who you wanted to be as a kid

Not efficient and possibly more expensive.

I just looked and I'm almost at 20k??? Anyway, I thought, why not run a giveaway! ✨ It's super easy. All you have to do is share/repost this post, comment on it, and be following me! Tag friends so they can enter too ❤️ Once I hit 20k I will draw 5 random people! Good luck!! #PoseRef #Art #Giveaway

RFK Jr says that your autistic child will never write a poem. That their existence is a tragedy. I’m autistic. I wrote and illustrated this picture book to show that your autistic child is a celebration. Which message do you want your child to hear? www.steveasbell.com#/flap-your-h...

Been struggling with illustrating lately; anything beyond initial sketches. Finally it is starting to feel relaxing and fun again. Playing around with how to render a new illustration. A critique partner suggested taking small parts instead of tackling the whole. That has helped! #wip #kidlitart

😍 Auction spotlight: Our own @kdmaz.bsky.social is offering a picture book dummy critique! Auction is live April 15th-30th. All proceeds fund our #neurodiverse #kidlit Scholarship at @highlightsfound.bsky.social 👀 : champ.ly/xSRrqf-V #autis#neurodiverse#kidlit#autismsupport #adhd #ptsd #adhdsupport #writingcommunity

Welcome, #kidlit creators! SCBWI Long Island has launched into the wild blue yonder! Come say Hi! Stay tuned for awesome events & informative posts & remember you can find us on all social platforms too! #picturebooks #kidlitartpostcard #scbwi

This April during Autism Acceptance Month, please remember: —We don’t need to be “fixed” or “solved.” We have valid neurotypes that are part of human diversity. Listen to autistic voices. —We don’t want “awareness” without acceptance and societal change. —For more info, see: tinyurl.com/AutisticInfo

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Lisa Katzenberger is offering a critique on a non-rhyming fiction picture book with 1,000 words or less. To enter like, comment, and repost this post. You must do all three. Good luck! @lisakatzenberger.bsky.social

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90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

For my moon witch girlies™! Tonight there will be a lunar eclipse!!! I'm in Massachusetts, so I'm posting EASTERN TIME ZONE times! Begins: 11:57 PM (right before midnight) Totality: 2:26 AM Ends at: 3:31 AM

Spreading the word on Twitter

I’m excited about the possibilities of this new app! Will be posting more when it’s available on android.🙃 #kidlitartpostcard

put my cat on the cover of CRIME Magazine, where he belongs #art

Totally off topic, but I wanted to share on Bluesky while I can actually find kidlit people—the MGHub, which I helped start on Twitter, is having its 3rd annual off-social-media pitching event for PB, MG, & YA authors in May. Here's a link for more info! #kitlitchat docs.google.com/document/d/1...

“Peter Pan was a lovely kid, clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees…” Book series challenge for Peter Pan! I wanted to make Pan non-binary and from now! ✨✨✨

Join @elizakinkz.bsky.social on April 5th discussing ¡Mistaco! a chaotically funny picture book about a girl who's had a terrible day full of mistakes and finds that making mistacos could be a delicious solution. More info + RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople... @karilavellewrites.bsky.social

It may feel weird or somehow improper to talk about your art or your writing, but we need it. It can’t be wall-to-wall nightmare all the time. Art is both counterweight and context. It’s escape and enlightenment and a mirror of our own exasperation. We need it. We NEED it. Keep showing us.

Told from an autistic perspective, Bitsy Bat meets a new nonspeaking student at school and learns the importance of being a star teammate and friend. "Bitsy Bat, Team Star" out now! *Agented *Published #questpit #autism #PB #kidlit #neurodivergent

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Being added to Lists & Starter Packs, adding community tags, etc is great, but if you're looking for more authentic engagement here on Bluesky, you need to reply to OTHER people's posts, not just expect them to discover & reply to yours. More #BlueSkyTips: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl...

It’s #kidlitartpostcard day and it’s the start of lacrosse season so this illustration seemed appropriate. I’m an illustrator looking for new projects and representation. Portfolio: RachelIllustration.com #kidlitartpostcardday #kidlitpostcard #kidlitpostcardday

BITSY BAT, TEAM STAR is out today!! BitsyBat.com

For Hanukkah, I illustrated a custom playing card deck for my husband’s family. I designed and illustrated the art on all 52 cards in the deck, front and back, using a vector graphic art style and a limited color palette. I had 10 copies printed from BoardGamesMaker.com, each in a custom card tin.

Don’t worry… I have fixed the “where are all the carnivorous plant valentines?!?” problem you were having. They are here. But be warned, my 11 yr old told me no one says “fly” anymore. 💀 www.wineberrywoodpress.com/2025/01/23/c... #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #valentines #printables

Without downloading any new pictures where are you mentally

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