A cat in a tree! 🐱 🐥 those leaves took me forever #art #KidLitArt #watercolour

So who is going to step up and somehow create a new thing for artists, authors, makers, single traders, indie musicians, all the creatives who lost their platforms? We have an audience, we just got cut off when the social networks went useless. Publisher etc still expect us to do marketing. HOW?!

often browse bsky solely through my ‘Cool Artists’ feed, very peak internet experience

just found this character reference I made for A Celebration of You 🥰 #KidLitArt

The other fabulous part of the AI publicity plan is “teach this junkware everything you know so that I, a rich CEO, can use it to put you out of work”. Wild how that isn’t being received with enthusiasm by the general public.

The way profit maxxing corpo culture has invaded every form of art through algorithms pushing people into daily posting is really weighing on me lately. Efficiency and regularity of making "content" being prized above all else feels so grim, man.

Artists, show what built your style! Shirley Hughes, Brian Wildsmith, Mary Blair, Matthew Forsythe, probably more, but this has actually given me some ideas on how to push my work 😌

Visual development art by Tadahiro Uesugi for Carole & Tuesday (2019), dir. Shinichiro Watanabe, Bones

I love this bookseller review, and I love this illustration by #GillianReid! (I think it’s my favorite.) 10 more days to preorder. I appreciate your support more than you know. 🎩 🔗: highfivebooks.org/collections/... #littlebeebooks #MacWearsaHat

Spring Tour Announcement! Full details at joshfunkbooks.com/tour #kidlit #booksky Art credits: @kipalizadeh.bsky.social & @reneekurilla.bsky.social

It’s a good time to promote your mailing lists :,) reply with yours and let’s share this. kness.myflodesk.com Don’t have one ? Check out Flodesk - 25% off w/ the link below + unlimited subscribers and sends. flodesk.com/c/PGY887

Lxds I did it www.kipalizadeh.net 😁

yall remember… companies dont make art, people do. there is no disney art, there is no unreal or tencent art. they create a wrapper around someone else’s art. find out who makes the stuff you love

Hi #portfolioday 👋 My name is Denis and I'm a #kidlit illustrator who loves bold line work, wonky shapes, limited palettes and painterly textures. I'd love to work on more board books, picture books, early readers and middle grade. 🙌 🌐 www.denisillustrates.com #kidlitart #illustration #art

ahoy #portfolioday! I paint and draw and occassionaly do backgrounds for animation and games~ my store is always open and I recently created a VERY handy form if you're on the lookout for some commissioned art! hire.eiffel.art

#pleinairpril day 4!! #gouache

Hello #portfolioday My name is Jimmy Makepeace, I'm an illustrator and sometimes animator based in Bristol UK, I'm looking for more work this year so if you'd like to work together get in touch at: [email protected]

hi #portfolioday

#PortfolioDay Im a queer illustrator from the mountains of North Carolina. Ive done work for magic the gathering, boardgames, videogames, beer labels, podcast art & socks, but my favorite work tends to be personal commissions shaferbrown.com [email protected]

got the burn out from making the picture books quite bad. I don’t think I’m really cut out to ride the diversity waves in publishing esp income-wise. time to pivot a bit. 🙏

Ooo #portfolioday again! Hey! I’m Jas 🤓 an illustrator and printmaker from Shropshire. I’m a big fan of riso printing, punchy symmetry, and anything fluro pink ✨ I’ve worked in editorial, packaging, branding, & kid lit. But I’m always up for trying something new 👀 linktr.ee/Jasminesillu...

I'm Victoria, Argentinian illustrator based in France. Looking for new projects (kids publishing & tabletop games mainly but not exclusively!) #PortfolioDay [email protected] victoriamaderna.com Animal painting comms: victoriamaderna.com/animal-paint... Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmad...

Pea flower, gouache (there are two mantises in this painting 🙂‍↕️)

technology peaked when everything was made of coloured clear plastic and you could see all the insides

Asthma inhalers should have vape flavors.

Comics artists! You’re all doing this, right?? If you’ve got any work published in something with an ISBN or ISSN, register with this payback scheme and simply receive free money later in the year. It is that simple. Do it! Love you.x

I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool. And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue.

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Stefan Johansson (1876-1955)

my brain can't compute working 10 days in a row, a ground-breaking mission to space that is very beautiful, alongside the destruction of my people. Very very tired.

happy book birthday to Whose Tree Is This, which is full of bugs and bats and oaks! By wishing it a happy birthday you are also wishing a happy birthday to every oak tree, I don't make the rules!! (this was a joy to illustrate and Marilyn Singer is an amazing writer and I can't believe it's real)

have wanted an indexhibit website since about 2012, and Squarespace has been getting bloated and expensive so I am finally on a learning curve and installing indexhibit instead 😇

I hate AI so much. So. Much. Please stop trying to make me use AI. I will never use your ChatGPT, your Copilot, your Grok 🤮 I will die on this hill. It is unethical. It is error prone. It is predatory. It is destroying us. I hate it. I hate it all. I will hate it forever.

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Kip Alizadeh from I Am Strong Just Being Me with text by Laura Dockrill about different kinds of everyday strength. Image full of the joys of spring, harking back to Wildsmith despite the use of technology. Little Tiger 3 April @littletigeruk.bsky.social @kipalizadeh.net

bug or rabbit, who can say they drift in a creek and seek the Way

Happy Dandelion Day from Birdie and Sunny! May your deepest wish come true! 💛🌈 🤍 #nationaldandelionday #kidlit #kidlitart #queerkidlit #booksky #makeawish @kipalizadeh.net

at The Sunflower Pub 12-5pm 😎 #Belfast

perfect angel baby who charmed his way to two breakfasts this morning

Put on your Easter bonnets!

Incredible. Where is his chin

3 cute sculpted bunny cups for the April collection 🌹

doing this on Sunday! #Belfast #artmarket

Rather enjoying my rather recursive current process of painting directly over a printed out digital sketch/underpainting, then finishing the resulting piece digitally again. Digital work allows me to figure out a piece as I work on it, but it cannot match the texture and colour of real materials.

If you’re in Belfast Sunday, check out the wares from this super children’s illustrator: #KidLitUK #Belfast

I was on a panel at an illustration forum & we got a Q: how to become a professional illustrator? the other panelists ummed & ahhed. I grabbed the mic & said: the definition of professional is: you get paid. so charge for your fucking work. don't do things for exposure: people die from exposure.

normie people are often shocked at my financial working conditions, so I suppose the hot take is that commercial artists are workers who ought to be paid fairly

##tdov yupppp im trans and i draw pictures

I was a little slow with uploading my new risograph prints but they’re finally live!! jasminefloyd.etsy.com Please consider saving this post/ reposting so that my art can can get some reach 🙏 Thankyou!

LORT!

I will be at my first market of the year this Sunday 5th April from 12-5pm at The Sunflower Pub in #Belfast ☺︎ come and say hello ☺︎