It's a challenging time for #KidLit book creators. How can YOU can help: browse wkly #KidLitLaunches threads & help boost a book or two? Thanks to those who have been using & helping boost these threads so far! 📚🩷 #EduSky 9/29-10/5 - 10/6-10/12 - 10/13-10/19 - 10/20-10/26 - 10/27-11/2 - 11/3-11/9

Hello #KidLitArtPostcard! I'm Gordy, a Scotland based illustrator painting my illustrations in gouache, acrylic and inks 🎨 Happy to share this artwork from a new book I have coming out next year - 𝐼𝑓 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑊𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑛 🌐 gordywright.com #childrensbooks #kidlitart #illustration

Hey illustrators/agents! I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS! Please respond w/ samples + folio link. Please no emails/DMs. 💙❤️ #artcommissions

Let's go #kidlit illustrators, editors, agents, and art directors! Tomorrow is #KidLitArtPostcard www.ginaperry.com/postcard

A very rainy afternoon #kidlitart #illustration #art

I absolutely adore the artistic diversity of Roald Dahl film adaptations. Few authors have had so much of their work adapted and those that have, like Stephen King or Dr. Suess, can't hold a candle to the drastically different styles choices presented in each and every Dahl project. (Thread 1/2)

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Who wouldn't want a world of cats? This fascinating book is full of drawings and information, stories and history about the domesticated creatures of that ilk. It's beautifully produced as you'd expect from @nosycrow.bsky.social @lupencita.bsky.social #CarlieSorosiak

Hello all, I’m offering some rare pet portrait commissions for $20 a pop! These are quick, black and white, slightly silly, and would make a great gift or icon for socials. Email me at kendraw09 (at) gmail (dot) com to reserve a slot!

Hey Illustrators, how about this: please share a screenshot of a WIP. What are you working-on/excited-about right now? Will take a close look at all replies! #kidlit #artshare 💙❤️

hola!! necesito trabajo con urgencia, estoy muy mal de dinero hah!!! si me ayudáis a difundir/encargáis alguna cosilla, me vendría de perlas!! 🙊

Yayy! @etraintalks.bsky.social Rocks! Thank you for sharing DEAR EARTH...From Your Friends in Room 5 --illus. @lupencita.bsky.social @harperkids.bsky.social #BeAnEarthHero

I'm hoping to avoid bots. I think I have a good starting point to talk to some people.

The so-called Department of War has banned nearly 600 books this year from military bases or schools. They’ve targeted books that “promote gender idealogy” or “DEI.” Not surprisingly my book, DOOR BY DOOR (written by Meeg Pincus, illustrated by me) is one of those banned books. 1/ #BannedBookWeek

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I'm Gina Perry, an author and illustrator of children's books, and creator of this monthly event. I'm rep'd for books by Sean McCarthy, more work at: www.ginaperry.com #kidlit

SHORTBOX COMICS FAIR IS NOW LIVE!! 🎉 Here's the link to my humble little comic 🥺 but also take a look at this year's lineup because is full of really good stuff! Can't wait to read as many comics as I can! 😌 www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

a spider can fly on a current of air

The next #KidLitArtPostcard event is Thursday, October 2nd. Just over a week away! We will be extending the event through Friday in recognition of Yom Kippur. #kidlit www.ginaperry.com/postcard

It’s almost the end of sea otters awareness week! We should protect those cuties at all costs 🫡🦦

Unicorn in the Garden (of stickers) remastered!!

Out of curiosity how do you get consent from a drawing. Like maybe you should worry less about whether or not a cartoon has rights and more about whether real life trans and Palestinian people do

Artists! Quote with your night art! #kidlitart #illustration

Hey #kidlit illustrators! We’re beginning to think through a mythology-themed beginning-reader series. I'm looking for someone w/ a commercial/punchy, character-forward style who can breath life into ancient lore. Please respond w/ samples + folio link. Please no emails/DMs. 💙❤️ #artcommissions

These are largely freelance and precarious workers, and the further erosion of their income and working conditions might not show up in macroeconomic data. But we must consider how artists are losing meaningful income and support to automated systems that have, cruelly, been trained on their work.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Hey #kidlit illustrators! We're beginning work on new Christmas/nighttime themed picture book. I'm looking for someone with a painterly, textured, and literary style capable conjuring magic, light, and wonder. Please respond w/ samples + folio link. Please no emails/DMs. 💙❤️ #artcommissions

THIS ANIMATION IS SO INSANE

I just want a new Animal Crossing but! I just started playing Hollow Knight 7 years late so I think I can wait. Also there's Hades 2 and Pokémon so...

Day 11 of #septempera - acorn thief. I managed to keep things pretty loose so I'm happy 😊

Day 10 of #septempera - a book is red. Had a hard time sitting to paint today so I'm not sure how I feel about this one yet. I'll have to look at it again tomorrow 😅

a comic about fishing (1/7)

Doggust 30: Coton de Tulear. New painting. 🪵 #doggust #doggust2025

Pretty happy with this tiger from this morning’s kids’ art program at the library

and--idk quite how to articulate this--but the work of it is... critical to art-making. like you discover your intentions through the labor of expressing them. if I'd woken up at 17 with the technical ability to write a novel, i wouldn't have known what i was trying to say. the work IS the product.

I've done a lot of books, and I have very few regrets for my #kidlit career so far. The one thing I do regret though, was changing a scene in Elizabeth Warren's Pinkie Promises. You see, in the original manuscript, the main character encounters a group of bullies picking on another kid - 1/6

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

Finished the book a while ago now, but I still wanted to draw Hobbiton.

The last bit of summer. 🌦️ I was thinking back to childhood days. Right about now I would be savoring the very last bits of summer before the back to school activities started. Last minute trips to the shore, sleeping in late, playing outside… all that good stuff. #kidlitart #illustration

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Some thoughts from a few months back (and every now and then) #comics #illustration

do people post comics here... anywho! a really old one! Dragon Whiskers (2019)

A dance that never ends #loz

I’m searching for an illustrator of children’s literature (PB, MG, YA) who identifies as disabled – if that’s you please reply below! #KidLit (Can’t promise anything will come of this, though!)

These days I've been changing my portfolio a bit. The one I had didn’t quite work lately, despite all the adjustments I’d done to it. For this new portfolio, I chose Squarespace. It works really well, I like how easy it is to make changes. Have a look! www.jusabar.net

Once upon a time . . .

Trees and fields and trees #art #abstract #landscape #trees #field

Six PBs for #DisabilityPrideMonth #disabilitypride2025 by Patty Cisneros Prevo/ Dion MBD Christina Soontornvat & @dowphumiruk.bsky.social Anna Dewdney @erindealey.bsky.social & @k8cosgrove.bsky.social Sarah Scheerger/Leah Giles Erin Dealey & @lupencita.bsky.social @eastwestlit.bsky.social

Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.