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AngeliRaferArt

@angeliraferart.bsky.social

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She/Her | 🇵🇭🏳️‍🌈 | Level 34 Fil-Am WFH Illustrator of children's books/ MG interiors & graphic novels. GHOSTS DON'T EAT POTATO CHIPS & DRAGONS DON'T COOK PIZZA available now! 👻🍕

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AngeliRaferArt @angeliraferart.bsky.social · Jan 2

Happy first #kidlitartpostcard of 2025!

I'm Angeli, an illustrator & comic artist working on querying ✨something✨ this year, plus posting NEW illustrations & comics, so stay tuned!

Anyway, I'd love to run away to see the northern lights, hence this month's theme

🔗 angelirafer.com

#kidlitart 🎨

Digital art of a young boy wearing winter clothing, including a furred cap, gloves ,red cloak and a blue tunic, flanked by two Icelandic sheepdogs gazing up joyously at the northern lights that are glowing with bright green and blue light.

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jade 🫀 comms closed @yellghoul.bsky.social · 3d

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illustration of a girl walking through a forest fire with a giant wolf made of smoke

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Brianne Drouhard @briannedrouhard.bsky.social · 8d

Limited Palette 🎨

A sketch w le pens and highlighters #harpygee #artspud

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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AngeliRaferArt @angeliraferart.bsky.social · 12h

Also low key high key it's usually been my cousins or their spouses that ask, so I've been LONG established as the "artsy" cousin, but please x')

AngeliRaferArt @angeliraferart.bsky.social · 12h

Them: Please, I LOVE your work!!!!

Me: *Portfolio full of children's book illustration work and comic pages* 🤪 Uh.

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AngeliRaferArt @angeliraferart.bsky.social · 12h

🙏 Do you design logos? ✨️

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 12h

Do it for exposure

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Katha @taxkha.bsky.social · 5d

[ #FireEmblem | #Fe3h | #Sylvix | #SylvixWeek2025 ]

Sylvix Week Day 2: Horror AU

digital illustration showing felix and sylvain from fe3h set in an alternative universe. Felix is portrayed as a large black wolf and the two of them are facing each other in a snowy terrain surrounded by birch trees engulfed in yellow light. The drawing is framed by a red frame with white swirly patterns.

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K. Wroten 🍏 @jukeboxcomix.bsky.social · 1d

Alchemy Stickers WIP

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 2d

He promises to not steal what he sells you back!!
#art #illustration #peachtober

A digital drawing of a seagull character working in a stand selling french fries. There are frie shaped lamps, ketchup, napkins, and the seagull is standing with his wings outstretched looking happy. On the sign above the stand it says "we love fries" followed by a heart.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

No shit.

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Rainy Studios (٭°̧̧̧ω°̧̧̧٭) – Art🎨, BL🌈 & 📝Queer Studies @samaburime.bsky.social · 2d

🌈My peer-reviewed articles on anti-fans & anti-BL attitudes are available to read publicly for free at independent.academia.edu/SamanthaAbur...

(below screenshots are a sample from 'The influence of transphobia, homonationalism & anti-Asian prejudice: Anti-BL attitudes in English-speaking fandoms')

screenshot from 'The influence of transphobia, homonationalism and anti-Asian prejudice: Anti-BL attitudes in English-speaking fandoms' discussing homonationalism

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Alsares @alsares.bsky.social · May 14

"River Pearl"
A random sketch that became a pile of scales last year

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 3d

Expect to see me banging the Die-drum a bunch across the next week. You need to get your orders in a week on Monday. It doesn't even need to be formal - talk about the books you like to the retailer, and it effects their orders. Now back to making marketing material.

Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · Aug 8

DIE: Loaded has just been announced, where @stephaniehans.bsky.social and myself are back at @imagecomics.com and doing our goth jumanji thing to its fullest effect.

Out November 12th.

Lots more info over at Rascal: www.rascal.news/exclusive-di...

The basic advert for DIE: Loaded - a big ol' bear witha. woman crawling out of its mouth, with a fox at her feet.

Out November 12th.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 3d

One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘Catastrophic decline’ in Black representation in children’s books

A report by charity Inclusive Books for Children found that of the 2,721 books surveyed, only 51 featured a Black main character, down by 21.5% since 2023

www.theguardian.com

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 5d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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AngeliRaferArt @angeliraferart.bsky.social · 3d

Of course I love Winsconsin P. Toad #cloudwardho #d20

Doodle of the character Wisconsin P. Toad, a mechnical frog like creature that is legally distinct

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 4d

Like for real. The plot of Spirited Away is about a kidnapped child forced into a life of indentured servitude in realm of gods after her mother and father are magically forced into becoming pigs by a witch. Meanwhile, Princess Mononoke exists.

Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 5d

Whenever someone uses Ghibli or Miyazaki as a synonym for "quaint, charming, unthreatening" I'm always like "bro did we watch the same movies?"

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 5d

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

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AngeliRaferArt @angeliraferart.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!!! >8) I am so here for everyone going loose and fancy free in their sketchbooks, you never know, you might hit on something!!!!

Like looking at this in the light of day there's things I could do to refine that first page, BUT the energy is so special! (And I am glad I didnt overwork it)

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Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · 4d

If you get interest from an agent who's already passed on your book, take it as a sign that something about your premise is WORKING. You can re-query with an acknowledgement that they have passed, but you wanted to follow up just in case; or you can just take the compliment and move on.

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Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · 4d

A few quick things!

Authors, please treat agent interest as an invitation to query, not a requirement. Pitch events are a great way to discover agents who weren't on your radar yet. Another is the @litagentsofchange.bsky.social's Equity Directory: www.equitydirectory.org

Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · 5d

Looking forward to #DVPit tomorrow! If I heart your pitch, please query as normal (letter + ~25 pages), but add "#DVPit" somewhere in the subject line, and include the text of the post I hearted somewhere in your query letter. Can't wait to find projects I didn't know I wanted.

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AngeliRaferArt @angeliraferart.bsky.social · 4d

These look so good!!! >8) Here's to finding the best pub team for THE UNLUCKY ONES!

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AngeliRaferArt @angeliraferart.bsky.social · 4d

>8] Thanks much Emma!!!! =7=)/ Let's all do our best!

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 5d

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

three panels from the nausicaä manga depicting ohmu & giant insects

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