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Emmy Brown Illustration @emmbrr.bsky.social · 15h

#PortfolioDay Hello! I’m Emmy, a children’s book illustrator primarily working with anthro animal characters. I’m open for PBs & chapter books with availability for all of 2026 🤍

emmybrownillustration.com
[email protected]

Two frogs sitting around a campfire. One plays the banjo and sings. The other sleeps. The image is a digital painting in mostly greens with an orange fire in the center

A digital painting of a pumpkin house on a black background. A ghost mouse with a trick or treat bag approaches the front door. A brown mouse looks out the window at it. They smile at each other

A black and white graphite drawing of four little kittens in a four post bed. They’re all sleeping except for one, who is playfully looking out of one open eye

A digital painting of a grey raccoon in a bluish grey trash can. He holds up a bunch of trash like it’s the best thing in the world

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Julian Plum @julianplum.com · 21h

It's #portfolioday!!

I'm Julian, a queer 🏳️‍⚧️ illustrator from the foggy Finger Lakes of Upstate NY. I work in traditional gouache & promise I know colors that aren't green. I'm rep'd by Naomi Davis @ BookEnds Literary!

🌿 julianplum.com
🐌 [email protected]

#kidlitart #picturebooks #illustration

A lush, intricate gouache painting featuring many leaves in different colors and textures, plus native birds, insects, flowers, and seeds.

A gouache painting featuring a grasshopper sparrow sitting among a riot of pastel wildflowers. Behind it a gray birch reaches into a blue sky.

A crop from a painting featuring a windswept brown-haired girl gently holding an egg, looking up in the direction of the wind at the legs of a crane taking off above her.

Gouache painting featuring a cross-section of a garden: above the earth, radish leaves are covered in ladybugs; below the earth, radishes, roots, and earthworms are visible in the dirt.

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Mathias Ball+ﾟ*｡:ﾟ+ | illustrator open for work 🍊 @mathiasball.bsky.social · 19h

Hello !! ⚡🌿

I'm Mathias, a queer artist who would love to work on book projects, editorial, advertising, and indie game projects. Open to other opportunities as well!

🍎 mathiasball.com
🍊 [email protected]
📚 @socalledyalife.bsky.social

[ #portfolioday #illustration #art ]

A pattern of spot illustrations, featuring an arctic fox, an arctic tern, a polar bear, some rabbit footprints in the snow, and a forest.

Interior illustration for Nautilus magazine. A figured in a red shirt stands in the middle, as various animals walk around them, depicted in a red/green colour palette.

Book cover for The Night Ends with Fire written by K.X. Song. A figure stands in a field of flowers, as a greenish dragon circles the sky and sits above the figure.

A spread from the book, Little Wolf's Howl, written by Nelly Buchet. Little Wolf chases a butterfly, towards the water. Behind them you can see various backgrounds flowing together, showing all the places Little Wolf has travelled to chase the butterfly.

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Yaroslava Apollonova @odnatamyara.bsky.social · 20h

It’s #PortfolioDay ! I’m Yara and I’m a neurodivergent mixed media illustrator, looking for new PB projects and cover work. I love textures, soft colors, drawing fun characters and weird animals. 🦥

www.odnatamyara.com
I’m represented by Jemiscoe Chambers-Black at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

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Christine Almeda ✏️ @eychristine.bsky.social · 21h

Hello #PortfolioDay 🌟 I’m Christine, a kidlit illustrator open for new picture book, chapter book, and cover projects! I love working on cozy and bright stories, let’s work together!

🌟 www.christinealmeda.com
🌟 www.instagram.com/eychristine

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 23h

Hello #PortfolioDay! I am Charlene Chua & I illustrate books for kids.

🌟Open for 2026 book projects! 🌟

Portfolio - charlenechua.com
Email - charlene [@] charlenechua[.]com
Agent - Tracy Marchini, Tracy Marchini Literary

#kidlitart #illustration #PB #GN #kidlit

Cover for When You Go to Dragon School by Chelsea M Campbell, illustrated by Charlene Chua. A group of school kids of various ages and ethnicities look at a group of friendly dragons of different shapes and sizes.

Cover for Hocus and Pocus and the Spell for Home, by AR Capetta, illustrated by Charlene Chua. Two cute puppies with paws on a cauldron in front of a purple, witchy looking house.

Cover for Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wild, illustrated by Charlene Chua. Girl with read hair and a cowboy hat, holding a heart shape valentine, looking at another girl with a purple jacket and hat.

Cover for Things the Go Bump in the Day by Melinda Beatty illustrated by Charlene Chua. Cute blue vampire boy sitting up in his coffin bed, looking worried.

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Julian Plum @julianplum.com · 20h

🥰🥰🥰 thank you!!!

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Julian Plum @julianplum.com · 21h

This is putting my best work forward... that I can actually show! I've illustrated two entire picture books this year and made SO much work that I can't wait to share, but that takes a lot of time and I haven't had the chance to make as much personal work! Super proud of these, though!!

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Victoria K. Chapman (she/her) @weyakindesigns.bsky.social · 22h

Hello #PortfolioDay! I’m
Victoria K. Chapman, an illustrator/author of children’s books. Artist/art instructor. I love animals, the outdoors, conservation, magic, imagination & mindfulness. Rep’d for kids books by Rosa Frazier & Joyce Sweeney of @seymouragency.bsky.social!
www.weyakindesigns.com

A Forest of green trees with swirling mists and a face looking between the branches. Black birds fly out from below. Swirls grow around the trees. Art by Victoria K. Chapman.

Two eastern box turtles stand by a pond, necks touching in a reptilian embrace. A red wing blackbird flies overhead. A ladybug and mouse hide in the cat tails and grasses. A pavilion sits on the opposite side of the pond, reflecting in golden light. Art by Victoria K. Chapman.

A view of a forest floor. A tree stump covered in moss and fungus sits among ferns and other fallen branches. Various mushrooms lay on the forest floor. Among the trees in the background peers a white tailed deer. Art by Victoria K. Chapman.

An overhead view of children floating in the ocean on blue and white floating tubes. Stingrays and fish swim by below them. A beagle floats on one of the tubes wearing sunglasses. At the edge of the beach, there are shells and a sea star. Art by Victoria K. Chapman.

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Julian Plum @julianplum.com · 21h

It's #portfolioday!!

I'm Julian, a queer 🏳️‍⚧️ illustrator from the foggy Finger Lakes of Upstate NY. I work in traditional gouache & promise I know colors that aren't green. I'm rep'd by Naomi Davis @ BookEnds Literary!

🌿 julianplum.com
🐌 [email protected]

#kidlitart #picturebooks #illustration

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Gordy Wright @gordywright.bsky.social · 22h

Hi #portfolioday!

My name is Gordy and I'm an illustrator based in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈
I paint make my illustrations in gouache, inks and acrylic.

🌐 gordywright.com
✉️ [email protected]

#kidlitart #childrensbooks #illustration

Aerial view of a small plane flying over the Nazca lines

Folktale illustration of the story 'The white hare of Inaba'

Illustration of a Kitsune fox jumping over a Torii gate

Illustration of a badger family in a graveyard at night

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Julian Plum @julianplum.com · 22h

I mean, an early finish on an extended deadline but still! wins where we can get them, you know?

Julian Plum @julianplum.com · 22h

That's the glow in the dark one! The frame glows too :)

Julian Plum @julianplum.com · 1d

hard same, I count the days in time til bake off when there's a season going!

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Julian Plum @julianplum.com · 1d

I'm working on final art of the second to last (🙀) spread of a picture book!! I might? finish early?? who is he. Also have some marketing stuff to do, a few small paintings to make for a market, and a marketing thing to fill out for my publisher. This is a lighter week than it's been in months!

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Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social · 5d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine

Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’

www.theguardian.com

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Macmillan Children's School & Library Marketing @mackidssl.bsky.social · 5d

“There are people who say it doesn’t exist. That we don’t exist. But their maps can’t erase us.” -- Maysa Odeh from A Map for Falasteen

#UniteAgainstBookBans #BannedBooksWeek

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Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · 5d

You can now request an arc of my next middle grade from Netgalley!