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Sayada Ramdial

@sayadaramdial.bsky.social

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Illustrator, Trini, person with things to say occasionally. sayadaramdial.com (she/her) Represented by The Bright Agency #kidlitart #illustration

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Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · Oct 8

Hi #portfolioday!
I'm Sayada, an illustrator who loves drawing food, fun characters, animals & more.
Itching to do another PB, and would love to branch out to other areas of publishing, packaging or advertising illustration too!
sayadaramdial.com
[email protected]
Rep'd by The Bright Agency

photo of my hand holding up a copy of Julie and the Mango Tree, a hardcover picture book written by Sadé Smith and illustrated by me, with a leafy bush in the background.

repeating patten featuring 26 different animals drawn in black and white, one for each letter of the alphabet

digital illustration of a tabletop with four dishes on it, from a recipe book i illustrated titled Beef It Up!
One is stuffed bell peppers, one is shredded meat with vegetables, one is beef and broccoli on rice, and the one in the foreground is salisbury steak on mashed potatoes topped with a mushroom gravy

digital illustration of a teen girl with brown skin and brown curly hair, blowing a bubble with chewing gum and throwing out a peace sign. she's wearing green jeans shorts and a yellow tshirt with a pink smily face on the back, and green and pink sneakers. In the background is some abstract colourful shapes radiating from the bottom left corner against a pale green flat backdrop.

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Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · 9h

A classic!! Such a tender moment 💖

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Valentine @valent6228.bsky.social · 1d

Something Familiar (The New Yorker Magazine cover) (2014) - Peter de Sève (b.1958) #illustration

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Maggie Rudy @maggiemice.bsky.social · 1d

BOO!

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 1d

'Henny Halloween, Too'

Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.

Silhouette drawing in black ink of a hen dancing with a pumpkin bearing a mischievous grinning expression like a carved jack-o'-lantern, with its leaves standing in for limbs. The hen's comb and wattle are the only touch of red gouache.

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Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · 9h

Actually, you can opt out of having your picture taken by tsa, and they do a visual check instead. I've done it before, you just have to ask them.
From their website:

screencap reads:
TSA policy requires that TSOs show each traveler respect and ensure their privacy is protected. Travelers who do not wish to participate in the facial comparison technology process may decline the optional photo, without recourse, in favor of an alternative identity verification process, which does not use facial comparison technology to verify their identity. This action will not take longer and travelers will not lose their place in line for security screening. TSA is committed to protecting traveler privacy, civil rights, civil liberties and ensuring the public’s trust as it seeks to improve the traveler experience through its exploration of identity verification technologies.

Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · 10h

omg how sweet 🥹🥹

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Loish @loish.bsky.social · 1d

Hot take: Pigeons are majestic. Who agrees with me??

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Abeeha Tariq @abeehatariqart.bsky.social · 1d

happy halloween 👻

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Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · 12h

something something Trunk-or-treat is ruining america

Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · 12h

Sigh. Not a single trick or treater this year (so far. I mean it's nearly 11pm so...)
To be fair there's an atmospheric river, also we got back home at 6:30, so there's a possibility someone came by before then.

This is why we just got a few bulk bin candies of only varieties we'd eat at home.

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Casket @casketjones.bsky.social · 22h

chickenlegs.the-comic.org
is now Live! the entire first chapter is up now! Chapter 2 coming next month!

main character of Chicken Legs, Mariska Morevna, in a Halloween dress that looks like a pumpkin and a witch hat. The text says Happy Halloween

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Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · 12h

Ahhh so good! just read through it :D

Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · 1d

wtfffff

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 1d

Caterpillar cell and chipmunk house still available ✨

Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 2d

I goobered an automatic payment that I wanted canceled... so am having a FLASH SALE today on original paintings.

Duckling: $325 on SALE for $250
Caterpillar: $275 on SALE for $200
Bug Apothecary: $350 on SALE $275
Congrats Tree: $325 on SALE $250

DM to claim - Venmo/paypal accepted

Animation cell with painted background and caterpillar

Animation cell and background all handpainted

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Sage Howard @sagehoward.bsky.social · 2d

#bloctober day 28 (sorta, I’ll catch up). Had to do one more lighthouse this month! Would you like to own this drawing? If you donate $25 or more to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, I’ll send you this drawing as a thank-you. pcrf.net to donate, new drawings all month long.

An ink drawing of a rocky island with fishing shacks, nets strung on pylons, a dangling fish skeleton and a lighthouse.

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Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · 2d

Old enough to remember the era of parents pearl-clutching about violent videogames directly making their children violent. And now, what... that's been spun into being a good thing? Because violence/murder at the behest of an authority figure = good boy behaviour? man wtf

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 3d

This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 3d

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 3d

Thanatotheristes is a late Cretaceous tyrannosaur whose name means 'Reaper of death.' I couldn't help this image of it in Grim Reaper guise popping into my head.

Brown pencil on plain notebook paper, 125 × 190 mm, 2020.

#Halloween #Samhain

Brown pencil drawing of a cloaked and hooded figure with the head of a tyrannosaur, facing left, standing amid billowing smoke. The blade of a scythe emerges from the cloak's folds. At the bottom of the image is a scroll with the words, 'Thanatotheristes: Le faucheur de la mort'.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

By @deldeib.bsky.social

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org

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Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · 3d

But then again, the edit may have benefitted from the months spent percolating in your brain :)

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Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · 3d

Incredible work!!

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 5d

If your democrat rep is on this list send an email or call.

KOSA is real bad. It will be used by the current admin for mass censorship.

Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 8d

🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.

You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

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Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · 3d

Happy book birthday! 🥳

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 7d

Henny Halloween. 🐔🎃

Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.

Drawing in mainly black ink, primarily in silhouette, of a hen standing on a pumpkin on the vine, bending her head quizzically down towards it. The pumpkin bears a grinning expression like that if a carved jack-o-lantern. The hen's comb and wattle are the only touch of red gouache.

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Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · 4d

They tried to bury the lede, but it kept crawling back up 🧟