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Illustrator-Author/Concept Artist/Storyteller. Yapper, PhD. Lover of purple and nerdy things. 💜 (she/her) 30+, 🚫NO AI/NFTs Rep: Alex Gehringer, The Bright Agency. #art #bookart #illustration www.anadraws.com http://linktr.ee/anadraws
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Hi friends! I'm Anastasia and I make stories happen. I'm a working illustrator-author who loves art, games, anime, fanworks, and building community with fellow nerds who like to fixate on fictional worlds while trying to make our real one a better place. Happy to know you!
portrait of the artist, Anastasia. She is smiling while looking off-camera. There are floral and butterfly pins in her afro, and she wears glasses, teal drop earrings and a gold necklace. Her dress is yellow and she has tattoos on both arms. An illustration of a Black boy moving to the beat, eyes closed and in a dance pose. music notes and colorful flourishes surround him. He is wearing a green shirt, blue jeans and white sneakers with red laces. His hair is in micro locs crop of a larger painting of a honeybee fairy. She holds a piece of honeycomb and flies under a large green leaf. serene scene in a magical forest. It's a marshland with lots of small rivers flowing through large thin trees with dark blue-gray bark. bright, giant orange shelf mushrooms grow on them. In a stump, a small glowing sword waits for a hero.
Bath time? DUCK TIME.
#kidlit #art #illustration
a baby in submerged in bubbles in a bath, holding up a yellow rubber ducky.  He smiles as he holds the duck like a special treasure. The words "DUCK TIME" are drawn across the top of the canvas and bubbles float around
Little World-builder~👷🏾‍♀️✨🛠️
#kidlit #illustration #art
a young toddler plays with colorful blocks, stacking them high. Her hair is pulled into cute little puffs with her coily hair spiraling from two orange bubble ties
Mischief Makers 👶🐈🧵
#kidlit #art #illustration
an illustration of a toddler in a blue onesie sits on the floor, looking up and giggling at the family cat that has perched on head. Both are tangled up in red yarn.
I'm so happy. Having so much fun🥹 #silksong
Sketch --> Final
Portrait of Yvonne Clark
#art #illustration #portrait #space #engineering
rough sketch of a woman holding a model rocket ship above her head, smiling. In her other hand is an engineering textbook. Behind her is a blackboard that fades into a cosmic spacescape full of stars. colorful illustrative portrait of the astro-scientist Yvonne Clark. She is holding a model rocket ship above her head, smiling. In her other hand is an engineering textbook. Behind her is a blackboard that fades into a cosmic spacescape full of stars.
Sketch --> Final
#art #illustration #kidlit
sketch of a young girl playing with river otters at an aquarium full color illustration of a young girl playing with river otters at an aquarium. The colors of her clothing are bright and the water glows a pretty teal blue.
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time to make some Silksong art...

in the meantime, here's some Hollow Knight ᴝ:
Peonies are the best at this
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Hi I love drawing characters #PortfolioDay
You get it 🙂‍↕️
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About that double Crucible Knight fight...
Elden Ring fanart in the form of a monotone sketch. Two Crucible Knights flank a smaller tarnished knight. One has his hand wrapped around the Tarnished's throat, while the other holds them by the upper arms from behind. It's all extremely sexually charged despite nothing explicit happening at all.
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Something I'm grappling with right now. Thank you for this 💜 it's better knowing I'm not grappling alone!
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There’s a sneaky feeling that we must conform to what’s *out there* instead of trusting what makes our art and stories come alive.

This is about that.

open.substack.com/pub/jacobsou...

#kidlit #kidlitart
The Publishing Golden Ticket
Chasing success in the wrong ways
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Reading this makes me feel like I'm losing my mind. Like seriously...what?
oh no, did they tease something with Al and someone else? 😔 I like to think I will continue to obsess, but sometimes a certain direction can really kill the vibe. I've been worried since the ep with Luci that V*v may introduce other chars JUST to break up charlastor chemistry bc it's so powerful
The "It Started With A Kiss" series is one of my all-timer favorites, and huang is just a master at their craft! I thought of it when I saw the standees too!
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AUTUMN HYPE!!!

#art #illustration
A digital drawing in a very angular, collage like style, featuring an autumnal branch on a dark background. The branch and the leaves are all warm autumnal colours, and there are a few acorns.
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I made a free* webcomic template site for Carrd! If you want somewhere to host your comic but don’t want to bother with building a new website and having to use plugins then this may be for you! (Link below!)
Landing page for webcomic template site Chapter list for webcomic template site Top part of page one for webcomic template site in mobile orientation Bottom/scrolled part of page one for webcomic template site in mobile orientation
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General reminder that being angry online isn't the same as journalism.
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The "reality of things" isn't just the news you see while doomscrolling.
It's also the flowers in your garden, and the bumblebee that just passed through, and your favorite books that gave such comfort, and that song that always gets you dancing, and your friends that love you, and
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The bluesky starter packs are making their rounds again so I must share with you Moor Frog for back to school season since the trees are turning golden despite the thick humidity 🌞🐸
#kidlitart #art #cuteart
digital illustration of a blue moor frog sitting in shallow waters and there is a child fairy putting leaves over the moor frog for fun. the color palette is golden brown with the blue moor frog
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