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Sarah Downie
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Illustrator- author 🦀🐠🐟
www.sarahdownieart.com
seeking art representation
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Sarah Downie @sadillustrations.bsky.social · Sep 4
Hello #kidlitartpostcardday !
My name is Sarah and I am an author-illustrator. I currently have illustrated a few books and was published in Aquila magazine
Currently seeking art representation for my work.
🦀 www.sarahdownieart.com
🦀 [email protected]
#kidlitart #kidlitillustration
#kidlitartpostcardday illustrated postcard for September 4th 2025. The illustration is of a girl reading on a boat buoy, accompanied by sea gulls reading along
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taylornprice.bsky.social
lil crab!
November 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social
🚨 WNDB is committed to providing emergency grants to diverse authors & illustrators, publishing professionals, and educators experiencing dire financial need due to loss of SNAP benefits. We are now open for a new round of emergency grants, between $250 and $1,000 each.

💻 bit.ly/WNDB-emergency
Royal blue promotional graphic titled “Emergency Grants Open”. Beneath the title text is a row of three illustrations depicting boxes of food donations. At the bottom of the graphic are three rows of text with a bright gold background that contain the following message: “Diverse writers, illustrators, publishing professionals, and educators financially impacted by loss of SNAP benefits or access to food, apply for a grant today!
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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dokirosi.bsky.social
Spooky Scary Skelentons 💀💀💀 #halloween #art #BRart
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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catherineunger.bsky.social
Rough.
October 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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studiohoffmann.bsky.social
Who’s your main squeeze? Tag ‘em! Mine is the lovely @mrshoffy.bsky.social

I made this when I had the super-fun @acaseoflala.bsky.social on my Gab ‘n’ Doodle show. ⬇️ See comments for a funny clip that shows her spelling prowess

👀 watch the whole show on my YouTube!

#peachtober #peachtober25sour
Collage and paint illustration: lime in a light blue tuxedo and a lemon in a wedding dress hug each other as a exit at church. Text above in a wavy pattern says “main squeeze“
October 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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paraplyshop.com
adventure in the Dark Woods

#art #cuteart
illustration of four of my animal characters – Rikki the raccoon, Phib the bear, Mo the seagull and Rubi the fox – as a fantasy adventure party in a dark forest
October 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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jameelawahlgren.bsky.social
Making art is the closest thing I can think of to magical wish fulfillment. Because what do you mean I can just PAINT my childhood fantasies into reality?
A picture book illustration of a little girl peeking into a circus tent with horses and acrobats
October 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
sadillustrations.bsky.social
Dream goal for my house this weekend 🩷
October 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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katiuskapino.com
A morning in the garden #kidlitart
Digital Illustration of mother and daughter watering the garden, the mother shows her daughter the butterflies.
October 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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telekitnetic.bsky.social
🌕🦭 Harbour Seal (2022)

#telekitneticart #formline #indigenousart
A formline design of a harbour seal, coloured in teal and blue on a pale yellow background.
September 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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oliviawhen.com
It's the release date of The Day Leap Soared!! To celebrate here are all the dogs doing some interpretations of "reading."
A brown and cream Alaskan husky (Jenga) is sitting at a table with her head resting on a closed book. The bg is a bright yellow, and she has a red "...?" above her head. Is this reading? Not as exciting as expected. A big dark brown and white husky with freckles around his mouth (Colbert) is sitting while chewing on a book. It already has a chunk missing. His tail is curled in, and he appears pretty satisfied. A dark grey and cream husky with brown ears (Leap) is jumping over an open book on the ground and looking at it as she passes by. She looks interested, but probably only read a couple words on this pass.
October 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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charlenedraws.bsky.social
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.
October 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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torikateillo.bsky.social
Hi #portfolioday!

I’m Tori, 🇨🇦 illustrator who loves to create silly, heartfelt and funny characters on wonderful adventures

Rep’d by Analía Cabello at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
@analiacabello.bsky.social

torikateillustration.com
A boy in an astronaut suit is cheersing his hot cocoa with a googly eyed alien in space. Little tiny aliens surround them, one trying to eat the floating marshmallows. Scribbly sparkly star background An illustration of the first Christmas night, nativity scene with barn animals peeking around at joseph, mary and baby jesus A yellow bus sits at the bus stop while animals hurry to catch it! we see birds flying in with a lunchbox, a fox carrying way too many books, a mother bear offering her bear kiddo lunch, a skunk crossing guard is helping a disabled dog across the street and a turtle is late for the bus! Firefighting team! A dog in uniform is holding the trunk of a purple elephant. Three frogs are slung over the elephant, one on a ladder and two uptop on the head - these frogs are holding up a siren and calling into a megaphone
April 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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odnatamyara.bsky.social
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
October 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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acorviart.bsky.social
hi I draw things. sometimes for money #portfolioday

✉️ [email protected]
🎨 acorviart.com
🔗 acorviart.carrd.co
🛒 acorviart.bigcartel.com
Illustration of a millefleurs-style tapestry of two barn owls circling a curled up rabbit. The animals are surrounded by various other plants and animals that juxtapose symbols of life and death, making it unclear if the rabbit lives or dies. Risoprint-esque illustration of a giant white-bodied oarfish against a night sky, curled around a highway billboard. The billboard says “caution” in vibrating letters against a bright yellow background. Roadside lights and power lines are overlaid onto the oarfish’s body. Illustration of a rat king (multiple rats tangled together by their tails). The rats are all clustered in the top half of the composition, with their tails forming a loop below. A dripping crown is overlaid on the loop, and the rats all have small crowns. Illustration based on the The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, where the phrase “albatross around your neck” is derived from. An albatross is tangled in rope, with the rope forming a noose around a skeleton’s neck and tied with a bowline knot. An arrow intersects the knot, and tears drip from the point of the arrow.
October 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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evelasco.bsky.social
Hi again #PortfolioDay!

I'm Elsa, book cover illustrator focused on fantasy, sci-fi and horror. I have a soft spot for symbolism, as well as themes of identity and connection. Currently available for freelance work!

💼 elsavelasco.com
✉️ [email protected]
Other links: linktr.ee/evelasco.art
Drawing of a brown-skinned androgynous person with long straight black hair looking back at the viewer. They have a handkerchief in one hand, and are sweating under the sun. In the background there’s the shape of a crowd with banners and strange musical instruments, congregated around the huge arch of a gate, for which the keystone is being set in a ceremony. This piece is an illustration for the first chapter of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness Illustration of a long-haired man sleeping. There are worlds melting in his hair, the skyline of Portland before him and Mount Hood in the background. This piece is an alternate cover for The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin Illustration of two hands reaching for each other. One of them is darker than the other, and they both have cracks that glow with light. Between them is a glowing star, and they are surrounded by a swirl of darkness and light, that remind the night sky and snow. It is an alternate cover for The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin Illustration of a naked androgynous figure in a cave surrounded by black monsters that remind marine creatures. The person is drawing on a book while looking and touching the monsters. The person has a hole in the chest, filled by a glowing speck of light. They also have glowing eyes, as do the monsters. The person's n1pples are censored due to BlueSky consistently flagging the image as adult content.
October 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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rekhasalin.bsky.social
It's #portfolioday
I am Rekha and I love drawing silly, fun and funny pictures, with a lot of heart and humour.
Portfolio Www.rekhasalin.com
Repped by @ashliterary.bsky.social
#kidlit #kidlitart #illustration
October 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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weyakindesigns.bsky.social
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.
October 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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fawa.bsky.social
Hi #portfolioday! ⭐️
I’m Farah, a children’s author & illustrator based in UK.

Open to work on new BB, PB and fiction projects.

⭐️ Rep’d by Emily Talbot at @unitedagents.bsky.social
View my full portfolio at www.fawashah.co.uk
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#kidlitart #kidlitartist #fawashah #opentowork #illustration
October 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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nanelsonart.bsky.social
Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Natalie, an illustrator and cartoonist living in Maine 🦞 I'm looking for rep/work in picture books, covers, and graphic novels. I'd be happy to draw for you!

💠 www.nanelsonart.com
💠 [email protected]
spring reading 2024 a page from my 2023 comic Droplet prismatic passage 2021 no sleep for silas 2024
October 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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julianplum.com
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.
October 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social
Greetings #portfolioday

My name is JLMeyer and I am a Illustrator, Cover, and Comic artist.

#coverart #kidlitart #animals #IPart #maleficent
October 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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cleadraw.bsky.social
👋Hi #PortfolioDay, are you looking for an artist for your next project? I am your girl.
Book cover, graphic novel, promotional artwork, you can email me or for publishing inquiries you can contact my agent @sandraproudman.bsky.social 💕
#coverreveal #bookcover #graphicnovel #Queerart #picturebooks
A woman is sitting with her guitar. In her back a man is looking at her. Two regency men are kissing next to a pond at night. A young teen girl is playing handball. Two teen are sitting on the edge of a pool.
October 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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samanthamash.bsky.social
#PortfolioDay again! I'm a West Coast artist named Samantha and I specialize in editorials, publishing (mostly book covers), and branding

✉️[email protected]
🧡samanthamash.com
🧡samanthamash.etsy.com
🧡inprnt.com/gallery/samanthamash
🧡patreon.com/samanthamash
Illustration of woman with short hair kneeling back on the ground and pulling the string of a bow tight. She is holding a white arrow and prepared to let go. Around her is the Sagittarius constellation that is made of orange and pale yellow stars. The background is a pale peach, the woman is made up of oranges and reds. Illustration of a pale antelope on a dark background with orange plants around it Five herons, two black, three white are circled around one of the black herons holding an orb of light Pale woman with dark hair in periwinkle one piece swimsuit swimming with fish and other sea life in a dark ocean with a pink sky and peach sun
October 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM