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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 · 20h

wtfffff

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 22h

Caterpillar cell and chipmunk house still available ✨

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

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 · 1d

#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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

Incredible work!!

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 4d

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 · 7d

🚨‼️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 · 6d

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 · 3d

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

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Sage Howard @sagehoward.bsky.social · 3d

#bloctober day 27, just a picture of someplace I might like to live. Would you like to own this drawing? If you donate $25 or more to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, I’ll send this drawing to you as a thank-you. pcrf.net to donate, new drawings all month long.

An ink drawing of a rocky island with brick buildings, small trees, and strange rune-carved rock formations.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 4d

Blue peafowl.
Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 85 × 133 mm.

Not so happy with this as I'd hoped to be. A combination of tiredness and my not managing the ink consistency well enough, resulting in quite a few areas of unsightly patchiness.

Drawing in black ink, mostly in silhouette, of a male blue peafowl standing on a branch.

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Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · 4d

Heck yeah! You kicked its butt back

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Jason (he/him) @jasonimusprime.bsky.social · 4d

Actually, looks like this setting is mainly visible on desktop.

Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 4d

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

$Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.$

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Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · 4d

So GOOD Elizabeth!! Those colour pencil textures! The style! dang, dude 🤩

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Elizabeth Beals @elizabethbeals.bsky.social · 4d

My Storybook Homage Variant for issue 5 of Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring!! 🕳️👩‍🌾

@bttwnsofficial.bsky.social
@idwpublishing.com

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Kathleen Neeley @kathleenneeley.bsky.social · 4d

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Sayada Ramdial @sayadaramdial.bsky.social · 4d

a man in a military uniform stands at a podium in front of a group of people

Alt: Fred Armisen in character saying "right to jail, right away!"

media.tenor.com

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TAKAO★WATANABE🎨10/29～11/3 solo exhibition @watanabetakao.bsky.social · 4d

This artwork was created with the image of a cat delivering autumn.

#Illustration
#LineArt
#CommentPls

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parker parrella @parkparr.bsky.social · 6d

Original paintings now available☀️
parkerparrella.etsy.com

A cropped acrylic painting of a pink sunset in a deep valley with a lake. three suns set just above a distant purple horizon

A crop of an acrylic painting of a blue and orange sunset with a dark bush obscuring most of the sky, an opening in the foliage reveals a glowing yellow sun setting behind distant orange trees

an acrylic painting of a pink and purple sunset with dark red branches descending from above. peeking out from between the leaves, 5 glowing suns pass in an arc

A crop of an acrylic painting of a red sunset on a lake, dark branches descend from above and reeds grow from the shoreline beneath, a yellow sun sets behind pink clouds

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone can become disabled.

Anyone can lose their job.

Anyone can become homeless.

Anyone can go hungry.

These are not moral failings. They can happen in an instant.

Most people are far closer to living in poverty than they realize.

We must fight for one another & for the most vulnerable.

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Jon Corby | KidLit Illustrator @joncorbyart.bsky.social · 7d

Have been feeling inspired by classic Scooby-Doo background art this Fall and made this GIF to celebrate! 🎃 #halloween #scoobydoo #kidlitart

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