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Tommy Doyle @tommydoyle.bsky.social · 7d

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day!

I'm Tommy. I have availabilities for new kidlit projects! Interested in picture books, board books, chapter books, and covers.

Rep’d by Gary at Lemonade agency

Send him an email today if you’re looking for fun playful and engaging illustrations! ✨🤩💫

Cute animals at their desk raising their hands in a bright classroom.

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · May 27

Authors & Publishers posting about illustrated books launching this week: pls credit ILLUSTRATOR.

Doing a #CoverReveal? Credit illustrator & designer. Not only does this help boost artist but it shows people that you hired a HUMAN artist.
#PicturesMeanBusiness Art @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social

Illustration of a blue round creature with wings and a tail, containing the text “#PicturesMeanBusiness.” Beside it, hand-lettered in blue, is the question: “Why do so many book people keep forgetting to credit illustrators?” Small text at the bottom credits illustrator Sarah McIntyre and the website

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#PortfolioDay @portfolioday.bsky.social · Apr 17

Alright besties, we're done with Meta for real now right?

Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · Apr 17

What a misguided and terrible ruling from the EU. They just handed people’s rights, privacy and copyrighted works away for free to a US behemoth. This also affects any company whose work is copyright dependent.

I thought the EU was better than this. Shame on them.

finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-wi...

Meta Wins EU Approval to Train AI Using Public Facebook and Instagram Posts

Meta Cleared to Feed EU Facebook, Insta Content to Its AI

finance.yahoo.com

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#PortfolioDay @portfolioday.bsky.social · Apr 8

TODAY IS #PORTFOLIODAY!
yout.be/09cs_chctNk

Some recommendations before you post to prevent AI scraping:
🔸Nightshade and Glaze your image
🔸Only upload web-sized and watermarked images to the internet
🔸Crop images shared to social media
🔸Keep your portfolio behind a password or paywall

Good luck! 💛

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Tommy Doyle @tommydoyle.bsky.social · Apr 8

Shelved concept. The idea here is that through reading, kids get to become the hero of the story they are reading.

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#tommydoyle #tommydoyleillustration #illustration #digitalart #humanillustrator #melbourneartist #melbourneillustrator #australianillustrator #melbourne #kidlitart

Pencil illustration depicting 3 teenagers portrayed as characters of books that they're reading. A pirate, a detective and a vampire

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Gina Perry @ginaperry.bsky.social · Apr 2

#KidLit reminder: Tomorrow is #KidLitArtPostcard day! Be sure to post with that exact hashtag. I'm going to refresh my info page with art from April's posts, see this page for more info: www.ginaperry.com/postcard

Screencap of the webpage ginaperry.com/postcard "All About #KidLitArtPostcard" A grid of digital postcard submissions is seen along with information about the event and remaining dates in 2025.

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · Mar 20

The Canadian 🇨🇦 KidLit Artists & Illustrators Starter Pack is up!

Pls check it out and share!

#kidlit #kidlitart #starterpack

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · Mar 19

Hey #KidLitArt folks - I want to start a new Starter Pack for Canadian #KidLit artists.

If you:
- Mainly do art for children or children's books
- Are Canadian/ Canadian PR
- Want to be included in this pack

Pls reply or send a DM!

Graphic for a proposed Starter Pack for Canadian #kidlit artists / children's illustrators

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Tommy Doyle @tommydoyle.bsky.social · Mar 20

French Canadian here 👋 Would love to be added. Thank you

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Harry Woodgate @harrywoodgate.bsky.social · Feb 25

Today's the final day to make our voices heard against the government's proposed plans to allow AI developers to steal our work for use in training their AI systems. It's theft, plain and simple, but you can object by filling out the IPO consultation.

Guidance here: theaoi.com/news/the-cop...

graphic with a turquoise background with black text reading 'MAKE IT FAIR' - the 'AI' of 'FAIR' is highlighted in white. Subtitle reads 'the government is siding with big tech over British creativity'

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · Feb 24

A Monday mood enhancer, 24 Japanese train tickets from 1956/57. Enjoy!
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/t...

with many thanks to www.instagram.com/transit.tick...
for sharing these scans with us.

collage like illustrations in magenta, blue and yellow. One of a happy diver with a fish. One of a Japanese lantern with type.

These tickets have a lighthouse in green, against a blue sky. And a very cute, simple seagull on the other ticket.

Yellow Japanese folk mask, with a geometric face in red and green. And the other ticket has a blue winding river and yellow fish.

A yellow ticket with two white candles, one in the shape of a snowman. The other has a dancing character against a magenta wave,

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Dapo Adeola @dapsdraws.bsky.social · Feb 10

Please boost this post, ESPECIALLY if you’re a UK based visual artist, author or creative.

What our government is trying to do is predicated on GREED and nothing more.

If you love the arts then join us in trying to protect the livelihoods of those who create it.

SHARE SHARE SHARE!

Chris Haughton @chrishaughton.bsky.social · Feb 8

This is very urgent. The UK government is planning to change copyright law. If you are an artist, author, musician or work in the creative industry please read this.

www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...

AI and copyright - blog - Chris Haughton - AI and copyright

The blog of designer and author Chris Haughton. Chris was listed in Time magazine's DESIGN 100 for his fair trade design work for PEOPLE TREE.

www.chrishaughton.com

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Sandy the Friendly Ghost @sandyjarrell.com · Feb 8

Just updated iOS to 18.3, had to jump through these hoops to disable Chat GPT integration (Different in iPhone 15 or 16):

Settings → Screen Time
Content &
Privacy Restrictions → (Enable toggle) →
Intelligence & Siri →
Turn off desired Al
teatures.

Just screenshots, all described in post text

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☕️ AMY CHU #donutkiller @amychu.bsky.social · Feb 5

Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

arstechnica.com

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zoë lotus @zoelotus.net · Jan 25

Alt text is searchable, makes the site more accessible for everyone, and there's even a setting that reminds you to add it when you're posting a photo. Happy skeeting!!

Veronica Lewis, M.Ed. 👩‍🦯 @veron4ica.com · Nov 29

I’m glad so many people have found my “capybara method” for how to write alt text and image descriptions helpful! However, I know conflicting access needs exist and not everyone can write their own #AltText, so here’s an ongoing thread of tools that can help. Inclusion in thread ≠ endorsement

An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.” Credit to Puzzle agency, original information from Veronica With Four Eyes and veroniiiica dot com

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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · Jan 24

The reason A.I. is being shoved down our throats is shareholders want a return on their investment. Every company that integrates this crappy tech into their products knows you don't want it, but they've sunk too much money into it and don't care. Turn it off, don't use it, don't look back.

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Tommy Doyle @tommydoyle.bsky.social · Jan 15

Hi #PortfolioDay I’m Tommy Doyle, a kidlit illustrator based in Australia.

As 2025 begins, I have availability and am excited to collaborate with both new and returning clients.

Rep’d by Gary, Lemonade Illustration Agency
[email protected]

#kidlitart #kidlit #tommydoyleillustration

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#PortfolioDay @portfolioday.bsky.social · Jan 6

It's almost time again #PortfolioDay is on Tuesday, January 14th, 2025! If you're a creative looking for work or someone who hires creative professionals, watch this video to find out how to participate.

👉 youtu.be/09cs_chctNk 👈

Visit portfolioday.art for more!

How to #PortfolioDay!

YouTube video by #PortfolioDay

youtu.be

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Dapo Adeola @dapsdraws.bsky.social · Jan 3

I remember when we were trying to tell folks that amongst the minorities, Black people would be amongst the first to be displaced by gen AI.

Now look at this BS.

Meta have created a model minority person which, if we’re being honest, is made to fit into the white gaze. 🫠

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Zhillustrator @zhillustrator.com · Jan 5

My #Procreate inks, just a small part of my upcoming brush set for Procreate. If you knew how much I worked on this, you wouldn't mind paying $20 for the full pack. It might as well might be that much because damn this is fun, but also hard work. Artists gotta eat. #ProcreateArtist

A demo page of my inked brushes for Procreate.

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · Jan 4

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · Jan 4

"i cant break up with adobe there's no good after effects alternative" Hey look
youtu.be/lm51xZHZI6g?...

How I Broke up with Adobe

YouTube video by James Lee (Animation)

youtu.be

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · Dec 28

Imagine if this money went to writers, artists, musicians, humans

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Dec 28

What are we DOING here? We're just meant to sit and act like this insane plagiarism and climate threat that requires more money than anything has ever cost is worth it? Are we meant to pretend that ChatGPT is worth this aimless, meaningless destruction of capital and our environment? For what?

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Dec 28

Yeah I need way more money than anyone ever got before. I need it because my shit is difficult right now. But it's important in ways even I haven't been able to work out. OpenAI is a serious business. Help me. Please help me please my serious company is so good. Help me
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/o...

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · Dec 24

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

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