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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
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anerbananer🍌 @anerbananer.bsky.social · Nov 14
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.
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pubspotlight.bsky.social
What a great list! In addition to THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER it also features PENCIL from @toonbooks.bsky.social and SUNDAY from @bluedotkidspress.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
anerbananer.bsky.social
Our dynamic to a T 💕
November 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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breanimator.bsky.social
IF YOU WANT EVEN MORE BLACK MAGICAL GIRLS/WOMEN AND FEMMES.

Check out these two kickstarters!!!

@chaoticfableent.bsky.social

The Chaotic Misadventures of Arch and Reggie - Indie Pilot Animatic

@fwdiostudios.bsky.social

Poison Us- Animated Pilot

#indieanimation
Kickstarter links below:
October 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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pearllow.bsky.social
OUR #WheelsAndRoses trailer is HERE✨🌈🛼

LOVE MAGICAL GIRLS? LOVE ROLLER DERBY AND ROLLER SKATING? LOVE QUEER GALS AND THEY THEMS?? Look no further!!!

WE'RE SO EXCITED TO FINALLY SHARE OUR TEASER TRAILER WITH THE WORLD!!!

youtu.be/sT23E5MyZKQ?...

#IndieAnimation
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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zcheraime.bsky.social
Times are tough, and art shouldn't be out of reach!

We originally valued this decade-long project at $19.99, but we’ve lowered the rental to just $2.99 so ANYONE can watch.

Your small rental fee helps directly support us indie creators ❤️ Check it out today!

➤ Rent: tinyurl.com/WatchCZ2
October 31, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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anerbananer.bsky.social
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.
November 14, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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byjessicaelena.bsky.social
stuffs!!

#art #illustration
A digital drawing featuring different items scattered on a page: an apple with a face, a cloud with legs, a flower with legs, a bird, cats, flowers, mushrooms, a cup of steaming coffee and a fish.
October 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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eychristine.bsky.social
Happy book birthday to I DANCE! 🎶 🇵🇭

To have Filipino culture be so easily accessible, mixed with dancing, and a book that’s easy to read over and over - what a gift. So happy our book is finally out in the world.

Beautifully written by Diana Rañola, published by Holiday House 📚
October 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
anerbananer.bsky.social
A cover illustration project I assigned myself. Every Halloween season I like to write short stories or paint spooky premises, and this time I combined an old tradition with a new intention! I would love to do more novel covers, so this is me manifesting!
#bookart #illustration #horror
October 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
anerbananer.bsky.social
Today is the book birthday for To The Top of the World! A book I illustrated about the life of Barbara Hillary, the first Black woman to reach the north AND south poles (all in her 60s and 70s!) She's my hero. Grab it wherever books are sold!
#art #kidlit #bookart #illustration
painted closeup of Barbara Hillary in blue snow gear (warm beanie, snow goggles, and a puffy fur-lined coat). Snow flurries whisk across her face. vista of three trekkers, one of them barbara hillary, the other two being guides, hiking the summit to the north pole barbara hillary in her dreamscape, thinking about the northern lights and sitting up there in that beautiful stillness. She is illustrated in the close-up foreground with her eyes closed, then again small in the snowscape behind her, looking up at the moon amidst the polar night sky the book cover for To the Top of the World. Illustration of Barbara Hillary with one glove off giving a thumbs up as she celebrates reaching the end of her polar journey
October 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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matthewdowsmith.bsky.social
OUT TODAY!!!

THE OCTOBER GIRL Book One from me and @maverickogn.bsky.social!

It's the first book in a YA suburban fantasy series with hints of Bradbury, Charles Addams, Amelié, Doctor Who, and Tim Burton, and I'm fiercely proud of it!
It's out! My book is finally out! After all these years!!! Oh, and this is a drawing of Autumn Ackerman with her long scarf moodily flapping behind her.
October 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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anerbananer.bsky.social
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.
September 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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wolfskulljack.bsky.social
Time moves in layers - 2023
My art, digital. A surreal large wolf head descends from the heavens
October 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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alexaray.bsky.social
The shorter games with worse graphics made by less people discourse is starting again and the nuance lost in this conversation is: we absolutely CAN make big, hyper-realistic games, sustainably. The problem -- and the money drain -- is executive pay, leadership overreach, mismanagement, and whims.
October 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
anerbananer.bsky.social
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
September 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
anerbananer.bsky.social
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
September 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
anerbananer.bsky.social
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.
September 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
anerbananer.bsky.social
I'm so happy. Having so much fun🥹 #silksong
September 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
anerbananer.bsky.social
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.
August 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
anerbananer.bsky.social
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.
August 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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gnarlyghost.bsky.social
Ghost of the Stone Forest
August 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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friedbaens.bsky.social
Hi I love drawing characters #PortfolioDay
July 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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sarenstone.com
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.
August 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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rexpo.bsky.social
Crop 💙
August 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM