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Katria Raden

@katriaraden.bsky.social

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Berlin-based illustrator & author ✧˖° (she/her) #NoAI Contact: [email protected] | Portfolio: www.katriaraden.com

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Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · Apr 8

Ohh it’s #PortfolioDay!! I’m Katria, a kid-lit illustrator & author based in Berlin. I love helping bring people’s ideas to life and I’m available for both short and long term projects 🙌

[email protected]
www.katriaraden.com

Digital illustration of a young cricket boy going down a pebble road on his way to school. His mom is waving him off from a blue door in a tree stump, and the scene is a forest floor.

Digital illustration of animal characters who are mailmen, with a bigger shot of a panda blowing in his post horn and then smaller animals who look like they are walking out of it, featuring an orange cat, an anteater, a giraffe, a hedgehog, a badger, a turtle, a mouse, a rabbit, a rhino, a rooster, a duck and a guinea pig.

Digital illustration of four kids having fun on their sleds on a snowy hill. One boy and a girl are coming down, the boy is scared and the girl has a big smile on her face. Their black and white dog in a yellow sweater is following them. Two other kids are staying behind and waiting for their turn. The boy in the back has a smug facial expression while the girl is looking at the boy with concern.

Digital illustration of a group of kids with their teacher on a visit to a botanical garden. In the foreground there's a boy using a magnifying glass to take a better look at a flower and in the background there's three kids reading a book with pictures, a boy and a girl looking at a butterfly, one girl reading a sign in front of plants, and another looking up at her teacher with amazement at his story.

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tayturs.bsky.social @tayturs.bsky.social · 2d

(Hoping Bsky won't compress the hell out of this image this time :,) )

Here is the whole gang in scale with one another! Chloe makes Josaphine look so tiny!!

I worked really hard on these and I hope it shows ❤️

Colored 2d drawings of five anthropomorphic animal characters. A king eagle, a cat in a red skirt with a pumpkin helmet, a regal falcon woman in a blue dress, a small rock dove woman in multicolored scale mail, and a tall moose woman in a dark cloak and green traveling clothes.

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Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · 2d

A day at the skull museum.

A four panel comic about a skeleton looking at skulls in the skull museum. In the first panel, the skeleton stands below a shelf displaying two skulls. Text reads, "looking at skulls in the skull museum".

In the second and third panels, the skeleton looks closely at two skulls.

In the fourth panel, the skeleton stands next to a tiered display of three skulls. Text reads, "none of them look like me lmao". A non-skeletal man nearby looks at the skeleton.

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Lily / Paraply (@POLARIS) @paraplyshop.com · 4d

It's my birthday ☀️ !
As a gift, can I ask for you to share this post with a link to my shop and patreon today? Thank you ❤️
paraplyshop.com
patreon.com/paraply

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Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 4d

Their partnership with Exactly(.)ai from January 2025:

www.instagram.com/p/DE2ah3BCEhO/

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Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 4d

They insist they aren’t currently partnered with any 3rd party companies and only promote real artists work!

I’m not sure if they’ve also managed to repair their sullied reputation amongst ADs and editors. Do your research and make your own decision, it’s an extremely important one!

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Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 4d

Art Lab is open for submissions at the moment. Be very careful and research who you’re submitting to!

Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · Feb 13

Horrified by this e-mail I got from a real illustration agency this morning, advertising the chance to *USE AI* to generate images in the style of one of their illustrators. You join their plan for $$$, pick an artist, give the AI a prompt, then reach out if you want specialization.

An illustrated portrait in a painterly/cartoon style of a black woman with a puff at the back of her hair, a blue scarf headband, big double-hoop earring, and a yellow blouse with white flowers and a Peter Pan collar, against a green background filled with clouds and leaves. Text at the bottom says << Image generated with Exactly.ai in a style of Masha Shu >>.

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Deb JJ Lee 🔜 Lightbox 112 @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 7d

giving this "inktober" thing another shot. it's been nearly 8 years

ink drawing of a girl surrounded by waves

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Charlot Kristensen @zolwia.bsky.social · 8d

I'm back from maternity leave and in desperate need of some work. If you're looking for some fun colourful cover designs I'm your guy! Here are some book covers I loved illustrating
Contact me at [email protected]
See portfolio link below

Shares & some reassuring words would be much appreciated

A digital illustrated book cover of Cruise Life - Raining Cats and Dogs by Reese Eschmann. It shows a Black girl chasing dogs and cats on the deck of a cruise while her big brother tries to catch up while holding a cat in his arms.

A digital illustrated book cover for the title Unfadeable by Maurice Broaddus. It portrays a mixed Black girl walking by with her pit bull pet, a bridge is seen overhead her, with some cranes in the background and some key characters in the book watches her from a distance.

A digital illustrated book cover titled The Season of Styx Malone
It shows a Black boy with a cap and sunglasses on, her smirks to the viewer, and within his glasses you see the reflection of 2 other Black boys, one smiling back at him with enthusiasm while the other smiles more hesitantly.

A digital illustrated book cover of a picture book titled Bessie the Motorcycle Queen.
It shows Bessie Stringfield on her iconic Hogs (Harleys) against a backdrop of the Grand Canyon.

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 13d

WIP

Sometimes you just want to watch slasher movies and draw strawberries

Pattern WIP of heraldic influenced medieval strawberry botanics with bleeding hearts, curling leaves and daggers piercing dripping strawberries. Small strawberry blossom flowers are dotted throughout the curling vines. Done on procreate in red pencil on a light blush background

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✷ 𝖓𝖆𝖗𝖗 ✷ @narrenstrich.bsky.social · Feb 14

“my heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue“

valentines day illustration in the style of a comic book page. the first panel shows a couple hugging where one girl holds an arrow with a heart as the arrowhead behind the other girl‘s back. the second panel shows a love letter (with lyrics of the song “lover“ by taylor swift) and the third panel shows a bouquet. the final panel has two sets of hands holding a pomegranate.

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Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 12d

Follow me Into the Woods 🌿 My solo show @gallerynucleus.bsky.social opens TOMORROW September 27th, 5PM-8PM.

Over the next two weeks I'll share all the new pieces I created for the show -- starting with this one!

#watercolor
#gouache
#traditionalmedia
#kidlitart

watercolor and gouache painting of a young girl standing on the threshold of a magical doorway made of trees

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Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 12d

providing no sources. She wildly misrepresents the books she mentions, and while she flirts with some interesting topics she quickly abandons them and fully commits to conservative purity-culture soapboxing.

And she heavily leans on academia aesthetics to lend herself credibility, hence the skull.

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Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 12d

A couple of comments do the breakdown and critique really well, but to start off she's using a far-right dog whistle in the title and in the comments, repeatedly! Her entire argument is based on gender essentialism, infantilisation of women and vibes. She insists she's stating objective facts, while

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Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 13d

Very happy to see she’s finally being criticized and challenged on her (thinly veiled conservative) nonsense!

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Matt Emmons @secondatbest.bsky.social · 15d

Almost Home - this month’s riso print to ring in the fall.

Not sure how to describe it, but this time of year always feels like I’m almost “home” so I wanted to come up with something that touches on that feeling a little

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Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 14d

No no, they’re very sane

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Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks to Hampus for making me aware of this gem lmao
bsky.app/profile/hamp...

Hampus 🎃 @hampus.bsky.social · 14d

Good! Fuck you 🙂

A notification on the Bluesky social media platform, saying that I've been added to the "Anti-AI Blocklist Subscribers" moderation list.

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Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 14d

"anti anti ai very sane ai"

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Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 14d

oh I'm there too, let's gooo

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Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 14d

"anti anti ai very sane ai" is taking me out

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Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 15d

Das crazy

Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 16d

Hi Brian, this sounds amazing and is definitely something I'd like to work on. Thank you for the opportunity to be considered!

katriaraden.com

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Maxine Vee @maxinevee.bsky.social · 20d

Autumn Wind 🍂🧣 #art

A digital illustration of a cityscape set in a cozy fall evening. We see girl in a bicycle with her corgi puppy. The city is surrounded by fall trees and is lit by the building windows. We see a distant mountain and gothic architecture in the background

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21d

I don't think it's overdramatic to say that we must consider whether we want "working artist" to be a viable prospect in the near future, and how to materially protect the field from corporations, execs, and managers all too happy to automate creative production with AI.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21d

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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