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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open

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Zandra /•/ Freelance Illustrator & Merch Designer /•/ 💖 Cute animals and bright, stylized design /•/ She/Her 🛒 shop.zandraillustration.com 📌 zandraillustration.carrd.com 💌 [email protected] ✨ Tags: #artshop #art #artistresources

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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · Oct 17

Hi, I'm Zandra! I'm a full-time freelance illustrator and graphic designer specializing in merchandise design and cute characters. Open for freelance opportunities!

💼 zandraillustration.myportfolio.com
💌 [email protected]
🛒 shop.zandraillustration.com

#artistforhire

A stylized illustration of a black cat wearing a witch hat. The cat is peeking out behind a jack-o-lantern sitting on a stump. A purple bat sits on top of the cat's hat. The background features a cream color with colorful autumn leaves.

A photo of an ornately decorated cake in Black, Silver, and Gold to celebrate the 2025 New Years' holiday. The decorations adorning the top and the side of the cake are all various merchandise items designed by Zandra Illustration and sold at stores like Wal-Mart and Kroger.

A photo of thanksgiving-themed cupcakes and cake slices in a blue, orange and green color scheme. The "Happy Thanksgiving" decorative cupcake sticks and the sugar gourds are items designed by Zandra Illustration and sold at stores like Wal-Mart and Kroger.

A photo of two clear sticker sheets side-by-side on an orange and white backdrop. Each sticker sheet features colorful kitties hiding behind various plants and fall leaves.

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Requinoesis✨ @requinoesis.bsky.social · 11h

Hi hi #PortfolioDay! 🎨✨

I'm Requinoesis, someone who loves the ocean! I'm dedicated to creating a new insight into the imagery of sharks under pastel colors! 🌊🦈✨

You can see more of my art stuff here, if you want: linktr.ee/requinoesis

Roberto, the great hammerhead shark, explores the ruins of an ancient museum destroyed by Typhon's storm. He holds a flashlight and carries a mysterious human spirit in his backpack, who accompanies him in silence.

The place, shrouded by the phenomenon called “cursed salt mist”, is covered in a permanent fog. Salt crystals sprout everywhere and a supernatural presence seem to lurk among the rubble.

The spirit that accompanies Roberto is liquid and translucent. Sometimes little tropical fish of extinct species float around him, as if attracted by his presence.

The museum's architecture is full of organic curves and ornate tiles. Decorated columns show a crab with a human face holding the moon between its pincers, an ancient symbol of a historical figure revered by the sharkfolk.

A cozy little shark bistro nestled among lots of plants.

A little harbor village of Gourdlets among a cozy grove of trees, carrying out various cooperative activities related to fishing and recreation, there are little colorful fish and a shark swimming peacefully in the sea.

An allegory of the "Jaws" movie poster that caused damage and negative stereotypes to the image of sharks that persist to this day (I'm glad it's slowly changing, but it's still too slow to be considered forgivable). Now with a reversal of roles, with the human victim replaced by a simple wild shark and the terrible stereotyped shark replaced by a monstrous human skull seeming to want to devour the shark (this is the reality, we kill thousands of sharks every year, many of them killed for irrational reasons, who is the real cruel killer?)

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 22h

Hi #portfolioday ☀️

I’m a Polish illustrator & full-time 2D Game Artist. I love to create cozy art, usually celebrating nature or small moments of everyday life. I want to bring feelings of comfort to everyone and brighten their day with my work!

✸ Store: vexnir-shop.com ✸

Gouache illustration of a black cat wearing a scarf with various geometric patterns on it. The scarf is in warm shades with some green accents.

Watercolor illustration of a bunch of colorful pumpkins, with a beige striped cat sleeping on top of them curled up into a ball, slightly resembling the round pumpkins itself.

Traditional fan art in watercolor and colored pencil. It’s an illustration showing the Pokémon Ampharos, with a little Togepi in its arms, standing among bushes full of yellow flowers. A small house, trees and electrical poles can be seen in the background, with Mt. Fuji faintly hovering over them in the distance.

Traditional drawing in mixed media of a white cat with a yellow straw hat sitting inside a blue cardboard box. It’s surrounded with other boxes full of oranges.

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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 9h

Im cryin I need Periwinkle 😭😭😭😭😭

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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · Oct 17

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 3d

That’s such a fluffy, sleepy pumpkin 🧡

#art #cozyart #caturday

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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 4d

Jenn I am so sorry, I'm hoping this boost can help a little

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JENN! ✨ @thekeythief.bsky.social · 8d

Tl;dr: life comes at us fast & I’ve abruptly been displaced from my home & need $$$ to find immediate housing

@charcubed.bsky.social made me a gofundme to help 😭 I’m probably the worst person when it comes to asking for help but anything would be very appreciated 🫠❤️

www.gofundme.com/f/thekeythief

Donate to Help TheKeyThief Get Keys — Jenn's Housing Fund, organized by Char C

Hi everyone! My name's Char and Jenn is one of my best friends :) Jenn's i… Char C needs your support for Help TheKeyThief Get Keys — Jenn's Housing Fund

www.gofundme.com

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 7d

I unkilned the kiln today ✨️

shop update coming Saturday October 11th 🍂🧡

a ceramic plate painted with the image of a fox in a witch hat surrounded by pumpkins on a vine

a ceramic plate painted with the image of a cat in a witch hat surrounded by pumpkins on a vine

a ceramic trinket dish glazed with a green glaze and decorated with a figurine of a fox with mushrooms and yellow shrubs, with other dishes visible in the background

a ceramic trinket dish glazed with a brown glaze and decorated with a figurine of a ghost and pumpkins, with other dishes visible in the background

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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 4d

It's definitely not just you! The world, the internet, social media, people's wallets, everything's kinda collapsing just a bit 🤏🤏🤏

✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 4d

i'm so tired of being juiced

✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 4d

I'm so sorry for you as well, Crow. On one hand there is a comfort to know we aren't alone in this but also it hurts to know how hard any of us have to work to keep up and put out work we're proud of at the same time.

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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 4d

I can still be here right now because of having built a small nest egg of business savings to account for famine times as well as having a traditionally employed partner.

I have a 20 year old car, I wear my clothes until they fall apart, our apartment leaks, and the savings are draining.

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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 4d

It's hard to be this vulnerable online, but I feel like the bucket of cold water is extremely necessary to understand how exhausted we all are.

We've lost and rebuilt our audiences a dozen times, pivoted, weathered storms, added additional streams of revenue, and the sisyphus boulder gets heavier.

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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 4d

This is not a call for pity but more to put into perspective how 2025 has been impacting a lot of artists:

Between losses of sales, wholesale, tariffs, and fewer corporate clients, I have lost 50% of my gross income this year as a full-time graphic designer and artist.

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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 4d

I wasn't 100% sure if it would work so small but I'm super happy with how it came out! ;o;

✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 4d

they love each other 😌

✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 5d

CMYK(itties) 🖨🩵💖💛🖤

a photo of a sticker design featuring 4 ghost cats intertwined in a blue computer pop-up frame. the ghosts are each colored like Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black, to simulate the CMYK colors a printer uses. Each ghost also has tapering halftone dots demonstrating that the vinyl sticker's background is clear.

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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 6d

OURPLE 💜💜

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Catmint Studios 💚 Halloween shop update LIVE 🎃✨ @catmintstudios.bsky.social · 6d

Pastel hauntings 💜👻

[ #cuteart #artshop #halloween ]

An enamel pin design of a bottle with clear purple fill that light can shine through. Inside the bottle is a white ghost cat and dark purple cat playing together.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Aug 1

Deskilling is real.

This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.

Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Jul 31

help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help

From r/chatGPTpro, 25 minutes ago: chatGPT blocked at work

Today my job decided to block the site. I use chatGPT to create SOPs (standard operating practices) and power points and polish my emails. What should I do now four question marks. It has 0 upvotes and 20 comments

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Petite 🐙 OCTILLERINK 2025 @petiteechorizon.bsky.social · 9d

#octillerink2025
Day 05 - Fire

#pokemon #fanart 🎐

Illustration depicting the mythical Pokémon Victini, looking down from atop the lighthouse in Liberty Garden. A ship is sailing away from the pier and the female protagonist of Pokémon Black and White is visiting the island with her Tepig.

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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · Jul 17

Collab kitty stickers! 🐱⭐️

a photo of three cat-themed sticker sheets with clear backgrounds on a backdrop of colorful photo paper. Each sheet has a theme of halloween, baked goods, and winter respectively.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 15d

I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers:

NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.

and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.

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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 21d

another day 🙃

a blue glitter enamel pin featuring stars and planets in space. A small white cat is floating in the center looking distressed with the words "existentially drifting" floating above and below it.

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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 15d

You should not be treating any artist's advice like gospel. Everything you read should be taken with a gain of salt.

Think about how you could apply it to your own work IF it's applicable. If it's not applicable, maybe there's some vague insights to be gained. And if not, you can leave it.

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