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How Was Your Day? @madcarnivalgames.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Kia ora from Aotearoa, New Zealand 👋 I set up this epic Starter Pack a little while ago and thinking it's a good time to promote it again considering the hordes of people joining Bluesky now. Please give us all a follow would ya? 😀 #IndieGames #GameDev #WomeninGames go.bsky.app/Bn9UUz2

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Jackie Shepherd @jackieshepherd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

what are everyone's favorite workhorse Photoshop brushes? I need to rebuild my collection

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Jackie Shepherd @jackieshepherd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Tell me your favorite bookish quote, you cowards!

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Jackie Shepherd @jackieshepherd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

the Spy Pond freebie shelf never disappoints

ANGELA GOddamn LANSBURY fitness vhs tape, also primo condish

Hansel and General "build your own pop-up book" book from the 1970s... perhaps...Idon't have it in front of me just now.... Also, someone already popped it up and I'm grateful

a spread from the pop-up book—e gingerbread house arises in fheee dimensions, from the sprea, as H&G cower behind a pop up fence

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Jackie Shepherd @jackieshepherd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

the lack of responses is CONCERNING 🫠

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Jackie Shepherd @jackieshepherd.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

still looking for this, but will make one if it doesn't turn up!

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Kidlit For Los Angeles @kidlitforla.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Calling all #artists and #illustrators! We have incredible 14 agents, art directors and professional illustrators offering to critique your portfolios. Get expert eyes on your work along with feedback and advice on building a career in publishing as an illustrator. Please browse, share and BID!

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Lee & Low Books @leeandlow.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

🚨Happening TOMORROW!🚨 There's still time to register: bit.ly/ConnectionCo...

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The Power of Connection, Community & Civics in Children's Books - Lee & Low Books

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Artists! I made this starter pack of art directors on bluesky, I haven't posted it in a while and with a ton of new folks coming in from other platforms please share this around! Also lmk if I missed anyone who hires artists that I should add! go.bsky.app/RSV4VwA

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 17/10/2023

Whoa, the agency Jacky Winter put together a pretty comprehensive overview of illustration pricing on their new site. The resource list at the bottom is top notch and includes many links that I share with my students. Worth a look! www.jackywinter.com/pricing

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Pricing | Jacky Winter

The Jacky Winter Group. All up in your grill since 2007.

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.com · 28/01/2025

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books. bookshop.org/ebooks

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Bookshop.org US

Explore digital books on Bookshop.org

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Jackie Shepherd @jackieshepherd.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

new moon tomorrow, can't wait to see everyone's drawings of it

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 28/01/2025

Hey #kidlit illustrators, I'm looking for an artist who can capture apartment-life in an urban setting for a beginning reader series with a vibrant ensemble cast and a grayscale interior. Respond here with images and a link to your folio. Please no DMs. Agents are welcome to email. 💙❤️

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Jackie Shepherd @jackieshepherd.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The earthquake woke me up just in time for the #alayma announcements

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Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online · 16/01/2025

I don't know that there's a better way to honor him than to have a lot of fun working on our favorite projects It's ultimately what he did his entire life

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

It's time to paint. Paint away the feelings, paint away the sad things. Cover it all in paint, bury it in the layers of vibrant color and texture. Seal it away in the paper like a spell and a wish. Turn it into something different, something good, something needed. It's time to paint.

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

what I (somewhat fumblingly) told a group of students last year is that you are trying to “glimpse your own cryptid.” what appears to people later as a solid aesthetic vision just begins as that personal glitch between trees.

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

If there's anything I hope young creatives take from David Lynch, it's to reject the modern IP-driven impulse to explicitly explain and cleanly categorize the logic behind every single event and decision inside and outside of a story at least some of the time.

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 16/01/2025

Now, at this incredibly weird time to be in the arts, among hardship and AI and nepotism and predators and bad publisher stories and bad everything stories, now is exactly when I think you should make some art As a treat

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Kaylie Pendleton @kayliependleton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Hi! I thought I would do an intro post ☺️ My name is Kaylie, I’m a book cover designer by day @Hachette and an artist/illustrator by night. I live in nyc, love a good pastry, & have a prosthetic eye! If you are interested in my work and want to learn more my website is www.kayliependletonart.com

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Jackie Shepherd @jackieshepherd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

can I get a BIPOC kidlit artist starterpack

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Jackie Shepherd @jackieshepherd.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I'm so thrilled for this to come out! @neharawatart.bsky.social did incredible work as always. One of my favorite projects from last year. :)

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Jackie Shepherd @jackieshepherd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I worked with Analia in my Candlewick days and she is amazing! congratulations @analiacabello.bsky.social!

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Jackie Shepherd @jackieshepherd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

To introduce myself, I've been a book designer in traditional publishing for nearly 15 years, working on kidlit for the past 7. I've had the pleasure of art directing hundreds of incredible artists, and now between jobs, taking a creative breather to nurture my own illustration skills for a change!

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Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

We're all in the #KidLitMegaFeed , which aggregates several other #kidLit feeds you might also be intrested in. bsky.app/profile/debb...

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Jackie Shepherd @jackieshepherd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

can I get a BIPOC kidlit artist starterpack

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Jackie Shepherd @jackieshepherd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

hello bluesky! where are all my children's book illustrators?

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