iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kidlit411 @kidlit411.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (Nov 28): kidlit411.com/2025/11/the-... Inside: Break Thru Creative Barriers; @inkedvoices.bsky.social scholarships, more. Thanks @matillustration.bsky.social for the illo, @penguinkids.bsky.social & @dellarossferreri.bsky.social for the giveaways.

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The Weekly 411 (11/28/25)

A one-stop place for all your kid lit information needs.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/02/2025

The author who describes her terrible publisher experience doesn't name the pub, but I will (w/permission): Clear Fork Publishing, (imprints Spork, Blue Whale, &MG, and Rise). If you have a similar story to tell, pls contact me: beware@sfwa.org (in confidence) www.vanessakeel.com/blog/my-caut...

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My Cautionary Tale in Book Publishing

You write your first manuscript. Obviously, it’s crap! You realize you need to take your skills to the next level for a chance to beat the odds in this business. You invest in courses. You rewrite....

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Here’s the process, in case anyone is curious.

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Another quick study. An American Flamingo at Greensboro Science Center. #digitaldrawing #flamingo #speeddrawing #illustration

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Another quick study. An American Flamingo at Greensboro Science Center. #digitaldrawing #flamingo #speeddrawing #illustration

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Pauline @paulinedrawsbears.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Cats at #home 🏡 I have been working on this drawing for a while, little by little, and I really like it 💛 #sensoryart #artyear #smartist #catsky #art #pigeonsky

A digital drawing showing a house front with six large windows and some ivy growing between them. Inside the windows, cats are engaging in different activities in front of differently designed backgrounds. On the left side of the house, A cat-mom has just baked cookies in what looks to be a window and her child is lowering something on a line desceding from their window. Next to them, a cat in a straw hat is tending to flowers on their balcony, to the right, an orange cat is balancing in a stool, hanging up a prideflag while her roommate is watching from a bench at the window. On the second row of windows, a small cat is grabbing a red bucket with a "cookies" label that is lowered by their friend while its sister watches from the top of a bunkbed. Next to them a cat looking similar to them is reading in a large book, in a room decorated with stars and a telescope. They also have a foto showing a smiling lucky cat. In the last window a similar looking lucky cat is painting something on an easle.
Between the different windows, small other animals are drawn, with two tiny windows with mice, one hiding and one blowing bubbles and two sparrows and a pigeon sitting on different window frames.

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Just a quick study. The current contents of my dining room table fruit bowl. I’m slowly finding my way back to creating. Done with @ittaimanero.bsky.social’s soft pastel medium brush. #stilllife #procreate #fruit #digitaldrawing #mango #tomatoes #nectarines

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I thought that this administration was ran on a pledge for peace, and saving money. Bombing Iran will do neither of these things. Another war in the Middle East in my lifetime. God forgive us.

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Embroidery has consumed a good chunk of my life. It's something that I can really escape into. Hope that all of you are surviving, and finding ways to escape the madness, just for the little bit. I am going to draw something in the coming weeks. It's been too long.

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

All I wanted to do was to login to Twitter just to check the weather from my local weather man...

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Lily ✨illustrator @lilinway.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

🙌🏻🖍️A handmade drawing Starter Pack for #starterpacknoai ✨ I also symbolically added my handmade sweater and hat 🧶🩷 #starterpacknoia

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Atomic Fritz @atomicfritz.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Shrike got that Scud energy about him. #monkeywrench #fanart #sketch #sketchrequest #artchallenge

Sketch Request of Shrike from the indie cartoon Monkey Wrench, aka PEAK

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo of a slim rectangular wooden sculpture with central stained glass in rainbow colours the artwork is on a beach with wet sand and under a blue sky

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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

If you love your library, listen up…

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It always warms my heart to see illustrators creating to oppose the latest A.I. trend. ❤️

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Steven James Garza @stevenjgarza.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Me as a tiny thingamajig with a few micro friends✨👀 Human creativity matters! Reject ai, support the arts! Pick up a pencil, crayon or stylus and start scribbling!✍🏼😤🌈⭐️🎨 #starterpacknoai #art

drawing of a toy “starter pack” featuring me, the artist, along with some isopods, sushi and caterpillars escaping from the packaging.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-AI generated ✨CAT-RELATED✨ art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 7 pm EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!

Photo of a fluffy white cat meowing at the camera. Sloppy digital crayon letters spell out Art Show.

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T. Ruth Westfern @truthwestfern.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This one was in time out for several weeks b/c it wasn’t going great and I was super frustrated. Eventually it went back on the easel to be completed, and even though it didn’t turn out as I imagined, I learned a ton and count that as a win. “Temporary Time Out” #pnwartist #artsky #bumblebeeart

A moody blend of indigo and lavender paint is in the background. Many small, bright yellow wildflowers stack along the left side of the painting. Some of the wildflowers are in focus and some are blurred and out of focus. Near the middle, perched on a flower is a fuzzy bumblebee.

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

For #portfolioday, here’s a sampling of some of my favorite still lives. All done digitally in #procreate. For whatever reason, I feel that produce has a lot of personality. I love drawing food 😊. All of these are available as prints upon request, please message me for details.

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G @gnielsenart.com · 08/04/2025

Hey #PortfolioDay I'm an oil painter! I dabble in landscapes and portraits, but my true love is painting figure skaters in motion, trying to capture the speed and power of the atheltes alongside the emotion of the performance. ⛸️ I sell prints and originals here and I also work to commission :)

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I drew this for my kitchen, an artichoke and lemon. Drawn in #procreate. Reminds me of fresh, Mediterranean and Middle East flavors 🍋💛 This is available as a print here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/mati... #illustration #stilllife #lemon #artichoke #fineart #digitalpainting #painting #portfolioday

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Some dandy felines to make you smile 💛 Just been making more doodles that I spend less than an hour on. It’s a lot of fun. #cat #illustration #dandelion #plant #kidlitart #spring #cuteart #procreate #procreateartist

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Erin Kidd @thebabygoat.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It really is that simple❤️ #studioghibli #ghibli #hayaomiyazaki

Digital illustration of studio Ghibli Kodama spirits holding a flag: “If you claim to love Studio Ghibli but use the ChatGPT Ghibli image generator, then no.
You don’t love Studio Ghibli.
Even further, you fundamentally do not understand or respect Miyazaki and his art.”

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

About the Ghibli AI generator, it's always some dummy who doesn't have knowledge of the fundamentals of art or media literacy that thinks they're really doing something when they create AI art. There's something so soulless about turning Miyazaki's craft into mass produced on-demand work.

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Hella Steins @hellasteins.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This photo is from 2019, when I was a guest artist in a local #pet shop. I created the mosaic together with the shop's customers and their children. It perfectly fits today's #MakersmARTch prompt: #connect as it connects both the tiles and the participants. #mkrsmARTch #cat

Mosaic portrait of a tabby cat with green eyes. The background is a middle greyish blue.

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Nicki Ault Studio @nicki-ault-studio.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

"On The Fringe" oil on canvas 30x48 inches Nicki Ault 2023 #prairie #canadianprairies #canola #artist #bskyart #oilpainting

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Charq @charqsews.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

After months on the design wall, I've finished piecing the plus quilt. #quiltsky #quilt #quilting #craftsky #plusquilt

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Springtime is quickly approaching in North Carolina 💛

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Pauline @paulinedrawsbears.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I started my #Windows drawing for #Blueskyartshow + #markersmARTch a little late for the whole house-front I sketched out, but I finished one single window to share today 🐈 #artyear #art #cats

A digital drawing looking into a window on a housefront from the outside. Inside the window, an orange cat in a checkered yellow dress is balancing on a stool and leaning outside to pin a prideflag to the window frame. A grey cat wearing a purple shirt, black pants and a white heart necklace is sitting in the window looking up to their friend. In the background of the window, a dark green wall with some colourfull images in brown frames and some fairly lights can be seen.

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Before I drew #cottagecore animals, I drew a series of sleeping animals. #art #cat #skunk #fox

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Kelsey Buzzell @kelseybuzzell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Families of a Feather out today! By Fern Wexler and published by Little Bigfoot! #kidlit #booksky #childrensbook #birdbook #birds #kidlitbook #kidlitillustration #illustration #kidlitart

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"Flow" won the Oscar for Best Animated Film ♡

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Leaders of the free world stand united in London The United States is not among them

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Pauline @paulinedrawsbears.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

A #spring spirit in a crown #woven out of branches and leaves enjoying some tea and a gentle breeze 🌱 #Blueskyartshow #artyear #makersmARTch #Artflood2025

A digital drawing of a smiling green spring spirit that looks somewhat like a bunny-ghost with vampire teeth. Its holding a cup with a golden rim in its hands and wears a crown made out of flowers and branches on which two birds are sitting. Pink and Green Leaves are floating around the spirit. It towers over a landscape with a small house, some trees, a pond and tiny sheep, one of which is looking up at the spirit.

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Pauline @paulinedrawsbears.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Two Kiwis dividing a set of warm clothes between them for #Februarty day 22. (Does being abandoned in their 2-year and counting wait to see a kiln from the inside qualify them for #blueskyartshow ?) #sculpting #artyear #pottery

A photo showing two Kiwis made of still unburnt clay that are facing each other. One Kiwi is wearing a knitted hat while the other has a scarf. Both of them are holding cups in their little wings.

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

What's on the digital easel tonight.

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Kari Percival @karipercival.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

You're invited to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art for Special Storytime: Kari Percival February 23, 2025 at 2 pm Join us to hear me read my new book and to learn how to help local #frogs, #toads and #salamanders. #carlemuseum #storytime #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebookart

The Eric Carle Museum of Picturebook Art Special Storytime: Kari Percival, February 23, 2025, at 2 PM. An illustration from the book SAFE CROSSING shows wood frogs, spring peepers and salamanders crossing a road on a rainy night in spring, spotlit by the flashlight beams of volunteer citizen scientists who help protect their populations.

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Hello to all my new followers! Lemme reintroduce myself. I'm Morgan. I'm an illustrator, mostly digital. Originally from the Philadelphia area. I'm passionate about animals, plants, history, music and human rights for all.

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Pauline @paulinedrawsbears.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The theme for #FebruARTy day 8 is Puzzle. This image is kind of one? #februarty2025 #art #artyear

A digital drawing showing two islands in front of a starry sky. The islands are a snowy white shaped like bear-heads, with rivers running through them and little lakes forming eyes and ears. The lower bear/island has a house with a red roof and bright windows, some conifers a deer and a fireside. The higher bear has a house with a blue roof around which some yellow wheat is growing. In the landscape, there is a snowman, a little yellow duck swimming in its nose, a person with long black hair and a yellow jacket and some bare trees with red birds in them. The two bears are connected by waterfalls and above the two houses some smoke is rising, assuming the shape of two ghosts greeting each other.

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Morgan A. Taylor @matillustration.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

My boyfriend bought this book for me from a used bookstore, when he was on vacation. The Angry Moon by William Sleator. Looks like it goes for hundreds of dollars online. 😳 It's going to stay right on my bookshelf though 😊

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