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El / Bee @elsbee.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

peachtober day 14: crayon #peachtober #peachtober26

Simple illustration of brightly coloured crayons drawing looping lines across the page.

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LaurenWalshArt @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Use reference. I’m serious. I get it that somehow you or someone convinced you that using reference is “cheating.” It’s not. You are just hindering yourself.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's October 3rd. My neighbors are setting off fireworks to celebrate... upsetting everyone's dog?

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Christine Almeda ✏️ @eychristine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy October #kidlitartpostcard 🍂 My name is Christine, a Filipino-American illustrator! I’m available for picture book and chapter book projects, I’d love to hear from you! 🍂 www.christinealmeda.com 🍂 Represented by Full Circle Literary

Girl sits under oak tree, watching brown autumn leaf fall.

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Tatjana Mai-Wyss @tatjanamaiwyss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hello October, it's #kidlitartpostcard day - again! (can you believe it?)

past colored, comics style illustrator self promotional postcard sowing a mermaid and her sea creature friends under water

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Karla Adams @karlaadamsillu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

⋆⊱༻ Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! (and #peachtober) ༺⊰⋆ I'm Karla, a mexican illustrator looking for kidlit opportunities :•) 💻 More of my work at: karlaadamsillu.com 📖 Rep by @soyadriana.bsky.social Happy october! 👩‍🎨🐿️ #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebookart #kidlitillustration

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Abeeha Tariq @abeehatariqart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

something a bit more different from me but I got a lot to say and I’m not comfortable in front of a camera so… keep AI out of schools!!

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Watching Toy Story 5. The best part so far is the Bambi call back, the music really sold it 😄

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I hate for summer to end, but I'm somewhat consoled by apple season coming immediately after.

A happy girl in a green sweater with an armful of apples.

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Diane Langberg, PhD @dianelangberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Abuse silences victims and renders them powerless. Listening makes room for their voice and honors their dignity. As a church leader, never forget that they have honored you by coming to you. You have been seen as safe—be safe.

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hey artists, share something! 💙

Little girl in a blue jumper with blue rainboots

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Why the weird vibe about data centers?” Because the companies. DO NOT. Play by the Rules. Visibly. Repeatedly. Pathologically. We are under no obligations to be marks.

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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I cannot understand the people who claim they are "making art" with generative AI. Simply having the idea does not make you a creator! Prompting ChatGPT to spit out a block of text doesn't make you a writer any more than a weird dream about eating a person makes you a cannibal.

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Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Some lettering practice!

black and white decal-style lettering of a mouse holding a sword riding a kitten into battle that says small but mighty surrounded by floral elements

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Playing around with softer edges - but apparently unable to leave behind the purple-yellow color combo. Not sure why that has such a grip on me lately, but it's definitely a thing! What are your favorite colors right now?

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Goss Sheridan @ SPX @katesheridanart.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

lowered the price on these bird + plant sprig commissions to help fund my surgery! email katesheridanart@gmail.com with your bird, your plant, and any relevant reference

COMMISSIONS: $100 single $150 pair. Drawings with flat coloring and some gradient of a scissor tailed flycatcher perched on a sprig of flowering indian blanket; a male and female northern cardinal perching on stalks of goldenrod; and california quail with orange cali poppies

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

just some silly little produce 🍓🌶️🍅 #art #sketchbook #cuteart

Sketchbook page with a variety of little cute drawings: a tomato vine with one of the tomatoes having a sleepy face, strawberries, a little yellow pepper with a face and a flower. There’s a wavy red border around the drawings.

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It also feels gross like. Okay my labor is worthless but I should support your local coffee shop??? Because?????? You are small and need the money? Girl me too the fuck? Lmao

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Last year, I streamed the LOTR triology on HBO Max. The movies hold up incredibly well, but I was like, ok some of the lighting & green screen are not well done by today's standards. Esp. the "you bow to no one" scene at the end, brutal contrast. Welp.

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Lotr You Bow To Noone

Alt: The "My Friends You Bow To No One" scene from Return of the King.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/07/2026

ban them

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This also makes me think of how beachside tower hotels caused so much coastal erosion that at one point, the beaches in Indialantic, FL were mostly rock floor just past the breaking surf.

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If you're a small biz hiring. Please explain to me why YOU think someone NOT in your family, would want to work for you specifically BC your biz is family-owned. I see a lot of places thinking this is a selling point & I need you to know, it's something ppl may overlook, but it's not a perk.

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Dying reading ‪Trung Le Nguyen's thread about their first re-through of Pride & Predjudice. Absolutely crying with laughter.

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Trying to find cooked vegetable lunches is... harder than I thought. Everything is served with some fresh veg and I live too close to Michigan to keep rolling the dice on that.

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Katria Raden @katriaraden.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

look even small potatoes like me have been getting offers to promote AI for hefty sums (still an easy no!!) so I'm finding it really hard to believe big names have been doing it of their own accord and for free

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I can't resist sunglasses in fun shapes and colors. Not on my face, I think they would be very irritating to wear, but on other people. Too cute.

Illustration of a girl with bright blonde hair wearing yellow, star-shaped sunglasses.

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If you see this, post a haunted house from your portfolio 👻

Illustrated scene from "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield.
Hester tracks down the twins who have obsconded with her keys, but who is tracking is Hester?

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Suraj has a point.

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The agony of being directly contacted by a company for a role you'd probably love and that almost certainly pays well - and then finding out they're super into ai and want to put it in everything 😭

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I drew this piece for my aunt who is deaf. My ASL is shockingly poor, but this is the first sign I learned and always a good fall-back when you find you've committed the grave sin of signing "northern" in Miami.

Photo of a stack of mini prints, sitting in a trinket tray. The top print is an illustration of a girl holding a stuffed panda bear while signing "I Love You" in American Signlanguage.

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Pigeon Post @pigeonpost.shop · 16/06/2026

Big rubber stamp restock today! 🐦✉️

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A teeny tiny version of one of my favorite pieces is now available in my ko-fi shop! ko-fi.com/s/519d3843bf I love having a cute and cozy place to read. But I don't have one now, so I drew one I'd LIKE to be reading in.

Photo of a 4x4 print of my piece, "Book Haven". It's an illustrtion of a girl reading in a home library filled with books, plants, and knick-knacks.

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

New Mini-Print up in my ko-fi shop today! ko-fi.com/s/57d9aa02ae I drew this piece when I was feeling nostalgic for the Disney vacation I'd just been on and was missing all the fun theming and the cute guest outfits.

Photo of a mini print of my Rapunzel at the Park illustration.
The illustration is of someone Disney bounding as Rapunzel - but with my own twist on the Rapunzel Minnie-Ears, because I think the official ones are dumb (sorry if you love them).

My version has the kingdom's sun emblem on both ears and Pascal sitting in the middle.

Behind the Rapunzel-bounder is a cluster of Mickey Balloons because I think they're adorable and will never stop finding them kind of magical.

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A belated greeting to the month of June. I needed to draw, but couldn't decide what to draw, so I scrolled until I found something cute. And I did mean to just use her for the pose, but I'm afraid it's nearly a 1-1 inspiration. Alas, sometimes the creative bit takes a back seat to creating.

Illustration of a red headed girl (young lady) holding a basket of daisies. Beside her is handwritten "Hello June" because I have nothing original to say and even if someone wanted to buy this piece I'm a little worried I've gotten too close to the original inspiration to sell it any way, so why bother?

The inspiration photo - red headed girl holding a basket of wild flowers in a city park.

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

It's a wonderful day to make something with your own wonderful hands!

Photo of an ipad with an illustration of an angry girl standing next to an anti-ai sign

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