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Aishwarya

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🎨 Illustrator & Cartoonist from India! (she/her)
📚 Clients include Scholastic, PRH, HarperCollins US, Beaming Books US & more.
📝 Rep'd by Claire Draper (Azantian Literary Agency)
🌐 www.aishwaryatandon.com

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Nicky (🦵🏼🔑) Rodriguez is looking for work!'s avatar Nicky (🦵🏼🔑) Rodriguez is looking for work! @artofnickyrdrgz.bsky.social
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why does my google drive have to renew when i'm broke skdbsksj sweet christ well if u have a coin to toss i'm certainly open to catching it lol everything is VERY tight between stitching together gigs and moving in a month to be free from rent burden 🫠 💖💖💖

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I've taken up Affinity Publisher with their 6-month free trial and want to learn it! I've used Affinity Designer for vector art and I like it a lot!

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Thank you! I'm asking my mom to pick the colors. She has a much better sense of color than I do, I'm realising. 😂

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Brian Clevinger's avatar Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social
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Affinity is running a SIX MONTH free trial of their line of publishing software — that's Designer 2, Publisher 2, and Photo 2. Give them a whirl if you haven't! affinity.serif.com/en-us/trial/

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If any #graphicnovel creators are looking for flatters, I love to flat GNs, have experience working on 3 #gn and I'm quick! 😊✨

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This is the second year of SummerFolio. A free art challenge to her #kidlit #illustrators work on their portfolios. I provide prompts to get you started. Have a great Summer!

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Vacation sounds amazing! I hope you had a good time. 😊 I have to submit a book cover this week; while working on the interiors of another textbook project. ✨ #kidlit All the best to you for the week!

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Brian Kirby's avatar Brian Kirby @boringstorybook.com
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Check the kidlit community Starter Pack - the user list is limited to 50 but the feeds gather posts from thousands of #kidlit accounts on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/3EhKVqU

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Charlene Chua's avatar Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social
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I tried asking this on Threads & didn’t really get any replies. Maybe here?

👉Just wondering about the calls for illustration <from YA authors> - do you mostly want styles that look realistic, highly rendered and polished (e.g like Magic the Gathering art)?

#books #booksky #kidlit

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Yayyy!! Which paints did you get?! So exciting!

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Hey Crystal Smith's avatar Hey Crystal Smith @crystalsmithart.bsky.social
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A Substack thread!!

Time to post your Substacks everyone - so we can share and follow and procrastinate things we're supposed to be doing. 😎
#kidlit #kidlitart

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Yeah, same! Very fascinated to look at the details!

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈 Author/Illustrator's avatar Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈 Author/Illustrator @kellyamangan.bsky.social
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Playing around with texture overlays. Thoughts??

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Oh, this looks so cool! I drew one in my sketchbook too some days ago. ✨😊

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Thank you! It was my goal here to try use a single brush and consistent strokes. 🥰😊

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If you see this, post a bird 🦆

(I love this painting so much. It was a joint effort from me and my daughter when she was 2. It's on the wall in a frame now 😊)

#kidlitart #illustration

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Googly eyes, yes! I love to how you've selected the areas for the black lines and it's not all over. ❤️

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Ahh I finally the times aligned and I have a bird illustration to post 🦉

If you see this, post a bird! 🐦

#kidlitart #kidlit #MG

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I love the dark colors here! This is so moody.

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Reagan Lehman's avatar Reagan Lehman @reaganlehman.net
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If you see this, post a bird! 🐦🪶🧚‍♀️

#kidlit #art

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Mangoes should be an all-season fruit, PLEASE. 😭🥭

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I love the eyes you drew! It gives the birds so much character and also looks so well with your style of coloring. 😊

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Gina Perry's avatar Gina Perry @ginaperry.bsky.social
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Please note July's #KidLitArtPostcard event is getting pushed out one week due to the 4th of July holiday. You have an extra week to make a great promo piece #kidlitart illustrators. And an extra week for #kidlit art directors, editors, and agents to come on over to Bluesky.

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