Stand Out Books of 2025
The best selection in @booksforkeeps.bsky.social
Where we also had the joy of highlighting books by @catwrote.bsky.social @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social @manumontoya.bsky.social @tommydoyle.bsky.social Claire Powell & Peter Bentley
Cute animals at their desk raising their hands in a bright classroom.
Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day!
I'm Tommy. I have availabilities for new kidlit projects! Interested in picture books, board books, chapter books, and covers.
Rep’d by Gary at Lemonade agency
Send him an email today if you’re looking for fun playful and engaging illustrations! ✨🤩💫
Illustration of a blue round creature with wings and a tail, containing the text “#PicturesMeanBusiness.” Beside it, hand-lettered in blue, is the question: “Why do so many book people keep forgetting to credit illustrators?” Small text at the bottom credits illustrator Sarah McIntyre and the website
Authors & Publishers posting about illustrated books launching this week: pls credit ILLUSTRATOR.
Doing a #CoverReveal? Credit illustrator & designer. Not only does this help boost artist but it shows people that you hired a HUMAN artist.
#PicturesMeanBusiness Art @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social
Alright besties, we're done with Meta for real now right?
TODAY IS #PORTFOLIODAY!
yout.be/09cs_chctNk
Some recommendations before you post to prevent AI scraping:
🔸Nightshade and Glaze your image
🔸Only upload web-sized and watermarked images to the internet
🔸Crop images shared to social media
🔸Keep your portfolio behind a password or paywall
Good luck! 💛
Pencil illustration depicting 3 teenagers portrayed as characters of books that they're reading. A pirate, a detective and a vampire
Shelved concept. The idea here is that through reading, kids get to become the hero of the story they are reading.
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#tommydoyle #tommydoyleillustration #illustration #digitalart #humanillustrator #melbourneartist #melbourneillustrator #australianillustrator #melbourne #kidlitart
Screencap of the webpage ginaperry.com/postcard "All About #KidLitArtPostcard" A grid of digital postcard submissions is seen along with information about the event and remaining dates in 2025.
#KidLit reminder: Tomorrow is #KidLitArtPostcard day! Be sure to post with that exact hashtag. I'm going to refresh my info page with art from April's posts, see this page for more info: www.ginaperry.com/postcard
The Canadian 🇨🇦 KidLit Artists & Illustrators Starter Pack is up!
Pls check it out and share!
#kidlit #kidlitart #starterpack
Graphic for a proposed Starter Pack for Canadian #kidlit artists / children's illustrators
Hey #KidLitArt folks - I want to start a new Starter Pack for Canadian #KidLit artists.
If you:
- Mainly do art for children or children's books
- Are Canadian/ Canadian PR
- Want to be included in this pack
Pls reply or send a DM!
French Canadian here 👋 Would love to be added. Thank you
graphic with a turquoise background with black text reading 'MAKE IT FAIR' - the 'AI' of 'FAIR' is highlighted in white. Subtitle reads 'the government is siding with big tech over British creativity'
Today's the final day to make our voices heard against the government's proposed plans to allow AI developers to steal our work for use in training their AI systems. It's theft, plain and simple, but you can object by filling out the IPO consultation.
Guidance here: theaoi.com/news/the-cop...
collage like illustrations in magenta, blue and yellow. One of a happy diver with a fish. One of a Japanese lantern with type.
These tickets have a lighthouse in green, against a blue sky. And a very cute, simple seagull on the other ticket.
Yellow Japanese folk mask, with a geometric face in red and green. And the other ticket has a blue winding river and yellow fish.
A yellow ticket with two white candles, one in the shape of a snowman. The other has a dancing character against a magenta wave,
A Monday mood enhancer, 24 Japanese train tickets from 1956/57. Enjoy!
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/t...
with many thanks to www.instagram.com/transit.tick...
for sharing these scans with us.
Please boost this post, ESPECIALLY if you’re a UK based visual artist, author or creative.
What our government is trying to do is predicated on GREED and nothing more.
If you love the arts then join us in trying to protect the livelihoods of those who create it.
SHARE SHARE SHARE!
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Just updated iOS to 18.3, had to jump through these hoops to disable Chat GPT integration (Different in iPhone 15 or 16):
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Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Alt text is searchable, makes the site more accessible for everyone, and there's even a setting that reminds you to add it when you're posting a photo. Happy skeeting!!
The reason A.I. is being shoved down our throats is shareholders want a return on their investment. Every company that integrates this crappy tech into their products knows you don't want it, but they've sunk too much money into it and don't care. Turn it off, don't use it, don't look back.
Hi #PortfolioDay I’m Tommy Doyle, a kidlit illustrator based in Australia.
As 2025 begins, I have availability and am excited to collaborate with both new and returning clients.
Rep’d by Gary, Lemonade Illustration Agency
info@lemonadeillustration.com
#kidlitart #kidlit #tommydoyleillustration
It's almost time again #PortfolioDay is on Tuesday, January 14th, 2025! If you're a creative looking for work or someone who hires creative professionals, watch this video to find out how to participate.
👉 youtu.be/09cs_chctNk 👈
Visit portfolioday.art for more!
A picture of the grid of an AI profile on Instagram, that was made and is being ran by META.
I remember when we were trying to tell folks that amongst the minorities, Black people would be amongst the first to be displaced by gen AI.
Now look at this BS.
Meta have created a model minority person which, if we’re being honest, is made to fit into the white gaze. 🫠
A demo page of my inked brushes for Procreate.
My #Procreate inks, just a small part of my upcoming brush set for Procreate. If you knew how much I worked on this, you wouldn't mind paying $20 for the full pack. It might as well might be that much because damn this is fun, but also hard work. Artists gotta eat. #ProcreateArtist
Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.
He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.
Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
"i cant break up with adobe there's no good after effects alternative" Hey look
youtu.be/lm51xZHZI6g?...
Imagine if this money went to writers, artists, musicians, humans
Gold Banner on Red Background: Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING! Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It
Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Year in Review! 👀 Freelance illustration rates: The complete guide to pricing your work https://buff.ly/3Zn6H2W #mostread2024 #creativeboom
This year has been good to me.
Here's my #artvartist2024
#tommydoyle #tommydoyleillustration #illustration #childrensbook #kidsbook #melbourneartist #melbourneillustrator #australianillustrator #melbourne #lemonadeagency #kidlitart #kidlit #childrens #books #publishing #lemonadeillustrationagency
“unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted”.
Sign this statement and make sure that our voices are heard.
www.aitrainingstatement.org
