Animating Lego bricks

Most kids I know love dinosaurs!

Illustration of a kid swinging over a pirate ship with a green parrot flying beside him

Illustration of a girl running out of a dark basement, glowing eyes at the bottom of the stairs. A cat is startled in the bottom left hand corner. Bottom right says Meagan Jackson, Illustrator, artbymeagan.com

Black and white illustration of a girl looking under a crawlspace with a flashlight

A black and white illustration of a girl looking up at an old house, moving truck in front, movers moving a couch, crows on top of the house. The girl is holding a book that says haunted houses

Happy #portfolioday ! I'm a freelance illustrator living in Canada open to picture book and middle grade projects! To see more of my art go to artbymeagan.com

I read it last year, but Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki

If you're an artist you've likely encountered art scam emails where they offer a fake project. They're given away by the canned message with 0 specifics about your work. I haven't had one in a while but I got one today from someone calling themselves Aretha Franklin, which was honestly pretty funny

It's been so long since I've read, I don't think I noticed that when I did read it

That thumbnail illustration was beautiful honestly

I love this idea! These are all great!

Thank you so much! My kid really loved it and made his own art based on it afterwards

This is so cute ❤️

Other painting details: Painted with gouache at 12X18 inches. Also it appears bluesky didn't crop it down so it is full view!

Illustration of a kid descending down a rope in a cave. At the bottom is a glowing sword with silhouettes of other swords in the background, and bioluminescent mushrooms are on either side on the rocks

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! This is a submission for a group art exhibit so size format is different from usual, but I like the painting so I'm sharing. Click for full view. I'm an illustrator seeking representation, and open to MG and PB projects. Find more at my portfolio www.artbymeagan.com

Trans Day of Visibility. Trans people are our neighbors. Trans people are not dangerous. Today, and every day, we see you. You are loved, you belong 💛

Social movement scholar here again. So, why protest?

Nihilists were out yesterday arguing that "protests don't do anything."

A short 🧵:

I am ready to tell people about pigeons every chance I get

HOOOYAH

Illustration of a toddler in a green winter jacket, red mittens, and plaid hat holding a snowball

I painted this illustration based off my 2 year old a couple weeks ago. The snow is melting now but at the time he had a favourite snowball he kept by the door to hold when we went to and back from my 5 year old's school. It was very sweet #kidlitart

r/marketing u/Objective-Feed7250 Gen Z can spot lazy AI images and it’s hurting conversion rates Discussion New consumer trust report came out. 78% of Gen Z can identify AI generated images and will scroll past them. Been running ads for an apparel brand targeting 18 to 25 year olds. Our CTR dropped 40% after we switched to AI generated lifestyle shots. The images looked fine to me. Models wearing the clothes, decent lighting, no obvious errors. But apparently Gen Z can tell. Went back to real product photos and performance recovered. Not fully but better than the AI stuff. The report mentioned things like lighting inconsistencies and unnatural shadows. Stuff that’s not obvious unless you’re looking for it. AI images probably work for some audiences but not others. Older demographics might not notice or care as much. Edit: for graphics and layouts i use X-Design since you control the inputs. But for photography targeting younger audiences, real still wins.

I find this completely believable.

I’m on the top end of gen-Z but I find people in my age group and younger spot AI imagery instantly and it’s often taken as an indicator of corporate insincerity.

Meanwhile a lot of older people I know can’t tell the difference and workplace management pushes it.

Congrats!

I'm seriously considering a land line for when my kid is a bit older and wants to use a phone to connect with people

Same, the past 2 nights my 2 year old has been up for hours. I hope your sleep is better tonight

I reworked my website a bit, and I'm going to start querying agents today. I've been anxious to try but it's best to probably just start either way!

Good luck! I also finished an application yesterday! I meant to apply to more but didn't really give myself enough time to do more applications. I appreciated the process though and I'm still hopeful!

So cool!

Oh my goodness this is so cute!

I love all the fungus representation in this! It's so well done! Is the top right corner goblin's gold moss?

This is so cute!

An illustration of a kid swinging over a pirate ship on a rope. A green parrot is flying to his left, and two pirates are below on either side. A girl is cheering him on in the background, and further back seagulls are flying. Illustrator's name and contact info in bottom left right reads Meagan Jackson, www.artbymeagan.com, meaganguttormson@gmail.com

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! I'm a Canadian illustrator seeking representation, and I'm open to picture book and middle grade projects. Find more at my portfolio at artbymeagan.com

meaganguttormson@gmail.com

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

This is so good! I painted a bokoblin a little while back for fun but he was more "if you give a mouse a cookie" 😂 I can't help finding them so cute in botw and totk