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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨

@jameelawahlgren.bsky.social

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Art Director, Illustrator, Intersectional Feminist 🇵🇸 she/her (artists: please use my work email to send me your portfolios. My personal email is for commissioning me) www.jwahlgren.com

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 21d

Oh wow I just noticed I hit 9k!!

Thank you all so much for hanging out with me here. Let's do an art share! Post the piece(s) you're most proud of in the comments and link to your portfolio so folks can see more!

jwahlgren.com

A Black woman in a white gown holding a knife behind her back

A blonde woman with a white dog covering half her face

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 16h

Yay it's #portfolioday !

I'm open for illustration commissions, I work mostly on book covers in the Dark Fantasy, YA, Romance, and Romantasy genres!

You can see more of my work at www.jwahlgren.com

A dark illustration of a wolf surrounded by botanicals and a chain

A Black woman in a white gown holding a dagger behind her back

A person surrounded by flowers reaching out to bird thats feeding them

A curvy ballerina with very long hair dancing in front of glowing eyes

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Jana Heidersdorf @checanty.bsky.social · 16h

Hello #PortfolioDay 👻
I'm Jana, illustrator of everything hauntingly beautiful--nowadays mostly books, though.
Happy to take on one more project this year 📚

Portfolio: janaheidersdorf.com
Contact: [email protected]

Cover illustration for May The Dead Keep You by Jill Baguchinsky (portrait of a red haired girl with a half decayed woodpecker covering half of her face. I swear it looks really cool.)

Spooky illustration for a short story featuring a house that is also the body of a ghost boy. The boy is trapped and reaches out to his crying mother outside.

Cover illustration for Don't Let The Forest In by CG Drews. Portrait of a blond boy with slashes obscuring his face. Through the openings thorny vines and roses grow.

A serene, pale face surrounded by lots of worms and insects.

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 17h

Popping into #portfolioday on behalf of art directors to say thank you for sharing your work. It makes our job easier. We appreciate you.
💙❤️

Also, FWIW, I made a starter pack of hiring art-, creative-, design-directors who actively use Bluesky.
go.bsky.app/Hxoz9KX

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 13h

thank you so much!

Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 14h

omg than you so much!

Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 16h

Yay it's #portfolioday !

I'm open for illustration commissions, I work mostly on book covers in the Dark Fantasy, YA, Romance, and Romantasy genres!

You can see more of my work at www.jwahlgren.com

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 19h

Absolutely worth it! You can be angry but polite and firm! Hearing push back about AI genuinely changes companies minds about using it!

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Jeleynai @jeleynai.bsky.social · 22h

Hello #PortfolioDay ✨

I'm Jeleynai (or Jelly, if you prefer c:), a freelance artist with a special love for all things fantasy, sci-fi and darker themes!

All my links are here: linktr.ee/Jeleynai 🖤
📧: [email protected]

A painting of a woman in black armour and dark skin with a sword over her shoulder and her feathery dragon companion. The feathers on the dragon shift colours like opals in the sun

A painting of a dragon ranger and her companion, a young red dragon. They're looking out over a sea of clouds.

A painting of Ghost, leaned up against a broken piece of concrete as some imaginary spooky skeleton men come to bother him

An illustration of a huntress crouched in shadow and flanked by her two noodly companions. They're eel-gator-hounds, a species I made up for this project <3

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Eva Soulu 🌿 @soulu.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hello, #portfolioday

I'm Eva, in love with fantasy illustration and books. I enjoy bringing together traditional and digital media.

🍀 evasoulu.com

An illustration of an elven girl standing on the water, facing a black wolf.

A portrait of a silver-haired girl in white veil covering her head, amidst flowers.

A character illustration of an alien girl with fire dagger standing across darkened sky, with an owl sitting on her hand.

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Akane ⚔️🫀 DTIYS pinned! @akanelogics.bsky.social · 1d

‼️ REMOVE AIslop from your PINTEREST results.‼️
Let's see how true this is....

1. Go to ‘Refine your recommendations’ and remove everything related to ‘generative AI interests’.

(As if anyone who visits the site for reliable references would be interested in that...)

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's a rhetorical question but the reason anger against immigrants is encouraged is that the ruling class needs the working class to be infighting along lines of race, ethnicity and gender because if we are united we'll be too powerful

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 2d

Send the layered file

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 2d

Oh god or when you do send the file and realize you accidentally left all the reference layers of your photo booth selfie poses in there

Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 2d

"circle-based design makes a character look friendly and approachable!"

Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 4d

Havent seen them in a minute! My timeline is blessed 😌

Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 4d

My life changed when I started following the advice "instead of finding a style you love, find a process you love"

Emily Hare @emilyhare.co.uk · 4d

This Ogre painting is what began my current style of painting. During my process with this guy I was so engrossed and so loved the result that I have been painting using this technique (with a few tweaks) since then (2017). This is one of the ogres from Strangehollow (first book). #art #ogre

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 5d

Holy shit this Gobelins student film is absolutely incredible. Real Vampire Hunter D vibes

m.youtube.com/watch?v=O515...

NICCOLO - Animation Short Film 2025 - GOBELINS

YouTube video by GOBELINS Paris

m.youtube.com

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 5d

"Mob boss says his business wouldn't be profitable without stolen goods taken from shipping trucks"

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 6d

Imprisoning people for speaking out against your political decisions is called being a dictator

Headline stating that Trump says officials should be jailed if they oppose his deployment of the national guard

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 6d

Ohh I've been interested in those! Is that the one on developing a unique voice?

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 6d

beautiful sketches! What's the class?

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 6d

Letting the pen rest horizontally? I only ever keep my pen horizontal when I'm not using it

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 6d

lol well I contacted #Wacom customer service and they said they could only help me if I got an over the shoulder video of me working on a tablet that included my hands in the shot while I used a ruler or straight edge on my tablet to draw a grid while I had a diagnostic window open...

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 6d

aw snap!

Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 6d

FUNNNN! What do you use instead?