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🌿 kidlit illustration 📚 seeking representation 💌 [email protected] 🌌 https://kierapaxton.com/

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kiera.illustrations @kieraillustrations.bsky.social · Jul 9

Hi #portfolioday
I'm Kiera, I'm a freelance kidlit illustrator. I'm open to work on picture books, covers and middle grade 🍄🌿
🎨 www.kierapaxton.com
💌 [email protected]

3 kids around a table at a school drawing pictures

An illustration showing a girl painting a house on an easel

Moon Mouse book cover showing a mouse on the moon looking through a telescope to the earth

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kiera.illustrations @kieraillustrations.bsky.social · Aug 23

Oops I realise I completely forgot to share some work here! Will aim to share some of my recent art over the next few weeks!

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Astra Fauna (Sarah Dahlinger) 🔜 Rhode Island Comic Con @astrafauna.bsky.social · Jun 15

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jade 🫀 comms closed @yellghoul.bsky.social · May 18

going downriver to find the last giant 💀✨

illustration of two kids and a tiger walking through a dense forest. the forest is littered with the bones of dead giants. illustration has a border featuring various greenery, wispy monsters, a shooting star, and a water lily

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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · Apr 12

...that's just part of the process sometimes

A four panel comic. Each panel is roughly the same.

Panel 1: I am leaning into my monitor screen, scribbling the final touches of a drawing. Text above reads '(A multi hour illustration.)'

Panel 2: I lean back. Text above reads '*Save*'

Panel 3: I pause, not moving at all.

Panel 4: Finally in the last panel I speak, declaring 'I hate it.'

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Anna Daviscourt 🔜 Lightbox Expo 607 @annadaviscourt.bsky.social · May 13

It's a bird world, we just live in it.
🐦🐤🦢
#KidLitArt #PastelArt #Birds

A sketchbook spread-on the left is a group of colorful, dopey looking birds, and on the right is a mossy tree filled with yellow birds surrounded by a decorative red border. Watermark: AnnaDaviscourt.com

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kiera.illustrations @kieraillustrations.bsky.social · May 3

Show me how you draw women 🌌

Digital illustration of a lady wearing armour holding a sword on her shoulder

Digital illustration of Lucy from the fallout tv series

Digital illustration of chell from portal

Digital illustration of shadowheart from bg3

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · Apr 23

BEEP-BEEEEP

Illustration of a little blue car in forced perspective. It is on a dark green background with red and yellow luggage bags on the roof. The silhouette of a little bear is inside it.

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meow-lissa capriglione @ NYCC A21 @mcapriglioneart.bsky.social · Apr 20

no more rectangle, only rosemary

four panel black and white cartoon comic of a cat and their owner. the owner is laying down playing a switch. in the first panel, the cat pokes its head into the panel. the second panel the cat moves its head under the switch. the third panel, the cat manages to block the switch and says "no more rectangle". in the last panel, the cat says "only rosemary"

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Inoa 🩸 @inoaart.bsky.social · Apr 18

Day #5/100

[oc] krov.

[ #100DayChallenge #oc #ocart]

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西村ツチカ @tsuchika.bsky.social · Mar 7

Bird watching

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kiera.illustrations @kieraillustrations.bsky.social · Apr 17

I also did a version that has more doodles on top and I'm not sure which I prefer more

An illustration showing houses among thr clouds in a dream like manner with all sorts of stars and shapes floating around the page, the whole illustration is very pastel

kiera.illustrations @kieraillustrations.bsky.social · Apr 17

Dreaming

A pastel illustration that's kind of dream like showing houses among the clouds in the sky, there's stars everywhere

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kiera.illustrations @kieraillustrations.bsky.social · Apr 14

Thank you!

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Apr 12

what they said ⬇️

Tumblr post: generative AI literally makes me feel like a boomer. people start talking about how it can be good to help you brainstorm ideas and i’m like oh you’re letting a computer do the hard work and thinking for you???

Tumblr reply: There are many difficult things that were replaced with technology, and it wasn't a bad thing. Washing machine replaces washing clothes by hand. Nothing wrong with that. Spinning wheel replaces drop spindle. Nothing wrong with that. Generative AI replaces thinking. The ability to think for yourself will always be important. People that want to control and oppress you want to limit your ability to think for yourself as much as possible, but continuing to practice it allows you to resist them.

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shadecho @shadecho.bsky.social · Apr 13

Neil banging out the tunes
#art

Drawing of a hairless rat named Neil banging out the tunes on a purple keyboard with rainbow keys. There are colorful stars and music notes in the background as he plays.

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Watt 🔜 AX C5 @onemegawatt.bsky.social · Apr 12

Last but not least, these lil chompsters 🐊which one is your fav?

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kiera.illustrations @kieraillustrations.bsky.social · Apr 13

I'm bad at captions 🌿✨️

An illustration of some pikachus and pichus in a field outside a forest

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kiera.illustrations @kieraillustrations.bsky.social · Apr 6

Happy #internationalasexualityday 🖤🤍💜

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · Mar 25

Hey #kidlit illustrators! I’m looking for samples of cute, cozy (Cozy? Yes, cozy), anthropomorphic, vehicles for a new board book.

Please respond with relevant samples.
Please no DMs.

💙❤️ #kidlitart

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Abeeha Tariq @abeehatariqart.bsky.social · Mar 22

In honour of my birthday next week, you can get 15% off all items in my shop this weekend with the code BEEDAY ✨

www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Abee...

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Amber Akin 🕸🌾 @almondmilkart.bsky.social · Mar 20

some little guys to celebrate the start of springtime 🌷☘️

Illustration of a cute frog, clover critter, tulip guy, and bunny in pastel springy colors.

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · Mar 5

Perks of being a work-from-home freelancer!

- Work whenever you want! Every second relaxing feels like throwing money away!

- When will this invoice be paid? Who knows! Savor the exquisite suspense!

- No need to go into office! Lose social skills. Words become use bad!

- What day is it...?

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c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · Mar 9

Please please please just make your fucking comic. It doesn't have to have mass appeal or be marketable. I'm literally making a comic about gay aztec steampunks. A publisher would laugh me out the door. I still have a budding audience!! And even then! If it brings you joy, make the fucking comic!

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D.J. Kirkland @ohheydj.bsky.social · Mar 9

Make that self indulgent comic.
Make that comic about your OCs.
Make that comic about whatever the fuck your want.

JUST 👏🏾 MAKE 👏🏾 THE 👏🏾 DAMN 👏🏾 COMIC! 👏🏾

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sparth @sparth.bsky.social · Nov 27

I'll add a small dose of my glitchy landscapes here too.

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