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anerbananer🍌

@anerbananer.bsky.social

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Illustrator-Author/Concept Artist/Storyteller. Yapper, PhD. Lover of purple and nerdy things. 💜 (she/her) 30+, 🚫NO AI/NFTs Rep: Alex Gehringer, The Bright Agency. #art #bookart #illustration www.anadraws.com http://linktr.ee/anadraws

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anerbananer🍌 @anerbananer.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hi friends! I'm Anastasia and I make stories happen. I'm a working illustrator-author who loves art, games, anime, fanworks, and building community with fellow nerds who like to fixate on fictional worlds while trying to make our real one a better place. Happy to know you!

portrait of the artist, Anastasia. She is smiling while looking off-camera. There are floral and butterfly pins in her afro, and she wears glasses, teal drop earrings and a gold necklace. Her dress is yellow and she has tattoos on both arms.

An illustration of a Black boy moving to the beat, eyes closed and in a dance pose. music notes and colorful flourishes surround him. He is wearing a green shirt, blue jeans and white sneakers with red laces. His hair is in micro locs

crop of a larger painting of a honeybee fairy. She holds a piece of honeycomb and flies under a large green leaf.

serene scene in a magical forest. It's a marshland with lots of small rivers flowing through large thin trees with dark blue-gray bark. bright, giant orange shelf mushrooms grow on them. In a stump, a small glowing sword waits for a hero.

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anerbananer🍌 @anerbananer.bsky.social · 3d

Our dynamic to a T 💕

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Breana Navickas @breanimator.bsky.social · 4d

IF YOU WANT EVEN MORE BLACK MAGICAL GIRLS/WOMEN AND FEMMES.

Check out these two kickstarters!!!

@chaoticfableent.bsky.social

The Chaotic Misadventures of Arch and Reggie - Indie Pilot Animatic

@fwdiostudios.bsky.social

Poison Us- Animated Pilot

#indieanimation
Kickstarter links below:

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Pearl Low | 劉寶珠🧋 (they/them) @pearllow.bsky.social · 4d

OUR #WheelsAndRoses trailer is HERE✨🌈🛼

LOVE MAGICAL GIRLS? LOVE ROLLER DERBY AND ROLLER SKATING? LOVE QUEER GALS AND THEY THEMS?? Look no further!!!

WE'RE SO EXCITED TO FINALLY SHARE OUR TEASER TRAILER WITH THE WORLD!!!

youtu.be/sT23E5MyZKQ?...

#IndieAnimation

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Z Cher-Aimé @zcheraime.bsky.social · 4d

Times are tough, and art shouldn't be out of reach!

We originally valued this decade-long project at $19.99, but we’ve lowered the rental to just $2.99 so ANYONE can watch.

Your small rental fee helps directly support us indie creators ❤️ Check it out today!

➤ Rent: tinyurl.com/WatchCZ2

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anerbananer🍌 @anerbananer.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you! 🥰

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anerbananer🍌 @anerbananer.bsky.social · Nov 14

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 6d

stuffs!!

#art #illustration

A digital drawing featuring different items scattered on a page: an apple with a face, a cloud with legs, a flower with legs, a bird, cats, flowers, mushrooms, a cup of steaming coffee and a fish.

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Christine Almeda ✏️ @eychristine.bsky.social · 7d

Happy book birthday to I DANCE! 🎶 🇵🇭

To have Filipino culture be so easily accessible, mixed with dancing, and a book that’s easy to read over and over - what a gift. So happy our book is finally out in the world.

Beautifully written by Diana Rañola, published by Holiday House 📚

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anerbananer🍌 @anerbananer.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you! 🩷

anerbananer🍌 @anerbananer.bsky.social · 12d

A cover illustration project I assigned myself. Every Halloween season I like to write short stories or paint spooky premises, and this time I combined an old tradition with a new intention! I would love to do more novel covers, so this is me manifesting!
#bookart #illustration #horror

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anerbananer🍌 @anerbananer.bsky.social · 14d

you did amazing bc I immediately recognized him while scrolling ☺️

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anerbananer🍌 @anerbananer.bsky.social · 14d

Today is the book birthday for To The Top of the World! A book I illustrated about the life of Barbara Hillary, the first Black woman to reach the north AND south poles (all in her 60s and 70s!) She's my hero. Grab it wherever books are sold!
#art #kidlit #bookart #illustration

painted closeup of Barbara Hillary in blue snow gear (warm beanie, snow goggles, and a puffy fur-lined coat). Snow flurries whisk across her face.

vista of three trekkers, one of them barbara hillary, the other two being guides, hiking the summit to the north pole

barbara hillary in her dreamscape, thinking about the northern lights and sitting up there in that beautiful stillness. She is illustrated in the close-up foreground with her eyes closed, then again small in the snowscape behind her, looking up at the moon amidst the polar night sky

the book cover for To the Top of the World. Illustration of Barbara Hillary with one glove off giving a thumbs up as she celebrates reaching the end of her polar journey

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 14d

OUT TODAY!!!

THE OCTOBER GIRL Book One from me and @maverickogn.bsky.social!

It's the first book in a YA suburban fantasy series with hints of Bradbury, Charles Addams, Amelié, Doctor Who, and Tim Burton, and I'm fiercely proud of it!

It's out! My book is finally out! After all these years!!!

Oh, and this is a drawing of Autumn Ackerman with her long scarf moodily flapping behind her.

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anerbananer🍌 @anerbananer.bsky.social · Sep 23

Mischief Makers 👶🐈🧵
#kidlit #art #illustration

an illustration of a toddler in a blue onesie sits on the floor, looking up and giggling at the family cat that has perched on head. Both are tangled up in red yarn.

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 18d

Time moves in layers - 2023

My art, digital. A surreal large wolf head descends from the heavens

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 18d

The shorter games with worse graphics made by less people discourse is starting again and the nuance lost in this conversation is: we absolutely CAN make big, hyper-realistic games, sustainably. The problem -- and the money drain -- is executive pay, leadership overreach, mismanagement, and whims.