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Matt Doering @mattdoering.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay!

I'm Matt, an Art Director, VizDev Artist, and BG Designer who loves musicals! I have experience in TV at Disney and Dreamworks. I'm available for full time and freelance work!

Portfolio: mattdoering.com (DM for pswd)
Email: [email protected]

A painted study of a downtown Los Angeles skyline at golden hour.

A graphic, stylized greyscale drawing of an onion village that features rolling mounds of dirt and playful dandelions.

A color script for Zombies: The Re-Animated Series that features A-Spen (an alien character with blue hair) flying toward earth to meet and embrace Wynter (a werewolf character). The final panel of 6 features the two friends hoping between space rock in a pink star dust field.

Concept art of a robot city made of unique, bottle shaped towers in greyscale.

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Pablo Rivera @pablonotpicasso.bsky.social · 2d

Happy portfolio day! I’m an artist with experience on projects for companies ranging from Wizards of the Coast to Walt Disney Animation, though my constant passion in art is always depicting glimpses of prehistoric worlds 🦖 #portfolioday #paleoart #paleosky #dinosaurart

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · 5d

loooove the rays of light

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Gabby Zapata @gabbyzapata.bsky.social · 6d

I haven’t been up to date on here. But I open my shop at 10am for nonsubscribers (free yes!) new goodies and a new collection to help my mom’s future dementia care ♡
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Prof. Jason Bostick, Ed.D. @profjasonbostick.bsky.social · 6d

@gabbyzapata.bsky.social shop is now open for newsletter subscribers (free). 10 AM PST for general public. Mini art prints, stickers, and "blind bag" bag charms!
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Gabby Zapata Shop

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · 9d

my books are here! come grab your copy and learn how to draw a plant at Lightbox Expo (Oct 24th-26th). If you can't make it, don't worry I will be selling them online afterwards! Stay tuned

book titled Everything I know About Plants: An Artist's Guide by Cathleen McAllister

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · 9d

aw I love that!! 🥰

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · 9d

my books are here! come grab your copy and learn how to draw a plant at Lightbox Expo (Oct 24th-26th). If you can't make it, don't worry I will be selling them online afterwards! Stay tuned

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · 13d

I think if you care about the environmental impacts of AI, you should also care about this. The over-reliance on dairy and beef is especially a problem.

Vox @vox.com · 13d

The most effective way to avert a climate change catastrophe: People in wealthier countries have to eat more plant-based foods and less red meat, poultry, and dairy.

The climate movement’s biggest weakness

What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.

www.vox.com

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · 14d

the colors are soooo delightful

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · 21d

oh and another thing, I have a wonderful agent who helps me get cover work! Sometimes they contact me directly, sometimes they contact her. And if I'm too busy to do a cover, I recommend fellow illustrators in my agency.

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · 21d

thank you!! I got my first book cover job cause they liked my portfolio for animation. I only get a couple illus. jobs a year (I work fulltime in animation) but it helps to have some paintings with a central figure, bright colors, and some vertical compositions. (more in the alt text...)

These are some of my paintings that AD's frequently cite when they launch me on a cover illustration. This one is fanart of Garth Nix's book Sabriel. It's got 2 large central figures, and I think AD's can imagine where text would go (even though it's a horizontal composition!)

this is another one that gets picked as reference often. You can imagine text would go in the large keyhole. For most of the cover illustrations, it's helpful to have a big "empty" space (where the values and details aren't too complex) for text. Striking compositions and bright colors are helpful.

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · 21d

BOOK COVER ARTISTS!

QRP with your #BookCovers

cover illustration for The Traitor Moth by Katharine Orton. A brown, spotted moth holds a nettle branch in front of a full moon. He is standing on a tree branch with wasps and his two moth companions in the background.

Orphans of the Tide by Struan Murphy. A beached whale at the base of a gothic city sticking out of the ocean

The Mossheart's Promise by Rebecca Mix. Two fairies inside of a terrarium, surrounded by rotting plants, mushrooms, and an isopod

The Ghostwing's Lie by Rebecca Mix. A fairy standing in a broken glass terrarium, surrounded by plants, bugs and a newt.

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · 29d

The latter! I found that the "pretty" ones don't autofill into the online applications very well, which makes my life more annoying when I have to manually adjust those fields. I also have an easy to copy-paste excel version of my resume for apps that make you manually add each role.

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Jeff Simpson @jeffsimpson.bsky.social · Sep 10

Gonna be looking for new work soon. Concept, Vis Dev, Art Direction for later this year and into 2026. Will also be planning some mentorship/teaching once I've had a little break.

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · Sep 11

I've started (politely) commenting about the environmental impacts and then it's kind of funny to see the whole post get deleted. I encourage you to try it lol.

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · Sep 11

environmental organizations using AI art to make infographics is so insane to me lol

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · Sep 8

qrp with something watery!

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · Sep 7

Alien (1979)

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Katharine Orton @katharineorton.bsky.social · Aug 29

It’s finally time for some book news and a super fancy cover reveal ✨😅

Thrilled to say that THE TRAITOR MOTH is coming out with @simonkids.bsky.social in April 26 and introduces a mg fantasy world of moths, mutants, and fiercely loyal clans. Check out this beauutiful cover by @cafween.bsky.social

A humanistic brown moth stands on a branch and looks out at a big full moon. He holds a stinging nettle tip and two other moths fly at his sides. A wasp-like creature with blue eyes lurks in the leaves above.

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · Aug 21

my flower stickers arrived! Will be selling these at Lightbox Expo, and then online (early Nov!)

a sheet of flower stickers featuring angel's trumpet, star thistle, golden stars, bindweed, lavender, thistle, rose, bougainvillea, and coneflower. Arranged in rainbow order

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · Aug 21

YES I want to be able to take public transit to a place 3 miles away without it taking 3 hours

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · Aug 20

so unhinged, I WISH I could have seen it happen lol

Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · Aug 20

so foul lol

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Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816 @cafween.bsky.social · Aug 20

found a bite mark in the gym equipment today lol

absolutely feral bite mark on the back of the chest supported row machine

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