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Laura Zarrin @laurazarrin.bsky.social · 15h

It’s #portfolioday!!! I’m a published illustrator rep’d by Elizabeth Bennett, Transatlantic. Always on the look out for fun children’s book projects. Portfolio LauraZarrin.com

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El Carrel @elcarrel.bsky.social · 19h

Hi #PortfolioDay My name is El Carrel, and am #kidlitillustrator looking for work in picture books! With a focus on bright colors and expressive shapes I can bring to life magical or grounded stories!

🏡 elcarrelillustration.com
✉️ [email protected]

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Anna Florsdefum @annaflorsdefum.bsky.social · 17h

Hi #PortfolioDay!

I’m Anna, a children's book illustrator who loves stories full of nature and cute animals.

I'm looking for new and exciting projects, open to work on more picture and board books!

☀️ www.annaflorsdefum.com
✏️ www.instagram.com/annaflorsdefum
✉️ [email protected]

#kidlitart

Cover for the baby bath book "veo, veo, un submarino", surrounded by a lot of marine animals like a killer whale, a turtle and an octopus...

Illustration for a pumpkin cream soup with crispy artichokes recipe. The illustration has an illustrated frame showing the ingredients and some of the utensils needed for the recipe. Inside, we can see a garden where a badger, a dormouse, and an owl are collecting the necessary ingredients for the recipe.

Vector illustration of two barn owls: A mother and her child flying in a starry purple night.

"Jordina, The botanic dragon" is a cute vectorial illustration made with illustrator to celebrate "Sant Jordi", a popular festival from Catalonia, where every April 24 people traditionally give their loved ones a book and a rose. The illustration features a dragon reading a book and two cats.

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Nathasha Padrón @muakata.bsky.social · 21h

Hello #PortfolioDay I'm Nathasha a #kidlit #kidlitart artist

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Mathias Ball+ﾟ*｡:ﾟ+ | illustrator open for work 🍊 @mathiasball.bsky.social · 17h

Hello !! ⚡🌿

I'm Mathias, a queer artist who would love to work on book projects, editorial, advertising, and indie game projects. Open to other opportunities as well!

🍎 mathiasball.com
🍊 [email protected]
📚 @socalledyalife.bsky.social

[ #portfolioday #illustration #art ]

A pattern of spot illustrations, featuring an arctic fox, an arctic tern, a polar bear, some rabbit footprints in the snow, and a forest.

Interior illustration for Nautilus magazine. A figured in a red shirt stands in the middle, as various animals walk around them, depicted in a red/green colour palette.

Book cover for The Night Ends with Fire written by K.X. Song. A figure stands in a field of flowers, as a greenish dragon circles the sky and sits above the figure.

A spread from the book, Little Wolf's Howl, written by Nelly Buchet. Little Wolf chases a butterfly, towards the water. Behind them you can see various backgrounds flowing together, showing all the places Little Wolf has travelled to chase the butterfly.

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Mark Hoffmann @studiohoffmann.bsky.social · 18h

👋 I'm Mark Hoffmann. I love writing & illustrating silly & cute books. Interested in picture books, board books, middle grade & kids' editorial

I'm rep'd by @literaticat.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

🎨: www.studiohoffmann.com

#PortfolioDay #KidLitArt #KidLitlllustration
#illustration

A selection of 4 collage illustrations by Mark Hoffmann:

A wolf sneaking into a castle;
School kids getting off the bus and entering a school full of dinosaurs;
A soccer referee blowing a whistle;
A town of mice wearing pants

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Yaroslava Apollonova @odnatamyara.bsky.social · 18h

It’s #PortfolioDay ! I’m Yara and I’m a neurodivergent mixed media illustrator, looking for new PB projects and cover work. I love textures, soft colors, drawing fun characters and weird animals. 🦥

www.odnatamyara.com
I’m represented by Jemiscoe Chambers-Black at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

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Farah Shah @fawa.bsky.social · 19h

Hi #portfolioday! ⭐️
I’m Farah, a children’s author & illustrator based in UK.

Open to work on new BB, PB and fiction projects.

⭐️ Rep’d by Emily Talbot at @unitedagents.bsky.social
View my full portfolio at www.fawashah.co.uk
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#kidlitart #kidlitartist #fawashah #opentowork #illustration

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 21h

Hello #PortfolioDay! I am Charlene Chua & I illustrate books for kids.

🌟Open for 2026 book projects! 🌟

Portfolio - charlenechua.com
Email - charlene [@] charlenechua[.]com
Agent - Tracy Marchini, Tracy Marchini Literary

#kidlitart #illustration #PB #GN #kidlit

Cover for When You Go to Dragon School by Chelsea M Campbell, illustrated by Charlene Chua. A group of school kids of various ages and ethnicities look at a group of friendly dragons of different shapes and sizes.

Cover for Hocus and Pocus and the Spell for Home, by AR Capetta, illustrated by Charlene Chua. Two cute puppies with paws on a cauldron in front of a purple, witchy looking house.

Cover for Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wild, illustrated by Charlene Chua. Girl with read hair and a cowboy hat, holding a heart shape valentine, looking at another girl with a purple jacket and hat.

Cover for Things the Go Bump in the Day by Melinda Beatty illustrated by Charlene Chua. Cute blue vampire boy sitting up in his coffin bed, looking worried.

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Paula @paulajbecker.bsky.social · 18h

Hi #portfolioday ! I'm Paula, a #kidlitillustrator and I love creating energetic characters & scenes, bringing the fun to books, magazines, puzzles, cartoons and comics, etc. for kids!

Folio: paulajbecker.com
Email: [email protected]

#kidlitart

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Gina Perry @ginaperry.bsky.social · 22h

Happy #PortfolioDay - I'm a children's book author and illustrator. Rep'd by Sean McCarthy. More work at: ginaperry.com #kidlitart

Promo illustration by Gina Perry. Night scene of colorful bugs making music and nibbling on leaves. Beetle plays ukelele, grasshopper plays a tin whistle, bee shakes a maraca. Fireflies add atmosphere.

Black and white illustration by Gina Perry. From the book Aven Green Sleuthing Machine by Dusti Bowling. A group of girls surrounds and loves on a scruffy dog. One girl has no arms, one girl has a unibrow. Scene is framed as a polaroid.

Illustration from the book TOO MUCH! NOT ENOUGH! by Gina Perry. Two monsters are in a very messy kitchen. The big blue monster, Moe, is washing dishes in the sink, looking annoyed by the small monster, Peanut. Peanut is covering his chin and head with bubbles (aka bubble beard and hair). Art and text by Gina Perry

Illustrated promo by Gina Perry. Forest scene, with a number of vehicles driving in the foreground while a fox peers from the shade of trees and ferns. A chipmunk is in the back of a truck with a boo-boo on his head, assisted by a girl gnome. Another gnome drives a flatbed truck with a load of beets. A girl gnome pedals a tricycle towing a jar of flowers.

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JLMeyer 🐰 @jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social · 21h

Greetings #portfolioday

My name is JLMeyer and I am a Illustrator, Cover, and Comic artist.

#coverart #kidlitart #animals #IPart #maleficent

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Brooke Baum @brookebaum.bsky.social · 21h

Happy #PortfolioDay --spooky edition! 👻

I'm Brooke Baum and I'm an author/illustrator currently seeking representation! You can check out more spooky (and non-spooky, if you're into that sort of thing) work at brookebaum.com.

#kidlit #kidlitart

A witch knitting a scarf while her cat shreds it behind her.

A black, white, and orange grid of silly Halloween cats

A boy reading ghost stories and a ghost reading human stories

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Denis Angelov @denisillustrates.bsky.social · 21h

Hi #portfolioday 👋

My name is Denis, and I'm a children's book illustrator who likes stories full of heart, bold lineart, limited palettes, and painterly textures. #kidlitart

🌐 www.denisillustrates.com
📚 Represented by Emily Talbot, United Agents (UK) and Susan Hawk, Upstart Crow Literary (US)

Illustration of a child kneeling on top of his desk wearing pajamas and showing a teddy bear the Ursa Major constellation through the window

llustration of a giant squid, a duckling and a kid in a bathtub. The squid is looking curious trying to get the attention of the kid with its tentacles. The child is looking right at us in fear. The duckling is standing between the two, wings spread out, trying to defend the kid

Illustration of a two anthromorphic zebras in a sculpture studio. One of them has no stripes and is sculpting a bust of the other zebra who is sitting in a stool with her eyes closed

Illustration of a little girl and her dad in the kitchen. The dad is stirring a meal in a pot on the stove. There are aroma lines coming out of the pot and the girl has closed her eyes and is taking in the smell. There is a black cat peeking above the counter top and looking at the pot.

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Jenn Harney @jennharknee.bsky.social · 18h

Hiho #portfolioday

It’s me! I’m Jenn. I like to draw all the things and I’m ALWAYS looking for work. (I do the writing stuff too sometimes!)

jkharney.blogspot.com

#kidlitart #childrensbooks #hiremeplease

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Jenn Harney @jennharknee.bsky.social · 6d

So glad I do not offend!!

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Jenn Harney @jennharknee.bsky.social · 7d

I liked the ones that sounded like the story and the pitch would be written the same way. Being able to still read the voice in the pitch is so hard!! #kidlitchat

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Jenn Harney @jennharknee.bsky.social · 7d

I totally get that! They can be daunting! I use them to refine the writing…I draw much better than I write. Even just ugly sketches help me. #kidlitart

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Jenn Harney @jennharknee.bsky.social · 7d

Always!

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Jenn Harney @jennharknee.bsky.social · 7d

It’s a lot easier to be not afraid of something when you are drawing it on something disposable. #kidlitart

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Jenn Harney @jennharknee.bsky.social · 7d

They don’t need to be pretty. I draw on envelopes super loose and ugly. I find them so helpful in nailing down a story and pacing. Sometimes I’ll just draw everything first and then finesse the story to fit. #kidlitchat

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Jenn Harney @jennharknee.bsky.social · 7d

I am really good at dummying. I love to send a dummy instead of just a synopsis or a pitch. Even just a character study with a pitch. Anything with a visual. I’m better at that. #kidlitchat

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Jenn Harney @jennharknee.bsky.social · 7d

YAY! I love the Friday night Booze and Shmooze. One of my favorite parts of the conference.

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Jenn Harney @jennharknee.bsky.social · 7d

Booze and shmooze!

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Jenn Harney @jennharknee.bsky.social · 8d

Good luck with the mag assignment and the prep! Add cheese if needed.

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