sally chen | illustrator | 🇨🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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🐚 they / she / he 💗 illustrator + poet ⛅️ NYC🪞台山 🍀 shop + commissions open! 🔍 looking for a #kidlit literary agent 💕 💌 [email protected] 🔗 https://salpalc.carrd.co
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Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Sally, a queer, NB, Chinese-American #illustrator in NYC! 🌱
I'd love to work on book projects, editorial, indie games (esp TTRPGs), & murals. Open to other opportunities too!

🌈 www.salpalc.art
💌 [email protected]
🔎 looking for a literary agent

#kidlitart #illustration #art
“Cloud Watching from the Kitchen” #coloring process for @scbwi.bsky.social #scbwiartober2025 day 11: kettle 🫖🪟🌥️

the details closest to my heart are: the 4-leaf clover kettle, the stickers on the step stool, & the raspberry dessert… 🥹🩵

#art #kidlit #teatime #nostalgia #kitchen #vintage #autumn
Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Sally, a queer, NB, Chinese-American #illustrator in NYC! 🌱
I'd love to work on book projects, editorial, indie games (esp TTRPGs), & murals. Open to other opportunities too!

🌈 www.salpalc.art
💌 [email protected]
🔎 looking for a literary agent

#kidlitart #illustration #art
final + closeups of #scbwiartober2025 day 06: candle 🕯️ @scbwi.bsky.social

inspired by birthday celebrations + hot air balloons ⭐️

#illustration #artober #colorpencil #cake #whimsy #drawing #inktober #childrensbookillustration #art #strawberry #illustrator #scbwiartists
#scbwiartober2025 day 11: kettle

“Cloud Watching from the Kitchen” ☁️🫖🪟 is inspired by tea time memories & featuring my favorite cutting board and my hanging plants 🫶🏼🪴

#illustration #kitchen #ink #drawing #scbwi #artober #kidlitart #dibujo #childrensbookart #whimsical #cozy #autumn #inktober
“Up, Up, & Happy Birthday” for #scbwiartober2025 day 06: candle!!

I’m a #kidlitillustrator looking for a literary agent 🍀

#artist #kidlit #colorpencil #illustration #イラスト #dibujo #ink #cute #birthdaycake #scbwiillustrator #drawingprocess
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“Up, Up, & Happy Birthday!” final + closeups for #scbwiartober2025 day 06: candle 💛

made with @robertoster.bsky.social ink + a glass dip pen

#artober #artwork #illustration #ink #イラスト #whimsy #kidlitart #drawing #kidlitartist #scbwi #插画 #inktober #illustrationjeunesse
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There are so many creatures in and around the goblin city
a page with lots of drawings of various creatures on it including a frog with a snail shell and a spiral shaped worm and a long axolotl and a bat and a horned ladybird and a long frog and a mushroom with a face and legs. At the top of the page it says "there are so many creatures in and around the goblin city"
#scbwiartober2025 day 6: candle 🕯️

“Up, Up, & Happy Birthday” is inspired by jet packs and birthday celebrations

made with @robertoster.bsky.social toffee ink & a glass dip pen ⭐️

#art #lineart #artober #illustration #inking #cake #dessert #kidlitart #artprocess #イラスト #artist #drawing #whimsical
closeups :)

#art #inking #animals #nature #イラスト #raccoon #squirrel #rabbit
#scbwiartober2025 day 01

“Who Ate My Squash?” in India ink & color pencil! ⭐️

📍 i’m a kidlit illustrator based in NYC looking for a literary agent!

#kidlitart #drawing #colorpencil #illustration #scbwi #indiaink #cute #artober #autumn #whimsical #childrensbook
light filtering through my window to my sketchbook :) ⛅️🪟✨

#illustrator #colorpencil #trees #whimsical #sketchbook
#scbwiartober2025 day 1: squash #coloring process :)

#artsky #illustrator #whimsical
#artprocess video for #scbwiartober2025 day 1: squash! 🧑🏻‍🌾

#kidlitart #illustrator #gardening #ink
drew the prettiest squashes in my sketchbook the other day!! 🥹

#artsky #sketchbook #colorpencil #kidlitart #autumn #garden
birthday drawings for my friends :)

#artsky #illustration #nostalgia #sketchbook #colorpencil #queerartist #nycartist
some of my fave portraits i did at a vow renewal ceremony in Long Island! ❤️

#artsky #vowrenewal #liveportraits #portraitartist #nycartist #longisland #seacliff #weddingartist #colorpencil
From NYC, With Love (2025), my new #SingForHope #Piano available for public play at #UnionSquarePark until June 29! 🥹🫶🏼

#nyc #nycartist #art #manhattan #kidlitart #whimsy #animals #paint #aapiartist
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Reposted by sally chen | illustrator | 🇨🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Neighbors don't let neighbors get eaten ✊🏽
Illustration of various people pulling other people out of a huge horned white snake that had eaten them. Large textured letters at the bottom read: Abolish ICE!