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madly kim (illustration)
@madlyart.bsky.social
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kidlit illustrator based in bucks county, pa

represented by Charlotte Wenger at Prospect Agency
[email protected]

madlykim.com
[email protected]

2025 SCBWI EJK Showcase Prize Winner
🇰🇷🇺🇸adoptee
SCBWI | open porch arts
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madlyart.bsky.social
hello #kidlitartpostcard day!

I’m Madly Kim and I’d love to illustrate your next project. I have a particular fondness for history, cozy magic, and plucky protagonists.

I work primarily in watercolor and am represented by @charlottewenger.com

View my portfolio at madlykim.com
madly kim kid lit postcard. a young page is trying to pull an arrow out of a target stump. painted with watercolor and featuring colored pencil.
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
madlyart.bsky.social
I am proud to say I am now represented by the wonderful Charlotte Wenger at Prospect Agency! Please contact @charlottewenger.com for all things book related

I am open to all projects and particularly interested in historic settings, diverse families, and anything a little magical :)

#kidlitart
October 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
madlyart.bsky.social
I’m thrilled to say that two of my original watercolors will be on display and for sale at the #PhiladelphiaSketchClub this October! If you’re in the area, please go check out the show. There are a ton of amazing artists :)
September 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
madlyart.bsky.social
it’s #kidlitartpostcard day! Thought I’d share something sweet and summery in colored pencil. I don’t know about you, but these days I yearn for some peace and quiet. And a good climbing tree.

I’m a picture book illustrator based outside of philly. Seeking representation!

#kidlitart
two young girls climb a tree. fruit from the tree falls into a basket. the hand drawn illustration is bathed in dappled light.
August 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
madlyart.bsky.social
sometimes you gotta re-work a piece. learning what feels like “me” when it comes to watercolor :)

Any preferences?

#watercolorillustration #art #kidlitart
July 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
madlyart.bsky.social
Slightly reworking an old piece that I still adore for my new portfolio. I love drawing multigenerational scenes…

#workinprpgress #kidlitart #aapiillustrator #wip #art #illustration #kimchi #watercolor
An illustration of a korean family making kimchi. The grandmother is in a yellow smock and pink gloves. She is spreading red sauce on an oversized nappa cabbage leaf. The boy is pouring the sauce onto the leaf. There is a toddler in a diaper eating the fresh kimchi.
July 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
madlyart.bsky.social
Trying to work on some black and white stuff for my #kidlitart portfolio. I’d love to work on chapter books :’)

#wip #art #blackandwhiteillustration
A black and white watercolor illustration of an adolescent boy pitching a baseball. His hat has flown off his head and a hurricane swirls in the sky.
July 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
madlyart.bsky.social
Happy #kidlitartpostcard day

I am a picture book illustrator based outside of Philadelphia, seeking representation. Nice to meet you!

Portfolio: madlykim.com

#kidlitart #scbwimember
An illustration of a grandmother knitting an oversized yellow blanket in bright yellow fabric. She is sitting in a grey/green high backed armchair. She has brown/grey hair, brown skin, glasses, rosy cheeks, and is wearing a blue and grey sweater. there are five grey and pink mice helping her by carrying the yarn from the ball to her needles. There is a shy mouse sitting and watching the scene from bellow the chair. There are two mice sleeping underneath the blanket.
July 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
madlyart.bsky.social
hello I’m madly.

I am an illustrator interested in picture books and middle grade chapter books. I’m planning on using bluesky to meet other creators, keep up with the community, and share some art. thank you for checking out my work!

#kidlitart #kidlitillustrator #art #illustration #watercolor
July 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
madlyart.bsky.social
one of my complicated pieces to date :) I learned so much and now I am gonna take a much needed break.

#kidlitart #illustration #watercolor
June 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
madlyart.bsky.social
tired but happy today. I might actually make the deadline for an award I will definitely not win (laugh laugh laugh)

#kidlitart #traditionalillustration #illustration #kidlitillustrator #watercolor #watercolorillustration
June 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
madlyart.bsky.social
working on a big one!

#wip #art #illustration #kidlitillustration #watercolor
June 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
madlyart.bsky.social
learning how to paint on hot pressed paper has been…. a workout

#archeshotpress #kidlitillustration #illustration #wip #art #watercolorillustration
June 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM
madlyart.bsky.social
from sketch to watercolor

#illustration #kidlitillustration #wip #mixedmedia
June 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
madlyart.bsky.social
working on this gloomy grey day

#wip #kidlitillustrator #illustrationprocess
June 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
madlyart.bsky.social
i mean do people REALLY want to see the ugly “non aesthetic” sketchbook? it’s exactly how it sounds 👁️👁️

#uglysketchbook
June 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
madlyart.bsky.social
#lifedrawing started up again this month. happy with this spread!

#figuredrawing #art
June 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
madlyart.bsky.social
sketching for portfolio while waiting at the hospital

#sketchbook #illustrator #kidlitillustrator
June 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
madlyart.bsky.social
for the love of potter’s pink

#messysketchbook
#art #mixedmediasketchbook
June 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
madlyart.bsky.social
probably should’ve gone with hot press but here we are

#wip #kidlitillustration #picturebookillustration #mixedmedia
June 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
madlyart.bsky.social
lil cafe art date today with my friend. #sketchbook #drawingoutside #urbansketching #mixedmedia #watercolor #coloredpencil #phillyartist
June 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
madlyart.bsky.social
Today I had to open the old house up for the plumber and I got a flat tire and my matcha latte was really just essence of green milk and I only had time to have two bites of lunch -but I also went to the most beautiful arboretum and did some fun sketches. a win is a win #art #drawoutside #sketchbook
June 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM
madlyart.bsky.social
I think I will try to use this account to post more sketchy things I don’t keep on my ig timeline.

trying to figure out #spotillustration and attempting to draw cute faces. ended up with something my husband described as “the orphan from the movie orphan” #artfail #kidlitillustrator #sketchbook
May 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
madlyart.bsky.social
Yesterday was surprisingly lovely and productive. A family friend cut rhododendrons from her garden and we put them in a blue vase. My mom’s neighbor helped us transplant a giant oak leaf hydrangea. And I saw a robin’s nest.
May 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
madlyart.bsky.social
there’s nothing more humbling than stumbling upon a very expensive, very unused set of #sennelieroilpastels you bought two years ago when you thought you were “that kind of artist”
May 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM