Anna F. Walker

Love this one.

First stock delivery for our pop-up children’s bookshop.

Would you look at these beauties! Be still my beating heart ❤️

Our pop-up is on the 8th-11th Dec at Curioso, 27 Albert Place (Leith Walk), EH7 5HN

It’s a bit funny to me when folks accuse anti-AI artists of “gatekeeping.” My dude, Midjourney charges you $60 a month for images, while real artists remind you that you can make it for free and experience the joy of the process. So who’s really gatekeeping?

Three tote bags all with the same design laid out on the table. They depict three rabbits - Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-Tail swearing cute red capes and standing in front of a basket filled with blue berries.

Stock for our pop-up shop is starting to arrive - very exciting times.

First in are these gorgeous Beatrix Potter tote bags.

Love them!

I love True Grit and have most of their packs. But here I’m using a mix of other brushes: sketching and outline pencils from Lisa Glanz (my other favourite brush maker) and a gouache brush from some kind of retro illustration pack I don’t remember the source of.

That’s half the fun! :)

Procreate is an iPad app. As far as I know it doesn’t exist for other tablets.

Thank you! I use Procreate.

A little process video for the bookmark illustration for @spyglassbooks.bsky.social

#booksky

Thank you so much!

Thank you!

Thank you! ☺️

Thank you!

It me! :)

Four plus hours of hyperfocus and I’ve got a bookmark design for our children’s bookshop pop-up @spyglassbooks.bsky.social

There will be words at the top.

But I need to lie down now.

What a tune!

Thank you so so much for such kind words! ❤️

Some very exciting news.

I’m opening a children’s bookshop!

Follow @spyglassbooks.bsky.social for updates. And if you’re in Edinburgh come to our pop-up in December to say hello and to support our budding business 👋

#Edinburgh #Booksky

An illustration of three row boats next to each other seen from above, with calm waters as the background.

Life is but a dream.

#art #illustration

Lovely!

Thank you so much, Pauline!

Thank you! ☺️

Thank you so much!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you very much!

Gross.

Put this in the dictionary for the word ‘enshittification’.

Thank you!

Love it!

A black a white illustration depicting an old king with long white hair slouching on a throne in front of the stylised sea waves. There’s a castle, clouds, and flying birds in the background.

Just found this early drawing of mine - an interpretation of the legend of king Canute and the waves.

I’d do a lot of things differently now, especially in the details, but I like where my mind was going.

#art