Billie Blue

This made me laugh out loud. Thank you!

Two kids waiting say I THINK WE MAY BE IN THE WRONG LINE AMID HOLIDAY DECOR. The sign above says MEET SANTANA and Carlos Santana is sitting on a chair next to his guitar, greeting kids.

Gotta make sure you are in the right line at the mall. 🎨 🎸🎅🏻

Oh no, can Santa call in sick?

#santa #humor #kidlitart #picturebooks

Just that iron grip when you’re scrubbing 😂

Started a traditional pencil drawing project today… felt really good! Ashamed to say I did automatically think about pressing “undo” when I made a mistake 😅

So cute!

I swear that smell stays with you the rest of the day too lol

These are gorgeous!

The thing about "A.I." in art and writing and health insurance decision making and customer service and government services and a million other things... is that it sucks. And people are very very very tired of stuff that sucks.

Drawing of crazed-looking face wearing glasses, with messy purple and blue hair, with handwritten quote: "If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement on days they want to take up scorpion petting." - by Liana Brooks. Drawing by Debbie Ridpath Ohi. A paint brush lies on the drawing.

If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social

#BookSky

I think it’s time to finally come back here. Today I finished my very last interior spread for a children’s book! ✨ 🎉 #kidlitart

How To Direct the Viewers Eye in Children’s Books Art by Design Design your illustrations to lead the reader’s eye where you want it to go.

How To Direct the Viewers Eye in Children’s Books Art!

Check out my substack post (free) with some thoughts and diagrams about directing the readers eye through the pictures and into the page turn-->

#kidlit #kidlitart #illustrators #picturebooks

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$2,500 for ingestion rights… makes me… all kinds of 😡.

Publishers selling out their long term viability for short term profits 😡.

Financially embattled creators (most are) having to refuse $2,500 😡.

A.I. companies being proven right in their belief that book publishing can be bought 😡.

This is awesome! 😂

It’s officially #folktaleweek ! I’m so excited to finally join in this year, I just hope I can keep up with all 7 days!

Welcome to my story:
THE MYSTERIOUS MAGIC OF BLIGHTLEY MANOR

Day 1: MIST
Discover the Winged Mist calling.

Thanks @folktaleweek #folktaleweekMIST
#kidlit #kidlitart

📚!!

Art drawn by people who very rarely make art and think they are “bad at art” is 1000x cooler than AI art. It’s life-affirming. It’s often unexpected. I cannot overemphasize how much I love when people just go for it. You do not need the machine for this human endeavor.

This is so beautiful! I love the character design! 🧚🏾

Yes! Please do this!

Because sometimes people need to hear this: If you want to make some art, just make it.

If you're worried it's going to be bad, that's fine. Make bad art just because you want to try. You don't have to show it to anyone if you don't want to. You don't have to finish it either!

Just do it for fun!

Beautiful!

The night house keeper or the graveyard book!!!

There’s such beautiful #kidlitartpostcards from yesterday!! I’m feeling the creative burn this month with all the October challenges!! 🎨 🔥 #kidlitart

Bewitched Boutiques: Apothecary 🌿
This took me so long but I'm super happy with how it has turned out - I hope you like it!

#art #illustration #witchtober #inktober

This is so gorgeous! The colour scheme is beautiful!

Cute!

Such a cute postcard!

This is a beautiful illustration!