Jackie Shepherd

Kia ora from Aotearoa, New Zealand 👋

I set up this epic Starter Pack a little while ago and thinking it's a good time to promote it again considering the hordes of people joining Bluesky now.

Please give us all a follow would ya? 😀

#IndieGames #GameDev #WomeninGames
go.bsky.app/Bn9UUz2

what are everyone's favorite workhorse Photoshop brushes? I need to rebuild my collection

Tell me your favorite bookish quote, you cowards!

oh! I remember—I was soliciting everyone's favorite bookish quotes and had nary a peep in response. I'll try again!

I don't remember what it was! A silly poll of some sort, haha.

Golden Girls Puzzle, mint condition

ANGELA GOddamn LANSBURY fitness vhs tape, also primo condish

Hansel and General "build your own pop-up book" book from the 1970s... perhaps...Idon't have it in front of me just now.... Also, someone already popped it up and I'm grateful

a spread from the pop-up book—e gingerbread house arises in fheee dimensions, from the sprea, as H&G cower behind a pop up fence

the Spy Pond freebie shelf never disappoints

the lack of responses is CONCERNING 🫠

yesss! hello new friend

Love this!!

no. 1 (disassociating)

you've always had an amazing quality to your work, but I love seeing how much you've been able to push it in different directions and explore styles over the past year!

still looking for this, but will make one if it doesn't turn up!

Calling all #artists and #illustrators!

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Not hiring directly at the moment, but always looking for illustrators to add to my files / suggest to peers who are

Artists! I made this starter pack of art directors on bluesky, I haven't posted it in a while and with a ton of new folks coming in from other platforms please share this around!

Also lmk if I missed anyone who hires artists that I should add!

go.bsky.app/RSV4VwA

I need you to post one of those "one year ago vs today" art evolutions, because the progress is MIND BLOWING

Ok, this is fantastic

Pricing | Jacky Winter The Jacky Winter Group. All up in your grill since 2007.

Whoa, the agency Jacky Winter put together a pretty comprehensive overview of illustration pricing on their new site. The resource list at the bottom is top notch and includes many links that I share with my students. Worth a look!

www.jackywinter.com/pricing

what if it is I who am strutting

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.

bookshop.org/ebooks

new moon tomorrow, can't wait to see everyone's drawings of it

Hey #kidlit illustrators, I'm looking for an artist who can capture apartment-life in an urban setting for a beginning reader series with a vibrant ensemble cast and a grayscale interior.

Respond here with images and a link to your folio.

Please no DMs. Agents are welcome to email.

💙❤️

The earthquake woke me up just in time for the #alayma announcements

Goodnight Moon Jon and Mac consider: the plight of the picture book author, wildlife trafficking, tangenting, disappearing socks, death, life, and mush

@jonklassen.bsky.social and Mac Barnett analyzing the horrors of Goodnight Moon

open.substack.com/pub/lookinga...

I don't know that there's a better way to honor him than to have a lot of fun working on our favorite projects

It's ultimately what he did his entire life

David Lunch would have loved this

so sweet and also perfectly on brand colors

It's time to paint.
Paint away the feelings, paint away the sad things. Cover it all in paint, bury it in the layers of vibrant color and texture. Seal it away in the paper like a spell and a wish. Turn it into something different, something good, something needed.
It's time to paint.

what I (somewhat fumblingly) told a group of students last year is that you are trying to “glimpse your own cryptid.” what appears to people later as a solid aesthetic vision just begins as that personal glitch between trees.