Cathleen McAllister | LBX 816

love this book so much. The ending!!! Aghhh ❤️

Countdown to release: 1

Forgot to keep the countdown going over here 🥹 but releasing the film tomorrow!

Happy New Year everyone! It's been a busy year, finished my field guide on drawing plants, started a new job, and went to a ton of weddings. Grateful for my friends and family and hoping to share more art in the new year!

when I was a baby, I was at a hotel pool in New Orleans with my mom and sister that was being used as a film set. The director started smoking a cigarette and mom yelled at him to not smoke near her young kids. That director was Bill Condon, director of Candyman and the last 2 Twilight movies lmao

a baby!!!

Merry Christmas everyone 🎄✨

thinking about the time I was sent an AI mockup as reference, and it was set in the wrong time period. The AI image was sci-fi, the setting was Victorian...

a spread from my book about drawing plants. these pages explain different types of and how to apply texture to tree trunks

My store is open for the next week! If you have an aspiring (or established) artist in your life who would be interested in learning how to draw plants, consider buying my book as a gift for them! cathleenconcepts.com/shop

if you bought a book last week, it has been shipped! there's still a few left so grab yours before they're gone

KICKSTARTER REACHED OUT AND LOVES OUR PROJECT!!!!!
Let's keep this momentum going and show that people DO want to see more POC stories in the animation industry.

Please consider pledging any amount that you can, and if you can't, share the link!

✨ My shop is live! ✨ You can now buy my book about drawing/painting plants along with postcards and stickers on my website: cathleenconcepts.com/shop

So cool! See you there 😊

Are you tabling??

A painted study of a downtown Los Angeles skyline at golden hour.

A graphic, stylized greyscale drawing of an onion village that features rolling mounds of dirt and playful dandelions.

A color script for Zombies: The Re-Animated Series that features A-Spen (an alien character with blue hair) flying toward earth to meet and embrace Wynter (a werewolf character). The final panel of 6 features the two friends hoping between space rock in a pink star dust field.

Concept art of a robot city made of unique, bottle shaped towers in greyscale.

Hi #PortfolioDay!

I'm Matt, an Art Director, VizDev Artist, and BG Designer who loves musicals! I have experience in TV at Disney and Dreamworks. I'm available for full time and freelance work!

Portfolio: mattdoering.com (DM for pswd)
Email: doering.matt@gmail.com

Happy portfolio day! I’m an artist with experience on projects for companies ranging from Wizards of the Coast to Walt Disney Animation, though my constant passion in art is always depicting glimpses of prehistoric worlds 🦖 #portfolioday #paleoart #paleosky #dinosaurart

loooove the rays of light

I haven’t been up to date on here. But I open my shop at 10am for nonsubscribers (free yes!) new goodies and a new collection to help my mom’s future dementia care ♡
Shopgabbyzapata.Com

book titled Everything I know About Plants: An Artist's Guide by Cathleen McAllister

my books are here! come grab your copy and learn how to draw a plant at Lightbox Expo (Oct 24th-26th). If you can't make it, don't worry I will be selling them online afterwards! Stay tuned

aw I love that!! 🥰

book titled Everything I know About Plants: An Artist's Guide by Cathleen McAllister

my books are here! come grab your copy and learn how to draw a plant at Lightbox Expo (Oct 24th-26th). If you can't make it, don't worry I will be selling them online afterwards! Stay tuned

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

I think if you care about the environmental impacts of AI, you should also care about this. The over-reliance on dairy and beef is especially a problem.

the colors are soooo delightful

oh and another thing, I have a wonderful agent who helps me get cover work! Sometimes they contact me directly, sometimes they contact her. And if I'm too busy to do a cover, I recommend fellow illustrators in my agency.

These are some of my paintings that AD's frequently cite when they launch me on a cover illustration. This one is fanart of Garth Nix's book Sabriel. It's got 2 large central figures, and I think AD's can imagine where text would go (even though it's a horizontal composition!)

this is another one that gets picked as reference often. You can imagine text would go in the large keyhole. For most of the cover illustrations, it's helpful to have a big "empty" space (where the values and details aren't too complex) for text. Striking compositions and bright colors are helpful.

thank you!! I got my first book cover job cause they liked my portfolio for animation. I only get a couple illus. jobs a year (I work fulltime in animation) but it helps to have some paintings with a central figure, bright colors, and some vertical compositions. (more in the alt text...)

BOOK COVER ARTISTS!

QRP with your #BookCovers

The latter! I found that the "pretty" ones don't autofill into the online applications very well, which makes my life more annoying when I have to manually adjust those fields. I also have an easy to copy-paste excel version of my resume for apps that make you manually add each role.

Gonna be looking for new work soon. Concept, Vis Dev, Art Direction for later this year and into 2026. Will also be planning some mentorship/teaching once I've had a little break.

I've started (politely) commenting about the environmental impacts and then it's kind of funny to see the whole post get deleted. I encourage you to try it lol.

environmental organizations using AI art to make infographics is so insane to me lol