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Nusha Ashjaee

@nushaaa.bsky.social

Illustrator and designer in the South Bay ☀️ Previously @ Z2 Comics, Dotdash Meredith, Akashic Books 🎨 NYT, NBC News, Global Press Journal, others

25 Followers  |  37 Following  |  20 Posts  |  Joined: 24.07.2023  |  1.6589

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#kidlitillustration #kidlitart #kidlitpostcardday #picturebookillustration #picturebook

02.08.2025 02:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Loved the panels and workshops so far for @scbwi.bsky.social virtual conference! Excited for day 2 and hello to everyone cause I have not posted in awhile!!!
Here’s a little cloud girl I’ve been playing with ⛈️

02.08.2025 02:23 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Happy #kidlitpostcard day! It was also sizdeh bedar this week!
Hire me for your spring projects! I will work on it outside!

#kidlitillustration #kidlitart #kidlitpostcardday #nowruz #sabzi #birds #bluebirds #flower #spring #picturebookillustration #picturebook #illustration #illustrator #haftsin

04.04.2025 18:43 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ahahah relating to this rn 😅

10.03.2025 16:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I was super self conscious about having visible body hair growing up, so I reimagined a version of myself in a #ya book where that’s actually a super boring thing to be worried about. Would you read this book?!
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#kidlit #kidlitart #middlegrade #youngadultbooks
#bookcover #childrenillustrator

14.02.2025 17:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pinky💗💞 🌅 🌸
#kidlit #picturebook

23.01.2025 19:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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November 5, part III

21.01.2025 22:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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November 5, part II

21.01.2025 22:42 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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November 5, part I

21.01.2025 22:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Imagining my middle grade self starring in a middle grade novel 🐣
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#wip #sketch #kidlit #yalit #illustrator #illustration #middlegrade #youngadultnovel

14.11.2024 20:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

👋🏽 Left Twitter the day that guy bought it

10.11.2024 15:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Home is where you’re held 🫂🌱
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This was a piece I originally did for an article about self-care within activist communities.

Thinking of the families who have been targeted and displaced last year and from decades prior. And remembering those who can’t be held today ❤️‍🩹
#fromtherivertothesea

07.10.2024 19:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Distracted…I fell in love 🥺🥹
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#moodeng #sketch #illustration #illustrationartists #sketchbook #animals #kidlit #picturebookillustration #womenwhodraw #pink #hippos #babyhippo #wildlife #pygmyhippo #babyanimals

05.10.2024 04:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Day 2 of my period 🩸

18.09.2024 03:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Commissioned poster featuring some of the cutest guys and their favorite things 💕🍃🐦

#kidlit #caturday #kidsillustration

18.08.2024 03:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Some examples from a picture book that didn’t come through, though would love to do more 🩵🩵🩵

04.08.2023 12:41 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Image of Jenny Lewis. Text reads: Jenny Lewis I’m not a pyscho I’m just trying to get laid

Image of Jenny Lewis. Text reads: Jenny Lewis I’m not a pyscho I’m just trying to get laid

Saw Jenny Lewis play twice so I made a poster to remember it
#notapsycho

27.07.2023 21:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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wip
*nominating Jenny Lewis to take over the Dead bootleg market

25.07.2023 00:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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24.07.2023 19:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy to be here 🎈

24.07.2023 13:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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