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Lucy Kagan
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Illustrator, Zine-Maker, & Textile Designer
repped by Adria Goetz at KT Literary
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Lucy Kagan @cottonbook.bsky.social · Jul 8
Hi, #PortfolioDay! I’m an illustrator and print&pattern designer who works primarily in watercolor, and I’d love to get into ttrpg, card game, or board game work!

I love fantasy and kid lit that's full of heart, and my book work is represented by literary agent Adria Goetz.

kaganlucy@gmail.com
A watercolor illustration: Four young bear cubs frolic through a meadow full of tall grass, dotted with big white flowers. You can see the path that each has carved to get to where they are, one just arriving towards the others at the center, one throwing up their hands in delight, one taking a long peaceful smell of a flower, and one up to their neck in the grass, seemingly just basking. A watercolor illustration: A frog gazes out the window at a winter landscape, their hand touching the cold pane. They are wrapped in a thick comforter, plaid red and orange with a white border, and a steaming hot mug sits on the simple side table next to them, along with an arrangement of dry branches. A watercolor illustration: A young girl in an acorn-shaped hat, knit sweater, and basket back-pack looks gleefully at a huge assortment of mushrooms she’s just found, which make up the whole bottom, right, and left borders of the image. Her fox companion looks on curiously, a red ribbon around its neck. The mushrooms are all edible types: turkey tail, nameko, wine cap, enoki, and oyster mushrooms. In the background, fir trees appear yellowish against a yellow early sunset sky. A watercolor illustration: Against a big blue sky full of fluffy clouds, a sheep waves to a passing dragon, who smiles back, flying in the distance. The sheep wears a thick knit teal sweater, with brown trousers tucked into yellow boots, holding a rake. They stand in front of rows of sprouting vegetables, uphill of some distant houses and trees, and the blue sea is visible even further.
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opallines.bsky.social
Hi #portfolioday !

My name is Lucy and I’m a mangaka and illustrator from NYC ✍🏼🍎🗽

I’ve done concept and cover work for Monster High New Scaremester, My Little Pony, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and a Kodansha House Mochikomi Selectant ✨
January 13, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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trangmn.bsky.social
Hello #PortfolioDay
I'm Trang! I love drawing fantasy and greenery~
🧺 www.trangmn.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
cottonbook.bsky.social
Hi, #PortfolioDay! I’m Lucy Kagan, a watercolor illustrator and textile designer who loves magical animals, protecting nature, and cozy fantasy themes.

🎨 lucykagan.com
💻 kaganlucy@gmail.com

Open for work in book illustration, comics, textiles, ttrpg art, boardgame art, and gifts! #kidlitart #games
Watercolor illustration in a lightly cartoon-y style: Two small children, a girl with red frizzy hair and a boy with dark short hair, cautiously and amazedly peer into a door they’ve just opened. The light from the hall illuminates a library covered with books, papers, found objects, and a couple of cats. in the center is a desk and chair with a large open book. Page from a watercolored comic in a lightly cartoon-y style, a little story-book-ish / Ghibli-inspired: A young woman in a sun hat and tank top harvests cherry tomatoes, talking to herself about having access to a garden, but really missing bread. A frog in a little outfit including a short capelet, rucksack and straw hat appears, waving. She runs to greet him at the garden gate and beseeches him for a sourdough starter excitedly. Watercolor illustration in a children’s book style: Four bear cubs in different colored shirts frolic in a meadow that’s up to their chests, dotted with big white flowers. One takes a big sniff, two others smile at each other, and the fourth sinks down to their face into the sea of grass. A selection of cards from a mocked-up board game or card game about cozy woodland critters using fun and whimsical watercolor art: cards include things like “Help a Neighbor” and “Costume Party,” showing recurring characters like a Mabel the Possum and Opal the Frog doing these actions or attending these events.
January 13, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
Hello #PortfolioDay! I am a self-taught, disabled digital artist who loves folklore and all green and growing things.

Find me here:
🪷 danielletaphanel.com
🌴 linktr.ee/treelet
📥 danielle.taphanel@gmail.com
a simple line drawing of a cityscape, punctuated by the violent impact of a human figure with a large abstract wing emerging from it. A digital color illustration of tall, thin, old growth trees in a forest which appear to lit up from within. At the center bottom of the image, a female figure drinks from a sake cup as a bloom of smoke emerges from her head. Around her are robed figures seated as if they were rock formations. Large fruit hang as abstract motifs within the trees. A panel of transparent hands, palms raised together, nests in the center of the image. A digital ink drawing of a human figure viewed from behind as they stand next to a pine tree while looking at the silhouette of a city in the distance. Their clothing drapes on the ground similarly to a pool and then forms a rivulet of water that "leaks" out of the panel into the frame. A digital watercolor painting of an altar for Guanyin with lit incense and a small basket of citrus fruit laid before her. The altar is in a lush courtyard garden, guarded by a solitary black cat. Succulents, bonsai, ferns, vines, flowering and fruiting trees, and plants of all kinds surround the altar, as incense smoke wafts into a pale blue sky.
January 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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spacelion.art
Hello #PortfolioDay! My Name is Kelsey, I'm a Digital artist who specializes in comics & illustrations! I'm open for anything non-GenAi related! PLEASE HIRE ME! More of my work can be found here www.artpastelkelsey.com and for those looking to comm me my vgen can be found here bit.ly/APK-Vgen
a Gorgon with a pink shawl picks apples from a tree. 3 cats sleep together peacfully 3 vtubers sit a table while 4 pets play in the foreground a mermaid on her shell phone laughs under the sea
January 13, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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anineillustration.com
Hello I'm Anine!

I am an illustrator based in Scotland, and I'm available for work!
#Portfolioday

💻https://www.anineillustration.com/
💌anine@anineillustration.com
A drawing of flooded overgrown ruins in bird's eye view. A man is wading through the water on stilts. A drawing of some items: A diamond ring with a snake design - a flint knife wrapped with string - a gold chain with small gold bees - two clay toy dog figurines - a cup shaped like the head of a horse or donkey - a horse shaped candle holder - two crabapples - a votive loaf of bread (shaped like a hand) on a plate, with a bowl of salt and a lit candle. A drawing of a woman reading a Tintin comic on a balcony in summer. A drawing of a small house by a windy beach in winter.
January 13, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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nimasprout.bsky.social
Happy #portfolioday!

I'm Nicole, PNW based 2D artist who loves nature and fantasy based projects! 🌿

Currently available for projects in publishing, TTRPG, freelance BG Design/Paint for games and animation.

Get in touch Let’s chat
✉️ nicole@nimasprout.com
💼 Nimasprout.com
Cart artwork for Alderac Mystic Realms Box artwork and game asset art for Ministry of Lost Things published by Post Curious Background color and design for animation project pitch (IP by Jim Mortensen.) Poster artwork created for video game Little Kitty Big City
January 13, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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telekitnetic.bsky.social
(ringing the dinnerbell) #PortfolioDay is here once again!!

I'm Jay, and I'm a Wet'suwet'en freelance artist who makes formline art. I'm currently without a day job, so if anyone's interested in personal/commercial use formline commissions.. check me out :>

🌐 jazzjosart.com
📥 jazzjosart@gmail.com
A formline design of a crocodilian monster. Their body loops around the drawing area. Their scale colouring ranges from dark brick red, light brick red, to pale pink. They have a fluffy, orange mane on their neck. A semi-rendered illustration of formline wolves running across a foggy, snowy lake, with hills and mountains in the distance. An above view illustration of a formline river otter swimming in a river, with leaves drifting around it. A picture of an assortment of animal stickers spread out and laying on top of each other. All of them are formline designs, and show the following: a blue and cream-coloured chickadee, a yellow and blue-teal harbour seal, a maroon and orange capybara, a light green and dark blue otter head, and a bright red and dark red hyena.
January 13, 2026 at 3:58 PM
cottonbook.bsky.social
Hi, #BluePit! I took a pause on my #comic, Low Magic, and funnily enough, that’s kind of what the comic is about! I’m back on it, hoping to start posting again in Feb, so if you'd like to read about pausing from a stressful magic job to live in the woods, check it out! #F #W

lowmagic.the-comic.org
January 13, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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milkcircus.bsky.social
People ask me why I do crowdfunding instead of pre-orders and that's bc it's the best I can do in regards to risk & transparency on what it will take to make a product happen. I'm publicly sharing it'll take thousands of dollars and several months just to make a silly bag that will succeed or fail
January 9, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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drawnbynana.bsky.social
I’m fundraising for Al Otro Lado, an organization which provides legal and humanitarian support to refugees, deportees, and other migrants in the US and Tijuana 🐇🧡

drawnbynana.com/shop?tag=fundraiser
January 8, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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milkcircus.bsky.social
Today, I tried British food & went to the movies with friends 🍿 #LolitaFashion #EGLFashion
Milkcircus standing in front of a red telephone box. They're wearing a black winter coat, black scarf, white star shaped earmuffs, and black winter boots. Underneath, they're wearing a navy and white striped lolita dress with popcorn on the border and navy and white striped over knee socks with white blouse and white collar with black crowns on it. They're holding a brown purse shaped like a biscuit.
January 5, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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cosmicloak.bsky.social
chrysalis deer🦋🦌🫧

More art: cosmicloak.square.site

[ #originalart #furry #furryart
#traditionalart #illustration #art
#deer #surrealart ]
A deer-like form covered is silky-like fur- it’s lavender face split by four eyes ( only see 1-side, 2 blue eyes). Its long ears perked up. Below it, it steps out of a glowing pool of blue water. This small grotto covered by lavender and purple ferns, long flowing bushes and navy dark grasses and small red blooms. To the left, a window showcases wandering clouds. Behind the odd-deer, a long-lost gateway. Where it leads, maybe the deer may know.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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lauraehall.bsky.social
Stay safe out there y'all
An illustration showing cute fat rabbits piling into an underground burrow. There is text, part of which has been edited. The original text says "There are tunnels underground where bunnies are safe — safe" and the edited text adds "from emails"
December 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
cottonbook.bsky.social
So true, winter is the season to become a triangle, haha. I love seeing these, it always inspires me to do my own! I hope I actually can make the time to do it this time 🥲
heyluchie.bsky.social Luchie 🍳 @heyluchie.bsky.social · 28d
Recent OOTD drawings ✨🎶
December 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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atlathewriter.bsky.social
EMERGENCY!

Starting in January, my unemployment benefits will be withheld, so I am opening up emergency editorial commissions.

I've edited comics, visual novels and pitches of every kind for almost a decade now, including Eisner and Xeric-nominated projects!

Email or DM me for inquiries!
A call for help from Atla done in the style of a cute Christmas Card. It has a starlight background, cute black dots in fun shapes and two rows of black squares jutting out on the top and bottom. The text reads as follows "I am opening up emergency editorial commissions!" "If you're interested, contact me via email or DM" "I edit Comics, Visual Novels, Prose Books, Pitches of all kinds, and More!" "If you wanna help out in other ways, send this to a friend who might be interested!" on the top right corner it says "Atla Hrafney, Editorial for Comics, Visual Novels and more!" Along with her email (atlathewriter@outlook.com)
December 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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magnoliapearl.bsky.social
If you’re looking for a holiday gift, perhaps for a middle schooler in your life, consider Tiffany’s Griffon, my graphic novel I made with @quasimaddi.bsky.social ! It’s about magic & witches & griffons & fairies… but also about being a lonely kid who wants to be “special” for once in your life.
My book Tiffany’s Griffon, shown here with an actual 100% real IRL griffon
December 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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dasmezzo.bsky.social
🌈 #artvsartist 2025!

While this year has been a bit of a struggle in many ways, I am indeed so happy with the artwork I created that it was pretty hard to pick just 8 designs for this format.

Hope you will continue to support me and my retro kawaii aesthetics next year, too!

#artvsartist2025
December 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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decassette.bsky.social
more frog, again. seasonal frog
drawing of a chaotic winter scene of various woodland animals, mostly amphibians, frolicking in the snow outside a rustic hobbit-type dwelling
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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anikeru.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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saicoink.bsky.social
Since people are getting heated about Heated Rivalry, how about checking out my Yuri!!! on Ice doujinshi Blinded by the Ice? An homage to figure skating and the 1970s:

saicoink.bigcartel.com/product/blin...
Blinded By the Ice - Yuri!!! on Ice fanbook
Yuri!!! on Ice fanbook Format: B6 size, 172 pages Physical Book Printing: 2nd edition: 4 color Risograph cover, B&W printing with colour...
saicoink.bigcartel.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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faeryndipity.bsky.social
Made an updated one for this year with some coords from the past couple years :) #happyholidays everyone!

#eglfashion #eglcommunity #egl #eglstyle #jfashion #emeraldcitylolitas #kawaiifashion #fitswithfae #dopaminedressing
December 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
cottonbook.bsky.social
Missed the date to submit my debut for @massmice.bsky.social, but it will be at the Spin Rack table, booth 51! So excited to share a new comic for the first time in a long time!

#indiecomics #minicomics #mice2025
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM