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kip alizadeh
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Lambda Award finalist. Illustrator, author ✏️ they/she. rep Mandy Suhr at Storywise. 📍 Belfast
Portfolio → kipalizadeh.net ✍︎
Shop → shop.kipalizadeh.net
Mailing list → pencilbooth.com/kipalizadeh
kip.alizadeh@gmail.com

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kip alizadeh @kipalizadeh.net · 24d
thrilled to get a ⭐ starred ⭐ review for A Celebration of You by @joshfunkbooks.bsky.social and I from @slj.com !

You can read the review here www.slj.com/review/a-cel...

and see all the other books with stars here!
www.schoollibraryjournal.com/story/38-exc...

#KidLit
A spread from A Celebration of You by Josh Funk and Kip Alizadeh, a picture book about celebrating the every day, coming out in March 2026. It shows a girl with goggles on flying through the sky with butterflies!
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ethanmaldridge.bsky.social
Messing around in boats
February 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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charlenedraws.bsky.social
This book has the most scathing dedication by an illustrator I have ever seen (and he is completely right)

#kidlit
Photo of I Will Not Be Scared picture book Photo of the dedication page of I Will Not Be Scared
February 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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shaferbrown.com
got some vet bills and car stuff to handle this month while my partner whittles away at all the paper from insurance companies & hospitals from a broken leg.
any support from commissioning me, backing me on patreon, or simply sharing my work with someone in your life is appreciated.
shaferbrown.com shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 28d
hello #portfolioday

Im a queer illustrator from the mountains of north carolina drawing flat fantasy. I've done work for mtg, videogames, beer labels, podcast art and socks, but my favorite work tends to be personal commissions.

portfolio: shaferbrown.com
contact: shaferbrownillus@gmail.com
2025 - crop from a limited tone fantasy family portrait Two adventurers walk in the rain on a board walk in the woods, one with a bow at the ready, the other excitedly pulling her close. Their cat looks towards the foreground, where a dragonfly rests on a flower. 2025 limited color group commission Inside a smokey dining room aboard a river boat pirate ship, a group of adventurers blow off steam. From left to right, an anxious squirrel has drunken to excess, a spirited otter teases them and toasts. A paternalistic skunk with a metal arm scolds them, while a delirious herbalist rabbit offers a solution, and the groups tinkerer, a sparrow, sits with an impulse of a food fight within reach. 2025 full color commission portrait of a cat office at evening in a dimly lit wooden study, a black long haired cat sits at a desk beginning needlework. She wears a plaid suit and sits in a sturdy chair, her tail wrapping around the frame of the desk. on her desk is a table cloth, and a top that is a whirring fan, a rotary phone, two books, a sake bottle and cup. A short hair siamese cat brings a steaming cup of tea. He wears a grey sweater with a red collar and cuff, and his tail sticks up energetically behind him. 2025 full color commission in a dense forest, a goblin hides behind a rock and summons with the aid of a spellbook 3 spectral birds. On the horizon, a giant white elk turns its gaze towards their hiding spot.
February 9, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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pansybeast.bsky.social
a tiny sphinx with equally tiny riddles (sold)! #ceramics
Multiple angles of a ceramic sculpture of a tiny sphinx against a white background, only a bit over an inch or 2.5 centimeters long. They're standing, head slightly raised. It has a silly, happy expression. Its brown body is densely packed with black stripes, contrasted by white wings, white tummy, and a white star on the nape of its neck.
February 9, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social
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gouache landscape with evergreens, rocks, undergrowth, sweeping rain
February 9, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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ran to The Giant’s Ring today and the sky was blue for once 😍
A photo of The Giants Ring, a Neolithic monument on the outskirts of Belfast, standing by it are some runners
February 8, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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wardjenkins.bsky.social
More handkerchief designs by Mary Blair, 1950s.

#wardsmorguefile
Fun illustration design for a handkerchief featuring balloons tied to a ribbon and there's a nice shape around the balloons that has flowers bordering it. Fun illustration design for a handkerchief featuring stylized zebras in a white background with black and blueish striped border. Fun illustration design for a handkerchief featuring a stylized clown with flowers and a black and green border around the scene. Fun illustration design for a handkerchief featuring a woman selling flowers in a cart with lots of floral designs bordering her.
February 7, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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gwillow.me
The quality of art is not the quality of the art; if it were, art would begin and end w/photorealism. The quality of art is in the quality of the artist's observations. Some of the greatest novels have workmanlike prose; they are carried by jaw-dropping truths about human life. Or take cartooning--
February 7, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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sending my next newsletter out tomorrow with news about my next art market and more...subscribe here!
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February 5, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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zugenia.bsky.social
Childhood forever, childhood for all ✊
cajohnson-craig.bsky.social Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 5d
Childhood was a political project, centuries of activism carving out time and space for young people to grow and learn. It's an unfinished project, and the right wing wants it ended when it's barely even begun.
jysexton.bsky.social Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 5d
The Right has spent years trying to push a return to child labor and attacking age of consent laws. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they’re exposing us to mountains of the most horrendous stuff imaginable while also normalizing it.

So much of what’s happening is the destruction of childhood.
February 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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victoriamaderna.com
Pastels and pencils for #kidlitartpostcard! I'm Victoria, an Argentinian illustrator living in France, and I'm available for new projects (PB, MG, covers & +).

Taking the chance to announce I'm now represented by the lovely @jenazantian.bsky.social! 😊

🖥️ victoriamaderna.com
✉️ hi@victoriamaderna.com
Two kids and a dog sitting on a log under the falling snow. Drawing in pencil and pastels.
February 5, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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February 5, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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🌼🌸 A big happy paperback birthday to I Am Strong Just Being Me !! 🌼🌸 #KidLit #KidLitArt @littletigeruk.bsky.social
A photo of the paperback edition of the picture book I Am Strong Just Being Me by Laura Dockrill and Kip Alizadeh
February 5, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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so excited I’ve got a spot in my local queer bookshop’s Valentines art market! More info soon 😊😊😊
February 4, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
the bear and I are breaking up (it's fine, dw) and I'm going to have to scrape together as much as possible to be able to afford to move somewhere new. I have a ✨15% sale✨ on all linoprints on my website so if you like crows & skulls & such like, check it out 👀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk #witchsky
a linoprint of a chanterelle mushroom a lino print of a crow perched on a human skull regarding a plant
February 3, 2026 at 8:44 AM
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Gonna have to paint this little guy
February 3, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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goodlawproject.org
There's an astonishing cruelty in trying to make the world even more hostile for trans kids by suing schools that want to include them. But that's where 'gender critical' Britain is.

We're acting for a school that is being sued - and we could really use your help with funding.
Defend trans kids in school | Good Law Project
goodlaw.social
February 2, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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here is mine pencilbooth.com/kipalizadeh ☺︎
February 2, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
artists/musicians/venues I am BEGGING you to have a simple monthly newsletter and a page on a website that isn't fucking Facebook where I can find your upcoming events, so that I can attend them. thank you for your attention to this matter.
February 2, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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baby bears #KidLitArt
watercolour and oil pastel
A painting by kip alizadeh of two brown bear cubs sitting smiling at each other. They are sitting in flowery grass.
February 2, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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celestineandthehare.com
I am so excited to reveal the cover and announce the new book
The Gift Gatherers
Published 24 March by Graffeg 🌼
Preorders now open! You can order from my website for a signed dedicated or ask your local bookshop.
www.celestineandthehare.com/the-gift-gat...
The gift gatherers cover by Karin Celestine two felted badgers in the celandines Back cover of the gift gathers 'On the first day of spring, when day and night were equal and the celandines shone as bright as the summer sun, a new one was born. As is tradition, a message of the birth was to be sent to the Circle of Elders. Old Shrew knew this was to be his last time as Messenger and, as he was walking to greet the Elders, he remembered all the past springs he had experienced and all the births he had announced.' The Gift Gatherers. A celebration of old and new and of the cycle that binds them. One of a series of four seasonal stories based around British folklore. Includes note on springtime traditions by Pamela Thom-Rowe.
February 2, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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👊🏼 feel this so much
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 9d
Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.
February 2, 2026 at 8:57 AM
kipalizadeh.net
not cleaning my glasses properly so that life gets a nice textury hazy effect
February 2, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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berneri.horse
oh my eyes
#art ✧ #painting ✧ #deer
Small round painting made with paint markers and acrylic paint. The background is black with a turquoise circle in the middle which has a red deer inside of it. The deer is floating and looking very peaceful, having a yellow flower next to it. There are also red and yellow flowers with turquoise vines around the edges on the black background
January 30, 2026 at 1:20 AM