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Sam Kallis
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She/her. Creative Director of Visual Development for Disney Television Animation. Angeleno with many cats. Illustrator, mom, award winning gardener.

Portfolio: www.samkallis.com
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Sam Kallis @samkallis.bsky.social · Apr 19
This was on the poetryisnotaluxury Instagram today and I felt it reverberate against my ribcage.
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Drawing on the plane.
May 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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For those wondering - I went with the MacBook Air but added 32 gigs RAM and 2T storage. So far it’s been great and manages photoshop very efficiently. I should say I don’t often deal in HUGE files, but so far it’s handled everything I have thrown at it.
samkallis.bsky.social Sam Kallis @samkallis.bsky.social · Apr 21
I need to buy a new laptop - curious if illustrators/vis dev artists are using the MacBook Air. I’ve always had a Pro, but if I can avoid the hefty price tag I would like to…
May 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Meditation sketch at the end of the night.
An illustration of a tree with moss growing all over it in high key fantastical colors.
May 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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prisonjournalism.bsky.social
"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured.

Perhaps. But then there were kittens."
When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years
I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.
prisonjournalismproject.org
April 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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nicodelort.bsky.social
id never seen this piece of Eyvind Earle concept art for Sleeping Beauty before and i'm losing my mind it is so good
April 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I need to buy a new laptop - curious if illustrators/vis dev artists are using the MacBook Air. I’ve always had a Pro, but if I can avoid the hefty price tag I would like to…
April 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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I am a professional artist but I find buying paper very intimidating.
April 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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This was on the poetryisnotaluxury Instagram today and I felt it reverberate against my ribcage.
April 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Tapping the sign again: Ableism is the problem and what we should expend our energy on dismantling. Autistic folx live full lives — if your narrative of “full” is based on ableist stereotypes then you should re-evaluate where the REAL problem lies and do the work of unlearning ableism.
April 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism.

It’s disgusting and dangerous.

If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign.

Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness.

To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.
April 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Oh no, I’m in the imposter syndrome part of this painting.
April 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Hi #PortfolioDay ! I'm Shiho a Japanese children's book illustrator working from SoCal✨

Portfolio: shihopate.com
Agent: Deborah Warren at East West Literary Agency
Books: would love to illustrate books with Halloween, funny, nature, family, adventure💛

#kidlitart
April 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Hey hey #portfolioday! My name is Dominique and I am an illustrator and designer. Past clients include Netflix, Walmart, Delta Air Lines, and Penguin Random House

🌵www.dominiqueramsey.com
🌵dominiqueramsey9@gmail.com
An image with four illustrations in the shape of a square. One illustration is of people walking toward a glowing rectangle in the distance, the second is of varies birds, the third is three men on horses, and the fourth is a swamp on fire. The text reads DOMINIQUE RAMSEY-www.dominiqueramsey.com, dominiqueramsey9@gmai.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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It’s #PortfolioDay! I’m Becky, an animation character designer and painter. Here’s a few of my favorite gouache paintings, with some character designs to follow! I’m looking for work right now!
🔗 beckydreistadt.com
✉️ beckydreistadt@gmail.com
🛍️ store.beckyandfrank.com
Gouache illustration by artist Becky Dreistadt from the cover of her book Capture Creatures, featuring the Red Panda based creature Bon Bon Fire. Gouache illustration by artist Becky Dreistadt of a grey tabby eating a taiyaki red bean treat Gouache illustration by artist Becky Dreistadt from her Bouquet Forest series of a forest creature, Big Reggie, holding a flower with his friend Kiffie standing on his shoulder. Gouache illustration by artist Becky Dreistadt of Thumbelina and her animal friends
April 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Hello #PortfolioDay 💗
I'm Alecia, and I'm a freelance Concept and Illustrator based in Montréal. I love designing humanoid and robotic things!

I'm currently looking for work!

Portfolio: tallnquirky.artstation.com
📧: aleciadoyley@gmail.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Ohh it’s #PortfolioDay!! I’m Katria, a kid-lit illustrator & author based in Berlin. I love helping bring people’s ideas to life and I’m available for both short and long term projects 🙌

katriaraden@proton.me
www.katriaraden.com
Digital illustration of a young cricket boy going down a pebble road on his way to school. His mom is waving him off from a blue door in a tree stump, and the scene is a forest floor. Digital illustration of animal characters who are mailmen, with a bigger shot of a panda blowing in his post horn and then smaller animals who look like they are walking out of it, featuring an orange cat, an anteater, a giraffe, a hedgehog, a badger, a turtle, a mouse, a rabbit, a rhino, a rooster, a duck and a guinea pig. Digital illustration of four kids having fun on their sleds on a snowy hill. One boy and a girl are coming down, the boy is scared and the girl has a big smile on her face. Their black and white dog in a yellow sweater is following them. Two other kids are staying behind and waiting for their turn. The boy in the back has a smug facial expression while the girl is looking at the boy with concern. Digital illustration of a group of kids with their teacher on a visit to a botanical garden. In the foreground there's a boy using a magnifying glass to take a better look at a flower and in the background there's three kids reading a book with pictures, a boy and a girl looking at a butterfly, one girl reading a sign in front of plants, and another looking up at her teacher with amazement at his story.
April 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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planetsmudge.bsky.social
ello #portfolioDay - looking for more projects to work on this year! sajanrai.co.uk/portfolio
illustration of a muscly humanoid with an elephant head weilding a warhammer. He's illustrated with a lot of line-and-compass imagery still visible, and surrounded by die which have their numbers writ in ancient greek numerals. Small panels display a unicorn and a Dragon. illustration of a bust portrait of a person wearing headgear. It covers their eyes and is ocercroded with logos , stars whizzing around their temple, they are unhappy with this bullshit. illustration of three figures adorned in costumes with bird motifs. The central figure holds. box of eggs, and wings sprout from an fleshy exposed opening in the middle of their chest A room floats askew on a landscape, as if being ransacked and destroyed by unseen forces. A bird holding a quill swoops inkily towards a window that floats calmy.
April 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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juliedillon.bsky.social
Hi #portfolioday! I'm Julie Dillon, and I'm a freelance artist working mostly on MtG cards and book covers. Here are a few personal paintings I've done in the past year. :)
A large ocean wave is about to overtake a bedraggled man in a weathered rowboat. He looks distressed about this, knowing he's not going to be able to get clear of the wave in time. A rusalka possessively embraces a man she's pulled under water in a pond; he doesn't appear to be struggling against her very much. We peer through ornate curtains at a king kneeling before a man in armor who stands before him. The king gazes up at the knight and is in the process of shrugging out of his ornate robes, which trail behind him. The knight cradles the king's face in one hand, and the king has a hand on the knight's armored leg. A medusa in gold jewelry with gold rattlesnakes for hair, clutching the stone head of a king and breaking it to pieces while making intense eye contact with the viewer.
April 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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albabbgg.bsky.social
Is actually #PortfolioDay ? I always post the wrong day lmao 😭🖤
April 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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alexabosy.bsky.social
hey #portfolioday i'm still looking for work!! revisions, boards, illustrations, graphic novels!!!
alexabosy.bsky.social alexa bosy @alexabosy.bsky.social · Jan 14
oh hey it's #portfolioday!! once again, i'm alexa - a storyboard artist in burbank, 7 years of revisions experience at disney tva, looking for new revision work!! i'm also an illustrator about to query a YA graphic novel and i'd love to do some cover work too!!

check alexabosy.com for more samples!
A mock book cover illustration of two elven young women with dark red hair standing in front of a dark forest background. The first has short hair and holds a sword. The second has long hair and is casting some golden magic in her hand. Looming over them in the background is a mysterious masked young man with white hair and a smirk. A cover for a pitch YA graphic novel. Two figures walk through a mysterious forest, one side lush, the other barren. The first figure is a young woman with pale skin, pointed ears, and long dark hair (Imogene). She looks worried and apprehensive. The other figure is a young man with pale blue skin, pointed ears, and dark hair (Iollan). He is excited and seems to be casting some sort of blue magic on his surroundings. The title on top reads "The Wild Hunt." two figures standing on a cream background: elspeth spindle, a young woman with pale skin and long dark hair braided over her shoulder. she wears a grey dress and her right hand is black and clawed, with black veins creeping down under her sleeve. the other is ravyn yew, a tall young man with dark hair and darker skin. he wears all grey clothing with his hand resting on the hilt of a sword at his waist, yew leaves embellished on the scabbard. A page without next from a Lumberjanes comic, Somewhere That's Green. In it, the 'janes find a group of sad muddy kittens in the rain.
April 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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tokibeast.bsky.social
Hi #PortfolioDay!

I'm Jung-Ha, a 2D character designer!

I've worked on characters, creatures, props featured on titles such as Masters of the Universe: Revelation, Skull Island, Mighty Nein , etc.

I'm available for work!

junghakimart.wixsite.com/junghakimart/
www.linkedin.com/in/junghakim...
April 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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cgroenink.bsky.social
Hullo, it’s #portfolioday! I’m chuck, I make picture books. I like drawing animals, far away places, and light.
April 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Artists who use procreate and then export to photoshop - do you notice image quality loss?
April 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I used to joke "everything is operations management", especially during the first year of the pandemic, but it's weird to see this in actual play again for the second time in five years and everyone forced to learn technical stuff about global supply chains and just-in-time manufacturing
April 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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faithschaffer.bsky.social
⚖️ order and chaos ⚖️
Watercolor and ink painting- side profile of a figure standing tall in profile. They have feathered wings. One hand is holding the hilt of a sword, the other is outstretched, offering a hovering flaming flower. The figure is calm and collected. Watercolor and ink painting- side profile of a figure gazing upward profile. They have butterfly wings. One hand is producing a glowing star and the other is outstretched, either releasing or attempting to grab three additional stars. The linework on this figure is bleeding and they seem less collected than the other figure.
April 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM