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Amelie Ahern-Williams
@artfuldoodling.bsky.social
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(They/Them)
🏳️‍🌈 | Dysgwr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Queer with a doodling habit
Rep'd by Monica Rodriguez at Context Literary Agency ✏️
Portfolio: amelieahernwilliams.com
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artfuldoodling.bsky.social
Not midnight yet, so I haven't missed #kidlitartpostcard day!

I'm Amelie! I'm interested in fantastical creatures + fun textures, and will be available for comic, PB, and MG work later this autumn 🍂

🎨 amelieahernwilliams.com
✉️ amelie.e.williams@gmail.com
Rep'd by @loveleemonicaa.bsky.social
Kidlitartpostcard illustration: An ink and collage greyscale illustration of a girl dressed as a knight, brandishing a stick, searching for a child in a cardboard dragon costume, hiding under the bridge she's standing on. Text: Amelie Ahern-Williams - Rep'd by Monica Rodriguez @ Context Literary Agency
August 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
Been super inactive recently, but I offer a new portfolio piece! It was initially supposed to be greyscale, but I loved the rusty look too much to remove it.

#kidlitart #kitlit
An ink and collage greyscale illustration of a girl dressed as a knight, brandishing a stick, searching for a child in a cardboard dragon costume, hiding under the bridge she's standing on.
August 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!
I'm currently looking for picture-book, MG, and comic work! I'm rep'd by @loveleemonicaa.bsky.social ✨

🎨 amelieahernwilliams.com
#Kidlitartpostcard: Amelie Ahern-Williams amelieahernwilliams.com Rep'd by Monica Rodriguez @ Context Lit Greyscale traditional collage. A girl with her hair in space buns, fanning a black rat lounging in a cushion-filled wheel-barrow. The name "Princess Bert" is painted on the side of the barrow.
June 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
Israel have shown there are NO red lines they will not cross in this genocide. Not a single one.
Our governments have actively enabled them to reach this point.
Please email your MP calling for sanctions and an arms embargo, donate to aid organisations, keep sharing and speaking.
#freepalestine
Collage: Woman holding baby, faces shaded with red lines. Text: If 14000 babies aren't a red line, nothing is.
May 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
Another year of ethnic cleansing, another year of Israel getting to perform at Eurovision.
Israel has form using the arts to launder its reputation. A fun "apolitical" song contest is used as cultural cover for apartheid and genocide.

So, I'll be boycotting this year, and I hope you do too.
Collage poster: STOP ARTWASHING GENOCIDE in red text. Top half is a microphone and spotlights, bottom half is smoking rubble and falling bombs.
May 15, 2025 at 10:38 AM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
"Old Dears" 🦌
(They are married)

#collageart #kidlitart #humanartist
Paper collage: A sunlit woodland, an elderly woman watching another woman (half deer) approaching.
May 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
All Hail, Princess Bert! 🙌

#kidlitart #kidlit #collage
Greyscale traditional collage. A girl with her hair in space buns, fanning a black rat lounging in a cushion-filled wheel-barrow. The name "Princess Bert" is painted on the side of the barrow.
May 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
A new collage! Also inspired by Solfach, Pembrokeshire, cause that place unlocked something in my brain. 🌊☀️

#collageart #kidlitart #kidlit
Traditional collage of a seaside cave in Solfach, Pembrokeshire. A little girl with a blue coat is standing on a pile of rocks, peering into the cave. Light shines from behind, illuminating the rocks behind her gold.
May 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
A little sketchbook experiment!
#collage #kidlitart
Sketchbook page. Collage of a child lying on a beanbag drawing on a map. A sunbeam illuminates them.
April 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
Hay-on-Wye Honesty Bookshop 📚
Enjoying the light in this one :)

#colourpencil #sketchbook
Colour pencil sketch, Hay Honesty Bookshop. Bookshop is made up of rows of bookshelves outside, sheltered by a roof and wooden supports. Greenery is growing on the wall behind.
April 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
Snippet of a recent commission! I love this little fella 🐦 (There is no pheasant emoji alas)
Digitally drawn pheasant with traditional textures
April 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
Hi! Here are some recent commissions with landscape work.
Thanks for the opportunity! :)
Sepia tone illustration with a rustic pub next to a motorway, car driving past. Tales & Stories by Mary Shelley, narrated by Nano Nagle, cover commission. Illustration of Shelley writing in colour, greyscale illustrations of figures from her stories spin from the page. Blue-yellow illustration of a chapel and graveyard on a hill, overlooking a dilapidated mansion. Green-yellow coloured illustration of a Tudor-style village with a steam-train driving through.
April 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
My contribution to the #StarterPackNoAI trend! 🎨✨

I went fully traditional with this one. AI will never steal my cutting n sticking! ✂️

#noai #humanartist #kidlitart
No AI Starter Pack: AMELIE (cut-out of white paper rectangles) Starter Pack (written in pen) Background: Mixed paper/mark-making collage, blue, green, yellow Figure in white box: Non-binary person with white skin, dark eyes and dark spiky hair. Wearing plaid flannel, knee-length denim shorts, DrMartens w red laces. (Paper cut collage and colour pencil) Items in white box: Pencil case, pencils, stylus, sketchbook, laptop + stand. Headphones, hag-stone on string, black watch, back-pack with pink Welsh dragon flag patch. ("No AI" sticker over figure box) Greyscale hand holds image.
April 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
Leaves! 🌿☀️

#colourpencil #sketchbook
Colour pencil sketch: light green leaves backlit in sunlight, blurry garden behind through window
April 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
More Genoa sketches!
Colour pencils are rapidly becoming my friends 🎨✏️

#sketchbook
Colour pencil sketch: Building with arches, three water-fountains, small dog standing in the water. Sun shining overhead. Colour pencil sketch: Sun shining through arch, silhouetting three figures. Water-fountain in the distance.
April 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
Sketchbook work in the Biosphere (Genoa, Italy)
10/10, love me a terrarium I can wander round in 🌿🙌

#sketch #colouringpencils
Colour pencil sketch of the Biosphere, sunlight glinting off the surface. Sketch of a parrot, and some red plants. Sketch of the trees/foliage and two scarlet ibises. Sketches of scarlet ibis, terrapin, parrot
April 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
A little collage experiment based on Solfach 🌞

#kidlitart #sketchbook
Collage illustration: Solfach harbour/beach, low tide, child with long hair running along the sand in the sunlight.
April 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
Happy #PortfolioDay! Almost missed it, but not quite!
I create textured #kidlit illustrations and comic art. Weird creatures and intriguing environments are my vibe :)

🎨 amelieahernwilliams.com
A girl with curly brown hair, a red dress, and blue cape, holding a chain of flowers over a stream, next to a waterfall. A tiny frog with horns (a Llamhigyn y Dwr) reaches out for the chain. In the foreground, a tiny Llamhigyn y Dwr with a single flower on its head, looks over cheerfully at an enormous, grumpy-looking one with a whole flower crown on its head. Comic featuring winged frog creatures with little horns (Llamwyr). Panel 1. "Broken things" Llamwr reaches for a broken egg-shell. p2. "Whole things" Llamwr holds a beaded thread p3. "Sticks and shells" "Pebbles and pines" Four Llamwyr hold the aformentioned items. Blue, purple, pink illustration. A girl in a fish-shaped space-ship staring out of the eye-window at an enormous shoal of space-jellyfish. Beneath her space-ship are a shoal of other assorted space-fish. A planet with two sets of rings is suspended in the corner.
April 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to BlueSky
#kidlitart
A blue winged frog being blatted by a pile of falling rocks.
March 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
A recent cover commission! 📚
"Murder on the Ordinary Express", by em thompson

I don't think I've actually drawn a train before (somehow 😅). Every day is a learning day!

#bookart #coverart #booksky
Green-yellow book cover illustration. "Murder on the Ordinary Express" by em thompson A rural English village with a train-track running through the Tudor-esque houses, under a small hump-back bridge. A classic steam-train runs along the rails towards the foreground.
March 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
If you see this, quote post your green art! 💚🎨

#KidLitArt #fantasyart #comicart
A girl with curly brown hair, a red dress, and blue cape, holding a chain of flowers over a stream, next to a waterfall. A tiny frog with horns (a Llamhigyn y Dwr) reaches out for the chain. In the foreground, a tiny Llamhigyn y Dwr with a single flower on its head, looks over cheerfully at an enormous, grumpy-looking one with a whole flower crown on its head. A girl walks down a bright yellow path in a dark forest. In the branches above her head, a frog with horns, wings, and bright yellow eyes, watches on. In its hands, it clutches a necklace with a hag-stone. A pigeon in a town clock, emerging tentatively. Eggs are revealed behind it, nested in the clockface, and then it soars out over a dilapidated town, where trees and plants have taken over. (Comic format) Green-yellow colour palette. A black brush-pen sketch of a woodland stream with painterly monoprint textures overlayed.
March 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
A little colour experimentation for printing one of my recent illustrations as a postcard. I enjoy the bright pink/blue original, but the printer does not, so I've had to adapt!
(Fingers crossed the printer grants me mercy 🤞)

#kidlitart #kidlitartpostcard
Gold, orange, red, dark blue illustration. A girl in a fish-shaped space-ship staring out of the eye-window at an enormous shoal of space-jellyfish. Beneath her space-ship are a shoal of other assorted space-fish. A planet with two sets of rings is suspended in the corner.
March 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
Just been working on some new illustrated postcards, and may have made my cutest postcard-back design yet. They're just little fellas! 🐸

#kidlitart #kidlitartpostcard
A post-card back with a tree growing in the centre of the page. Four winged frogs (Llamwyr) are on/in the tree. Two Llamwyr stand in front with a sign reading: amelieahernwilliams.com amelie.e.williams@gmail.com @artful_doodling Rep'd by Monica Rodriguez
March 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
A piece from a few years ago, but I still love it 🌱

#kidlitart #kidlit
A vibrant green garden with two children planting a sapling. Surrounding them are towering grey skyscrapers at a five-point perspective.
March 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
artfuldoodling.bsky.social
Went to my first ever London Book Fair yesterday! Absolutely terrifying, but met so many fab people and publishers.

Feeling excited about the future of kids' comics too, after going to @jamiesmart.bsky.social's talk!

#lbf2025
London Book Fair 2025 stalls from balcony Bunny & Monkey drawings from Jamie Smart's presentation, Phoenix Comic cover, personal notebook with frog doodles and notes
March 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM