Jackie Shepherd
@jackieshepherd.bsky.social
Award-winning Boston-based book designer and art director with ADHD and two cats, currently freelancing and honing my own illustration skills 🎨 Other interests include d&d/ttrpgs, trad fiddling, and learning to figure skate
📚 portfolio: jackieshepherd.com
📚 portfolio: jackieshepherd.com
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Kia ora from Aotearoa, New Zealand 👋
I set up this epic Starter Pack a little while ago and thinking it's a good time to promote it again considering the hordes of people joining Bluesky now.
Please give us all a follow would ya? 😀
#IndieGames #GameDev #WomeninGames
go.bsky.app/Bn9UUz2
I set up this epic Starter Pack a little while ago and thinking it's a good time to promote it again considering the hordes of people joining Bluesky now.
Please give us all a follow would ya? 😀
#IndieGames #GameDev #WomeninGames
go.bsky.app/Bn9UUz2
February 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Kia ora from Aotearoa, New Zealand 👋
I set up this epic Starter Pack a little while ago and thinking it's a good time to promote it again considering the hordes of people joining Bluesky now.
Please give us all a follow would ya? 😀
#IndieGames #GameDev #WomeninGames
go.bsky.app/Bn9UUz2
I set up this epic Starter Pack a little while ago and thinking it's a good time to promote it again considering the hordes of people joining Bluesky now.
Please give us all a follow would ya? 😀
#IndieGames #GameDev #WomeninGames
go.bsky.app/Bn9UUz2
what are everyone's favorite workhorse Photoshop brushes? I need to rebuild my collection
February 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
what are everyone's favorite workhorse Photoshop brushes? I need to rebuild my collection
Tell me your favorite bookish quote, you cowards!
February 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Tell me your favorite bookish quote, you cowards!
the Spy Pond freebie shelf never disappoints
January 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
the Spy Pond freebie shelf never disappoints
the lack of responses is CONCERNING 🫠
January 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
the lack of responses is CONCERNING 🫠
no. 1 (disassociating)
January 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
no. 1 (disassociating)
still looking for this, but will make one if it doesn't turn up!
can I get a BIPOC kidlit artist starterpack
January 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
still looking for this, but will make one if it doesn't turn up!
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Calling all #artists and #illustrators!
We have incredible 14 agents, art directors and professional illustrators offering to critique your portfolios. Get expert eyes on your work along with feedback and advice on building a career in publishing as an illustrator.
Please browse, share and BID!
We have incredible 14 agents, art directors and professional illustrators offering to critique your portfolios. Get expert eyes on your work along with feedback and advice on building a career in publishing as an illustrator.
Please browse, share and BID!
January 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Calling all #artists and #illustrators!
We have incredible 14 agents, art directors and professional illustrators offering to critique your portfolios. Get expert eyes on your work along with feedback and advice on building a career in publishing as an illustrator.
Please browse, share and BID!
We have incredible 14 agents, art directors and professional illustrators offering to critique your portfolios. Get expert eyes on your work along with feedback and advice on building a career in publishing as an illustrator.
Please browse, share and BID!
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🚨Happening TOMORROW!🚨 There's still time to register: bit.ly/ConnectionCo...
January 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
🚨Happening TOMORROW!🚨 There's still time to register: bit.ly/ConnectionCo...
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Artists! I made this starter pack of art directors on bluesky, I haven't posted it in a while and with a ton of new folks coming in from other platforms please share this around!
Also lmk if I missed anyone who hires artists that I should add!
go.bsky.app/RSV4VwA
Also lmk if I missed anyone who hires artists that I should add!
go.bsky.app/RSV4VwA
January 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Artists! I made this starter pack of art directors on bluesky, I haven't posted it in a while and with a ton of new folks coming in from other platforms please share this around!
Also lmk if I missed anyone who hires artists that I should add!
go.bsky.app/RSV4VwA
Also lmk if I missed anyone who hires artists that I should add!
go.bsky.app/RSV4VwA
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Whoa, the agency Jacky Winter put together a pretty comprehensive overview of illustration pricing on their new site. The resource list at the bottom is top notch and includes many links that I share with my students. Worth a look!
www.jackywinter.com/pricing
www.jackywinter.com/pricing
Pricing | Jacky Winter
The Jacky Winter Group. All up in your grill since 2007.
www.jackywinter.com
October 17, 2023 at 11:33 AM
Whoa, the agency Jacky Winter put together a pretty comprehensive overview of illustration pricing on their new site. The resource list at the bottom is top notch and includes many links that I share with my students. Worth a look!
www.jackywinter.com/pricing
www.jackywinter.com/pricing
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Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.
bookshop.org/ebooks
bookshop.org/ebooks
Bookshop.org US
Explore digital books on Bookshop.org
bookshop.org
January 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.
bookshop.org/ebooks
bookshop.org/ebooks
new moon tomorrow, can't wait to see everyone's drawings of it
January 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
new moon tomorrow, can't wait to see everyone's drawings of it
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Hey #kidlit illustrators, I'm looking for an artist who can capture apartment-life in an urban setting for a beginning reader series with a vibrant ensemble cast and a grayscale interior.
Respond here with images and a link to your folio.
Please no DMs. Agents are welcome to email.
💙❤️
Respond here with images and a link to your folio.
Please no DMs. Agents are welcome to email.
💙❤️
January 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Hey #kidlit illustrators, I'm looking for an artist who can capture apartment-life in an urban setting for a beginning reader series with a vibrant ensemble cast and a grayscale interior.
Respond here with images and a link to your folio.
Please no DMs. Agents are welcome to email.
💙❤️
Respond here with images and a link to your folio.
Please no DMs. Agents are welcome to email.
💙❤️
@jonklassen.bsky.social and Mac Barnett analyzing the horrors of Goodnight Moon
open.substack.com/pub/lookinga...
open.substack.com/pub/lookinga...
Goodnight Moon
Jon and Mac consider: the plight of the picture book author, wildlife trafficking, tangenting, disappearing socks, death, life, and mush
open.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
@jonklassen.bsky.social and Mac Barnett analyzing the horrors of Goodnight Moon
open.substack.com/pub/lookinga...
open.substack.com/pub/lookinga...
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I don't know that there's a better way to honor him than to have a lot of fun working on our favorite projects
It's ultimately what he did his entire life
It's ultimately what he did his entire life
January 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I don't know that there's a better way to honor him than to have a lot of fun working on our favorite projects
It's ultimately what he did his entire life
It's ultimately what he did his entire life
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It's time to paint.
Paint away the feelings, paint away the sad things. Cover it all in paint, bury it in the layers of vibrant color and texture. Seal it away in the paper like a spell and a wish. Turn it into something different, something good, something needed.
It's time to paint.
Paint away the feelings, paint away the sad things. Cover it all in paint, bury it in the layers of vibrant color and texture. Seal it away in the paper like a spell and a wish. Turn it into something different, something good, something needed.
It's time to paint.
January 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
It's time to paint.
Paint away the feelings, paint away the sad things. Cover it all in paint, bury it in the layers of vibrant color and texture. Seal it away in the paper like a spell and a wish. Turn it into something different, something good, something needed.
It's time to paint.
Paint away the feelings, paint away the sad things. Cover it all in paint, bury it in the layers of vibrant color and texture. Seal it away in the paper like a spell and a wish. Turn it into something different, something good, something needed.
It's time to paint.
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what I (somewhat fumblingly) told a group of students last year is that you are trying to “glimpse your own cryptid.” what appears to people later as a solid aesthetic vision just begins as that personal glitch between trees.
January 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
what I (somewhat fumblingly) told a group of students last year is that you are trying to “glimpse your own cryptid.” what appears to people later as a solid aesthetic vision just begins as that personal glitch between trees.
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If there's anything I hope young creatives take from David Lynch, it's to reject the modern IP-driven impulse to explicitly explain and cleanly categorize the logic behind every single event and decision inside and outside of a story at least some of the time.
January 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
If there's anything I hope young creatives take from David Lynch, it's to reject the modern IP-driven impulse to explicitly explain and cleanly categorize the logic behind every single event and decision inside and outside of a story at least some of the time.
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Now, at this incredibly weird time to be in the arts, among hardship and AI and nepotism and predators and bad publisher stories and bad everything stories, now is exactly when I think you should make some art
As a treat
As a treat
January 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Now, at this incredibly weird time to be in the arts, among hardship and AI and nepotism and predators and bad publisher stories and bad everything stories, now is exactly when I think you should make some art
As a treat
As a treat
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Hi! I thought I would do an intro post ☺️ My name is Kaylie, I’m a book cover designer by day @Hachette and an artist/illustrator by night. I live in nyc, love a good pastry, & have a prosthetic eye!
If you are interested in my work and want to learn more my website is www.kayliependletonart.com
If you are interested in my work and want to learn more my website is www.kayliependletonart.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Hi! I thought I would do an intro post ☺️ My name is Kaylie, I’m a book cover designer by day @Hachette and an artist/illustrator by night. I live in nyc, love a good pastry, & have a prosthetic eye!
If you are interested in my work and want to learn more my website is www.kayliependletonart.com
If you are interested in my work and want to learn more my website is www.kayliependletonart.com
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can I get a BIPOC kidlit artist starterpack
January 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
can I get a BIPOC kidlit artist starterpack
I'm so thrilled for this to come out! @neharawatart.bsky.social did incredible work as always. One of my favorite projects from last year. :)
1st post on @bsky.app, and I'm thrilled to announce the release of my debut Picture Book, "What Color Is The Baby?" on April 1st, 2025.
Pub by Candlewick Press @candlewickpress.bsky.social , illustrated by @neharawatart.bsky.social and agented by @dzhyde.bsky.social
Pub by Candlewick Press @candlewickpress.bsky.social , illustrated by @neharawatart.bsky.social and agented by @dzhyde.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I'm so thrilled for this to come out! @neharawatart.bsky.social did incredible work as always. One of my favorite projects from last year. :)