Black illustrators/artists/writers I follow
Little starter pack of Black illustrators/artists/writers I follow, to give everyone a little boost and make finding people a bit easier on here. ☺️
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@dapsdraws.bsky.social
@laurahallain.bsky.social
Educationalist, Consultant, Producer, Storyteller: The inspiration behind JoJo and Gran Gran, Daddio & Co, My Skin, Your Skin, etc Website: www.LauraHenryAllain.Com
@anerbananer.bsky.social
Illustrator-Author/Concept Artist/Storyteller. Yapper, PhD. Lover of purple and nerdy things. 💜 (she/her) 30+, 🚫NO AI/NFTs Rep: Alex Gehringer, The Bright Agency. #art #bookart #illustration www.anadraws.com http://linktr.ee/anadraws
@beebabs.bsky.social
Big B and the B stands for bodacious. Writer, Girl About Town, Purveyor of Prose & Pose. Not Here. https://open.substack.com/pub/juicebybolubabalola/p/coming-soon?r=ajg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
@ohheydj.bsky.social
SF Bay Area Comic book Artist/Writer CEO of Big Boy Social Club. Animation Color designer. Co-Creator of THE BLACK MAGE. Writer/Artist of THE FINE LINE coming in 2027 Repped by Jessica Mileo @ Inkwell Management. https://ohheydj.carrd.co/
@hannahlee1.bsky.social
Award winning Author of My Hair & The Rapping Princess available in all great bookstores!✨Rep by @kowalstannus
@molenaide.bsky.social
✨Mickie ✨27 ✨Haitian-American ✨Professional napper, sometimes an artist ✨Art Inquiries: [email protected]
@ashleythorpe.bsky.social
Author of THE BOY TO BEAT THE GODS Pre-order SPIRIT WARRIORS https://www.waterstones.com/book/spirit-warriors/ashley-thorpe/9781805075653 Agent: Alice Sutherland-Hawes Senior Editor at Storymix Trustee of the Manchester Libraries Trust He/Him
@lucyfarfort.bsky.social
Kidlit Illustrator/Author based in Newcastle UK. SCBWI & SOA member. FAB Prize 2017 winner. Rep'd by Ash Literary. Picture book - In Our Hands, Jhalak Prize shortlisted & Little Rebel Awards longlisted.
@rahanabanana.bsky.social
Illustrator | music enthusiast | She/her | London | 🇬🇧🇱🇨🇯🇲 ✨Clients: LA Times, Facebook, Tampax, LiveTinted, Mented Cosmetics & More✨ ✉️[email protected] www.rahanabanana.com Rep'd by ANNA GOODSON (agoodson.com)
@heychante.bsky.social
She/Her Award Winning Author Illustrator Debut Comic Book SUPANOVA out NOW 👩🏾🔬🧪 Featured in: Hey You!, Happy Here, Daddy Do My Hair: Beth's Twists, Rep'd by Darley Anderson Linktr.ee/heya.chante Heychante.co.uk
@obohdraws.bsky.social
Digital Artist, Illustrator Instagram: @obohdraws Email: [email protected]
@artbytosin.bsky.social
🌿 25 / illustrator, graphic novelist and fanartist / tillamookbay on twt ✏️ original work & life is strange 2 fanart 📖 represented by @hiddenkingdom ✨ clients include: Superdrug, Channel 4, The Tate
@janellemccurdy.bsky.social
Gaming content creator and author of MIA AND THE LIGHTCASTERS (UK) | THE LIGHTCASTERS (US)! Rep'd by Rachel Mann CAA. Game reviews + book info on my website: https://linktr.ee/JanelleMccurdy 💫🎮 📧[email protected]
@creativedy.bsky.social
Hi I’m a children’s book author and illustrator. My agent is Nicky Lander or Freddie Dawson @thebrightagency.com
@paulaakpan.bsky.social
historian, londoner & staunch gooner. researching the world-building and lives of Black lesbians & queers in britain, 1970s-90s. big dyke, big nerd. she/her 📕 WHEN WE RULED (2025, available for pre-order!) paulaakpan.com
@tara-nicole.bsky.social
Director & NYT best selling Illustrator 🎥🎨 insta: taranicolewhitaker http://www.taranicolewhitaker.com she/her #calartsmafia Brooklyn-->Poconos-->LA (My views and art are my own unless otherwise noted.) Fix your hearts or die❤️🔥
@davinatijani.bsky.social
Passionate about storytelling | The Nkara Chronicles Series out now with Little Tiger 🐉🧚🏿♀️ 🐘 🐍 Rep'd by Davinia-Andrew Lynch l https://linktr.ee/davinatijani
@succreart.bsky.social
Illustrator, vampire enthusiast and resident fashionista 💕 She/Her Represented by Helen Boyle at Pickled Ink
@alyissaj.bsky.social
Artist and Maker | Shop After Another Owner and Operator | Nature Enthusiast | Vintage Lover | Trend Researcher
@sharnajackson.com
Writer of books and games mostly about art, mystery and murder for you and the kids in your life. Lives on a ship in Rotterdam. Used to work in museums and galleries for ages. Miss it. Addicted to Reddit and Beat Saber. https://www.sharnajackson.com
@mariamotunrayo.bsky.social
📚Author of the Kòkú Akànbí series based on Nigerian mythology, rep’d by H.G Literary 🎓PhD student in African Art at the University of Birmingham 💃🏾part-time Nollywood Vixen
@astrominx.bsky.social
Fueled by stories. Bionic Playwright 📝|Filmmaker 📽 |Author 📚 |Olivier Award winner #Sleepova | #LGMD ♿ 🌈 she/they Website: https://matildaibini.com Other works: https://linktr.ee/Astrominx
@uzotheartist.bsky.social
Multidisciplinary artist, Illustrator & Filmmaker Founder of ZOMA Studios 🌱 [email protected] uzongwu.com
@whyiwrite.bsky.social
Author of Remembered and Curdle Creek, former editor at John Murray, Academic at Cambridge Uni, event host and podcaster. I also write kidlit, short scripts, nonfiction essays, poems
@michellewemegah.bsky.social
𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 rep’d by Kelly Sonnack from @ABLA https://michellewemegah.carrd.co/
@desareadoodles.bsky.social
Black Queer Illustrator | 🥐Cozy Gamer | Apple Connoisseur 🍎 | doing this for Baby Cheeto | Desareadoodles.com
@alannaflowers.bsky.social
📘 Love Letters is out now 🎉 🖌 Lettering • Art Licensing • Workshops 💌 [email protected] www.agfdesignstudio.com/links
@akemiart.bsky.social
Self-Publisher at www.mythictexture.com @mythictexture. Portfolio: www.akemiart.ca // [email protected] Looking for an Illustration agent 🇨🇦🇳🇬Artist, Writer, Designer. Illustrates children's books, designs & paints for animation, publishes short stories.
@endofdaysonmars.bsky.social
Professional comic artist and storyboard artist on Iyanu and the Age of Wonders(2025). Gonna paint some digimon in between work.
@chrystaldgiles.bsky.social
Author of books for young people. 📚 Take Back the Block 📚 Not an Easy Win 📚 We Are Joy (2026) linktr.ee/chrystaldgiles
@mattdrice.bsky.social
He/Him 🏳️🌈 • Character Design • Storyboards • PA @Skybound • Member @ The House Of Chase Conley • Opinions my own • https://linktr.ee/mattdrice
@alleannaharris.bsky.social
✨ Picture book illustrator (she/her) 🖌️ Rep’d by Alex Gehringer at Bright Agency 📍 Philly made, Jersey raised 🌎 alleannaharris.com
@redbearuniverse.bsky.social
Yetunde || Illustrator || cartoonist ||💖 KH// Psychonauts //Yakuza || LADs|| 🧠chronic migraines. She/her 29 https://linktr.ee/redbearuniverse
@tallnquirky.bsky.social
Alecia | She/Her| Concept artist| Illustrator Looking for work! Past Clients: Possibility Space, Paramount, Volta ✨ Links: tallnquirky.carrd.co/ Shop: tallnquirky.bigcartel.com [email protected]
@rajieeee.bsky.social
designer | artist | ceramicist 🇨🇦🇬🇭 (she/her) ✦ pronounced ⇢ uh • ra • ju • uh ✦ ig: https://www.instagram.com/rajieeee ⚐ toronto ☺︎ https://www.awuradwoa-afful.com/ | prints ▷ theartofmonday.etsy.com upcoming events: tcaf - june 7, 8
@lamargiles.bsky.social
I write Black kids & DC Comics (Static: UAN) & Star Wars (Sanctuary: A Bad Batch Novel - 08.05.2025). Big Dad Energy. #GirlDad linktr.ee/lamargiles
@kodo.bsky.social
✶ He/they/them ✶ Comic Artist and Writer ✶ Inquires: [email protected] ThatKodo.carrd.co
@deandrahodge.bsky.social
Award Winning Illustrator and Designer ✏️✨ Rep. By Christy T. Ewers @the_cat_agency 📍Washington D.C. 💌 [email protected] www.deandrahodge.com
@novva.bsky.social
I be drawin 🇻🇮🇹🇹 (opinions are mine) | vis dev, characters, and comics | Pixar, DC, DreamWorks, Netflix, Mattel, etc. | Rep’d by @jenazantian.bsky.social | 🔗: https://novva.carrd.co | 🌐: http://novvaart.com | 💌: [email protected]
@inkplash.bsky.social
Hello I’m Ink! ✨27💕she/they 🎨 plush designer, illustrator, painter, and whatever other hobby I’m currently into!🌈 https://linktr.ee/Inkplash
@dorothykoomson.bsky.social
📚Award-winning, Sunday Times Bestselling Author | Writer ✍🏾 l Reader 📖 | TV & Film Lover 📺 | Podcaster 🎙️| Latest book Every Smile You Fake out now 📚⚡️
@odera.bsky.social
🧚🏿♂️ Painter / Illustrator—it’s giving gateways to healing & mythophoric embodiment ✨Odera.net 🌞patreon.com/Odera Some works are NSFW / a body is a body / a body roll is a body roll
@ayejay.bsky.social
Character designer and Illustrator Previous work: Cartoon Network and Titmouse Website: https://www.ajhoward.art for business inquiries: [email protected]
@juststeffiart.bsky.social
Black | She/Her | here for the vibes ✨☀️ Illustrator for Children's/YA/MG Publishing and Editorial steffiwalthallart.com
@radimudio.bsky.social
Ignatz-nominated chicken scratcher and letter placer (He/They) ✦ Self-Publishing since 1997 ✦ SFW / NSFW (R-18) ✦ https://linktr.ee/radimudio ✦ [email protected]
@teju.bsky.social
painter + illustrator • senior artist @ hallmark • winsor & newton demo artist • ub studio art mfa candidate • she/her tejuabiolaart.carrd.co
@illustrevor.bsky.social
(He/Him) Creator of Things. Illustrator of Disney Villains: Scar series. Represented by ASH Literary Agency
@jamilarowser.bsky.social
Writer • Editor • Comic publisher blackjoseipress.com • Wash Day Diaries co-creator • LA Times Book Prize & Ignatz winner • Eisner nom’ed • Horror stan • Nana is my personality • Always in pain • Always tired • ✊🏾🇵🇷🇩🇴🏳️🌈 🥄•
@bunabi.bsky.social
🍊 31 y/o artist | she/her | available for work ✧ portfolio: eriart.net ✧ inquiries: [email protected] ✧ commissions: eriart.net/#commissions ✧ brushes: patreon.com/bunabi ✧ prints: inprnt.com/gallery/bunabi
@ashantifortson.com
Cartoonist, illustrator, embroiderer, editor. They/them. CRESS & PETRA, HarperCollins 202X. 🇲🇽 ENG/ESP OK NO AI. Get outta here https://ashantifortson.com/
@shanfiction.bsky.social
Illustrator ✦ Cartoonist ✦ IGNATZ Winner ✦ Coretta Scott King and Sibert Award Honoree ✦ Rep by Hannah Mann at Writers House An anxious mom who works two jobs, who loves her cats and never stops 🐈⬛🐈⬛ She/They 🩷💛💙 https://shannon-wright.com/
@breanimator.bsky.social
31 | Story revisionist @ Disney TVA, prev: Wildcanary, CN I breananavickas.com I BlackNAnimated Co-Founder | views are my own I She/They ❤️@sirgedas❤️
@diansakhuart.bsky.social
Character Designer, Illustrator and Comic Artist! 🌐 https://www.diansakhuart.com
@lgions.bsky.social
she/they | award winning uk illustrator and comic artist/colourist | On Starlit Shores, Fall 2025 (Pre-Order https://bio.site/lgions) ✨ contact - [email protected] | Rep'd by Paige Terlip. | 🚫 AI or NFT
@tani269.bsky.social
Character Designer- Looking for work!| Prev: Wild Canary Animation, Awesome Inc | She/her | Represented by Nicole Tugeau at T2 Agency ✉️ - [email protected] 🧳 - https://www.tanishacherislin.com/
@chriskindred.com
illustrator, narrative designer, author, thing doer, stuff liker they/them [email protected]
@pearllow.bsky.social
They/them/佢🌈 | Director, Creator, Story Artist | Founder: Orange Blossom Studios | Creator of Wheels & Roses | Clients: Sanrio, A24, Cartoon Network, DreamWorks, Netflix | IG: Fumichun 🇨🇳🇯🇲 Pearllow.com | Fourth Wall Management
@tncts.bsky.social
olivia f + she/her + illustrator + robot enthusiast linktr.ee/tncts | [email protected] ✨ ✸ Upcoming Events ✸ ✦ Anime Expo | E33 | Jul 3-6th ✦ Tekko Con | Jul 17-20th
@oliveoilcorp.bsky.social
she/her // ignatz award-winning graphic novelist thinks a lot about werewolves for all inquiries: [email protected] repped by @jenazantian.bsky.social linktr.ee/oliveoilcorp
@zolwia.bsky.social
She/Her | Grey ace | 🇩🇰🇿🇼 living in 🇮🇪 | Award Winning Illustrator | ONE DAY IN JUNE (OUT MAY 2025) | Rep’d by Thao Le | shop http://theorangenestshop.com NO AI, NFT linktr.ee/zolwia
@richiepope.bsky.social
cartoonist + illustrator + storyboard artist + character designer. sometimes i post https://linktr.ee/richiepope
@abellehayford.bsky.social
LA based illustrator & animation designer ⭐️Organizer of #drawingwhileblack ⭐️Owner of @kojojojostudio 🐈⬛ looking for full time and representation https://linktr.ee/Abellehayford
@swayart.bsky.social
✨Artist✨ Clients Marvel Studios , Marvel , DC, Vault, Image, and Entertainment Weekly | Email: [email protected] |
@ianjq.com
Ian Jones-Quartey. Cartoonist. Currently working on unannounced projects. OK KO! Let's Be Heroes, Steven Universe, Adventure Time. My own opinions. 🇬🇭🇺🇸 Rep: [email protected]
@aquiboni.bsky.social
emely | she/her | 🇩🇴en/esp | 🫀illustrator 🥩 portfolio•shop•patreon + more↴ boxerbun.carrd.co
@derrickmalikjohnson.com
30 | LO / 原画 / ニゲン | 2D Animator | Story Artist | 18+ Artist | Clients: Luv Letter Studio, Studio EMT2, Triple-A Studio, A24, Gylee Games, DTVA, CNS, Titmouse, OLM Studio, Studio Leo, Studio Mother, Studio Gaina, Contrail/Mappa, Studio Miyu Minors DNI
@bampshi.bsky.social
Freelance Illustrator available for work 🌐https://www.prisbampoh.com/ https://www.patreon.com/PrisBampoh ✉[email protected] https://linktr.ee/Bampshi
@jhonatanlechar.bsky.social
Illustrator/ visdev Artist ✝️❤️ Open to Work! Contact: [email protected] https://jhonatanlechar.myportfolio.com/work Clients: Valorant, League of Legends, Disney, Netflix, Pokemon. Insta: @/jhonatan.lechar
@indiedynamo.bsky.social
Jordan Eric Mitchell he/him BG painter, illustrator and photographer Clients include Warner bros, cartoon network, netflix, PBS, NBC, NYT, etc. [email protected]. All opinions are my own No minors https://linktr.ee/Indiedynamo
@oheysteenz.bsky.social
Award Winning Cartoonist - Side Quest / Heart of the City • SLICE President • Comics Editor • Educator • They/Them • Queer • Black • Rep- Anjali Singh Gocomics.com/heartofthecity Oheysteenz.com
@kianamai.bsky.social
27 y/o | Storyboard Artist/Director @ DisneyTVA | 🇯🇵🇯🇲 | 🏳️🌈 | she/her 💕