Ala Flora

hi! my name is Ala Flora alaflora.net im looking for professional work in any area of illustration you may find me suitable in! my favourite subjects are animals, nature, cartoons #painting #kidlitart #portfolioday 1/2

Jurassic inspired illustration i made for @gacki-zin.bsky.social's Mezozin anthology #kidlitart #dinosaur • more here: alaflora.net/all/2026/mezozin

the rain will come

the next seven days before the next update are probably the single best time there has ever been to ever catch up on my webcomic. just fyi.

Heart of the Forest Emily Carr 1935

muskrat? inaturalist.org/observations/403352062

you can really read whatever you want. just read slowly, just start with fun and challenging and you can get the habit back. for myself I treat reading not only as a fun hobby but a responsability towards my brain.

trust

Among other things, this post does a great job of disentangling the classic notion of "AI" — how can we use computers to solve problems in smarter and more efficient ways? — from what LLMs are, and do

#webcomicday! Softies is a farcical space-adventure about Kay, the last human kid in the galaxy, and Arizona, the alien space-waste collector who finds her adrift after the sudden explosion of the planet Earth. go read it here... now! www.softies.net

I don't personally take it as an accusation of being derivative, but as a favourable indicator that I've made them think and feel to the extent that they're putting my work in a cultural context alongside other respected creatives

my mom thrifted me a one piece tshirt, with a luffy face on it, and asked "if i knew this creature"

so happy you're liking them!!! 💙 :'•}

whenever eu adopts the authoritarian scan-your-face-give-us-your-id im gonna have enough time to make sign off "go to my website" posts on affected platforms. *personally* i am gonna be cooked when they come for domain registrations or any forms of hosting *collectively* we've long been cooked

alaflora.net/all/155000 • alaflora.net/all/154000 | #kidlitart #furryart

12/13/14

If you can prompt AI, you can prompt the artist. The latter can also figure out what you mean.

#kidlitart #illust #bugs

strawman: "erm actually godzilla isn't a dinosaur" me: "erm actually godzilla is a dinosaur in the classic 1954 film Godzilla"

I resent the notion that people who use hyphens where en or em dashes would be more appropriate deserve a greater assumption of authenticity than those of us who know how and when to use them, and how to insert special characters. I do not blame AI tools for stealing because they lack moral agency.

愛犬の日

When a human author has written a work, when there’s a unifying intelligence behind it, it’s easy for an experienced editor to work out what the problem is, get a sense of what the author is trying to do, and (often) see how it could be fixed.

Blind Alley: Five Years On #1 The kids are five years older. A lot of things have changed around the alley. 5.5 x 8.5. B&W. 56 pgs. Self Published. Available tomorrow at 7:30am pst.

Jurassic inspired illustration i made for @gacki-zin.bsky.social's Mezozin anthology #kidlitart #dinosaur • more here: alaflora.net/all/2026/mezozin

Blind Alley Guest No. 4 ( @alaflora.net )

🎉Blind Alley: Guest Book🎉 7x10”. 68 Pages. 60 Contributors. Over 100 strips. All proceeds go to Kilala Lelum in Vancouver. More info soon…

hi #kidlitartpostcard! i'm Ala Flora; open for all sorts of work; best with painting nature and animal characters; represented by Stephen Barr of Writers House! please do look at my website! thank you! ✺ alaflora.net ✺

i think this might be funniest nancy strip i have ever seen

#KidLitArtPostcard Day — some folks have a dog, some have a cat… this guy has a snake, and honestly? It suits him. Hello, I'm Chris, a picture book illustrator. See more work at thornockstudios.com For inquiries, contact my agent Lori Steel — steelworksliterary.com

hi #kidlitartpostcard! i'm Ala Flora; open for all sorts of work; best with painting nature and animal characters; represented by Stephen Barr of Writers House! please do look at my website! thank you! ✺ alaflora.net ✺

thinking about kate pulaski whom i love

capstan

I always see nonpartisan, righteous anger at public art. Everyone loves to hate a concrete blob bought with taxpayer money, what's it even meant to be etc. My hot take: art funding is good and there's no benign policy for keeping out 'bad' art. You really just gotta fund it until a good one happens