A.C. Bodnar (she/her)

@acbodnarart.bsky.social

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Children’s Author/Illustrator seeking representation Nerd and Forever DM, drawing whimsical pictures and writing about a robot who loves birds No AI ever Authors Against Book Bans 🖤🩶🤍💜 ~ 💙💛🩷 Also on Instagram @acbodnarart acbodnarart.com

Illustration of two elven women backlit by a sunset and framed by clerestory windows. The shorter woman is a princess with long curling hair, and she looks up at the taller woman, dressed in armor, as she drapes a necklace around her knight’s neck. @acbodnarart
Postcard with an illustration of a young girl with blonde hair wearing a large, floppy hat and a junior park ranger vest standing atop a rock and pointing onward as two chipmunks in the foreground give each other side-eye. Text reads: AC Bodnar |KidLit Author Illustrator | acbodnarart.com | @acbodnarart | Seeking Representation
Illustration a young mermaid brushing sand off of a piece of pottery she found in the underwater ruin she exploring. Draped around her neck is a sea snake being distracted by a school of mackerel, another snake is napping in a basket of pottery sherds, and an octopus holding a broken mug is coming through an open window to join her. In the background, the ruins of a palatial structure are faintly visible through the water. @acbodnarart
Postcard with an illustration of a young boy in a red coat standing on the railing of a sailing ship with a color bird flying over his shoulder. In the background is a watercolor seascape with tall cliffs with a city and a castle connected by a bridge. Text at the bottom left corner reads: KidLit Author Illustrator seeking representation acbodnarart.com @acbodnarart
Illustration of a hoola hoop caught in a tree that a bird’s nest has been built nestled inside of. A robin perches on the side of the nest feeding three chicks. @acbodnarart
Postcard of an illustration of a purple dragon lying in a field with blue chicory flowers under a cloudy sky with an orange monarch butterfly resting on its nose. With the text: KidLit Author Illustrator acbodnarart.com @acbodnarart Seeking Representation
Cropped close up of an illustration of a young girl jumping for joy with her closed close and mouth open and the rays of light stream past. @acbodnarart
Illustration of three children marveling at the light shining through a large rose window, casting its pattern on the ground. @acbodnarart
4 Panel Webcomic: Butcherbird Chronicles #2 @acbodnarart acbodnarart.com Panel 1 Comic panel showing a young elven girl, Ellorsith, laying on the ground in front of a fireplace and kicking her feet in the air while she reads. Behind her, the shelves are filled with curios and books. Panel 2 Comic panel showing a wider angle of the room: Ellorsith is now sitting up as she reads and shuffling her feet, and nearby the wooden automaton, Barrel, is sitting calmly in a chair reading as well. Panel 3 Comic panel showing the same room as Ellorsith has now rolled over as she continues to read, and Barrel looking up from his book. Barrel: Ellorsith? Ellorsith: Yeah? Barrel: What are you doing? Panel 4 Comic panel showing a closer view of Ellorsith and Barrel as she squirms once again. Ellorsith: Rotisserizing
Comic panel showing a young elven girl, Ellorsith, laying on the ground in front of a fireplace and kicking her feet in the air while she reads. Behind her, the shelves are filled with curios and books. @acbodnarart
Postcard with an illustration of a serpentine dragon with large horns in the ocean, silhouetted against the moon as light hits the tops of the waves. Text along the bottom reads: KidLit Author Illustrator acbodnarart.com Seeking Representation @acbodnarart
Illustration of two young girls in pajamas, the younger hiding behind the older, opening a door from a bright hallway into a mouth-like tunnel with long teeth and pooling ropes of drool. @acbodnarart
Photo of five women in front of a step-and-repeat displaying the SCBWI logo @acbodnarart
Video shaping drawing process of a four panel comic: Butcherbird Chronicles #1 | @acbodnarart | acbodnarart.com 1st panel: two characters (a young elven girl and an automaton made of wood) walking towards a lighthouse while talking. Young elf: Barrel? Barrel: Hmm? Elf: If you could be any bird, what would you be? 2nd panel: an automaton looking down at a young elven girl as they talk, the impression of an albatross behind them. Barrel: An albatross. … I think? You? 3rd panel: a young elven girl popping up under the arm of an automaton, startling him and the bird perched on his head, with the impression of a shrike/butcherbird behind them Young elf: A shrike. Barrel: A butcherbird? 4th panel: an automaton setting down a birdhouse as birds perch on him and a young elven girl grins deviously Barrel: Morbid. Young elf: Exactly.
Four panel comic: Butcherbird Chronicles #1 | @acbodnarart | acbodnarart.com 1st panel: two characters (a young elven girl and an automaton made of wood) walking towards a lighthouse while talking. Young elf: Barrel? Barrel: Hmm? Elf: If you could be any bird, what would you be? 2nd panel: an automaton looking down at a young elven girl as they talk, the impression of an albatross behind them. Barrel: An albatross. … I think? You? 3rd panel: a young elven girl popping up under the arm of an automaton, startling him and the bird perched on his head, with the impression of a shrike/butcherbird behind them Young elf: A shrike. Barrel: A butcherbird? 4th panel: an automaton setting down a birdhouse as birds perch on him and a young elven girl grins deviously Barrel: Morbid. Young elf: Exactly.
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen drawing of a tree with a swing and falling leaves blowing in the wind. Text at the bottom reads: Leaves - Oct. 24th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a drawing of a tower atop a hill done in multicolored lines. Text at the bottom reads: Tangle - Oct. 23rd | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen drawing of two anthropomorphized mushrooms: one standing on top of the other. The top mushroom is waving with a smile while the bottom mushroom has hands on their hips with a disgruntled expression. Text at the bottom reads: Mushroom - Oct. 22nd | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen drawing of a calico cat sitting. Text at the bottom reads: Calico - Oct. 21th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen drawing of the Roman goddess Ceres holding a basket of grain and bring followed by a line of ducklings. Text at the bottom reads: Harvest - Oct. 20th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen drawing of a smiling mask wearing a tall hat with a pied pattern and trinkets dangling from the rim. Text at the bottom reads: Mask - Oct. 19th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Selfie of @acbodnarart in front of the Arvada Arts Center
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen drawing of a large hall with a a gothic fan vault ceiling and a dais on the far side. The light comes from the upper right, casting dramatic shadows. Text at the bottom reads: Perspective - Oct. 18th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen with simple watercolor shading drawing of a cat crouched before a feather. Text at the bottom reads: Stalk - Oct. 17th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen drawing of a giant scarecrow towering over a tiny farmhouse on a hill. Text at the bottom reads: Scarecrow - Oct. 16th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen drawing of two elves, one draping a necklace around the other’s neck, in front of large Romanesque windows. The background color is a large blot of watercolor bleeding from blue to purple to pink. Text at the bottom reads: Charm - Oct. 15th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Illustration of a rabbit knight dressed in chainmail and a surcoat looking up at a gothic fun vaulted ceiling as the drawing dissolves into bright watercolors as light streams through the tall windows. @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a ball point pen drawing of a tired looking woman, holding a pencil and propping her cheek up with a dust, reflected in the screen of a laptop. Text at the bottom reads: Burnt - Oct. 14th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen drawing of an anthropomorphized mushroom riding on a leaf that’s floating down. Text at the bottom reads: Rustle - Oct. 13th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen drawing of a young girl standing on her toes to see over a high railing. Text at the bottom reads: Tip Toe - Oct. 12th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen drawing of an anthropomorphized mushroom waiting impatiently for a kettle hooked over a fire to boil. Text on the image reads: “A watched kettle never boils. Right?” Text at the bottom reads: Kettle - Oct. 11th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a ballpoint pen drawing of an ammonite. Text at the bottom reads: Twist - Oct. 10th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen line art of three bee-women sitting on tall stools, long frantic draping from them, and some sort of smoke or mist curling up from below with a honeycomb lattice in the background. It is drawn atop a blot of watercolor that fades from a desaturated blue at the bottom to a warm orange. Text at the bottom reads: Hive - Oct. 9th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a fine liner drawing of an anthropomorphized mushroom wearing a scarf and skiing down a freshly groomed run, and the sky and the shadows are done in blue watercolor. Text at the bottom reads: Fuzzy - Oct. 7th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a ballpoint pen drawing of a girl in glasses wearing a dragon onesie while stepping forward in the classic Where the Wild Things Are pose. Text at the bottom reads: Fuzzy - Oct. 7th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen drawing of an elven girl holding a candle in a tower, a starry sky visible through the gothic windows and long braid snaking towards the the viewer, drawn atop a blot of pink, purple, and blue watercolor. Text at the bottom reads: Candle - Oct. 6th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Art process video of sketchbook page showing a brush pen drawing of a ghast-like creature swinging a lantern in front of it. The lantern is filled with eyeballs, and as it swings, it leaves lines of motion in its wake. Text at the bottom reads: Eyes - Oct. 5th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen drawing of a ghast-like creature swinging a lantern in front of it. The lantern is filled with eyeballs, and as it swings, it leaves lines of motion in its wake. Text at the bottom reads: Eyes - Oct. 5th | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen drawing of a young girl in a ball gown turned slightly to the right. She smiles awkwardly as one hand subtly tugs the shoulder of her dress slightly lower down her arm. Text at the bottom reads: Phantom - Oct. 3rd | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a brush pen drawing of a flashlight casting a circle of light against a wall, illuminating a vase of flowers on a small table whose shadow is the shape of a ghost. Text at the bottom reads: Phantom - Oct. 3rd | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Drawing process video: Sketchbook page showing a little girl with a blanket pulled over her head walking down a hall drawn in fine liner pens atop a blot of watercolor that is yellow in the center and bleeds into purple around the edges. Text along the bottom reads: Night Light - Oct. 2nd | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a little girl with a blanket pulled over her head walking down a hall drawn in fine liner pens atop a blot of watercolor that is yellow in the center and bleeds into purple around the edges. Text along the bottom reads: Night Light - Oct. 2nd | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Photo of @acbodnarart outside holding the book “Oscar Comes Home” with the front cover showing.
Video of art process, showing hands using pencils and a brush pen. The final product is a sketchbook page showing a drawing of two small anthropomorphized mushrooms making a butternut squash into a small house, with one lowering a basket with squash seeds and pulp down to the other through an open window. Text along the bottom reads: Squash - Oct. 1st | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Sketchbook page showing a drawing of two small anthropomorphized mushrooms making a butternut squash into a small house, with one lowering a basket with squash seeds and pulp down to the other through an open window. Text along the bottom reads: Squash - Oct. 1st | SCBWI Artober 2025 | @acbodnarart
Video showing a childhood sketch of a dragon with large horns in the ocean silhouettes against the moon and the drawing process of rendering the illustration digitally. Video text transcript: In 2010, middle-school-me drew this sketch of a dragon, And I had thought it was the sickest thing I’d ever drawn 😅 The only thing that disappointed me was that the sketch didn’t match the vision of it in my imagination… At 12 years old, I just didn’t have the tools or the skills put imagination on the page the way I wanted. Sometimes, I still feel like I don’t. But, 15 years later, I can give this gift to my younger self. 2010 2025 I might revisit more of my childhood in the future. Let me know what you think!
Illustration of a family of animal characters cutting down a Christmas tree in a winter forest covered in snow.
Video showing the drawing process of an illustration depicting a serpentine dragon with large horns in the ocean, silhouetted against the moon as light hits the tops of waves. @acbodnarart
Illustration of a serpentine dragon with large horns in the ocean, silhouetted against the moon as light hits the tops of waves. @acbodnarart
Postcard with an illustration showing two small fairies on a date in the hollow of a tree, one reaching out to the other as golden light sets through the trees alongside the text which reads: KidLit Author Illustrator | acbodnarart.com | @acbodnarart | Seeking Representation
Drawing process footage of a page of a children’s book being illustrated showing a landscape—mountains and a sunrise—being rendered in digital watercolors. @acbodnarart
Drawing process of three sketches of fennec foxes done digitally on a warm grey-toned background in pencils. @acbodnarart
Screenshot of text reading: D: Letter: • Beowulf, The Nowell Codex (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV fol. 147r) • The Black Hours (Morgan MS 493 fol. 15r) Frame: • The Cambridge bestiary (MS II.4.26 fol. 1v) Other inspirations: • Norton Priory’s undercroft • The watercolor "Conversation with Smaug" by J.R.R. Tolkien E: Letter: • Beowulf, The Nowell Codex (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV fol. 169r) • The Black Hours (Morgan MS 493 fol. 23r) Trees: • The Cambridge bestiary (Cambridge University Library MS II.4.26 fol. 45v) • The Cambridge bestiary (Cambridge University Library MS II.4.26 fol. 37v) Columns: • Book of Kells (IE TCD MS 58 fol. 4v) • Corpus Irish Gospels (Corpus Christi College MS 122 fol. 2v) • Lindisfarne Gospels (Cotton MS Nero D IV fol. 14v) Frame: • The Cambridge bestiary (MS II.4.26 fol. 1v)
Work in progress video showing part of the drawing process for a page in a picture book. @acbodnarart
Video showing the drawing process of an illustration of two ermines curled up in a blanket fort, one sleeping and the other reading and imagining a dragon. @acbodnarart
Brush pen art of two owls sitting on a branch, the one on the right preening the feathers of the other owl. @acbodnarart
Video showing the process of drawing an illustration of the KPop Demon Hunters character Rumi as the tarot card The Star. She is turned three-quarters away from the viewer, looking back over her shoulder and holding a sword. Below her is a city-scape of Seoul made out of waves of multicolored lines representing the honmoon from the original film. @acbodnarart
Illustration of the KPop Demon Hunters character Rumi as the tarot card The Star. She is turned three-quarters away from the viewer, looking back over her shoulder and holding a sword. Below her is a city-scape of Seoul made out of waves of multicolored lines representing the honmoon from the original film. @acbodnarart
Video of drawing process/timelapse of an illustration depicting a snake-like orange dragon swimming upwards from deep underwater @acbodnarart