Jana Heidersdorf
@checanty.bsky.social
Illustrator of dark fantasy. Also nature photography.
https://janaheidersdorf.com/
https://janaheidersdorf.com/
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Hi--I'm Jana, fantasy artist and illustrator of everything hauntingly beautiful 🖤
You can find my (freshly updated) portfolio here: janaheidersdorf.com
Contact: [email protected]
You can find my (freshly updated) portfolio here: janaheidersdorf.com
Contact: [email protected]
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A little more on the process of illustrating (the interior of) Honeyeater — including a complete sketch-through of thematic motifs, as a treat for those who have read it!
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Honeyeater’s interior illustrations: experiments and sketch notes
As I posted previously, my first tests for how to decorate the interior of Honeyeater were too vertical: Beginning to illustrate the inside of Honeyeater: Chateau Orquevaux I knew I wanted somethin…
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December 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A little more on the process of illustrating (the interior of) Honeyeater — including a complete sketch-through of thematic motifs, as a treat for those who have read it!
tanaudel.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/h...
tanaudel.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/h...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Continuing my series of bird neighbour portraits - is there a more overlooked bird than the dunnock?
December 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Continuing my series of bird neighbour portraits - is there a more overlooked bird than the dunnock?
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happy black friday! please accept 25% off everything in my shoppe to celebrate! 🏳️⚧️🌿💖
nooskaart.etsy.com
nooskaart.etsy.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
happy black friday! please accept 25% off everything in my shoppe to celebrate! 🏳️⚧️🌿💖
nooskaart.etsy.com
nooskaart.etsy.com
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I'm having a little sale before I close my shop for winter break! 20% off everything but original art, automatically applied at checkout.
Check out the Green & Gather zine as a gift for tarot loving creative friends!
Check out the Green & Gather zine as a gift for tarot loving creative friends!
Green & Gather: A Tarot Journaling Zine for the Seasons of Creativity — Sam Guay
Green & Gather is a zine that combines journaling and tarot to explore beginnings, inspiration, and connection with your inner voice.
These tarot spreads were born from struggling to understand the b...
samguay.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I'm having a little sale before I close my shop for winter break! 20% off everything but original art, automatically applied at checkout.
Check out the Green & Gather zine as a gift for tarot loving creative friends!
Check out the Green & Gather zine as a gift for tarot loving creative friends!
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On Small Business Saturday, think of the small indie presses doing their best to publish interesting anthologies and support worthy authors - aanpress.com. We ship quickly. #scifi #fantasy #smallbusinesssaturday
November 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
On Small Business Saturday, think of the small indie presses doing their best to publish interesting anthologies and support worthy authors - aanpress.com. We ship quickly. #scifi #fantasy #smallbusinesssaturday
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Little chill video 🍂 proooobably the last for a while as I'm buried in work 🥲
Forest walks & trying out new watercolors (Mijello paint)
YouTube video by Bramblings
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Little chill video 🍂 proooobably the last for a while as I'm buried in work 🥲
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I’m really excited to share that I won the Frank R. Paul Award for Best Magazine Cover Art! My painting Stasis, a self-portrait about invisible illness, was featured on the cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 58 🖤
#art #painting #portrait #illustration
#art #painting #portrait #illustration
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I’m really excited to share that I won the Frank R. Paul Award for Best Magazine Cover Art! My painting Stasis, a self-portrait about invisible illness, was featured on the cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 58 🖤
#art #painting #portrait #illustration
#art #painting #portrait #illustration
Little chill video 🍂 proooobably the last for a while as I'm buried in work 🥲
Forest walks & trying out new watercolors (Mijello paint)
YouTube video by Bramblings
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Little chill video 🍂 proooobably the last for a while as I'm buried in work 🥲
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Here's the cover illustration I had the pleasure of painting for 'The Shape of Monsters' by @tessagratton.bsky.social , for Orbit Books!
It's Book 2 of The Moon Heresies trilogy and sequel to The Mercy Makers 🌔
Out June 2026!
It's Book 2 of The Moon Heresies trilogy and sequel to The Mercy Makers 🌔
Out June 2026!
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Here's the cover illustration I had the pleasure of painting for 'The Shape of Monsters' by @tessagratton.bsky.social , for Orbit Books!
It's Book 2 of The Moon Heresies trilogy and sequel to The Mercy Makers 🌔
Out June 2026!
It's Book 2 of The Moon Heresies trilogy and sequel to The Mercy Makers 🌔
Out June 2026!
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❤️ Support Human Artists ❤️
Share their work, drop them a kind word, tip their ko-fis, join their patreons...it matters more than you think.
We have to show up for each other while we still can. We have to uplift each other.
Share their work, drop them a kind word, tip their ko-fis, join their patreons...it matters more than you think.
We have to show up for each other while we still can. We have to uplift each other.
May 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
❤️ Support Human Artists ❤️
Share their work, drop them a kind word, tip their ko-fis, join their patreons...it matters more than you think.
We have to show up for each other while we still can. We have to uplift each other.
Share their work, drop them a kind word, tip their ko-fis, join their patreons...it matters more than you think.
We have to show up for each other while we still can. We have to uplift each other.
Normal people meeting my cat: Utterly enchanted
My grandpa: Why is your cat fat? She isn't exactly a great beauty, couldn't you get a better one?
My grandpa: Why is your cat fat? She isn't exactly a great beauty, couldn't you get a better one?
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Normal people meeting my cat: Utterly enchanted
My grandpa: Why is your cat fat? She isn't exactly a great beauty, couldn't you get a better one?
My grandpa: Why is your cat fat? She isn't exactly a great beauty, couldn't you get a better one?
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This idea that there is only one acceptable way that art is good needs to be squashed. It's utterly wrong and kills personal progress. It prevents people from exploring, from making "bad" art.
Hot tip: EVERY artist makes "bad" art. It's ok! It's expected! It's still art though, it's still you.
Hot tip: EVERY artist makes "bad" art. It's ok! It's expected! It's still art though, it's still you.
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This idea that there is only one acceptable way that art is good needs to be squashed. It's utterly wrong and kills personal progress. It prevents people from exploring, from making "bad" art.
Hot tip: EVERY artist makes "bad" art. It's ok! It's expected! It's still art though, it's still you.
Hot tip: EVERY artist makes "bad" art. It's ok! It's expected! It's still art though, it's still you.
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"Wintergreen"
Watercolor on hot press. 14.5x20"
On view now as part of my solo exhibition, "Fruiting Bodies" at @poetictigergallery.bsky.social
View the show: poetictiger.com/collections/... #watercolor
Watercolor on hot press. 14.5x20"
On view now as part of my solo exhibition, "Fruiting Bodies" at @poetictigergallery.bsky.social
View the show: poetictiger.com/collections/... #watercolor
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
"Wintergreen"
Watercolor on hot press. 14.5x20"
On view now as part of my solo exhibition, "Fruiting Bodies" at @poetictigergallery.bsky.social
View the show: poetictiger.com/collections/... #watercolor
Watercolor on hot press. 14.5x20"
On view now as part of my solo exhibition, "Fruiting Bodies" at @poetictigergallery.bsky.social
View the show: poetictiger.com/collections/... #watercolor
Cover reveal! ✨ My cover artwork for 'Under A Carnivore Sky' by Brianna Jett and published by Page Street
Title design: Caitlyn Boyd
Title design: Caitlyn Boyd
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Cover reveal! ✨ My cover artwork for 'Under A Carnivore Sky' by Brianna Jett and published by Page Street
Title design: Caitlyn Boyd
Title design: Caitlyn Boyd
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Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
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on this week of trans awareness week pls consider supporting a trans artist, thank you! 🏳️⚧️
apologies for beating this absolutely perished horse but i woke up to yet ✨another✨ job rejection, if you like what i do and have the means i'd appreciate any and all support, thank you 💖🌿
🛒 nooskaart.etsy.com
☕ ko-fi.com/nooska
🌸 nooskadraws.gumroad.com
🛒 nooskaart.etsy.com
☕ ko-fi.com/nooska
🌸 nooskadraws.gumroad.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
on this week of trans awareness week pls consider supporting a trans artist, thank you! 🏳️⚧️
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if your walls have empty spaces and you want to fill them with pretty art:
I have a print shop! on INPRNT
🔸 www.inprnt.com/gallery/ddb.... 🔸
they're always running sales and the print quality is *chef's kiss*
OR
if you're more of a ✨fancy collector✨ I also sell originals from time to time!
I have a print shop! on INPRNT
🔸 www.inprnt.com/gallery/ddb.... 🔸
they're always running sales and the print quality is *chef's kiss*
OR
if you're more of a ✨fancy collector✨ I also sell originals from time to time!
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
if your walls have empty spaces and you want to fill them with pretty art:
I have a print shop! on INPRNT
🔸 www.inprnt.com/gallery/ddb.... 🔸
they're always running sales and the print quality is *chef's kiss*
OR
if you're more of a ✨fancy collector✨ I also sell originals from time to time!
I have a print shop! on INPRNT
🔸 www.inprnt.com/gallery/ddb.... 🔸
they're always running sales and the print quality is *chef's kiss*
OR
if you're more of a ✨fancy collector✨ I also sell originals from time to time!
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The Yule ornament collection is live ✨
Do you have a favourite? :)
Painting these was the highlight of my November, art-wise. I hope they'll bring some magic to people's homes this Yule 🎄
etsy.com/shop/natasailincic
Do you have a favourite? :)
Painting these was the highlight of my November, art-wise. I hope they'll bring some magic to people's homes this Yule 🎄
etsy.com/shop/natasailincic
November 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The Yule ornament collection is live ✨
Do you have a favourite? :)
Painting these was the highlight of my November, art-wise. I hope they'll bring some magic to people's homes this Yule 🎄
etsy.com/shop/natasailincic
Do you have a favourite? :)
Painting these was the highlight of my November, art-wise. I hope they'll bring some magic to people's homes this Yule 🎄
etsy.com/shop/natasailincic
What do you do when your cat comes to sleep on you but you actually wanted to get up? It seems cruel to disturb her but also I'm losing hours to being a comfy cat bed, please send advice 🥲
November 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
What do you do when your cat comes to sleep on you but you actually wanted to get up? It seems cruel to disturb her but also I'm losing hours to being a comfy cat bed, please send advice 🥲
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Sharing my art, my shop, my ko-fi… anything helps. I’m really struggling with the mire right now.
I’ll gladly accept a Kroger gift card, even. Thank you! ✨
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/kellymckernan
Shop: www.kellymckernan.com/shop
I’ll gladly accept a Kroger gift card, even. Thank you! ✨
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/kellymckernan
Shop: www.kellymckernan.com/shop
November 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Sharing my art, my shop, my ko-fi… anything helps. I’m really struggling with the mire right now.
I’ll gladly accept a Kroger gift card, even. Thank you! ✨
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/kellymckernan
Shop: www.kellymckernan.com/shop
I’ll gladly accept a Kroger gift card, even. Thank you! ✨
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/kellymckernan
Shop: www.kellymckernan.com/shop
As some of you might be starting to look into presents to buy, here's a little reminder of my Mermaid Book 🖤
You could support an artist, an indie publisher AND make a mermaid or fantasy creature lover very happy!
www.eyeofnewtpress.com/collections/...
You could support an artist, an indie publisher AND make a mermaid or fantasy creature lover very happy!
www.eyeofnewtpress.com/collections/...
Dr. C. Lillefisk's Sirenology
Dive into Dr. C. Lillefisk’s Sirenology. Sketches, notes, and details reveal the secret world of mermaids lurking just beneath the waves of planet Earth's lakes, oceans, and seas. Lillefisk studies ea...
www.eyeofnewtpress.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
As some of you might be starting to look into presents to buy, here's a little reminder of my Mermaid Book 🖤
You could support an artist, an indie publisher AND make a mermaid or fantasy creature lover very happy!
www.eyeofnewtpress.com/collections/...
You could support an artist, an indie publisher AND make a mermaid or fantasy creature lover very happy!
www.eyeofnewtpress.com/collections/...
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I've been a member of the Changeling Artist Collective for years + we are relaunching monthly auctions starting this week with our Deck the Halls event!
www.facebook.com/media/set/?v...
If you don't use FB that's totally okay! I can take anonymous bids. These are 4 of my 8 offerings.
www.facebook.com/media/set/?v...
If you don't use FB that's totally okay! I can take anonymous bids. These are 4 of my 8 offerings.
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I've been a member of the Changeling Artist Collective for years + we are relaunching monthly auctions starting this week with our Deck the Halls event!
www.facebook.com/media/set/?v...
If you don't use FB that's totally okay! I can take anonymous bids. These are 4 of my 8 offerings.
www.facebook.com/media/set/?v...
If you don't use FB that's totally okay! I can take anonymous bids. These are 4 of my 8 offerings.
If you see this, post your bird art!
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
If you see this, post your bird art!
is dreaming about starting a bookish business with your friends the millennial midlife crisis? 📚👻
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
is dreaming about starting a bookish business with your friends the millennial midlife crisis? 📚👻