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Heiða Rafns

@heidarafns.bsky.social

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Fantasy & Nature Illustrator | Concept Artist | Based in 🇮🇸 📯Message me for commission and art print inquiries 📯 https://www.heidarafns.com/

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · Aug 12

Prepping for the holidays🎄

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · Jul 30

Last week I made Christmas cookies, "Jólasmákökur"🎄

Reposted by Heiða Rafns

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · Jul 13

🖼️ Edith Holden

Meadow Crane's-bill (Geranium pratense).
Yellow Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris):
Also known as Common Toadflax or Butter-and-Eggs,
Magpie Moth.
Illustration.

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · Jul 10

He seems to want something from you. I dont think it's anything good.
An illustration from ladt year for #folklorethursday

A painting of a moody, mystical merman in green and dark brown inks. He looks unnerving and is staring straight at the viewer with glowing eyes and mouth like he's whispering something scary.

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · Jul 9

Ah, I see😄🐑🐏

Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · Jul 9

Really like these!

Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · Jul 8

Working on the last page of the pitch.

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · Jul 9

Have a wonderful time and watch out for the road-sheep if you exit the capital🐑😁 🇮🇸

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · Jul 5

Appropriate when vacationing in Dýrafjörður, or "Animal-fjord", in Iceland✏️ Paradise for animal and nature lovers🦀❤️

Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · Jul 5

☀️The Sun, older than everything ☀️

Print version, right, and original painting, left. Inks, black pastels, gouache and minor digital touchups.

Very happy with how my Epson p900 is handling the warm, dark colours 🖨

#fantasyillustration #fantasyart

A photograph of a warm yellow and brown sheet of printed illustration in inks and black pastels, lying on a wooden table. The illustration shows a round face sitting in the middle of a brownish yellow background, surrounded by a dark brown frame. It's the Sun, with twirling swirls around it, looking like hair or rays of sunshine. Below the sun there lies a tight cluster of dark blueish green and round shaped clouds, some with vaguely shaped faces.

Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · Jun 17

Newsletter here ➡️
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Back to the drawing board with my latest illustration, called Squishy!

How I plan to find out what I love most doing in art and why. Includes a process description of my latest illustration, my Squishy creature.

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · Jun 17

This is Squishy, a kind of a cross between a crustacean and a jellyfish.

This is my first finalised personal illustration of the year! I talk about the process and about my goals for the rest of 2025, in my latest newsletter on my website. See link in comments.

#fantasyart #fantasyartist

A top down photograph of a printed A4 size illustration, with white borders, lying on the tray of a black printer.

The illustration shows a yelowish-brown colored creature floating in a greenblue colored ocean, above brown seaweed.

The creature is kind of a cross between a crustacean and jellyfish and with airpockets growing out of its upper body. The creature has long jellyfish like tentacles hanging down from it's body and some ofbthese have airdrops hanging at the ends.

It is reminiscent of one of the Ohmu creature in the the Studio Ghibli film Nausicaa.

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · Jun 16

I'm not used to writing my own stories, but this might be a start of a story, right?

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · Jun 16

Building characters for a story about a jellyfish that also has a whale i it. Just needs a name... and a story 👀
🪼🐳🪼🐳🪼🐳🪼🐳🪼🐳🪼

#illustration #kidlitart #kidlit #childrensbookillustration

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · Jun 15

Thank you 🥰

Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · Jun 15

Everyone seems to be sleeping.

This quiet row of houses got finished yesterday.

#illustration #illustrationartist #illustrator #fantasyillustration

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · May 29

From my morning walk with my husband up a small Icelandic mountain, Ùlfarsfell 🥰

I was a bit nervous about how it would go after having problems with my back for the last year. Happy to say that it went great and this artist is in very good shape😃🏃‍♀️

Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · May 24

Sketching houses🏠🏘

Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · May 24

I'm not sure.

Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · May 24

Kærar þakkir🤗

Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · May 24

Beautiful morning! Hope you'll have a good day to be enthusiastic, creative or just to recharge and relax🤗

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Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · May 22

This is me 10 years ago, holding my diploma at my graduation! So very happy I did this and that I'm still working as an artist and designer 🥰🎉🎈

Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · May 19

Got myself an original Rasmus Klump comic in Denmark, sn original first edition. My grandmother gave me my first one, translated in Icelandic. This one is my first Rasmus Klump in the original language🇩🇰❤️

Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · May 17

I'm here in wonderful Denmark, the land of HC Andersen❤️🇩🇰

I rarely travel, especially when compared to many Icelanders. Maybe it's normal for island living people to want to travel abroad a lot, or maybe it's the viking genes still in us 😄

Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · May 8

My lifelong hero and influencer Sir David Attenborough celebrates his 99th today! A wonderful human being that has had a huge impact on my life like so many others. I've even met him in person!

Today I'll be extra thankfull for everything he has done for us ❤️
#davidattenborough

Heiða Rafns @heidarafns.bsky.social · Apr 27

Thank you😃