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danielle taphanel
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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · Jan 14
Hello #PortfolioDay! I am a self-taught, disabled digital artist who loves folklore and all green and growing things.

Find me here:
🪷 danielletaphanel.com
🌴 linktr.ee/treelet
📥 [email protected]
a simple line drawing of a cityscape, punctuated by the violent impact of a human figure with a large abstract wing emerging from it. A digital color illustration of tall, thin, old growth trees in a forest which appear to lit up from within. At the center bottom of the image, a female figure drinks from a sake cup as a bloom of smoke emerges from her head. Around her are robed figures seated as if they were rock formations. Large fruit hang as abstract motifs within the trees. A panel of transparent hands, palms raised together, nests in the center of the image. A digital ink drawing of a human figure viewed from behind as they stand next to a pine tree while looking at the silhouette of a city in the distance. Their clothing drapes on the ground similarly to a pool and then forms a rivulet of water that "leaks" out of the panel into the frame. A digital watercolor painting of an altar for Guanyin with lit incense and a small basket of citrus fruit laid before her. The altar is in a lush courtyard garden, guarded by a solitary black cat. Succulents, bonsai, ferns, vines, flowering and fruiting trees, and plants of all kinds surround the altar, as incense smoke wafts into a pale blue sky.
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treelet.bsky.social
The Magician, private commission for Claire.
A digital color drawing of a female tiefling wearing bright orange robes, holding a staff, in front of a watery field of lotus flowers, framed by ferns, with a rising white tower in the distance.
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
Patrons get weekly access to the process of my next project, a false materia medica titled "On the Preparation and Use of Medicinal Divinities".

patreon.com/treelet
An image of two humanoid figures side-by-side, one with the head of a bird, the other with a star for a head. A crowned eye and a set of tangled, alien ribs is drawn on their chests. Behind them are circular star maps, and further back abstract organic tubes. Parts of them are labeled: eyes, mind, suffering, desire, flesh, blood. The title reads: "On the Preparation and Use of Medicinal Divinities by D. Taphanel"
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
Dawn #hnk #housekinokuni #宝石の国
A monochrome illustration featuring Phos from the manga Houseki no Kuni by Haruko Ichikawa. They are in their white final form, drawn with six arms and a large halo, in the center of a field against a not yet risen sun. The central panel is flanked with various drawings from nature, with a small series of drawings representing Phos's different stages underneath from right to left. The bottom panels show the markings on Phos's face, as well as a series of hand gestures, again read right to left.
October 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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thatweissguy.bsky.social
Right on.

A full English translation patch for Koei's Progenitor, a 1994 visual novel/RPG/strategy game for the PC98 that plays a little like Uncharted Waters....IN SPAAAAAAAACE.
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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saint-vagrant.bsky.social
without a new tent, my friend Ahmad's family of 11 is living under the precarious rubble of their destroyed home. they're very cold and very hungry. because of gfm's fees, he's switched to chuffed, which takes less of a cut. please consider helping him if you can ❤️‍🩹
chuffed.org/project/1572...
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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tamingservice.bsky.social
👁️🌫️⚔️♥️
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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georgeouthwaite.bsky.social
Hello, you can now buy this pdf of all my old landscapes and a few new ones ones too that you’ve never seen before
ko-fi.com/s/889e6eec9f
Book cover called In a Dust Cloud with a painting of an overgrown barn
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
Notes on abandoned Orpheus and Eurydice comic.
A series of line drawing thumbnails and sketches titled Orpheus and Eurydice (auloniad). The pages depict Orpheus's descent into the underworld, and small sketches of Eurydice during her wedding, a satyr, Charon the boat men, and Orpheus holding his lyre. The text reads: "she still exists in my mind in that moment, looks of anger, betrayal, sorrow -- perhaps contempt -- crossing her features. expressions alien to me as they had been to her in life. i try to avert her gaze in my memory."
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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formyths.bsky.social
new minicomic(s) - Formless Formless is a collection of 1-10 page exercises and experiments, partly made to try to get back into making comics again. About: a dream, a deal, fish, telling stories, remembering, or more. 24 pages, 5×7in, risograph printed in black (interiors) + bright gold (covers)
riso-printed cover for Formless Formless by A Liang Chan: the title is in spiky vertical almost illegible lettering in gold-brown, under small panels in black with snippets of scenes. Interior cover with table of contents and a fragmented comic of meeting someone you don't remember in a dream. A comic spread: "Sympathy" in lettering made of broken branches. A villager walks through a forest and finds a goose-like bird with an arrow through its neck, which begins to speak. A comic spread: on the left is a full page of the sky over the ocean, a silhouette looking out over the perfectly centered horizon. On the right, 3 people on an island go about various tasks, and meet on a terrace for a meal.
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
Notes for abandoned mermaid comic.
A page with line drawings depicting several versions of a mermaid, along with her mother the Sea Queen. The notes are labled "Sirena". The text reads from left to right: "She understood the price, of course: what are the damned, if not tender of heart and frail of temper? // The bargain struck like a storm. Of all pains, this was the worst: the horror of finally unbecoming but past that, the passionate relief of being // She is given a quill, a mirror, and a flute. The contract is in the empty song of the fluter's body. Her mother begins to cry, but pretends otherwise."
October 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
I found my notes on my "moth child empress dream eating" Bitsy game from a couple of years ago, so I decided to finish the script and started sketching rooms.
A 128x128 3 color pixel drawing of a temple covered in moss, with several figures surrounding a cocoon-egg. A 128x128 3 color pixel drawing of a room with paper screen walls and two symmetrical zen gardens. A 128x128 3 color pixel drawing of a dock in an overgrown swamp overlooking a large clutch of eggs. A 128x128 3 color pixel drawing of a larva inside an egg, surrounded by ringed halos of sparkling light.
October 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
"i'm in love with my own reflection, i'm in love with the fruited earth."
A green line drawing featuring a figure looking out the port window of a space craft unto the glowing planet below. Various plants sit on the table. The text beneath reads: "i'm in love with my own reflection, i'm in love with the fruited earth."
October 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
Album single cover for Andrew Boylan's "Heaven": open.spotify.com/album/3BvEly...
A digital album cover featuring two figures in repose inside transparent houses depicted in space. Representing the sun and moon, they are connected by a cosmic phone line that travels through the remains of an obliterated planet, their thoughts displayed as memories of the planet's primary wonders. The title "heaven" is written in the corner in ribbon script.
September 30, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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treelet.bsky.social
Triton, the moon rabbit. #ocsky
A digitally illustrated portrait of Triton, a moon rabbit with short, down-turned ears. They have pale blue skin, black eyes, short blue hair with blunt bangs, and a starburst shaped design on their chest.
February 3, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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treelet.bsky.social
Io, the moon rabbit. #ocsky
A digitally illustrated character sheet of IO, a moon rabbit. She has dark brown skin and wears a minimalist white sleeve-less jumpsuit with a rabbit head cowl attached that holds her locs. On her chest and back is a circular yellow symbol, similar to the one on her palms. She carries an oversized pink hammer, and rides a matching white "skateboard".
February 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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sweetfish.site
Նռան գույնը (the color of pomegranates, 1969) #lastwatched
a monastery, cut out like a collage the poet's muse covers her face the poet holds a book in a stark room thorny brambles
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
Old au ra drawing. #ffxiv #ff14
A line art drawing of a female Au Ra from the video fame Final Fantasy XIV. She has horns on either side of her head and a large lizard-like tail, and is wearing a complex, decorative set of plate mail on her hands and feed and shoulders. A color drawing of a female Au Ra from the video fame Final Fantasy XIV. She has horns on either side of her head and a large lizard-like tail, and is wearing a complex, decorative set of plate mail on her hands and feed and shoulders. Her body armor is made of red cloth and dyed black leather bodice with white scrollwork.
January 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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goblinstunts.bsky.social
Dreaming of Spring (risograph)
risograph print in yellow, blue and red. wintery catgirl asleep in the middle, surrounded by panels of spring imagery in a warm vibrant palette
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
2020 sketches
a sketch of a rat wearing glasses and various autumn outfits three sketches of anthropomorphic cats
January 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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georgeouthwaite.bsky.social
refining the dyeing process
(this is a new drawing to please take your time to enjoy it if you want)
drawing of bryony vines
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
untitled, or "borzoi" ✶ art by me, words by @dialhforhagai.bsky.social
First page of an untitled poetry comic by Danielle Taphanel: a small house stands in an arid valley, amidst massive human ribs arching above it. Three small panels display hands, dishes, and a window in a more simplified style. The text reads: I respect your decision to make your home inside me. I just think it would be nice if you could at least do the dishes every once in a while. Smoke billows from the house’s chimney; around the image of the house is the simplified form of a human body. Around that is a black-and-white frame patterned like nerve cells. The text reads: I feel you under my skin like a spider. The thought of you runs wild in me. It has no regard for spatiality. It doesn't mind any heights. In the first panel, a fuzzy, staticky view of a living room, overlaid with three silhouettes of a sighthound, running “through” the panel; the dog appears almost to be made out of fire. In the second panel, the dog lies down, an aura around its head. The text reads: It jumps on the furniture, carefree— beautiful, skeletal—like a borzoi. I’ll have to clean up after you. I’ve made my peace with that. Framed by the large rib-like arches, the house is now burning. The text reads: There was a time before all of this. There will be a time after, too. End.
January 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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treelet.bsky.social
Old commission for @artbyciel.bsky.social! #objecthead
A digital portrait illustration of a pink bunny-eared tv head character with several different types of flowers and greenery growing out of their head. Their screen reads, ". . ."
January 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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devilsblush.bsky.social
metal gear solid / psx
konami computer entertainment japan, 1998
August 11, 2023 at 10:45 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
This is my third game, about a small delivery robot in a ruined city. I wanted to explore things like: more descriptive text, game over states, inventories, cutscenes, etc. while telling a simpler story.

Music by @laurentds.bsky.social!

DELIVERY: treelet.itch.io/delivery
#bitsy #interactivefiction
a title screen with a pixel icon envelope: delivery, art and words by danielle taphanel a pixel screenshot of some ruined buildings viewed from afar, emitting signals. a pixel screenshot of a hermetically sealed room viewed from above with a highlighted sprite of a person. a pixel screenshot of the top of a tall building in isometric view with a small highlighted cursor over an entrance shaft.
December 31, 2024 at 3:43 AM
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alexanderchee.bsky.social
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM