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Vaelyane
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🇫🇷 | Kael | 34 | He/They Genderqueer illustrator based near Strasbourg, France. 🎨 Watercolours & digital paintings. 🖌 Currently focusing on personal art & zines. No Gen•A•I. ⭐ https://linktr.ee/vaelyane ✨ #art #watercolor
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · Oct 18
Time for a pinned post!
Hey! I'm Kael, a queer illustrator from Strasbourg, France. I love watercolours, digital art, fantasy, nature & monsters. :D

I'm chronically ill and don't update often, but I put my whole heart in my work. Enjoy your stay!

My links:
⭐ linktr.ee/vaelyane
⭐ cara.app/vaelyane
Crop of a digital painting representing a handsome Krampus. Crop of a watercolour painting representing a confused mouse wearing a monk's habit. Watercolour painting depicting a swimmer and a merman meeting for a fleeting second underwater. Digital portrait of a merperson in front of an ornate frame.
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Newt 👁️🦎 @eyeofthenewt.bsky.social · 1h
Hi #portfolioday
I'm Newt, a freelance artist, roleplayer and a folklore nerd based in Prague, Czechia.

Looking for work at the moment and would love to do more book covers, book illustration, TTRPG art and game/animation concept art!

Portfolio: eyeofthenewt.com
Socials: linktr.ee/EyeOfTheNewt
a cropped detail of a digital illustration showing a crazed village woman mid-transformation into a corvid demon. the light from the moon is red and she is levitating in a corn field, her body contorting and a crazed smile adorning her face. a digifal illustration depicting a sunlit forest clearing on which a ruined fort stands. its built of white stone with ivy slowly overtaking it a d through out the image, there are a few goblins scattered, patrolling the grounds. the one we see most clearly, on the foreground carries a spear and a grin on his face. portrait of a brown haired pale man done in the style of an old looking oil painting. it is contained on a thin oval frame a d lit by a single point above. it shows a man wringing out his hands on a dirty rag. he is dressed in a worn white shirt, daek waiscoat and a pale yellow necktie. his hair is falling loosely around his face in a messy ponytail and gis face bears marks of decay. his eyes are glazed over like eyes of a corpse and he has the look of tightly concealed anguish on his face. digital illustration depicting riders dressed in decorated, east slavic folklore inspired garb, mounted on giant goats, flying thru the sunset-lit orange sky. they have gleefull expressions on their face and are adorned in many shiny pieces of jewelery.
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 1h
Merci Giz ! On verra bien.
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 1h
I wasn't even aware there were dates :'D (don't tell me, I'd rather not know!)
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 1h
Oh c'est absolument adorable !
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June @junemarsch.bsky.social · 4h
Catching up with Drawtober !
i wanted to wait until the plates were fired but i fumbled my timing so anyway, here's the first entry:

Candlelit Messenger

All the drawtober plates will be available in the next shop update

[ #drawtober] [ #2D] [ #ceramic]
Drawtober entry: Candlelit Messenger A little girl with wolf ears and tail is running is the night with a big candle staff She has an enveloppe in one of her hands and a messenger bag full of enveloppes A Crow carrying a candle is following her Crow and girl are in blue/dark blue colors and the moon, stars, candle flames and enveloppe are in warm yellow Same drawing of the wolf girl running in the night but drawn on a ceramic plate
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 8h
It's not just that... it's the constant physical pain, fatigue and discomfort on top of it. My body is worn out from feeling sick every day for an abominably long stretch of time, and my health just isn't bouncing back. It's getting worse.

I have ideas for art, but I'm too exhausted to work...
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 9h
Thank you 💖
I've barely had the strength to paint anything at all, this year. It feels more and more like the struggle isn't really worth it.

I'm in bed with a migraine right now, and I hope it's just the pain talking... but most days are like that. 😔
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 10h
Hang in there Cyra! 🫂
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 10h
Every meme, every art share, and every portfolio day, I am reminded that I am too slow and too tired for social media. 🥲

Mes excuses aux gentils nouveaux abonnés qui débarquent d'un starter pack sans savoir que la maladie me sape tout mon courage et mon énergie ces derniers temps. 💔
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✦𝖕𝖊𝖏𝖓𝖙✦ @pejntboks.bsky.social · 1d
Hi again #PortfolioDay❤️‍🔥

I'm an illustrator specializing in queer themes, bold colors, intricate & ornate designs and pushing shapes. I'm looking to join more interesting projects in 2026!!

🫶available for private & commercial work
🎮exp in gamedev & TTRPGs
🎨 bit.ly/42btYYA
💌 [email protected]
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𓍊🍄Tarto𓋼𓍊 @tartospleen.bsky.social · May 8
Je suis fière de vous montrer le résultat de ma dernière illustration sur le thème des insectes : "punk-a-bee", inspirée d'une abeille charpentière !!

My latest bug-themed watercolor illustration : "punk-a-bee", based on a carpenter bee !!

#bug #bugs #art #bugart #bugsart #bee #bees #watercolor
Illustration d'une abeille noire aux ailes fumées inspirée d'une abeille charpentière. Elle a des motifs de dragon tatoués sur les ailes et des piercings et chaînes argentés.
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 6d
Happy birthday Cyra! :D
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Cyra 杨金丽 @cyrabaine.com · 7d
Hi, I'm Cyra! And it’s my BIRTHDAY! 🎂🎉

I'm freelance illustrator who loves to paint gorgeous fantasy ladies AND some video game fanarts on the side! It would be the greatest gift for me today if you ❤️ and 🔄 my artworks! Best of all, it costs you $0 to do so!
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 7d
"Niccolo", the 2nd 2025 graduation short film from french Gobelins school, is online.
Directed by Clémentine Di Prizio, David Florian, Axelle Granet, Sirui Liu, Hugo Michalet & Njolai Pachomius.
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=O515...
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 6d
I read it again just yesterday and it's an absolute joy every time. I would buy a physical copy in a heartbeat if one were to be released, import fees from France be damned!
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Katerina Solomko @katsolomkoart.bsky.social · 7d
Commission for @waanmo.bsky.social
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · Sep 16
Fall is almost upon us! Seeing people share pumpkins made me want to post this gentle pumpkin wizard digital piece I made for last year's fall season.
I was still coming out of a long artblock (and broke my tablet pen) at the time, but I hope it can still brings a few smiles to your faces!

#art
Digital illustration of a wizard wearing a pointy had, pointy shoes and a cape, holding a tiny pumpkin creature sleeping in his arms. Other pumpkins at his feet are trying to get his attention.
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Julia Lundman 🎃 @paintkatt.bsky.social · 8d
Some pumpkin studies 🎃
A page of pumpkin studies Pumpkins of different sizes and shapes, some with whimsical stems Close up
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 8d
The traditional result was truly worth it! It looks incredible. Excellent work!
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Tiffany Baxter @ MCM Q-11 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 9d
💀The Ghostly Galliard💀
An illustration of two lesbian ghosts dancing. The left hand ghost wears a 1760s silk sack gown, the right hand wears an early 1500s style gown with puffed sleeves and a short cape with feathered beret. They are both blue and translucent. They are in a heavily wooded and overgrown graveyard, a lone candle burning with a blue flame sits on top of a slab grave beneath them. The illustrated border shows as follows: On top, clasping carved stone hands emerging from yew branches with berries. To the sides: tin lanterns with candles burning, carved stone hourglasses & carved stone broken columns. Beneath: Vaults based upon the Circle of Lebanon at Highgate Cemetery flanked by trees.
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 8d
So elegant and mysterious!
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evermeer @evermeer.bsky.social · 10d
A commission of Lazarus for @adomania.bsky.social ✨
#Art
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MarMar @marmaruu.bsky.social · 11d
Tarot comms ✨
I miss doing these

#digitalart #commissions #tarot
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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 11d
This. Is. Why. I. Paint.
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 11d
Art vs Artist
Detailed watercolour painting of an encounter between a teal merman and an awestruck swimmer underwater. Kelp and red algae frame and decorate the undulating composition. It was painted for FATHOMS, a wonderful zine, a few years ago. Picture of the artist wearing an off-white t-shirt. A seemingly young person with short hair and pale skin. It is all very beige and painfully backlit, taken from the bastion of my bed.
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