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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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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 1d
Happy birthday Cyra! :D
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Cyra 杨金丽 @cyrabaine.com · 1d
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 · 1d
"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 · 1d
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 · 2d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
The traditional result was truly worth it! It looks incredible. Excellent work!
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Tiffany Baxter @ MCM Q-11 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 3d
💀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 · 3d
So elegant and mysterious!
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evermeer @evermeer.bsky.social · 5d
A commission of Lazarus for @adomania.bsky.social ✨
#Art
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MarMar @marmaruu.bsky.social · 5d
Tarot comms ✨
I miss doing these

#digitalart #commissions #tarot
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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 6d
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 · 6d
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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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 7d
So expressive!
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 7d
I love the RP part of the game, it was one of the main draws! But I still can't stay in character or do a voice for long, or for an entire game. I feel ill all the time, and I can't always focus properly. It has to be casual. I talk ooc often.

The show is just a reminder that I Cannot RP "Right".
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 7d
Oh what a delightful treat! This is so cute!
I hope the campaign will bring you much joy and that you'll be able to draw your adorable cat to your heart's content :D
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 7d
That sounds adorable! I already love your little tabaxi cat 😭I am rooting for them and their sheep!

Truth is, there are MANY ways to play the game. It's all fine as long as the entire group is on the same page; if they're not... that can lead to very uncomfortable experiences.
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 7d
That makes a lot of sense!

(funnily enough, I don't get FOMO from things like these anymore, even though I get it often for ordinary stuff 😅)
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 7d
An excellent reminder! It's a great point to start with.

It's a relief I didn't watch any of it before I got started. It's easy to avoid something. Unlearning it once you've had a taste... that's hard.😅
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 7d
I KNEW I COULDN'T BE THE ONLY ONE!
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 7d
I know it's different from actual play, of course. The cast is all professional voice actors, etc.
But I'm extremely self-conscious and I'd rather stay unaware of all the ways I suck at that too. :')
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 7d
Confession: I can't watch D&D shows like Critical Role. 🥲

I love D&D with friends, but as Someone Who Fails Horribly at Most Human Things, I'd feel horribly inadequate upon seeing how a game is "supposed" to be played, compared to what I'm doing. This could legitimately ruin the game for me.
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · 8d
The Mikeno!!! So far ahead I couldn't believe my eyes, I hope the crew gets to shore!
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simone @lordofnowhere.bsky.social · 8d
On Love and Lepidoptery is a comic about butterflies, pining, and hiking, and you can get it now from ShortBox Comics Fair!!! (link down below)
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