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Elsa Velasco

@evelasco.bsky.social

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Illustrator. Writer. Game master. Neurodivergent. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Queer. They/She. https://linktr.ee/evelasco.art

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Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hi #PortfolioDay!

I'm Elsa, book cover illustrator focused on fantasy, sci-fi and horror. I have a soft spot for nature, symbolism and hidden details. Currently available for freelance work!

💼 elsavelasco.com
✉️ [email protected]

Illustration of a long-haired man sleeping. There are worlds melting in his hair, the skyline of Portland before him and Mount Hood in the background

Illustration of a man praying and looking back. There are flames and insects surrounding him.

Illustration of a wide-open eye surrounded by leaves. There’s a white neuron in his iris

Self portrait of myself, a short-haired white person, holding my mouth with my hand. There’s a hole in my chest with a white crow trapped in crooked and spiked vines. Black crows are flying in the background

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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 1d

I've been working in sketchbooks more as part of a class assignment; here are some of my recent sketches 👉👈 I've been trying to draw what comes to me in the moment, and not worry too much about the output or making everything perfect, but also put time into each to make it feel 'done' as a sketch.

Graphite and white charcoal sketch on toned paper of a woman with stylized hair

Graphite and white charcoal sketch on toned paper of a figure with a stylized owl headdress. The wings of the headdress cover the figure's eyes.

A graphite sketch of a a face surrounded by a sphere of churning, splashing water

A graphite sketch of a beared man with a sword plunging through his forehead and out his chin (in a stylized, non gory way).

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Sygnin / DTIYS pinned! @sygnin.com · 2d

Day 6 for #repostober

The widow.

The concept was better in my head than how it turned out, but I still like it conceptually.

#darkart

Art of a woman in a black dress and veil, holding a knife with some blood. She is standing in a graveyard at night with a small chapel in the background

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Abel Klaer @superstarfighter.bsky.social · 6d

Book Cover Artists!

QRP with your book covers 📖

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Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · 6d

Then I cut the kind words, draw a silly doodle to go with them and stick the piece of paper around my desk, as a reminder.

Haven’t had to do it in some time, but it really used to help!

Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · 6d

After spilling it all out, self-compassion ends up appearing. I see all the shit out there scribbled in wobbly letters and think: oh wow, no-one deserves that, lemme write something kind to whatever part of myself is thinking all that.

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Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · 6d

Oh I just remembered something that helps on really bad days. Whenever I’m struggling with self-kindness, I’ll get a scrap of paper and just write whatever I’m feeling that’s getting in the way of feeling that kindness. Just get it all out, unfiltered and raw.

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Sygnin / DTIYS pinned! @sygnin.com · 6d

I'm not sure if I have enough existing dark/spooky art to do #repostober every day, but well let's see.

Scary unicorn today!

#darktober #darkart

Art of a scary red unicorn with white mane and tail

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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 6d

Celeste dos Cravos (2025), acrylic gouache (+ tiny bit of watercolour) on hot pressed paper (A3)

The traditional version of the illustration I painted digitally last year, now as I had first envisioned it :)

Illustration by Eleonor Piteira featuring a woman on a balcony, holding a bouquet of red carnations, giving one of them to a soldier passing below, placing it on the muzzle of his gun while he looks up at her. All around, other soldiers walk beside him, some wearing red carnations on the muzzles of their guns too, others waiting for their turn to get one. On the background, Portuguese tiles frame the woman, while the balcony's railing slowly transforms into a streetlamp typical of Lisbon (with a caravel and 2 ravens, the symbols of the city).

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Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · 6d

Omg coolest shirt ever!!!! 🖤 May I ask if the pattern be found online? Been crocheting for years, now thinking about jumping into knitting. This would surely be great motivation to learn 👀

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Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · 6d

Sending lots of strength, and hoping therapy helps you 🙏🏻

Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · 6d

I was there a while ago too. After years of therapy, it’s become easier (still requires a lot of effort sometimes). Can’t say for certain what exactly helped the most, but trauma-informed therapy (parts therapy, EMDR) surely made a change, as did for some friends, who are doing much better now

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Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · 6d

I’m sorry this is happening to you. Can’t say if this is normal, but it’s certainly frequent. From my experience, it seems to be super frequent among queer people, and also among artists (esp non white cis straight men). You’re not alone. Glad that you’re in therapy, it gets better with time 🫂

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Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · 8d

I’m innnnnnnn if you wanna 🧡

Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · 8d

Like… what the heck

Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · 8d

I swear I’m not doing this on purpose, just going for the colors that fit each piece! Start far from these palettes, but then as I play with color and light always end up falling into those two very specific palettes HUH

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Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · 8d

Currently illustrating a sapphic story and COINCIDENTALLY my color palettes keep reverting to:

a) The bi flag
b) The lesbian flag

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Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · 9d

Happy birthday!!! 💙

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Eren Angiolini @erenangiolini.com · 9d

It's my birthday! As a gift, can I ask you to share my art?🙏

I love drawing vibrant fantasy illustrations, especially in the field of TTRPGs. And speaking of TTRPGs, check out the post below for more fantasy goodness ⬇️✨

Illustration of Mollymauk Tealeaf from Critical Role's the Mighty Nein. Molly is sitting and smiling at some shiny moths that are playfully surrounding him. Around him there is an art nouveau inspired arched frame.

Illustration of Caduceus Clasy from Critical Role's the Mighty Nein.
Caduceus is sitting with a serene expression, playing with some golden butterflies surrounding him. Around him there is an art nouveau inspired arched frame.

Illustration of a blue-skinned character with asymmetrical horns, reminiscent of a half moon. The character is casting a pearlescent, bright spell. They're in a room at night, standing on a decorated pedestal on the floor, in front of shelves full of books.

Illustration of a knight and a pegasus, behind them a blue sky with golden sunset clouds.
The knight is wearing shining, ceremonial armour in silver, blue and gold. In one hand he holds his helmet, the other hand is stroking the nose of the pegasus. The knight’s head rests delicately on the horse’s, in a gesture of delicate friendship. The pegasus is raising one of his wings to hug the knight in return of the gesture.

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Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · 10d

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Haruka Kanata/はるかかなた @haruka-kanata.bsky.social · 11d

Internet Archive and several national libraries' online archives have quite a few art nouveau books in public domain. They can be great references for fantasy artists. My favorite is this The Four Sons of Aymon illustrated by Eugène Grasset: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

Histoire des quatre fils Aymon : très nobles et très vaillans chevaliers / ill. de compositions en coul. par Eugène Grasset ; gravure et impression par Charles Gillot ; introduction et notes par Charl...

gallica.bnf.fr

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 11d

The agony of changing shape- 2025

My art, digital. A comic panel style of a women shapeshifting into a werewolf

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Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · 11d

Oh, forgot to link my website (portfolio is book cover oriented and doesn’t have that much explicitly queer stuff at the moment) elsavelasco.com

Elsa Velasco

Portfolio of freelance illustrator Elsa Velasco, based in Barcelona.

elsavelasco.com

Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · 11d

Hiii! Thanks for doing this! Bi ace enby here who loves to draw all sorts of queer characters and queer + queer-platonic relationships 💜

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Elsa Velasco @evelasco.bsky.social · 11d

BOOK COVER ARTISTS

QRP with your book covers

#BookCovers

1. Literary magazine Narranación
2. Notes From the Burning Age (Chronos)
3. Elder Race (Chronos)
4. The Ten Percent Thief (Chronos)

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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 12d

BOOK COVER ARTISTS

QRP with your book covers #BookCovers

Cover illustration by Eleonor Piteira of the book 'To Clutch A Razor' by Veronica Roth, featuring two identical men standing in the same pose, one of them has a gold halo around his head and is holding a gold book with pages flying away from it. One of the pages has a drawing of a sword. On the background tile rooftops and a church are painted red.

Book cover illustration by Eleonor Piteira of the book 'Evocation' by S.T. Gibson, featuring a blond man in a dark suit upside down in the hanged man tarot pose, with a mysterious red hand grabbing at his chest. He is framed by a silver border.

Cover illustration by Eleonor Piteira of the book 'The Mercy Makers' by Tessa Gratton, where a cocky dark-haired woman in a red dress and a mask made of magic is smirking at the viewer as she manipulates golden geometric threads with her hands. The hand with the red silk glove is removing a thread, the other is holding a sort of stylus and drawing a new thread. Below, there is the silhouette of a city, and one moon.

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