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danielle taphanel
@treelet.bsky.social
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they/them ✶ disabled self-taught ✶ linktr.ee/treelet
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Coral, a private inventory commission for Claire.
A color digital illustration of a curly-haired brown-skinned woman wearing an oversized dress shirt, pants, blue tie, and blue-tinted glasses, staring at the viewer with a lollipop stick in her mouth. Around her are various objects related to her life and profession: tarot cards, dowsing rods and pendulum, a box of matches, a sticky note from a woman named Vera with lipstick marks, a journal and pen, a walkie talkie and a Polaroid camera from the 90s, a Christian cross, a mirror, candles, lollipop, herbs, a thermos, a handgun, a small baggy with a finger bone inside, a flashlight, stacks of newspaper, a photo of a ghost, holy water, a granola bar, and a ritual knife. Beneath her is an inset image of a messy bedroom with a cork board with multiple papers pinned over a map, bed, a vanity table used as an altar, and a large bookshelf. The inset image is flanked by two small statues of angels.
January 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Maybe I will just give up, actually.
Screenshot of me trying to redo the whole project by individually copy+pasting layers onto a new file except I guess I was drawing them at the wrong size this whole time because they do not fit into trim/borders.
January 10, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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I messed up trying to format the border/trim and page size so now everything is wonky and I no longer know what the hell I am doing or how to fix it, so I guess I will start over.
A screenshot of comic pages with the trim/border marks completely out of line with the art.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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✌️😷
ICE OUT Emergency Protest: Wednesday, January 7, 5:00 p.m. USCIS Building 310 E Knapp St, Milwaukee Today, Wednesday January 7th an ICE agent shot and killed a Minneapolis community member. This is not isolated or accidental. This is the human cost of an aggressive, militarized immigration strategy being unleashed on our neighborhoods, fueled by the politics of racism and corporate greed, not public safety. No one should be shot in their own neighborhood by federal agents. Gather with us for a peaceful protest as we send a message of solidarity: From Milwaukee to Minneapolis: ICE has got to go! - Voces de la Frontera Event organized by ICE out of MKE citywide coalition
January 7, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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Went to admire the spot in my shelves where DEAD HORSES by @goblinstunts.bsky.social will soon be.
A photo of a shelf with various comics and manga. Please ignore the kitty cam in the upper right corner.
January 5, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Danielle, you're a bum. It's not even 20 pages. There isn't any narrative.
A screenshot of my comic pages, only 9 are kinda finished.
January 2, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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Changed the colors on this three times already, but at least we're out of the "just looking at it causes me existential dread" phase of the process.
An unfinished digital color illustration of a brown-skinned woman wearing periwinkle blue glasses, a white shirt, blue tie, and black slacks, next to a series of objects. The objects are a small hand mirror, two candles, a thermos with stickers on it, a lollipop, a bundle of herbs and garlic, a crystal, a baggie with a bone inside it, a small flashlight, a handgun, and a stack of newspapers.
December 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Tender Horns #mushishi
A digital illustration of a young boy from the third episode of Mushi-shi titled "Tender Horns" depicting him small sets of horns as he covers his ears. Behind him are a mirrored set of hands, with a trio of "un mushi" and branching veins.
December 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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I count your promises on my finger bones
and note you've broken every one.
An illustration of three stylized deer running in panic, each with a necklace of thorns around their necks, with the rightmost deer's collar having been broken. The entire image is framed by threads tied into knots. In the center is a black circle with a drawing of a dilapidated house and a red figure in its doorway, laid over a drawing of a locket. Finger bones are scattered across the image, along with a wedding ring placed at the appropriate junction.
November 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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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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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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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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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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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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We are cooking, we are baking, we are making soup.
A screenshot of the Bitsy tool with various subtool windows open and a transparent blown-up version of pixel art of a moss-covered temple overlaid on top of the left-hand side of the canvas.
October 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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.
January 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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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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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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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