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daenafae.bsky.social
Daena
@daenafae.bsky.social
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Illustrating fantasy and nature with whatever materials I can get my hands on. Usually watercolour, but a little digital every now and then. 🧚🏻‍♀️✨

Website: www.daenafae.com
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New video for the ink and watercolour process behind my illustration of Oën, one of @anamardraak.bsky.social 's original characters

#oc #characterdesign #comics #illustration

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art for community + illustrating clothing Q&A
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January 24, 2026 at 5:08 PM
daenafae.bsky.social
Now onto the colouring 💜✨

#inklineart #illustration #comics #fantasyart
Digital ink line art for a fantasy illustration, featuring an elf lady sat by a fireplace with a cute baby dragon curled up in her lap. The cozy room is decorated with winter and yule decorations like pine, cinnamon, and dried oranges.
January 20, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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Working on something a little more complex than usual! 👀

#oc #illustration #fantasy #characterdesign
A crop of a much larger fantasy illustration that will feature the elf lady, a baby dragon, and a warm winter fireplace. The picture here features the character, wearing a dress decorated with teardrop pearls to match her accessories.
January 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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Get out your art notebook, it's colour theory time!

#artist #painting

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Mixing blue WITHOUT blue? Intermediate colour theory!
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January 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Coming tomorrow 👀

#colortheory #watercolor #painting
A thumbnail for a video about intermediate colour theory, covering how to mix blue without primary blues. The video will cover colour identity, simultaneous contrast, and colour gamut masking. The thumbnail picture features the colour mixing chart and some of the blues mixed in the video.
January 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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A Drop In The Ocean
two figures embrace as the soul of a bird, flying over a field of blue flowers above a pond. blue pencil sketch
December 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Clothing practice in the sketchbook. After doing the Oën illustration recently I wanted to draw more baggy clothes. So many folds 👖

#sketchbook #artist #illustration #pencildrawing
A page in my sketchbook with a pencil drawing of baggy trousers, drawn in 2B pencil using the 0.7 mm mechanical pencil resting on the sketchbook to the right. A close up of another clothing sketch drawn in pencil, focusing on the folds and shapes.
December 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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When I was ill I caught up on my (massive) backlog of TV shows, which included Tale of the Nine Tailed. Lee Yeon ended up infiltrating my sketchbook as a result 🦊

#taleoftheninetailed #kdrama #sketchbook #artist #pencilsketch
A pencil drawing in my sketchbook that I sketched of the fictional character Lee Yeon after watching the K-drama "Tale of the Nine Tailed".
December 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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vanessagillings.bsky.social
❄️🦋

#kidlitart #illustration #watercolor #gouache
calm gouache painting of a girl in a white dress standing in a fantastical frozen pond holding a butterfly net while her other hand reaches out for a butterfly
December 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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So much has happened in 2025 looking back. I started an art blog, pushed myself to join communities and network, and ended up taking part in a bunch of art collabs and projects as a result! Thank you to everyone I've met and connected with along the way 💜✨

#artvsartist #artvsartist2025
A grid of 9 images for the annual "art vs artist" challenge. I've compiled together some of my sketches and illustrations I created in 2025 of characters, fantasy creatures, and animals.
December 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Illustrated a friend's oc since she's going through a rough time. This is Oën, he's a conjurer on a quest looking for his sister. I traditionally inked and painted him with watercolours.

#oc #art #illustration #fantasy #watercolor
A traditional ink and watercolour fantasy illustration of Anaïs' original character Oën. He's an elf conjurer, who wears bright jewel-tone loose clothing and uses a moss covered staff.
December 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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End of the year palette tour? 👀
A photo of my main watercolour palette sat on top of a colour mixing chart showing the pigment mixes.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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'The Brood' - another dragon piece from this year. Also available in my shop with a layaway payment (if desired) over 3 months. Any big pieces like this I would wait to send in January anyway so as not to get lost in the melee of Xmas shipping!
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#dragon #art #originalart
a blue dragon prepares to land on its nest which has two eager dragonlings waiting for it. In the background are pink misty mountains.
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Currently working on a secret illustration that I can't share yet... but I'm filming it for when I can!
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Back to the dark months

#sketching #cuppa
My desk with my open sketchbook and a cup of tea. On the sketchbook is a blue ballpoint pen, which I used to draw the sketches of a hand and portrait on the open page.
December 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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A recent commission from a lovely friend ✨🐦‍⬛✨

#fantasyart #fantasyillustration #dnd #dungeonsanddragons
An original digital illustration that I painted by hand because humans have those to do things with. The fantasy illustration features a cute magical bird wearing a witch hat adorned with a star and moon, and is perched on roleplaying dice.
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Do you like sketching at museums/art galleries? Here's an art journal entry of my sketching trip at the Ruskin Collection a few weeks ago.

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#artjournal #artist #sketching
Connecting with artists through time by sketching at museums — Daenafae
Sketching supplies in hand, I revisited an art exhibit I visited earlier in the year. The Ruskin Collection rotates out occasionally, and this time the exhibit was themed around colour. Watercolour pi...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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A little peel for your evening ❤️
November 12, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Breaking out my painting sketchbook for this one!

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#watercolor #landscape #painting
Tackling the limited palette & ugly stage blues #onlyTHREEpigments
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November 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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New blog post about a visit to Sheffield Botanical Gardens to help prep for a dryad illustration series 🌱

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#artist #creative #dryad
Absorbing Autumnal Inspiration — Daenafae
Being an artist involves so much more than time spent glued to the drawing board. Recently I went on a walk through Sheffield Botanical Gardens to help inspire my upcoming dryad illustration series.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Mixing paint and deciding if I can live in a world without granulation. Could you?

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#watercolor #pigments #paint #limitedpalette
Only 3 watercolour pigments forever?! A desert-island art challenge #onlyTHREEpigments
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October 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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“All in a Night’s Work”. Oils on canvas. 15 x 30. A sketch I did years ago finally sees completed work.
October 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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The art community tag video will be live tonight! I have a little challenge for us all, and you get to see me struggle with it myself first 🥲
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Museum sketching with the crystal exhibit. Of course I picked a hard one for myself and ended up frying my brain halfway through!

#sketchbook #amethyst
My sketchbook while I was at the museum gallery. You can see some of the crystals and stones displayed behind the glass in the background. On the page in my sketchbook is a pencil drawing of an amethyst crystal slice.
October 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Wandered around a botanical garden to fuel up on inspiration for a dryad illustration series. Came across this wonder of a tree.

#botanicalgarden #creativeinspiration #artist
A photograph of a beautiful tree in the Sheffield Botanical gardens.
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM