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danielle taphanel
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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · Jan 14
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
📥 danielle.taphanel@gmail.com
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.
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treelet.bsky.social
The book cover for "False Offering" by Rita Mookerjee. Thank you for trusting me with your work and words. 💚💗
A digital color illustration for a book cover featuring four rows of symbolic imagery and objects. The first row has an ornate pair of sewing scissors, cutting a strip of muslin; tamarind fruit and leaves; a castle made of coral, light, and bone; and a chic-looking tube of lipstick. The second row has a pale swan with wings extended, turkey tail mushrooms, a praying mantis, and a small bunch of lavender. The third row has a golden apple, a repaired vase, a chunk of amber, and an origami start. The last row has two coiling snakes, a cabbage butterfly with lashed eyes on its wings, a bouquet of large roses, and a lotus-shaped incense holder with three incense sticks and green smoke.
June 6, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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lorenschmidt.bsky.social
snowflakes
(four state totalistic hex grid cellular automata)
December 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
treelet.bsky.social
Gonna make an 8-page magical girl comic just because my niece looked at me with her big 'ole eyes and her color pencils clutched to her chest and asked me to make one for her.
December 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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treelet.bsky.social
Inside A Glass Eye 🌺🌅
A digital color illustration of the limited circular viewpoint of a lens centered on a surreal image: behind four columns is a stone altar with stairs leading up to it. Ritual implements are laid on the stairs and at the head of the altar is an enormous bright light radiating outward. Dancing in front of the light is a figure in a long ceremonial robe and dress spinning in place, their gaze directed at the viewer.
June 5, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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hanolliver.bsky.social
an urgent update: Sahar messaged me and Odai has been in the hospital since last night. He’s very ill and the situation is unbearable—they dearly need $500 for medicine, food, and ongoing care. whatever you can give, please do. no child should have to endure this. www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid...
December 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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goblinstunts.bsky.social
flirty
catgirl barmaid, drunk, leans over the counter in a flirty manner
December 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
The Green Seat 🍊🌱
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.
June 1, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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teresempierre.bsky.social
Does anyone know any good resources on creative writing pedagogy? Especially ones that were published in the past 5-6 years?

I already have:

- The Antiracist Writing Workshop
- Craft in the Real World
- How a Poem Moves
December 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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valkwise.bsky.social
Abdel Majeed has let me know that his campaign no longer covers his family’s daily expenses for food and medicine. Please give what you can to help!

chuffed.org/project/1286...
Save Abdul Turkiya's Family From Genocide
Hello
chuffed.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
Garden of Solitude 💬👣
A digital comic book page in which a figure in repose with large round glasses, cropped hair, and a circular mark between their eyes rests within and as a part of a growth of mushrooms. The mushrooms are nestled against more greenery - the thin leaves of fan palms, the smooth armored scales of red hydrangeas, topped with large caps of lotus leaf. On the upper left of the page is a castle, topped with spires and fraught with arches. The text on the comic page is written in sparse, tightly framed boxes and reads in a clockwise direction as follows: have nothing attached to nothing bound to nothing A world full of chaotic momentum, enough possibility to allow for the existence of a perfect peace, which coyly resembles oblivion. I breathe in and I am a flower breathe in, flower I breathe out and I am alive breathe out, alive in, flower out, alive in, out
May 25, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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sukinapan.bsky.social
they're having a blast
October 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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katelouisepowell.bsky.social
‘The Shortest Day’ illustrations by Carson Ellis
December 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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planetsmudge.bsky.social
poster illustration for for Land In Our Names Post-ORFC BPOC caucus next year
a woman peers through some foliage into flowers, where small fairy-like figures relax and enjoy eachothers company in the petals and leaves
December 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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valkwise.bsky.social
Abdullah has found a house to rent, but he isn’t able to afford it. Please help him get his kids off the street this winter. They were already evicted from their previous home a couple months ago, and they’ve been living in a tent.

gofund.me/d0c739e57
Abdullah’s two children, Zain Al-Din and Sham
December 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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ribo.zone
new page on my website!
🪲 BUG GRID
gallery of insect photos i took from 2017 to 2023, sortable and filterable by order (in the screenshot, hymenoptera is selected so all the visible photos are of bees)
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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treelet.bsky.social
The Gateless Gate ☁️🖌️
A digital illustration of a zen monk meditating in the lotus position next to a censer of incense. They are framed by two large tree trunks on either side, which are topped by spirits on either side and an arch with a lotus motif above. In the background is a set of curving stairs amidst thick green foliage in a pine forest. At the top of the stairs is a gate without walls. Above the monk's head sits an extremely oversized brimmed straw hat, covered with moss and ferns, the underside is visible and shows a picturesque blue sky with cumulus clouds.
May 20, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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npckc.net
the winter solstice has come once again... it's time to eat tong jyun ⛄

npckc.itch.io/tongjyun
December 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
treelet.bsky.social
People upset at the state of contemporary cinema simply need to watch Godland (2022).
December 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
River of Light 🍃🌕
A digital illustration of the character Ginko from the anime series Mushishi. He is pictured from behind walking barefoot through a river of light in the darkness, surrounded by mushi and large green lotus leaves.
November 4, 2023 at 3:27 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
The Light of the Eyelid 🌗🌿 #mushishi
A digital green monochrome illustration of a young blindfolded girl wearing a kimono with billowing sleeves in front of stylized bamboo stalks. Above her is a billowing mass reaching upward, filled with tiny lifeforms rendered in light ink. At the top of the image floats a single eyeball, mimicking the moon.
October 26, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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wenhsiu.bsky.social
Hey #Portfolioday!

I’m Wen-Hsiu, an illustrator based in Taiwan. I love working with bold colors, experimenting with dynamic compositions, and using panels as a playful storytelling form.

Always looking for freelance projects in editorial, publishing, and graphic novels.

📧 wenhsiu.art@gmail.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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transoc.bsky.social
It is here! 🎉
Starting today you can get the Trans OC Anthology!

🔗 www.transoc.art

Inside are 40 pages by 15 amazing artists spotlighting their transgender original characters in various mediums as well as accompanying prose.
Promotional image for the Trans OC Anthology showing the cover of the anthology along an arrangement of pages from the anthology. Promotional Image for the Trans OC Anthology. The text is set between small yellow stars. The text reads: "Inside is 1 doll 2 comics 7 single page illustrations 7 spreads + accompanying writing 40 pages 7.50€"
December 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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sadiabies.bsky.social
my washi tape is back in stock! it has become my best seller so quickly, i'm so happy that people like it
www.etsy.com/listing/4387...
four washi tapes shown on the roll. the first depicts a wolf chasing a lamb, the second a stylized floral scroll pattern, the third a folk art inspired floral pattern, the fourth human teeth outlined in red The same washi tape on paper, showing the patterns more clearly.
December 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
The Parting Tree 🍃🛖
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.
May 17, 2024 at 6:28 PM