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Franziska Detlefsen
@idunaya.bsky.social
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Freelance Illustrator & Graphic Designer with a passion for cute, cozy and whimsical fantasy art + RPG
Human made art ❤️ I love to make others smile
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idunaya.bsky.social
Hello #KidLitArtPostcard Day ✨

My name is Franziska and I'm a german illustrator and character artist with a passion for cozy and whimsical fantasy art.

Looking for new projects in kidlit, game and cover art.

Portfolio: www.franziska-detlefsen.com

#kidlitart #picturebook #illustration
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
Do you like books?
This month the rewards for my ko-fi supporters are perfect for booklovers and people who'd love some cozy hours colouring.
🥰✨📚

ko-fi.com/s/c2affcb993
November "Cozy friends" Rewards Colouring page: books with plants and mushrooms growing from them. A cute little snail with a lantern at it's shell is climbing over the books. Next to the books, on the left side, is a small ink jar and infront of the books lies a feather. Next to the books on the right side is a pretty potion bottle with crystal cork and plants floating inside the bottle. November "Cozy Friends" Rewards: Colouring page of three bookmarks. The first on the left reads: Just one more chapter. Beneath the next are bookbacks and plants growing from the books. Under them is a play bar for music, one can see the pause button. The bookmark in the middle has a tall stack of books surrounded by stars and flowers. Above is the text: There is no such thing as too many books. The third bookmark in the right reads: Between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be. The text is surrounded by floating books, some open, some closed, a cup, a candle in a jar, an ink jar with feather and stars, plants and sparkles.
November 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃
A cute owl with witch hat holding a carved pumpkin and a little tortoise with hat and pumpkin costume sitting on a stack of pumpkins.
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
Another weird potion for inktober. 😊
Is it for good luck? Is it for protection? Does is just get you high? Who knows. 😄

#art #doodle
Mockup of a card-sized inkdrawing on tanned paper surrounded by autumn leaves. The drawing is a pretty crystal potion bottle with golden cap. Inside is a little cat with fairy wings sleeping on a mushroom.
October 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
Frog potion or DnD Catfolk Character?

Will the little frog wizard grant you a wish? What do you think.

The catfolk rogue, Nero, probably won't. 😄

#art #inktober
Mockup of a mtg card sized inkdrawing on tanned paper and colourful leaves surrounding the card. The drawing shows a potion bottle. Inside sits a cute little frog with a wizard cap. Mockup of a mtg card sized inkdrawing on tanned paper surrounded by autumn leafs. The drawing shows a portrait of a male catfolk character.
October 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Two contrasting inktober drawings, today. 😊 Binkie the cat and the Drow DnD character of one of my followers.

Although...it could also be a witch and her sweet looking but actually menacing familiar. 🤔😂
Mockup of a cardsized inkdrawing on tanned paper surrounded by autumn leaves. The card shows a cute and fluffy cat with a sunflower decorated witch hat. The cat is sitting on a big pillow surrounded by more smaller pillows that are shaped like a moon, an acorn and a maple leaf Mockup of a cardsized inkdrawing on tanned paper surrounded by autumn leaves. Character portrait of a female drow with spiderweb makeup
October 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
I paint on everything 😂
I have so many old and ugly dice at home, so I decided to try and paint them. This dice was originally white, if I remember correctly. It takes way longer than I expected. 😊
Photo of a 12 sided dice painted skyblue with golden numbers and little white flowers and green leaves.
October 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
I love autumn 🧡
Photo of pink hydrangeas Photo of red and orange leaves of wild wine
October 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
✨ Artist! Quote with long hair ✨
Illustration of a white-haired, female elf sitting on a wisteria tree playing harp.
October 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
My favourite little owl knows how to spend a rainy day. 😊

#art #doodle #inktober
Mockup of an card-sized inkdrawing on tanned paper laying on a gray background and surrounded by autumn leaves. The drawing shows an owl wearing a witch hat cuddled against a big pillow with stars. It's eyes are closed and it's holding a mug in it's wings. Next to it sleeps a small tortoise on the right side of the picture is a window and outside it's raining.
October 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
For inktober I don't follow the official list, I just want to challenge myself a bit and draw traditionally, again. :)
So today I got some cute cats.^^

#art
Mockup of an card-sized inkdrawing on tanned paper, background with autumn leaves. The drawing shows three fluffy cats squished in the frame of the card. Bottom: Colour of the paper, wearing a golden crown; winking at the viewer. Middle: Gray, wearing a little witch hat, looking at the tail of the bottom one; Top: light gray, eyes closed
October 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
Hello #PortfolioDay 😊

I'm Franziska, a freelance artist with a love for cozy, whimsical art with cute creatures and pretty light.

I'm looking for oppurtunities in kidlit, book covers and games. ✨

Portfolio:
www.franziska-detlefsen.com/illustration...
Illustration of a redhaired fairy in green clothing and with strawberry headband sitting on a stone in the middle of a small lake in a magical forrest while holding a little pot with a plant with a big strawberry. She leans her head against a green dragon wearing a strawberry collar. A soft glowing light shines from behind them. Illustration of a winter market at night with differents market stands. Most prominent a potion stand on the left side and a dice stand with two children in front on the right. Fairy lights are hanging over the market. Four dragon adventurers stand in the middle. From left to right: A purple dragon in wizard robes putting away some potions. A red dragon in golden paladin armor holding a package and a meat skewer. A dark blue dragon in black clothing and cloak playing with two red dice. A green dragon with a leave cloak looking at snow owls on the sice stand. On this dragon's shoulder sits a small snow owl with meat skewer looking annoyed at the blue dragon. Illustration of a little girl opening a big bootle garden jar. A magical yellow cloud escapes the jar. On the rim sits a christmas elf. In front of the jar a christmas elf runs after a small frog. Far on the left side of the picture another elf reaches for a big cookie. Above the illustration is a mockup of the bookcover that was made from the illustration. Illustration of a dragon curled around a female fairy cuddling with two smaller dragons inside a tree cave. The ground is filled with autumn leaves and warm light comes from the right side. On the left is the opening where one can see snow falling outside.
October 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
Hello #PortfolioDay 😊

I'm Franziska, a freelance artist with a passion for painting fantasy themed characters and props with intricate details.

I'm looking for oppurtunities in ttrpg, games and publishing. ✨

Portfolio:
www.franziska-detlefsen.com/illustration...
Illustration of a white-haired, female elf sitting on a wisteria tree playing harp. Illustration of a white-haired, male elf in white-gray winter clothing holding a sword. DSA Firnelf mit Robbentöter. Illustration of three shoes. On top a light blue one with a carved out intricate pattern and white gem stones. In the middle a dark blue one with golden rim. On the bottom a magenta one with golden rim and gloden floral pattern embroidered and decorated with blue gems and small pearls. Illustration Portrait of a brownhaired, bearded man in profile with an intricate head peice of golden pendants and lots of pearls.
October 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
Behold, the mighty dragon and it's marvelous hoard. ✨
If you were a dragon, what would your hoard be? 🤔
I think mine would be turtles, cats or plushies...maybe some pretty gemstones and crystals. I'm a sucker for some nice rocks.

#art #inktober
Mockup of an inkdrawing on tanned paper. The drawing show a cute, chubby cat wearing a dragon costume. It's standing on a pile of yarn balls. Some toy mice (and one computer mouse) are scattered and the cat holds one toy mouse in it's mouth.
October 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
I love you...even if you can't do it yourself.

To be honest, I painted this little witchy crow to cheer myself up. Feeling really down lately.

#art #inktober
Mockup of a cardsized inkdrawing surrounded by autumn leaves. The drawing shows a cute little crow with witch hat holding a brush in it's beak. It's looking a bit sad and in shaky font the words "I love u" are written under it.
October 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
A little celestial turtle ✨🐢
I love turtles and stars so this little guy makes me really happy. 🥰
Mockup of a cardsized inkdrawing. Background white with some purple stones. The inkdrawing show a little turtle with stars on their body floating through space.
October 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
Today I managed to get two, again.
My The Dark Eye character, the snake witch Silvana and her little danger noodle Makkaroni. 🥰

I'm looking for OCs/rpg characters and also pets to draw on my cards for this month's challenge. So if you'd like you can share one with me in the comments. ✨
Mockup of a card on background with autumn leaves. On the card is an inkdrawing on tanned paper. It shows a cute, little snake curled up on a pile of different autumn leaves. The snake wears a little witch hat decorated with leaves and is also wearing some sock/ leg warmer kind of things to be extra cozy. Mockup of a card on background with autumn leaves. On the card is an inkdrawing on tanned paper with gold and white highlights. It shows a portrait of a female ttrpg character with a snake around her neck. She has a pretty face, long wavy hair and different coloured eyes, one of them is painted gold.
October 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
Today only one inktober picture.
I love cute frogs 😊🐸
Photo of a small, cardsized inkdrawing and pens. The drawing shows s cute frog with a mushroom witch hat. It's sitting on a jack o' lantern
October 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
Inktober Day 2. Again one character portrait and one cutie. 😊
This time I drew my friend's The Dark Eye character Leomar. Thief, belessed one of Phex and an overall cheeky bastard. I love him. 😂

Which one do you like better?

#dsa
Photo of an inkdrawing. A striped cat with golden eyes melting into the backround of black and gray stipes covered in stars. It's holding a necklace with a golden moon pendant in it's mouth. Photo of an inkdrawing on tanned paper. A young man grinning under the full moon.
October 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
I did another inkdrawing today. This is my DnD character Mialee. 😊 I thought I do some rpg character portraits throughout october. Dungeons and dragons, The Dark Eye (Das schwarze Auge), Shadowrun... I'll see. My own, my group's characters, maybe from my followers on sm. 😊
Photo of an inkdrawing on tanned paper and Sakura Pigma brush pen. Portrait drawing of a female elf with long wavy hair, wearing a cloak of leaves. On her head she wears a wreath of leaves with horns. A chunky little bird sits on her head. The picture is in black and white/gray except the golden eyes
October 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
Whenever I joined inktober in the past I made big, detailed inkdrawings and eventually burned out at the end of october. So this year I want to limit myself to magic card sized drawings and just have some fun with it. I'm going to sell them or just collect them for myself. 🥰 Off to a good start.
Photo of an inkdrawing on tanned paper and a Sakura pigma brush pen. A little raven with a crooked witch hat is sitting on a big, round pumpkin and holding a teacup.
October 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
Just spend hours creating a little ghost and pumpkin pattern to use for phone wallpapers for my ko-fi supporters.
But I think it's so cute I'd like to use it for some other stuff as well...like, maybe dish towels or something. 🤔 But where...
Photo of a screen showing a pattern of little ghosts, pumpkins and autumn leaves on a purple background.
September 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
BOOK COVER ARTISTS

QRP with your book covers 📚

#BookCovers

This is actually my first published book.
Book cover for a children's book. A small brown-haired girl happily opens up a bottle garden and a big yellow cloud of magic escapes, filling the upper third of the cover and serves as the background for the book title: Wichtelzauber im Flaschengarten. A female christmas elf in pink overalls is sitting on the rim of the opened jar. A small blond male elf is chasing a little frog in the foreground on the table the jar stands on. A split picture. The upper one shows an opened book laying flat to show the whole cover. The picture under that showd the cover illustration without text. See other picture of this post for the front description. The back shows a small darkskinned christmas elf reaching for a star-shaped christmas cookie that is laying on the table and is almost as big as him.
September 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
Thank you for the open call.
I love painting magical, whimsical and cozy pictures.

Here is a link to my portfolio:
www.franziska-detlefsen.com/illustration...
Fairy cuddling with three orange pumpkin coloured dragons inside of a tree cave. Her hand resting on the head of the biggest dragon curled around her and the other two smaller ones. Warm light comes from the right side of the picture while cold light falls through the hole in the tree where one can see that it's snowing. Illustration: White moth fairy in a snowy landscape surrounded by three small white moths carrying glowing orbs. White cat wizard dancing through a snowy landscape under northern lights while twirling a staff with a glass orb on it's end. Inside the glass sits a glowing and smiling star. Nightscene inside a christmas elf forest. On a lake is a big weeping willow like tree with purple leaves and glowing lights. In front of the lake are three christmas elf waiting and waving to the characters in the foreground that are two more elf and a little girl. Everywhere are glowing lights, plants and mushrooms.
September 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
idunaya.bsky.social
I'm Franziska and I like cute and cozy fantasy art as well as rpg related art. 😊 This is my current player character for The Dark Eye, Amariel and her little friend Elei.
Illustration/ Portrait of a blackhaired female elf in purple clothing holding a harp. On her shoulder sits a raven
September 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM