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layahimalaya.bsky.social
Laya 🌿🍄
@layahimalaya.bsky.social
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Hugo award winning illustrator/designer (and sometimes cosplayer) in Aotearoa 🌼 I love fantasy, fungi & books!

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overgrowncomic.com
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layahimalaya.bsky.social
hello wellington I will be at the newtown market this weekend! last event for a few months!
Poster: Christmas Newtown market, newtown school hall, get your gifts and decorations while supporting locals, december 6 91m-2pm, cash preferred, free entry photo of me and my stall at auckland armageddon. i have nature and fantasy stickers, bookmarks, etc.
December 3, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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I was tempted into doing this tiktok art trend….. #art
December 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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caves too??? maybe?
screenshot of digital art in 3 strips, of a cave washi design in blue/teal tones. there are lots of stalactites and ‘mites and glow worms
November 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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considering washi tape
#art
4 horizontal strips of digital art of washi tape designs, the top two of a bunch of lichen and moss on brown bark, and the bottom a bunch of green moss textures with some leafy vines.
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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I made some little themed bookmark & sticker sets! most have 3 bookmarks, a sticker sheet, & sticker
photo of 9 small packs of art, colour coded and themed and arranged in rainbow ish order. photo of the top label of the art packs layered over each other, the titles are: necromantic, bugs, witchy, oceanic, fungi, celestial, fantasy, magical, floral.
November 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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kinda windy but yay
Photo of the ocean at freyburg beach.
November 16, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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and a couple more :)
#TheIsleInTheSilverSea #art
two black & white sketches of Simran and Vina, one where they look older and are in a fancy doublet/dress, vina kissing simran's hand, and another where they're younger, Vina as a knight touching Simran's chin with her thumb. sketch of Simran and Galath, with him kneeling and her holding his chin in her hand, both looking a bit sad. there's a circle behind them.
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Galath & Hari (I'm not sure at what point things become spoilers...)

#TheIsleInTheSilverSea #art
5 sketches of a man with pale skin and long white hair. He has broad shoulders and is in pale white brown and green ragged clothes. He has a red circle on his forehead. Sketches of Hari, an Indian man with brown skin, wearing simple brownish shirts and waistcoats/suspenders. In some he is older, with longer hair. He has a black cat on his shoulder in one, and is next to Simran in another.
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Simran! (and Maleficium and Adder)

#TheIsleInTheSilverSea #art
Sketches of Simran, an Indian woman with long dark hair and vine tattoos, in a red dress and black jacket, sometimes a hood and satchel. There is a fluffy black cat, which she is holding in one drawing. Sketches of Simran looking younger, with shorter cropped hair and mostly simpler black/brown dresses. In one she has a gown and mask. An inky black shapeshifting animal is also in some, in the form of a raven, mouse, and snake.
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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I've done a buuuunch of sketches of characters from The Isle In The Silver Sea by @tashasuri.bsky.social recently. I love this book a lot!!

#TheIsleInTheSilverSea #art
sketchy coloured drawing of Vina and Simran facing each other, Vina's hands on Simran's neck, in the frame of a mirror with plants around. 6 sketches of Vina, a butch woman with brown skin and curly brown hair. In some she has short curls over the forehead and is wearing armour and a doublet, in others she has longer hair in a ponytail and simple white/brown clothes.
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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our little nz collection so far: clown & katamari by @thekingkez.bsky.social, severance & artist alley connoisseur by @kalesbug.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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my two new convention ribbon designs! we're hoping this will become a thing in aotearoa
photo of a red con ribbon that says bookmark collector with 3 book spine shapes, over a background of many fantasy bookmarks. photo of a black con ribbon with 'crew of the perihelion' in a cybernetic border in blue, over a background of a bunch of my murderbot art.
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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I have a display copy for people to draw in at conventions, here's some good doodles
notepad page with 4 doodles: a dragon (with Ben smells written above), a portrait of i think Phil from Minecraft (???) by tegulai.cosplay, a cat, and gale (?) from bge by alexxuun. There's also a nail sticker. doodles of two boxy dog heads with a crown by theorthrus, and two doodles of pinchie (small dog) dreaming of fries (caption: fry heaven now) by kalesbug and genue. doodles of two snails kissing captioned snesbians. a bean labelled bean. And a tiny house. full page doodle of a person shooting someone with a bow and arrow saying hehe. The victim says ow and has lots of blood around it (they used one of the arrow stickers). This was drawn by a very polite child.
October 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I don't think I ever posted this.... I designed a fantasy map notepad with die cut edges, 4 unique page designs that connect into one map, & a matching sticker sheet! #art
photo of a notepad of yellowed paper with map patterns around the edge and a brown triangular cover reading: fantasy map notepad. around the edges are the back, and a sticker sheet of medieval style wax seals/daggers/flags/nails/etc, and some of the pages. photo of 3 notepad pages, which have map designs around the edges that connect into one map. close up of the corner of the notepad, with a loose sheet with a dagger sticker on the top as if it's stabbed in it.
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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at auckland armageddon this weekend! my feet hurt and there's 2 more days rip
Photo of my at my table. Lots of bright fantasy bookmarks and stickers. I am wearing a white mask and mushroom beret.
October 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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You can find me & @thekingkez.bsky.social at a68!
graphic reading: auckland armageddon, laya rose art & thekingkez, table a68, auckland showgrounds, 24-27 october. there's a map in the middle showing us in the middle of the far wall of hall 1.
October 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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I'll be at auckland armageddon this weekend! Here's some new stuff I'll have with me (since I was last in auckland)
graphic reading: what's new? at laya rose art in the middle, with fantasy bookmarks at the top, and a fantasy map notepad and various leaf and star and fungi earrings at the bottom. continued graphic of various art on a book page background: con ribbons (bookmark collector & perihelion), stickers (libby, fuck ai, book fanart, a court of fey and flowers, knights of guinevere, fungi), and wood pins (fungi) continued graphic, of art prints. there is book fanart at the top (labeled: FANART OF BOOKS SUCH AS: The Isle In The Silver Sea, The Stardust Grail, The Starving Saints, Feast While You Can, A Master of Djinn, This Fatal Kiss, They Bloom at Night, The Butterfly Assassin, The Midnight Girls), as well as the same acofaf & knights of guinevere art, and two original art mini prints.
October 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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i love women #KnightsOfGuinevere #art
digital illustration of andi & frankie from knights of guinevere, on a blue background with some stars. Andi has her arms crossed, and is frowning back at Frankie, who is grinning and leaning up to her with one hand on her hip.
October 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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wiggly version
October 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Jagvi & Angelina from Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta!! i love lesbian horror romance and demonic things possessing people

#FeastWhileYouCan #art
digital illustration of two lesbians embracing and surrounded by scratchy black demon swirls. Angelina is femme, mixed race with light freckly brown skin and brown curly hair, in a white tank top, and is angled away but looking back towards the viewer with a shadowy demon hand around her cheek. Jagvi is an Indian butch with dark skin and a choppy mullet and black shirt, with her arms around angelina's back, and looking at her face. The demon swirl background is not touching jagvi.
October 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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I looove Knights of Guinevere it's so interesting

#KnightsOfGuinevere #art
digital illustration of guinevere from knights of guinevere. she is the head and torso of a doll with an empty expression and messy shaved blue hair. she is laying in a bunch of pale periwinkle irises, in a pointed frame, with bunches by either side of her head. There's bright blue viney guts coming out of the bottom of her ribcage.
October 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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some beautiful art I got recently from @evenlyevi.bsky.social!
photo of various illustration prints, mostly in blue tones of plants and flowers.
October 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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i’m at great games with pals this weekend! if you’re in wellington come to the dominion museum 10-4 both days!
photo of me at my table, with lots of bright fantasy and nature themed art and a banner that says laya rose art close up photo of my table showing my bookmark stand and some of my stickers
October 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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also rue my beloved!

#art #acourtoffeyandflowers #dimension20
digital illustration of rue from a court of fey and flowers, a green owlbear from the arms up, clutching a scroll with closed eyes and hearts. They have some pink roses on their shoulders and head. the background is green, with a swirly border.
October 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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i watched acofaf earlier this year and loved it a lot! here are the lords of the wing, gossiping about something...

#art #acourtoffeyandflowers #dimension20
digital illustration of lord squak and lady chirp from a court of fey and flowers, with a hand over their smiling mouths, head together and looking at the viewer. there is a banner below them reading: the lords of the wing.
October 1, 2025 at 2:52 AM