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Meishali ✶ Available for work!
@meishali.bsky.social
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🎨 Illustrator / Writer / TTRPG designer / Game Master

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Eugénie of the White Spire, la Ghislaine (2023) #DragonAge
This is a digital illustration. Painted, brushed and textured, a drawing of eugénie, my Dragon Age roleplaying character. She stretches out her hand to cast a white, blinding spell. The style imitates the Dragon Age 2 rough wall paintings of the Kirkwall loading screens, but is far more colorful. This is a digital illustration. In painted black and white, my character, Eugénie, dressed up like the mages of Dragon Age origins, is looking wistfully over her shoulder, to the viewer. She is ushered towards dark cloisters by an older enchanter with long hair a typical Dragon Age double-headed dragon staff. His body language seems gentle, but he bars the viewer from her. This is a digital illustration. A sketched and colorful display of research to design Eugénie, my Dragon Age character. She sports a Dragon Age style mage robe, wearing the Orlesian mask as a decoration. She has a steel and gold staff featuring the sun. She has warm brown eyes and brown skin, a cute afro with a single white streak. On the picture, she's shown standing and holding her staff, raising an eyebrow in a bustshot, then playfully hiding her staff behind her, looking to the viewer with a soft expression.
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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This is a digital illustration. In washed off, grungy colors, a sketchy portrait of a Final Fantasy 14 Au Ra man. He looks mature, with carved cheekbones, a subtle scale beard, long, straight white hair and dark skin. The picture frames a bustshot of the man who looks sideways, pensively, a roughly sketched hand (his own) over his chest, holding something. He sports curved inward horns.
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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💫 Batch of icons, thank you for commissioning me!
🫵🏽 It's still open, come get one!
This is a digital illustration. A mosaic of super deformed character portraits in colorful or washed off tones. There are six portraits total, including a traveler with a fur-lined coat, a Final Fantasy XIV raen character with a beret, a sad blue woman with a jellyfish cut, a steely-gazed woman with a military collar, a wet sad grey man with a half-petrified face and a glassy gaze, and a cocky blond man with a patterned poncho.
October 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Acta at the Brass Gate
This is a digital illustration. In a loose, painterly style, a woman looks up, wearing an oversized coat, a leather and gold choker as well as a white shirt with golden details. She has olive skin, a pixie cut brown hair with short, and white bangs at the front. There's a cute profile sketch of her in the background, on the right-hand side of the picture. Strong green rim lighting comes off the left-hand side of the picture.
September 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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⚰️🦇 BIPOCVAMPDAY CHARITY ZINE IS ALMOST HERE!
I put an EXCLUSIVE original artwork in it!

💓🩸 All profits from the zine will go to the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America.

➡️➡️➡️ PREORDER & INFO: vampirepyramidscheme.com/bipocvampday...
This is a preview of an artwork for the BIPOCVAMPDAY CHARITY ZINE. In front of a stained glass artwork, a vampire with bloodied claw looks to the viewer. The rest is obscured, giving a sense that the artwork is much bigger than it looks like. The frame reads "VOC VOLUME 4 BIPOCVAMPDAY CHARITY ZINE benefiting the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America"
September 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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💫Commission for
@divinityiswasted.bsky.social
! #DoS2
This is a digital illustration. Ifan Ben-Mezd and a Godwoken avatar from Divinity: Original Sin 2 are lounging, resting on what may be inn seats or camping beds. They have discarded their respective armors. Ifan smiles and laughs, looking up fondly to his interlocutor, who, in turn, smiles down on him with affection. They have a full muscular figure, a medium dark skin color as well as dark curly afro hair, and gold eyes. Their body is scarred here and their, and she also sports a brown harness as well as an off white linen shirt and black pants. The suggestion of a background and their fully colored figured focuses on the intimacy between the two characters. This is a closeup of the picture on both of the characters' faces.
September 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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OPENING FLASH SUPER DEFORMED COMMISSIONS!

📧 meishaliart@gmail.com
⚔️ For your spot illustrations, your website, your socmeds...
💸 Get them while they're hot and infuriatingly cheap!
💫 I need to pay bills to support my other projects
This is a piece featuring my digital illustration skills and offering SD commissions. Character art is featured for 58€ +48€ per character, and small icons are featured at 36€, 55€ for 2 and 72€ for 3.
September 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Some guys I was told to share with the class
This is a digital illustration of four stylized mechs. On a grey background, each of them are of a different gradient color, and appear to be of different styles. The first one is reddish-pink, sports an energy sword and a buckler shield, intimidating pauldrons and is knight-like. The second one is smaller than the others, green, insect-like, very futuristic. It's standing proud with clenched fist, cannons over its shoulders. The third one is blue and has bladed feet and two set of arms, one pair holding fans, the other having clawed hands. A lot of tubes and halos frame its members. The fourth one is more mystical, with a long cape and a flat, hammer-head like head, as well as a strange staff. It is signaling something with three large and flat insect-like fingers.
September 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Basira was featured as one of the ready-to play characters in the Ivresang demo, a preview of an Ironsworn-based TTRPG! ⚰️🌹
This is a digital illustration, and a triptych specifically. All illustrations are in black and off-white, depicting three different scenes, or character portraits. The style never fully shows the characters' gaze, heavy on the shadows and solid blacks. The first portrait shows a man in heavy armor with wavy, dark hair, dark lips. His expression is somber, his disposition forbidding. The flying standard of a rose stand behind him. His left eye looks damaged, and a chain links his fur collar. The second picture depicts a whole scene, centered around a character with short hair, holding a pistol and looking around the block. Under street lights, two shadowed figures hold hands, addressing one another. The main character of this picture seems to be spying upon them. The third portrait shows a woman with a veiled coiffe and braided loops smiling to the viewer with an outstretched, gloved right hand. She holds a thurible in her left hand, the smoke engulfing a good portion of the picture. Behind her, a flying crow and a an undead guard holding a machete, framing moonlight.
September 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Priestess (2024)
This is a digital illustration. In flat colors, a symmetrical artwork of a woman in a golden half-mask, with dark, curly hair, and a blue coiffe. She is wearing dark, clawed gloves, and lavender and blue robes with golden accents. The lower part of her face suggests focus or disdain. Her hands are put up, as though she was preparing a spell, and her hair frames her face, flying around her, dropping on her shoulders. Her main coat is burgundy, draped over her. The background is brass, dark oranges, suggesting shadows tethered to her, with a floral overlay and lavender circle acting as a halo around her face. Her skin is olive, her cheekbones carved.
July 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Oh, and Ivresang has its own character sheet, of course! Delve compatible! Even if you do not have use of the hunger track or the humanity debilities, it looks nice, doesn't it?!
This is a digital showing of the Ivresang character sheet to play Ironsworn and Ivresang. It is landscape oriented, and very ornate. It features everyone one needs to play Delve as well. A huge red "SAMPLE" can be seen over it. Details featured are sun, moons. The entire character sheet is in black and white.
July 12, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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I'm very proud to bring this forward. You can read more about it on the itch page, so make sure to go check it out for yourself! It's PWYW, and any small donation helps towards making it an actual, big, bulky book of beauty.
This is a screenshot of one of the pages of Ivresang's demo. This is a screenshot of one of the pages of Ivresang's demo. It features a chapter page reading "Three Regions: Ayodele's Ridge, The Golden Fields, The Cross" This is a screenshot of one of the pages of Ivresang's demo. It features the "Kin Asset" for the Human kin. This is a screenshot of one of the spreads of Ivresang's demo. It is two tables, one one each page, showing 200 names to choose from.
July 12, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Bistrot (2020)
This is a digital illustration. Two characters, a young, thoughtful, nonchalant woman and a smiling vicar with shut eyes and a lit cigarette sit at a table. The woman has short light-colored hair and pale skin, and seems to interrupt her writing to look to the viewer. The vicar smiles wholly, showing dimples, stirring his coffee cup, a lit cigarette in his free hand. He has long dark hair, his complexion might be olive, and he sits in a long sofa and the mirror behind him casts a vague reflection with horns. The drawing is grey scaled and sketchy, painted in some places, loose in other. The round table, the seating, the mirror are reminiscent of french bistrots. Strong white rim lighting frames the left side of the picture, as well as their silhouettes. In bright red, a signature reads "Thank you! Apr 20." one right hand side of the picture.
July 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Soon! 🩸🦇 #Ironsworn #TTRPG
This is the screenshot of a page, my own writing for my TTRPG project, a serif font on an off-white textured paper background. It reads as such: DEMO Ivresang: The Ashen Kingdoms An Ironsworn Vampire Fantasy Supplement Written & Designed by Meishali Below, a worn stamp-like ink of Notre Dame de Chartres by Pierre Roche. The Dame stands above the labyrinth, in a symmetrical representation of the Chartres Cathedral. The vaulted ceiling behind her is similar to folded bat wings. The title is in deep blood red, but the illustration is in a washed out dark blue-green color.
June 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Robin for @litriu.bsky.social (2023) ☠️🧡
This picture is a digiltal illustration. In a warm toned set, a young, dynamic pirate (he/she pronouns) shoots at two-fingered wave at viewer, offering them a wink and a grin, leaning on a stone fence. Her face is scarred, and he sports a mechanical arm makes of all sorts of parts, short black hair, a red corset top, and striped black and white pants. Around her waist is tied a brown vest.
June 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Jacob Haussmann, Paladin (2023)
This is a digital illustration of my character Jacob. On a card-like frame in two dark blue colors, the suggestion of a cathedral or gothic-like cityscape. In front of it, a youthful black man in a dark grey uniform coat, holding a particularly long sword. He pops out of the frame, the sword pointing out of it, keeping it tightly in his right fist. His other free hand follows the blade's angle without touching it. He had short nappy and afro hair, and lips slightly parted, exposing his teeth in frustration, or as though he were speaking. He side-eyes something off frame, brows knitted. Jacob sports an ascot, golden buttons and cuffs, as well as round pearl earrings. The sword's guard is very ornate.
June 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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sonjé mwen (softest pirate captain this side of the bay) (2023)
This is a digital illustration. In grayscale, the messy portrait sketch of my character Khadim, a black man with dark skin, long beautiful locs tied in a messy half buns. They have a hoop earring and a long pendant earring, the tiniest hint of greying hairs, deep black eyes, and a trimmed goatee with a small braid, held by a gold clip. A discrete scar passes over their left eyebrow, and they have a downward dagger tattoo under the corner of their right eye, as well as several other tattoos around the neck, and over the chest. The hint of a high-collared, completely open black shirt Khadim looks to the viewer with a lovely smile, radiating warmth, showing teeth.
June 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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💫 Commission for @liviajanime.bsky.social! #CityOfHeroes
This is a digital illustration. On a white bright background, a muscular woman is standing, arms opened and palms up, wearing a skintight leotard, a cape, as well as dark rubbery gloves and thighboots. Super-hero looking, she is looking up, smiling, eyes glowing white. She's blue-violet skinned, long-eared, and her cape clasps feature little lightning decorations. Her hair, medium length, sways in the conjured winds, and her cap fades off into clouds. A stylized circle behind her features heavy rain and lightning. She smiles confidently, welcoming. This is a digital illustration, and a closeup of the previous image. Here, we can see the heroine's smile and dark lips, sparkling eye makeup, and nose stud piercing. She is proud, and warm.
June 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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💫 B&W Portrait commission for @gullscall.bsky.social! Thank you!
This is a digital illustration. On a white background, a black, inked linework. This is a portrait from a half-elezen half-hyuran character from the game Final Fantasy 14. The portrait is in profile, and he seems to have a subdued, somewhat smiling expression, the tiniest hints of afro hair under his cap, and two-toned lips. He has small scars going next to his eye, and over his eyebrow.
June 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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🏳️‍🌈✊🏽ALL RIGHT I'M DOING IT AGAIN!

🔎 Payments are all done via Stripe!
🔎 Prices negotiable for commercial work!
🔎 Tell me about your indie project!

✨✨✨ SEND YOUR REFERENCES TO: meishaliart@gmail.com

❓I also write, edit, and am a banger narrative designer.
🌎 www.meishali.com
This is a commission post for digital illustration. It reads "MEISHALI'S FLASH COMMS (Non-Commercial)" and shows Black and White Portraits for 90€, Palette Portraits for 135€ with various samples from past artworks. This is a commission post for digital illustration. It reads "MEISHALI'S FLASH (flash is striked out) COMMS (Non-Commercial & Commercial)" "I CAN ALSO DO TONS OF OTHER STUFF! Send me your budget, and let's talk!" Followed by three circle cutouts of various illustrations I have done. Then, "Forward Your References to: MEISHALIART@GMAIL.COM"
June 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Khadim's fantasy children for OSRP (2022)
This is a digital illustration. On a white background, seven youthful black characters in colorful, unique clothing. All have names written next to their form with little arrows pointed at them. From left to right, The first one is labeled "Vivaldi". An older teenager. He has nappy hair with a comb, a long green open coat with long sleeves, his torso is bear save for bandages around his abdomen, and he sports red pants, as well as gold jewelry. He appears calm, vaguely amused. The second one is labeled "Mei-Lin". A teenager. She has a blue bandana, turquoise and red outfits, and a pince-nez, she looks down at a crying kid, a bit worried. The third one is the crying kid, labeled "Cassandra". No older than six or seven years old. She's gripping her red dress and crying, looking down. She has fox ears and a thick fox tail comes from under her dress. She's holding the hand of an older kid. The fourth kid is labeled "Ahmar". Around 12 years. He has a red shirt and grey pants, and black boots, and is holding Cassandra's hand. He's pissed and seemingly yelling at an older teenager. The fifth kid is an older teenager labeled "Laith". He has green locs and a mocking smile, gold jewelry and long boots, as well as a white shirt. He has his arm around the sixth kid, labeled "Naa'irah", while looking at Ahmar, as if gesturing to say that it's fine. Naa'irah herself has big thick round glasses and looks pissed that Laith is passing his arm around her, arms crossed. She has striped blue pants and a long lavender doublet. The last person in the lineup is youthful but appears to be the oldest and is labeled "Rose-Marie". She has a rifle at her back, an ascot, a long dark cape, and looks at this lineup with a bit of a bothered expression. She's holding a traditional Senegalese mask in her hand, contrasting with her very french red-skirted dress and blue corset.
June 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Vampire Politics
This is a digital illustration. In strong, rich burgundy and reds veering on pink, a small scene at court. At the foreground, out of focus, two people arguing with each other. Their physical attitudes are hostile, and closer attention to details shows them bearing claws, sharp-eared and showing off fanged teeth. They're dressed finely. In the background, sat lazily upon a gothic throne, is an exasperated-looking vampyr, legs crossed, finger pressed against his forehead. His shirt is open and his presentation a little disheveled, as though they had been here for a long while. The style is sketched in parts, painted in others, giving it a rough, concept-art feeling.
May 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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"Then we will return next fall. And what you will not give us, we will take by force."
This is a digital illustration. In fiery reds, orange, and deep blacks, a sketched scene out of a story book. Flames at the foreground frame three silhouettes of dark knights, each riding a dark horse, wearing horned helmets. They look directly at the viewer, with only two red, shining eyes visible. The one on the left faces the viewer, sporting a spear and shield, with a small halo. The one on the right is rearing on his horse's back, raising a long black, banner framing the top of the picture, with a small halo in turn. At the center, the most prominent figure has immense, bull-like horns on his helmet. He is riding, turning sideways to stare down the user, a large sun serving as his halo, a longsword in his fist. The style is sketchy, messy, quick. Some parts glow eerily, and the hues give an impression of heat.
May 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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My piece for the DARK FAIRIES indie artbook! A fae King demanding a name... A true name! I can display it early because... IT'S AVAILABLE AS AN A5 PRINT ON SOME OF OUR KICKSTARTER TIERS! 🥳
This is a digital illustration. Two masc-presenting black fae-like characters are face to face. The shorter one looks up, expectantly, conflicted, with want, and sports a collar the other one is playfully tugging on, their hair nappy, curly. The taller one, sporting dark locs and leafy ears smiles to the second, a glowing red eye, and sharp teeth set on his partner. They seem to be asking something, lips parted to speak, while the others see hesitant, grasping on chains. Four much smaller fairies made of amber give a strong gold accent to the piece, framing them, sporting different poses, as though tormenting or questioning the smaller fae. One gestures timidly, in an appeal, another stands arms crossed, displeased, the third looks with mild curiosity, and the last one lounges in the smaller fae's hair, content. Some have visibly breasts, penises or vulvas, and one of them sports a binder. The taller fae, no doubt a King, sports an large gilded necklace, one of them being a large ember, something with wings or limbs stuck within. Carnivorous plants lick at the back of his head, accompanying an encroaching darkness.
May 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Adapt to a society that does not want you, and you will become a full-time monster and scholar
This is the screenshot of a portion of text, my own writing, a black serif font on a white background. It reads as such: NATHANIEL OF SALEM: "[...] It's a grand display of vulnerability you've offered me there. I believe it to be a strength, at the core of things. I can not do that. Because I know full well we live in a world where people are keen to blame the victim for not staying safe; when it was the man with the knife who shouldn't have cut, or the swindler who shouldn't have cheated in the first place." NATHANIEL OF SALEM: "You can not do what I do without having a few hideous things kept within. This isn't dissuasion. This is me being truthful." NATHANIEL OF SALEM: "I was born in one of Ul'dah's many brothels, son of a woman who held my face and said that so long as my dignity remained, I would always be prince among men. To walk with my head high; to speak the tongue those in power spoke." NATHANIEL OF SALEM: "That I confuse those who would treat me like mud." NATHANIEL OF SALEM: "What I can not charm, I seduce, what I can not seduce, I blame; what I can not blame, I break." He looks at her, tilting his head. "I'm not what you see." NATHANIEL OF SALEM: "But my well-wishes were sincere. If they have touched you; then keep them close at heart. These are the only truths I speak, these days." He concludes. FFXIV Fanwork Meishali as Nathaniel of Salem, priest of Nald’thal Text-based Roleplaying Session (2025)
May 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM