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Merilliza
@merilliza.bsky.social
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Freelance fantasy artist and illustrator~ Works on covers and game art! ✨

📍 www.merilliza.com
📍 https://www.instagram.com/merilliza

Open for work / commissions
📨 merillizachan@gmail.com

Check out my work on the Media tab ⬇️
(Art feed coming soon!)
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I finally have new art to share. 😱 Although this is technically done late last year, I'm still happy to share it as my new art for 2025 x)

This is a commission from Enola Douglas, author of soon to be released book Whisked Away. ✨

#art #fantasy #painting #bookart #illustration
Commission artwork for Whisked Away written by Enola Douglas. A princess with blonde hair gently cups the face of the blonde prince on her right, and looking longingly to the prince with dark hair on her left.
February 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Aaand... Just when I thought I was finally on the mend. Was hit with bad nausea this morning and now a fever. 😭😭 Send some positive vibes as I have a lot of deadlines coming soon. 😰
January 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Hi #PortfolioDay! 👋 I'm Merilliza, a freelance illustrator from the Philippines. I have worked on fantasy book covers and various games here and there~ ☺️

⭐ www.merilliza.com
⭐ merillizachan@gmail.com
January 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Hey Bluesky friends. 🥰✨ I think I will start being under the radar until early next year, so whichever you celebrate or not, I wish you all a happy holidays and a very merry and abundant yuletide season. 🩵💙

Hope you all had a great year and have a happy new year! 🎊

Merilliza out! (For now) x"D
December 21, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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I sometimes play around with traditionals too once in a blue moon.

Here's one sketchything I did with some markers and colored pencils. 🥰

#art #drawing #sketch
Traditional drawing of a woman with white hair and a white snake wrapped around her neck. Shadows on the artwork are shaded in tones of blue and purple, while her face and highlights glisten with orange hues. Sketch using orange and red colored pencils of a woman with a snake wrapped around her neck. Sketch using orange and red colored pencils of a woman with a snake wrapped around her neck.
December 18, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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Happy 1k Ben! Here's to moaar!! ✨🍷

I don't do much horror art, but I think this one fits! x")
A digital painting of a young adventurer lad, wielding a glowing green sword inside a forest. The forest eerily creeps with living branches and the branches reaching out to the young man and the sword, as if to harm and entangle them with its grasps.
December 18, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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Very short and simple tip on one of many ways on how to do referencing; the selective process.

Take only what you find the most interesting on your references. Mix and match! With different references!

#arttip #tutorial #art #painting
Art tip; Selective Referencing - taking only what you find most interesting with your references. A sample on selective referencing. Showing different variation of white roses on the left and the painting on the right.
December 17, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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If you see this, post some cat art 😺 🐾
A fluffy orange cat, running through sunset snow.
December 15, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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Dang. I've been busy lately (mostly trying not to have a complete mental breakdown), I haven't been able to keep up with social media again. Sorry if I disappear again out of nowhere. 😬

In the mean time, I hope you enjoy this old art. This was a rejected cover art but I still like it!
A girl, with a long blonde hair and wearing a denim overalls on a white blouse, is lying somberly on a field of wild grass with red roses scattered. She has a long red ribbon wrapped around her right wrist and it continues to wrap on her ring finger, across her body and all the way to her left arm.
December 14, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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Mid-week post time. Some old cloud painting studies~ ☁️

#art #study #clouds #painting #illustration
December 11, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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Hiii! I do stuff like that x"). Here's some of my work!

More on my website; www.merilliza.com

For characters with commercial use; around 500-700+ usd.

Please feel free to email me to discuss further if you're interested. -- merillizachan@gmail.com

Thank you!! ☺️🙏
December 8, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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Happy weekend. How's y'all week been? Mine has been a rollercoaster and I'm super tired. 🙃

Anyhow here's an old virtual pleinair study. For some reason ppl really liked this on the bluebirdsite. I literally did this one super quick and nonchalantly with no effort. 🥲 It's always the sketchy ones.. 😂
A digital sketch of a cloud with hints of pink and orange peaking over the mountain horizon.
December 8, 2024 at 9:56 AM
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If you see this, post something monochromatic 🖤

Technically this piece I started monochromatic, but just added some warm tones on her face to make her look alive x')
December 7, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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Color train 🌈🚂✨💕

Quote this orange art 🍊 with amber/golden 💛 art!
Change colors and tag some people to join!

(no pressure to partake~)
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+Anybody, feel free!
Digital art, book cover for the House of Matchsticks. A young woman wearing a necklace and holding its crimson locket pendant. She has long auburn curly hair parted to the side along her right shoulder all the way down to her waist. She wears a navy blue military uniform with a belt that signifies 'infinity' on its buckle. The clouds and skies behind her are shown vividly with orange and sunset contrast.
December 5, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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If you see this, QRT a DRAGON! 🐲

Another one from the dusty archives. 😬 Sometimes I forget I painted a lot of stuff, including dragons.

#art #illustration #fantasy #dragon
A young girl with braided hair holding a clerical staff and riding a golden dragon above the skies. The dragon about to unleash its green coloured breath of flames.
December 4, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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Hello Nodens!
Thank you for the artshare. 🥰

I'm a fantasy illustrator working for covers and games. It's great to be here!
December 4, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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'Calev'

Another 'ol cover from moi. x') Show your hands if you're starting to run out of things to post, haha 🥲🖐️

#art #illustration #fantasy #coverart
A book cover featuring the character 'Calev' on a windy stormy sky, wheat fields and a huge towering cloud in the background. He wears a simple dark mauve robe over his white tunic and is unsheathing a short dagger with his right hand.
December 2, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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Happy Sunday everyone! I just want to say a quick word of thanks for following me here. I really appreciate your support thus far. 🥰🙏✨

Here's another old cover work. Had a lot of fun on this since it's quite different from the usual thing I made at that time.

#art #illustration #coverart #fantasy
Front cover art for Haven of Shadows. It depicts a door and a green magical portal to another dimension, on the other side a part of a giant white serpent can be seen and on the outside, two characters posing for battle. The woman is holding a sword, and the man in front of her wielding twin daggers.
December 1, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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Quote and post your knight 🗡️ or dragon! 🐉

Cover work from years back. Looking at it now, there's lots of things I'd change but I still quite like the idea and feeling of this piece. 🤍 I'd also very much love to co-sleep with my friendly dragon. 🫣

#art #fantasy #illustration #knight #dragon
A wraparound cover painting of a young girl holding a sword and co-sleeping with a white dragon. A red blanket wraps around her.
November 30, 2024 at 7:47 AM
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Throwing my hat in the ring. :')

www.merilliza.com
merillizachan@gmail.com

Please feel free to reach out if ever my work is suited. ☺️🙏
November 29, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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Thank you for the artshare Nekro. Congratulations on the very well deserved 10k! 🎉💐

Some of my art. I do fantasy illustrations for covers and game art. ☺️🧡
November 29, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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A young knight commission from a couple years back.

#art #fantasy #illustration #knight
A digital full body portrait of a young lady in full armor suit. Her clothes and cape are dyed green and her armor embellished with gold designs. She carries a long sword and a dagger on her waist, their sheath engraved with scale like patterns.
November 28, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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Thank you for the tag and artshare Cristina! 🥰

I'm Merilliza, I paint fantasy illustrations for covers and games. I love painting vivid and striking colors in my work. :D
November 26, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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Thank you for the artshare! 🧡

I immediately thought of these pieces of mine with the sunset theme! :")
November 26, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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Sketch of a character I was writing a story on many moons ago.. Her name is Anya.

Sadly had to abandon that project. It felt like my skills as an artist and also a writer were still lacking. Hoping I can come back to that world some day. I still think about it a lot from time to time.
Digital portrait sketch of a young girl. She has curly hair styled on a bun, wearing protective wool clothing and carrying two sets of spears on her back.
November 26, 2024 at 10:01 AM