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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
In 2022 I had the pleasure of illustrating a piece for @haridraws.bsky.social's Into the Tower, along with some of my favorite friends and artists. It's a lovely book, please check out it, along with Hari's other work: www.hari-illustration.com/into-the-tower
A black-and-white digital illustration of a crowded port-side street looking out onto the water. The tall buildings are heavily ornamented and covered in plant life, as several people in elaborate hats and masks are seen throughout.
November 19, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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formyths.bsky.social
18 / 25-11 / everlasting

is it over yet? 4 colors - lime, raspberry, medium blue, black. november's monthly riso print. will be taking december off so this is the last print for the year, more info @ patreon.com/formyths
ruined rows of arches rise around a darkened pool, the last colors of sunset fading into purples, blues, and black. a jagged constellation hangs in the night, reflected in the dark water below.
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
Crown.
a simple line drawing of a procession through a forest rendered in horizontal lines, with a large low moon hanging in their midst.
November 18, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
Wing.
a simple line drawing of a cityscape, punctuated by the violent impact of a human figure with a large abstract wing emerging from it.
November 13, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
2022 Sketchbook

I post my monthly sketchbook pages on Patreon: patreon.com/treelet
A digital sketchbook page featuring several human figures in robes, a stylized version of Griffith from Berserk, various satyrs, buildings, plants, bits of smoke and clouds. A digital sketchbook page. The upper portion features panels and objects such as pens, flowers, bottles, cloud formations, plants, etc. There are several humanoid figures scattered throughout, including a satyr, a moth person, two embattled witches, and a small girl wearing a winter coat. The bottom of the page features several stone buildings as well as different tree shapes. A digital sketchbook page featuring several satyr figures (two in baker's uniforms holding loaves of bread), an anthropomorphic cat in an apron, a witch with a large starry-themed hat, a thin figure with small angel-like wings, and a sketch of Elias from Ancient Magus' Bride. The largest panel shows a twisted tree covered in charms and bells, with a small door at the base of the trunk and a bird perched on top. Other decorative elements include dried herbs, a bear-shaped clay oven, baking tools, and various kinds of bread. A digital sketchbook page filled with panels and drawings. In the upper left, a tree growing branches upward. Beneath, fungi creatures. Cityscapes, silhouettes of plants, studies of hands, two figures under an umbrella, one blushing from behind with a fan, one holding a large art portfolio, one with their hands clasped in prayer.
November 4, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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lukewasthefish.bsky.social
Little preview of the world you can explore in 'AUTOMATON HEART'
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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gorangligovic.bsky.social
gofund.me/daa33d704
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
Ex-communication
A digital comic book page, the top panel formed of a SE Asian boat with lanterns hanging on its side. Underneath, the water flows into three separated vertical panels. The first on the left features a royal figure, seated on a throat. The middle figure is in prayer, wearing a veil. The third appears to be imprisoned, hands clasped, with a moth emerging from behind them.
November 4, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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georgeouthwaite.bsky.social
ah I'm bored, here it is now
Eve's Ribs
Digital painting
long painting of an old hawthorn tree in red earth
November 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
treelet.bsky.social
The Magician, private commission for Claire.
A digital color drawing of a female tiefling wearing bright orange robes, holding a staff, in front of a watery field of lotus flowers, framed by ferns, with a rising white tower in the distance.
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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saint-vagrant.bsky.social
ahmad is asking for help raising money for a new tent. his family currently lives outside by their home, which Israel bombed. their current tent is badly tattered and it's getting colder and colder— please consider helping his family stay warm and fed gofund.me/a6d9e3d99
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 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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sacredfield.bsky.social
BELVEDERE issue -26: MACULATA.

Probably the most personal and obscure thing i've ever drawn, and the most beautiful; people told me they teared up and "didn't have energy for anything else". A comic about the South Isles.

37 BW pages.

Free to read on my folder:
drive.google.com/file/d/1Ydek...
Comic cover, divided in two sections: Upper: A picture of Cat Aviator about to throw a paper airplane. To its left, the original greek version of Konstantinos Kavafis' poem "Remember, Body" and below that, a couple of verses by my character Pappagallino: Birds I could see frozen in the air, Yellow-green and blue around the eyes, Grasshopper-green slender jewels, When they rested their wings… Lower: Title and the same information as in the post, along with a list of characters: Cat Aviator (Retired) Pappagallino God of Winds "Dog Lady on the stairs" The South Isles C541 "BELVEDERE" Aircraft (it's vintage!) And a picture of Parrot giving the thumbs up. Character intro page, featuring portraits the main cast (Cat, God of Winds and Parrot) along with a brief introduction of each. CAT AVIATOR (RETIRED) A Cat who is an Aviator who is Retired. The original pilot of the Belvedere, now in the capable hands of his good friend Heron, he spends his days writing and reading in the garden of his small seaside villa. He can talk to birds and his best friend is a seagull (animal) named Comandante. Comandante was on vacation in the north during the events of this here comic. GOD OF WINDS, or “PIRATE PRINCE”, or “DOLPHIN”, or “CAPITANO JOHN” A romantic old god of the South Isles, he takes the shape of a young man with blonde hair and dark eyes. When mingling with the normal folk, he wears an eyepatch and goes by the name “Capitano John”. Had a brief but passionate love affair with our Cat Aviator. Enjoys calling himself a pirate but doesn’t own a ship (he walks on water). PARROT, or “PARROT-MAN”, or “PARROTMAN”, or “PAPPAGALLINO” A store clerk from Salina and amateur poet, he wrote the four verses on the cover of BELVEDERE issue -26: MACULATA. Another one of Cat’s love affairs, this one having lasted 5 years and ended on very good terms. In the end, both of them were very “hard to be friends with” and acknowledged it without fuss. They occasionally meet and catch up.
October 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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clone.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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arkivisto.bsky.social
A digital antiquarian blogger explores a near-abandoned online text adventure game long past its prime. Play now in your browser.
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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treelet.bsky.social
Hello. Last year, I made my first video game in Bitsy. It's a very short piece of interactive fiction about a botanist banished to the moon for attempting to create sentient plant life.

Thanks and enjoy!

G R O W L I G H T: treelet.itch.io/grow-light
#bitsy #interactivefiction
Splash screen: GROW LIGHT - art and words by danielle taphanel protag in bedroom/office. L shaped room, void of space outside protag in small room with big grow box, text: in the beginning there was only this formless howling protagonist in a room with equipment and tanks/benches with items. text: every day we wake, are born, live, slumber and die.
October 11, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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sunkernplus.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/help... please help ruaa, friend of many on this website including myself, regain the strength to go on! Donate what you can if you can as much as you can, and if you can't donate, share and boost with those who can donate!
November 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
Crossed Wires. 👁️💧 Comic excerpts from my personal diary, circa 2021.
A comic page titled: "Crossed Wires Layer 01" featuring several abstract panels. The largest is of a human figure with glasses and large twined wires emerging tangled from their head. A caption reads: "personality disorder, borderline, avoidant." Next to it are panels of bonsai trees, a figure standing on a pier, and personal belongings lined up neatly. At the bottom are two panels; the first is of two separate hands with a disconnected thread tied to their pinkies. The second has a human figure with glasses crying. The caption reads: "mute, block, remove, report." A digital comic page with 9 panels with the following imagery: a pair of feet standing in shallow water, a figure in a windy field, an eroded carving of the Buddha, a two-story house, a human figure with glasses and plant growth, several abstract blobs of light, a pair of hands clasped in soto zen posture, a vague abstract of flesh, and a small flowing plant. The last panel on the bottom reads: "People with Borderline traits tend to lack a sense of emotional permanence. They believe, with all their hearts, that they will always be abandoned one day, and they will wait, with the vigilance and the discipline of the chronically wounded, for the signs that they should excise themselves from the situation immediately. Not because they doubt your love for them, but because they believe in the intense and unalienable truth that they are in fact unlovable." A digitally inked comic page with four panels. The first panel shows a roiling black sea, the second and third show a nautilus shell, from both the outer side and the inner "empty" side. The last shows a desolate ocean floor, devoid of life. The captions read: "It is much easier for us to cope with binaries. One day I loved this person, the next day, my love is gone, as if it were never there to begin with." A digitally inked comic page with four rectangular panels. The first panel is a pair of hands overlaid over a second pair of ghostly shadow hands. The second panel shows stylized human figures linked in a circular dance formation. The third panel shows a hand lighting a piece of paper, the flame in the dark giving off sparks. The last panel shows a scorch mark. The captions read: "Fear keeps us distant but safe, without this former love that was so easy to put down, so easy to light a fire to it, and to be satisfied with its absence, denoted only by the scorch marks where our love once lay."
September 25, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
The Handmaiden (2016) 🍭💦
A digital ink and watercolor sketch of a scene from the movie "The Handmaiden" (2016) in which the Maid holds the face of the Lady as she sits in the bath. They are in a steamy room with heavy, dark, Victorian furniture and beside the large bath is a table filled with oils, essences, salts, and perfumes. A large mirror reflects the other side of the room, the door slightly ajar, filled with more mist. The top of the frame is occupied by large white peonies in full bloom, which look down on the scene below.
September 19, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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thecojsz.bsky.social
🌱 WE BUILD A HOME: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

We're looking for existing or new illustrations and short comics (max 3 pages) for a digital fundraiser zine to support East African LGBTQIA+ refugees build a home in South Sudan.

More about the project here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
We Build a Home - call for submissions
We Build a Home - call for submissions Call for submissions for illustrations and short comics of max. 3 pages* about stories of what a home might mean to someone in the context of being queer. > SU...
docs.google.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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yoursforest.bsky.social
Opening slots again for my 3d clay banners! They are $65 usd each and you can find more info and an ordering guide on my site www.batsyforever.com#clay please email me at forest@batsyforever.com if you're interested! thank you :o)
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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saint-vagrant.bsky.social
more news: DATURA magazine volume 4 is now available in both print and pdf form! 🌸💘
daturazine.carrd.co#issue4
Datura Magazine
Datura Magazine is a queer josei-inspired anthology series featuring a range of speculative and realist stories for an adult audience that, like the poisonous datura flower, might have an edge to them...
daturazine.carrd.co
October 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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treelet.bsky.social
Finger painting.
A digital painting of a large tree in front of several buildings, rendered in soft fuzzy forms, except for the points of light meant to resemble lamps or lit windows. Above the tree, a point of light with wings soars.
June 26, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
An imposing man in a black vest and string tie looks down on a woman in bed in a cramped room with slanted ceilings two young children in a rowboat at night drift by a frog in the foreground two children holding hands look at a starkly lit birdcage from outside a house a woman sits in profile in the shadows, holding a shotgun
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 AM