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Vaelyane
@vaelyane.bsky.social
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🇫🇷 | Kael | 34 | He/They

Genderqueer illustrator based near Strasbourg, France. 🎨 Watercolours & digital paintings. 🖌 Currently focusing on personal art & zines.

No Gen•A•I.

⭐ https://linktr.ee/vaelyane
✨ #art #watercolor
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Vaelyane @vaelyane.bsky.social · Oct 18
Time for a pinned post!
Hey! I'm Kael, a queer illustrator from Strasbourg, France. I love watercolours, digital art, fantasy, nature & monsters. :D

I'm chronically ill and don't update often, but I put my whole heart in my work. Enjoy your stay!

My links:
⭐ linktr.ee/vaelyane
⭐ cara.app/vaelyane
Crop of a digital painting representing a handsome Krampus. Crop of a watercolour painting representing a confused mouse wearing a monk's habit. Watercolour painting depicting a swimmer and a merman meeting for a fleeting second underwater. Digital portrait of a merperson in front of an ornate frame.
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Running away from my problems by sketching a young man and his worms.

#sketch #illustration #darkart
Digital sketch of a distinguished young man in a historical shirt with a black waistcoat, wearing an expression of wistful innocence on his face. Escaped strands of wavy hair brush over his eyes. A frog sits on his left shoulder with judging eyes, ignoring the squirming of a few worms around it. The frog and the lad are both looking at you. Your gaze wanders down to his hand, desperately grasping at the clothes covering his own chest in a stark contrast to the calm of his face. A couple of earthworms barely wriggle out of his grip. The worms. They curl around like his beautiful hair. You can't bring yourself to find them disgusting. In the background, unfinished floral elements are left to wrap around him in a weave of splotchy scribbles.
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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angelasasserart.bsky.social
NGL folks. Moving even just one of these originals would really make a difference for my husband & I with our continually piling up medical bills.🥲 Plz help spread the word, if you can. Even just re-sharing is powerful for small artists like me.🙏
angelicshades.bsky.social Angela R. Sasser | Fine Artist, Goddess Art, and Watercolors @angelicshades.bsky.social · 6d
If you've ever wanted to collect one of my originals, here's a great opportunity! I'm offering these pieces currently via the @changelingart.bsky.social's Deck the Halls auction with extremely fair starting bids.

Place your bids here by commenting on the images:
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Framed art featuring ornate frames with handmade traditional art rendered in watercolor, ink, gold paint, etc.
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
vaelyane.bsky.social
Frog story in a frog-sized book.
The photographer is mostly off-screen with fingers holding a minuscule book of fables in front of a green, black and white plush frog, made by Bark's Bog. The frog looks as if it is highly focused on reading a page announcing a fable from Jean de la Fontaine: The Frog and the Ox. The fable is in French. The photographer did not make the book. This is a real miniature book of fables with an ISBN code, unearthed anew while doing an inventory.
November 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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ladylettera32.bsky.social
Be the terrifying thing that lives in the woods that you want to see in the world 🍂
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Psalm by Olya Bossak

www.artstation.com/a...
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🚨 Denmark is attempting to force #ChatControl 2.0 through the back door TODAY!

Take action now!

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November 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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faithschaffer.bsky.social
⭐🌟 searching by starlight 🌟⭐
Ink drawing- side profile vignette of a woman walking though a windy patch of tall grass. She is carrying a lantern full of stars.
November 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
vaelyane.bsky.social
We're snail posting, post your snails! 🐌🍃

I don't think I've posted this older piece here yet. 🤔
#illustration
Watercolour painting of a kightly rabbit fiercely riding a passably distracted snail in front of an explosion of leaves. The snail's shell looks a bit wrong, and this mistake has been haunting the artist for years despite a lingering fondness for the piece.
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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violettenouvel.bsky.social
At the threshold of Death's domain #art #illustration #ocs #ocsky
Digital artwork depicting a scene between two characters, in an almost black and white snowy forest : one is a bright white feminine figure, seen from behind. She fell down on her knees in the snow, her long hair flowing messily in the icy wind. The other is a dark silhouette sitting on a sinister-looking horse, looking down on the white character. In the background loom the towers of a high castle.
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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weirdundead.bsky.social
✥ family ✥
#KCD2
November 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
vaelyane.bsky.social
I am currently lost in an inventory of my books!

I should've started earlier. :'D (I'm very grateful for Libre Office, the Writer tables don't crash on me like Open Office did)
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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juliedillon.bsky.social
I think the painted version of this drawing turned out okay. 👉👈This was done in watercolors, with graphite, gouache and chalk pastel finishing touches.
A watercolor and graphite illustration of a sad mermaid with long flowing hair holding a wounded albatross to her chest.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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{Sintober } Sun & Moon
Ivory & Carmine

[ #art #artwork #digitalart #sintober #oc #ocart #illustration ]
November 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
vaelyane.bsky.social
I would love to know why Instagram is suddenly serving me ads in German. 🤔
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Games against Genocide Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!

There are 50 TTRPGs to discover for a $10+ donation to @doctorswithoutborders.org and their Palestinian relief efforts.

Purchase the bundle here: tiltify.com/@jesthehuman...
there are watermelons on the side of the graphic and in the middle there is text that says games against genocide charity bundle via tiltify
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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kadabura.bsky.social
Nothing Feels Real Anymore
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
vaelyane.bsky.social
It's been really hard to envision where my art belongs, of late. I'm in an awkward position where I can't sell any of it, and social media feels alienating.

I can't make sense of anything. What do you think?
November 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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teaganwhite.bsky.social
occupied cavities • 11” x 14” • gouache & watercolor on paper
grey and pale plue painting of a red-bellied sapsucker perched on a piece of dead ivy branch, filled with barkborer holes and lines, that wraps around the bird in a cage-like way.
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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vaelyane.bsky.social
I had a migraine the entire day, and now I can't sleep! So I doodled this from memory to distract myself. It was very loosely inspired by Carmilla, which I read a few days ago.

(if I wake up in the morning and the sketch looks bad to my rested eyes, be warned that I will delete it)
Pencil sketch of a woman with curly hair, thin limbs and clawed hands lovingly hugging another who looks trapped in her arms, apprehensive and unsure of herself. The artist is sleep-deprived and can't type much more for want of a functioning brain. Does this sketch look good? I can't tell. My mind fell out of my ear twenty hours ago and hasn't crawled back in in under the storm of headaches I've suffered all day.
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
vaelyane.bsky.social
I had a migraine the entire day, and now I can't sleep! So I doodled this from memory to distract myself. It was very loosely inspired by Carmilla, which I read a few days ago.

(if I wake up in the morning and the sketch looks bad to my rested eyes, be warned that I will delete it)
Pencil sketch of a woman with curly hair, thin limbs and clawed hands lovingly hugging another who looks trapped in her arms, apprehensive and unsure of herself. The artist is sleep-deprived and can't type much more for want of a functioning brain. Does this sketch look good? I can't tell. My mind fell out of my ear twenty hours ago and hasn't crawled back in in under the storm of headaches I've suffered all day.
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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iriscompiet.art
Little Eggie! A little mushroom painting I did yesterday because I could.
Photo of a watercolour painting of a cute mushroom creature. A big round yellow orange cap with white spots. A big smile on their face and a little snaggletooth
October 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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hirosemary.bsky.social
Laura and Carmilla, at the end and the beginning 🥀
September 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
vaelyane.bsky.social
Happy Halloween! 🦇

This year, I am treating myself with the Beehive Books illuminated version of Carmilla, illustrated by @hirosemary.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥
An open book on a wrinkled bedsheet, featuring a full-page illustration of two 19-century women gazing at each other and holding arms in front of an ominous tapestry of Cleopatra handling the snake that would be fatal to her. It was drawn by Rosemary Valero-O'Connel (Bluesky @hirosemary) for Beehive Books. The light silhouette of the two young women starkly contrasts with the mostly blood-red backdrop.
October 31, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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eldrtchmn.bsky.social
My bday was on the 27th and sharing my art would be the best gift ever 🖤
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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majnouna.com
… it's time for another Kickstarter. I'm still hammering out some details, but plan to launch in November. If you have an interest in this area, I'd love it if you signed up to be notified and/or shared the link with someone who would be. Read on for more info…

www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...
Coming soon: Inks & Paints of the Middle East REVISED
A new, updated edition of my groundbreaking handbook of early Islamic art technology, incorporating five more years of research.
www.kickstarter.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM