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vaerkhaos.bsky.social
Raphael 👁
@vaerkhaos.bsky.social
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🏳️‍⚧️ | he/him, they/them | 25-30 | speaks 🇩🇪+🇬🇧 | Main Project: Glassheart 🦋 | 🔞

Your local eldritch abomination. I do dark fantasy illustrations. Unavailable for hire.

🚫 No NFT/AI shit.
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vaerkhaos.bsky.social
I made art. His name is Oskar and he's about to get his life ruined in a VtM chronicle.
Digital portrait of a dark-haired, gentle-looking young man with gold-rimmed glasses. It has a somewhat early autumnal colour scheme.
September 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
new art is slow, btw, I haven't really finished anything polished in the last few months, but I did experiment a little and this is one of the results ✨

One of my glassheart babies, known as the Vessel.
A dark, messy portrait of an otherworldly figure with long hair and piercing eyes. Something is off about their mouth, a little too wide. They look expressionless into the camera, staring down the viewer. The illustration is monochromatic, dancing around a blue-ish green grey, except for the pupil-less eyes, painted in a comparatively vivid light blue hue.
June 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
If you see this, post your blue art! 💙

most of glassheart is blue-themed and yet i have suspiciously little blue art. gotta right that wrong sometime soon
June 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
Oops.
January 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
I did some traditional portrait practise yesterday. Getting some use out of my art supplies for once
A traditional pencil portrait of a person. The colour scheme is limited to dark purples, light blues and red. It's very subtle.
October 17, 2024 at 10:27 AM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
🩸🦷

#darkart #vtm
Digital painting of a blond, sad looking man with somewhat messy hair & a slightly torn black shirt. He is crying blood and has very subtle bite mark on his neck.
August 2, 2024 at 3:37 PM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
Got a new phone, added all my emails, which i've never done before on a phone bc i use webmailers mostly. I uh. May have a problem.
Screenshot showing the ios mail app icon with 20250 unread emails
May 19, 2024 at 1:26 PM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
do you ever just
digital doodle. when you need floor time to stare at the ceiling contemplating in silent despair
March 1, 2024 at 7:22 PM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
AAAAAH allow me to offer:

- The Vessel. He/Him, golden glow pls.
- Moth. He/him, red glow, ofc. (feel free to leave out his mouth thingies)

(check the alt text for additional tips, if you need them)
The Vessel The Vessel but worse. Please note: He has so so so many sharp teeth in his mouth and his sclera is black. His iris is normal, except cherenkov blue, ofc. Moth but with mandible thingies. Moth but without mandible thingies. Please note: his multiple eyes are still there, just as fine lines. His eyes are also cherenkov blue.
February 8, 2024 at 9:40 AM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
work in progress ✨

(the man's part of my project, "glassheart")
digital painting in progress, heavily watermarked, of a gloomy, grey-purple skinned man with slightly pointed ears. his eyes are entirely white and he has a thousand yard stare off into the distance. he's clutching.. something in his hand.
February 7, 2024 at 11:48 PM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
'ello, thanks for the art share!!

I'm Raphael and I make spooky art stuff, most of the time.
digital painting of a pink tiefling casting a fiery spell toward the viewer. He looks cute but somewhat spooky digital portrait of a man with a neutral expression. his left side is normal, while the skin on the right side of his face is being pulled by several fish hooks digital fanart of a somber looking Laudna from Critical Role digital portrait of an elegant elven man who is posing somewhat seductively, as he stares down the camera with eyes that are not quite normal. It's a greyscale painting and his skin is so bright it nearly glows.
February 6, 2024 at 8:19 PM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
I heard the skies have opened up and chaos begins to reign.
Not me, though. I'm Khaos, with a k. Or something.

ANYWAY. Hi, hello and welcome.

I make art, sometimes, when my day job allows. Currently working on a dark fantasy story that may or may not turn into a visual novel.

#DarkArt #Art
digital fanart of Jonathan Sims, The Archivist, from Magnus Archives. digital portrait of a young man, half of his face is normal and the other is pierced by fishing hooks in several places, pulling his skin. He seems to not care. digital fanart of Laudna from Critical Role digital art of a young elven man who concernedly looks into the distance as bright blue magic creeps up his neck and face like a weird Lichtenberg scar. This one belongs to the dark fantasy story I mentioned in my post.
February 6, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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floof cat
a small digital doodle of a very white, somewhat miffed looking cat
January 27, 2024 at 6:50 PM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
work in progress 👁️
a digital painting in progress of a spooky figure laying on their arm on the side. the angle is wild, the colour scheme muted. dramatic lighting highlights their face.
January 15, 2024 at 9:31 PM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
Ayy, #ArtSummary2023. Decided to add wips and commissions to this so it doesn't look that empty haha. It sure has been A Year.
An art summary in grid form. March is empty, July and November are labelled "work in progress" and May, June, August and September are labelled "commission".
December 31, 2023 at 1:44 PM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
💚👁️
A digital painting of The Archivist from The Magnus Archives. An indian man is shown in profile, a somber expression on his face. His hair is somewhat messy and his collar is coming apart. There are some small, round scars on his neck. His one visible eye is glowing bright green. The artwork is watermarked.
December 31, 2023 at 2:52 AM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
HAH! Fixed it!
The same journal page, but this time it's a proper 5×5 field grid. Some spaces are covered in green paper in two different shades to hide the old lines. There's also washi tape now
December 30, 2023 at 8:00 PM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
was trying to make a goal bingo for 2024 for my journal and uh.

I made a *slight* error.
Journal page titled "2024 goal bingo" with an unfilled bingo field below. The bingo field has 3x3 spots as opposed to the normal 5x5. It has already been outlined with black fineliner.
December 30, 2023 at 5:11 PM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
Saw this floating around and gave it a go.

Cannot believe I only got one bingo with this many filled spots
December 11, 2023 at 11:02 AM
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HELLO i write a novel (series) full of my brain children and I love them a Normal amount!! Here's Vashka, the protagonist and a few others as sketches 🦋✨️
A digital painting of a concerned elven man looking into the distance. There's magic creeping up his face. It doesn't look healthy. A digital sketch of a massive dragon sitting on its hind legs. It looks at the tiny silhouette of a human next to it. A whole lineup of sketches of all important characters of book 1 of my novel series, complete with their names. Two more character sketches, this time from book 2
October 28, 2023 at 4:22 PM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
Work in Progress 👀🦋
A crop of a digital painting. A half rendered face of a blonde elf man with warm brown eyes is visible.
October 27, 2023 at 9:19 AM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
congrats on the 1k!!

I'm from Germany and I love painting dark, spooky and atmospheric portraits 🦋 Thanks so much for the art share! 🖤
A digital painting of a concerned young elf with blond hair. He has magic creeping up the side of his face. A digital painting of a pink tiefling casting a fiery spell toward the viewer. He looks a bit creepy, but his floppy ears are cute. A digital painting of a man with hooks in his skin on one side. The eye and mouth on that side are sewn shut. He barely seems to mind it.
October 21, 2023 at 9:03 AM
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Sharks 🦈
A black and white comic of a bunny (me, khaos) chatting with a penguin via mobile phone. The dialogue goes as follows: Bunny, typing: "people keep complimenting me on the art i did and idk how to handle it people are too nice i cant sleep like this pls send help" The penguin ponders the message. The penguin starts thinking. Penguin, thinking: "I don't know what to say to that." Penguin, thinking in distress: "I mean I'm still processing that people bought my books. At least one person went straight for it, no nonsense, like, how do I handle that..." Penguin, to themselves: "ANYWAY" Penguin, thinking: "how do we get khaos to sleep?" Penguin, thinking: "we disregard how technology works and that notif pings keep people up." Penguin, thinking: "Just blurting out random facts seems like a solid idea." Penguin, thinking: "...sharks" Penguin, via phone to bunny: "Sharks are older than the north star." Bunny: "?"
October 13, 2023 at 12:39 PM
vaerkhaos.bsky.social
oh, nice.
a cropped screenshot of my current followers, showing the number 69.
October 10, 2023 at 9:24 PM
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Migraine 🪝
A digital painting of a guy looking at the camera, somewhat expression-less. His left half of his face is in shadow and normal, while the other side is illuminated by some harsh green light. The lit up side has several hooks in the skin pulling on the flesh. His right eye is sewn shut, as is his right half of his mouth.
October 10, 2023 at 9:03 PM