Art by Vaelyane

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

Honestly several things are depressing about ai but the two that stand out are the eagerness of people to outsource thought because cognitive effort is uncomfortable, and the casualness with which people use the shiny, easy thing knowing it's bad for climate change

Haunting, haunted (a commission for @akascratch.bsky.social of his character Julian! Thanks again!)

Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm Baedelus and I love drawing eldritch fantasy, horror and romance! I have a webcomic, Leviathan Exile that updates on full and new moons. 🕯️ Read Here 🕯️

The most fun thing ever to randomly see

Vampire Hunter D 🦇🌕

Fun fact: folate deficiency feels very bad.

Amongst the lilypads, the adventurer finds a mythical creature, taking a moments respite. He looks back at you over his shoulder. --- Finally done. Finally. I think worth the effort, the additional work with the wet skin and hair made a lot of difference. Hope you like him!

I love how the glaze came out on my little goldfish dish! The colors are exactly how I hoped.

self-portrait + art cut-out trend || #darkart

Commission for @authortrsteele.bsky.socia 💛 🔹 🌟🔹 June 2025

It's my birthdaaaaay!🎊 As an artist, it's often difficult to acknowledge how much I work and how much I improve, so today I want to be nicer to myself and share some of my favourite pieces I made since my last bday.💙 If you'd like to share, it would be a lovely gift!🙏✨

Selkies, from my book Seas Of Strangehollow, the third in my Strangehollow world. You can find the books here: buff.ly/7krkipG #selkies #mermaid #merfolk #folklore #fairytales #artbook

Here's a new bugelf I painted. His name is the Necromancer and he's based on a death's-head hawkmoth. All bug elves are painted for my upcoming D&D 5e book called the Feylights of Gaol, and they are playable species #art #dnd #characterdesign

Happy First Day of Fall to all my Northern Hemisphere friends (featuring a tiny little portrait of yours truly 💛) #kidlitart #watercolor #gouache #coloredpencil

Birds! QRP your bird art 🧡

Blue shesh 💙 (Experimental piece) #digitalart #artist #algeria

I'm opening TWO COMMISSION SLOTS (emergency style), done before the end the November. My rates and guidelines can be read here : tinyurl.com/tnmcomms It's a first come, first served basis ! Here are some examples of recent comms I've made. Contact me through email at elliotbouriot@proton.me !

Please behold my adopted son the small glass pumpkin.

Another mushroom painting available! 🍄Dandelion Grove🍄 Acryla gouache, airbrush Size: 4" circle $150 (includes US shipping) DM to claim (I take Venmo/PayPal)

I went to a stationery store the other day & grabbed my first Leuchtturm1917 notebook! Here is my inaugural merm drawing for it. The paper smells different; it is also thinner and a lot more translucent than my usual, but it still felt pleasant under my nib! #fountainpen #sketch #art #mermaid

August is slowly coming to an end, which can only mean that #SpookySeason is finally approaching! And it’s the perfect time to adopt a little bat keychain! 🦇 evanskyarts.com/products/bat... #Handmade #Bat #Bats #Halloween #Fall #Cute #SmallBusiness

Did you know violet carpenter bees are pollinators? I found out on the way home the other day! Evidently, the european honeybees didn't expect it either, because one of them bopped it with its entire body weight to tell it to fuck off while it was sitting on a flower 😂

SAILWYTCH

plant content that's also drawings. always fun to see a cryptocoryne in bloom 🦋🌱🦋🌱🦋🌱🦋🌱

tell me you love me! 🗡️🌹 #originalcharacters

Going to see if I can fill out a whole page of these fantasy swords. #swordtember #swordtember2026

A little something something for yet another personal project (and because... hands!) 💜 #art #fantasyart #artsky

I made a little template for use by cool small businesses! Enjoy!

Our town has two different, beautiful manhole covers and I randomly found this street that had them both together. Behold.

remember you'll die // remember to live #art

Today's memory merfolk doodle! I started to feel ill in the middle of it and didn't finish it as nicely as it started :'D (ignore the runaway hand, I am notoriously bad at centering compositions on sketchbook pages) #art #sketch #fountainpen #merman

What if Cheats was a swarmkeeper ranger in a fantasy setting? If you wanna find out with me, you can watch us goof around in DJ&D tonight as @jocat.net runs a brand new little side campaign for us! watch along ▶️ www.twitch.tv/causeimdanjo...

I'm a Cara user and have been donating since 2024 to help with server costs; it is one of the rare few spaces that still respects artists online, and a volunteer project. Scrapers have been trying to destroy it through targeted attacks. Please help us fight back! www.gofundme.com/f/help-cara-...

My fountain pen skills are rusty and I have a nasty migraine, but I decided I'd sketch a merm and post anyway. I think I may have to lie down now 🫠 #fountainpen #sketch #art #merman