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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

"The Lost Lenore" was painted for my first collaboration with the #drawing tablet company Wacom. The piece is an interplay between Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem, "The #Raven", and the Valkyries of Norse #Mythology. Watch out for her at Mahtay Café in St. Catharines, CA this December!🖤 #digitalart

Surreal digital portrait art of dark-haired female wearing a raven-feather costume on red background with excerpt from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, painted with Wacom's new Intuos Pro M (2025) model, by digital gallery and cover artist FAYBEL (Elaine Nesbitt)

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

“The crush of silk fastened and belled to a golden gown, caging the cliff notes of our tale within.” ~Miyako, from Timbretock🕰️ “Gilded Letters” is currently in exhibit at Curio Art Gallery (online) for the venue’s “Penumbra 10 Year Anniversary Dark Art Show”.🖤 #digitalpainting #romantasy #fantasy

The Alchemist transmutes written correspondence shared between himself and the female main character, Miyako, into gilded leaves of satin in a Cinderella-inspired fairytale moment in digital painter FAYBEL’s original artwork Gilded Letters from her dark romantasy illustrated series and fantasy narrative Timbretock.

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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Carolin Leary Prinn @niljora.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

My painting “The Sum of All Our Turquoise Nights”, watercolour on paper, 24.5 x 32 cm. Available at Poetic Tiger Gallery as part of their exhibition "Art of Lore" poetictiger.com/product/the-...

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy Holidays & A Very Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! “Noemi the Witch” by Faybel♥️ #fantasyart #fairytale #magical #art

Green-eyed Noemi the baking witch hushes a magic spell from her ruby lips and gilded cake decorating hand, wearing a cotton candy collared coat with peppermint buttons, cinnamon buns in her curly red hair and bright, sprinkles makeup. This piece, titled “Noemi the Witch”, is from digital painter FAYBEL’s work-in-progress, fantasy-fairytale “The Rag Doll Princess”.

“Weird Tales” Exhibition Excerpt: “Noemi the Witch”

“The Red Woman hushed, talon to mouth, lips stirring swift—a whisked smuggish smile, “Shush, my child, have not a peep, lest the pastries be soured—in the quiet retreat.” A deep beast moaned, dour in defeat, as the floorboards fizzed fires, licks of emerald from the labyrinthine beneath.”

~ from “The Rag Doll Princess”, an original fairytale

Below its derelict catacombs, in a lush, candy-coated labyrinth, spilling with animated toys and peppermint, pretzel-legged arachnids, Noemi, a mystical baking Witch, batches pastries and treats for 42 child-snatching goblins. In tenuous unity, they toil down deep, creeping the bowls of the walking city Amblebread.

The Illustration

On a path entombed by emerald magic, in a theatrical, deceptive manoeuvre, Noemi guides a throng of goblin-lured children to the Amblebread Creature’s core, a walking beast of cosmic terror—their city’s guard, its guise against the Ourobim, a pestilence storied to chase the Amblebread city on the back of its creature before time remembered.

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy Holidays & A Very Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! “Noemi the Witch” by Faybel♥️ #fantasyart #fairytale #magical #art

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Kim Myatt⁷ @ysvyri.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I still love this little painting. It was my first time drawing my giant moth motifs so it holds a special place for me 😊✨

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Spirits haunt a wintry lake amid the frozen dawn. “The Final Request” is a tale of sorrowful acceptance and rebirth: it illustrates the final conversation between the Alchemist and Miyako from my #romancefantasy "Timbretock".❄️ #artshare #romantasy #coverart #fantasybooks #digitalpainting

Digital artist FAYBEL’s fantasy illustration of a dark witch with celestial hair and “art nouveau” represented protection/warding magic motifs, on a gold and deep blue classic witch’s hat and loose fitting robes, sitting on a black slate stone in a wintry sunset scene, with an animated gold and black skull billowing dark-magic, speaking to her with a final request on behalf of the Alchemist, from the romantasy narrative “Timbretock”. “The Final Request” will be used as a potential cover artwork and in advertising graphics for artist submissions to “Art of the Phoenix: Path to the Inner Self”, a special, work-in-progress, publication between FAYBEL and 365 Art + Magazine in Japan.

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Annie Stegg Gerard @anniestegg.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

"The All-Father" 🐺 16x20 inches, oils on wooden panel. #norsemythology #oilpainting #art #traditionalart

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Annie Stegg Gerard @anniestegg.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The trees by my house have shed their last leaves. I created this piece as a heartfelt farewell to autumn and a warm welcome to winter!⁠ ⁠ "Horn of the Harvest Moon" 8x10 inches, oils on wooden panel⁠ 🌿 ⁠ #oilpainting #traditionalart #faerietale #mythology #womenartists #fantasyartwork #unicornart

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

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Suzanne ✈️ @anatomoth.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Spending the evening reorganizing all current available tattoo flashes for Instagram as not everyone has chance to take a look in my flashbook. Follow me over there too if you are interested to see more availability and booking info!:)

Tattoo flash sheet of surreal meatbügs made by Anatomoth

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Suzanne ✈️ @anatomoth.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

If you see this, post some cat art: Does pumpkinCAT count?

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Loish @loish.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I’d love to have a plant with pink leaves, but I’m not capable of keeping plants alive 😔 I even managed to kill a plant that’s known for surviving in extreme conditions, so for now, I’ll just draw them instead.

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Greg Ruth @gregthings.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

@realgdt.bsky.social ‘s magnificent turn with PAN’S LABYRINTH for a pvt og commission. All work created with graphite on paper, each original and one of a kind. www.gregthings.com

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

If you see this, post a knight.⚔️ “The Covenant of the Rose” was showcased with the Concept Art Association at @gallerynucleus.bsky.social in Alhambra, California at their first exhibition experience “Science Fiction & Fantasy”.🖤

Digital, dark-fantasy painting of black-haired woman with kelp infused tresses, a pink amethyst blade with a goblin-head-adorned, translucent fairy-winged, and bone hilt; and pearls on the crossbar, wearing purple amethyst and rose-themed jewelry, an abstract green and white tunic with babies breath flowers in front, and a red, glowing cloak. Digital painting name: "The Covenant of the Rose".

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Jana Heidersdorf @checanty.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If you see this, QRT a DRAGON! 🐲 (does she count??)

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I studied Egyptology at university for a time—this piece is brilliant, Rhonda: I love the hieroglyphs!💙 ”Rhiannon & the Skylark” is a part of my floral-iris series—a motif I picked up for some of my #surrealism gallery work. She was long-listed for the Women United Art Prize last year.🌸🌼🌺

Imaginative realism, surrealist portrait art “Rhiannon & the Skylark” of a kiu-fairy with a flower crown—including a peony and gardenia—and big, plumeria eyes, catching a bodhi-bird made of floral elements—tulip and iris flowers being among them—and semi-precious stone from digital artist FAYBEL’s original fantasy fairytale “The Tin Princess”.

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The details & movement within your works are exquisite, Shade!🖤 I have a newly completed piece I desperately want to share here: she’s for a magazine issue I’m working as chief editor for, however, these two paintings, “Timbretock” (left) and “Blue Porcelain” (right) were my most popular of 2024.

Digital painting of a pale, time-stealing fae with parasitic, clockwork, butterfly-creature wings; celestial locks of hair; a magical, black time-siphoning apple, and silken, flowing fabrics called Timbretock from FAYBEL's work-in-progress, romance-fantasy narrative of the same name. Painting title: “Timbretock”.

Beautiful female portrait art by pop surrealist FAYBEL with a blue smoke background; delicate blue crocus blooms; a melted porcelain fine bone china teacup in a young girl’s curly pink hair, with a porcelain cat on its golden handle; a robotic, sci-fi, techno-future hand with masks and a painted-floral design; a vintage fan with a clock-face design; a floral-patterned blue and gold butterfly; and a girl with flower-motif irises and intricate, floral makeup, a robust, gold earring with roses and filigree, a pearly-white silk hair-bow, and blue-butterfly cat-ears. Painting title: “Blue Porcelain”.

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Shade of Stars @shade-of-stars.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Hello! I'm Shade, a freelance artist. I paint fantasy and sci-fi.

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Congratulations, Winona!🦋 “Pushing Up Daisies” is a favourite recent portrait of mine with emotional connectivity to my struggle with chronic illness. I am running a #DTIYS of her over on Instagram with a magazine publication opportunity as part of its prize—there have been some amazing entries!💓🌼💀

Portrait art of a female with curly pink hair and daisies threading her tresses, with ouroboros serpent glasses and daisy irises, wearing a grayscale skeleton sweater made with ash, in front of a simple blue background, with a butterfly-winged, skull-headed fairy, sitting on a large white and golden daisy bloom, by digital painter FAYBEL. Portrait painting name: “Pushing Up Daisies”.

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Michael C Hayes @michaelchayes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Jin, 14" x 24" oil on panel

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Aelestial✦ @aelestial.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Thank you so much for the opportunity!!🥰 Nice to meet you, I'm Aelestial, a game art designer based in Tokyo. I love drawing lines for my personal work✨Here's one of my favorites pieces ☺️

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Zoe Badini @zoebadini.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Congrats! And thanks for the artshare. :) This painting is very dear to me, even if by now it's getting a bit old. :)

A botanist with a love for felines gently reprimands one of his cats for the latest mischievous deed.

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Cristiana 'Cru' Leone @cristianaleone.com · 12/12/2024

Congrats! Love your art so much! Here's my favorite 😊

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Winona Nelson @winonanelson.com · 11/12/2024

Holy crap, 5k followers!! I know some of y'alls are artists, let's see what you do. Show me a favorite piece! Artshaaaaare #art #illustration #comics #webcomics

Catwoman in a 1950s version of her outfit sits on a Persian rug cuddling a tiger and her black cat Hecate, in front of intricately embroidered pouf pillows and underneath ornate Venetian lamps.

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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine @beautifulbizarre.net · 12/12/2024

'The Epliogue' [Digital painting, on Cotton Rag. Edition 1/1] by @sianapark.bsky.social [2024 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Digital Art Award 3rd Prize Winner] for the recent Beautiful Bizarre exhibition ‘Paracosmic Escape’ at Modern Eden Gallery. Art Direction by: @musoniumgallery #art

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Congratulations, Riola!💜 I’m Ellie, a gallery and cover #artist from Canada that is currently working as chief editor on a magazine issue from Japan that will open up artist submissions in the new year, alongside gallery shows and #illustrations from my #romantasy “Timbretock”.

Surreal fantasy painting of Simay, a goddess-possessed female with blue glass, floral masks; Monet-inspired, impressionist hair; and golden kimono-inspired and blue gardenia-flower-fused clothing, with yellow phoenix and floral designs on petals, before a background of dark negative space and a large red floral-splotched moon from digital artist FAYBEL’s romance fantasy “Timbretock”. Fantasy painting name: “Many Faces of the Dreamer”.

A digital painting of The Tin Princess by fantasy artist FAYBEL from a sci-fi fairytale of the same name. A dark-haired, ultra-big-eyed, android girl with a vibrant monkey-creature, Tack, made of colourful precious stones, tufts of thick fur and tiny scales, looks at the viewer as a flaming soot-sprite perches on the her shoulder, all against a luminous purple background.

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Which #painting do you like best (Left: Timbretock🕰️ ; Right: Mono no aware🦋)? I love your idea for this #artshare — congratulations, Elen! The vibrant energy you express through your #artworks is enchanting!🩷

The dark-haired woman, Miyako, with fae attire, wearing butterfly wings, elaborate floral shoes and materials with fine bone china inspiration, stands on a large watercolour-painted clock with golden Roman numerals, in front of a cloud-like, watercolour background: she is from digital artist FAYBEL’s romance fantasy fairytale “Timbretock”. Character illustration name: “Mono no aware”.

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Congratulations, Aelestial! I love how vintage and magical your art style is!💛 These are two of my latest #surreal #portraitpaintings currently available at @nannygoatgallery.bsky.social in Petaluma, California. They were at the venue’s grand opening exhibition “Ephemeral” earlier this year.🦋

Beautiful girl digital portrait with butterfly-petaled lotus flower, dripping with honey and a single bee paired with green leaves in her long brown hair. She is surrounded by white fur with the word “love” written in white cursive behind her on a painterly, colourful background. Artwork title: “Bee Sweet” by fantasy painter and surreal digital artist FAYBEL.

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Between parasitic spirits, alchemical magic, time-devouring #fairies & plots with dark #fairytale flare, my #romancefantasy “Timbretock” explores themes of self-discovery & impossible love. I’m illustrating another version of this character from my #romantasybook today! Congratulations, Selina!🦋

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Damjan Gjorgievski @damjangj.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Congratulations! Here is my Valkyrie acrylic painting!

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

It’s not a bubble-helmet, but a magic, pink bubble-gum eight-ball 🎱 from one of my sassier #popsurreal #portraits “Call Me Maybe”. This #painting with its candied vibrance & sunny sunflower iris may have been playfully named after Carly Rae Jepsen’s catchy 2012 pop song.🎧🎶 Congratulations, Sumrow!🩷

Contemporary pop surreal portrait “Call Me Maybe” of a female with a sunflower iris; cat-call, golden-rimmed, heart-shaped glasses; a pink magic 8 ball reading ‘maybe’ in the form of blown bubble gum; a glass butterfly; platinum-blonde hair; and a winking expression from digital painter FAYBEL’s original fairytale fantasy fiction “The Tin Princess”.

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

ENDOR 2.5 is a spirit capturing, elven-like android from my original sci-fi #fantasy "The Tin Princess". I love how ethereal your work is: thank you for hosting this #artshare, Linish.💜 Some amazing artists to follow: @damjangj.bsky.social, @lesleythiel.bsky.social and @tombagshaw.bsky.social

An elven, big-eyes, pop surreal android with abstract, colourful attire; golden hair; floral makeup; honey-like tears; glass cat-ears; and an elaborate hair clip from digital artist FAYBEL's sci-fi fantasy fairytale "The Tin Princess". Artwork title: "ENDOR 2.5".

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Congratulations, KID!🖤 Here are some of my #darkfantasy portrait paintings published in Infected by Art Book Vol. 10 and featured by @beautifulbizarre.bsky.social♥️

“The Dream Keeper” and their frog-inspired creature, the Lalubi, on a celestial, orrery-like, ruby gemstone staff by digital artist FAYBEL.

“They say there’s a creature that covets dreams—that spirits them away when you—tucked in covers—sleep. Beneath your bed, does it tarry, does it keep, merely to eat your most blissful dreams—its treat?”

~”The Rag Doll Princess”, an original fairytale

Their Creature

The Lalubi is a spinner that syphons dreams from your mind when you sleep or descend into deepest thoughts without speech. With a downy pillow plume, it spins your dreams. They wisp from your mind like incense-tresses. The Lalubi’s gullet burgeons, blooming with light, and there they glow, your dreams, in a starry nebula—lost for millennia—naught to be felt or seen.

“Castle on a Cloud” from “Les Miserables” was the first musical theatre piece I ever performed. I grew up studying classical music, watching period dramas and playing Beethoven. These influences colour my illustration of “The Dream Keeper”, especially the crazed Beethovenesque hair.

The somber mood and dark aesthetic of Sweeney Todd’s musical score as well as the muted tones of Tim Burton’s Mad Hatter were notes of inspiration for this character.
Folktale Week 2021’s dream prompt inspired the premise of this piece as well as the folkloric dream stealing creature. There may be some Miyazaki influence trickling in.

“The Watcher” dark artwork by digital painter FAYBEL includes a dark-haired man with his cicada-winged, fiery-crowned shadow-ghoul.

The Watcher weaves shadow to cloth upon his skin,
Garments of eldritch lore with nightmarish fae within.
They nip upon the soul and shrivel will to whim,
For those you reap the dark and stitch,
Vices feast within.

LORE

Watchers weave cloth from any shadow, including their own. They can cloak within the long stretch of an enemy’s at dawn, or dress with the shadows of an estate at dusk. Gathering intelligence is their play, while focusing against the soul rending drones of the Dyrfae.

Dyrfae are shadow ghouls that feast upon all that is bright—happy musings and memories that color a life.

INSPIRATION

This piece was inspired by the striking silhouettes, contrast and dark tones of Laura Rubin’s portraiture as well as the harsh and simplified palettes of horror and dark fantasy film posters.

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Julia Metzger @juliametzgerart.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

If you haven't met me: hi, I'm Julia! I'm a freelance artist and art teacher from Germany, who does a lot of work for tabletop RPGs and TCGs, especially Magic: The Gathering :) My heart beats for everything fantasy across everything I do

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Esgalor🍊🌿 @esgalor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Softness torn asunder. #oc

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Linish 🌙 [comms open] @linish.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Let's do a fantasy #artshare! ⭐ Show me your art with elves, unicorns, dwarfs, etc.! 🦄 ⭐ Tag friends ⭐ Like | RT | comment your faves! ❌ No al, nftes, NSFW I will RT some that I like within 48 hours

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Endurance, yet fragility; a war against time and love for the ephemeral moments that colour our lives. All of my pieces are a part of me, saying more than I intend, but these three might be among my favourites. Your work is magnificent, Zara, congratulations!🩷

“IAMIX” is a digital portrait painting by gallery and cover artist FAYBEL. It has been published in 365 Art + Magazine and is currently available as canvas and fine art paper prints on iCanvas. A fairy female with floral irises and colourful makeup displays her elemental, cat-infused, vibrant hair and celestial, cat-covered glove: there are a total of nine cats to be discovered on her person, amid the pink smoke ringing the woman in this art piece.

Dark-haired woman, Miyako, with fae attire wearing butterfly wings and elaborate floral shoes and materials with fine bone china inspiration, standing on a large watercolour painted clock with golden Roman numerals, in front of a cloud-like watercolour background, from digital artist FAYBEL’s romance fantasy fairytale “Timbretock”. Character illustration name: “Mono no aware”.

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FAYBEL @faybelarts.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

If you see this, post a #witch!♥️ “Noemi the Witch” is a #digitalpainting from my #fantasy fairytale, “The Rag Doll Princess”, which began as a Christmas present for my younger sister.🎄🎁🍰 Her original was sold during my solo exhibition “Weird Tales” at Curio Art Gallery in December 2022.🖼️☃️✨

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