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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

finally joining this year's #artfight! artfight.net/~jayless

Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

April VSArtParty! ♥️ #gw2 Ragna Stormchaser - @/northssketchbook on tumblr Maelmordha - @/lady-quen on tumblr Avalon - @theseenflower.bsky.social

three sketches of original characters from GW2: a femme norn, a masc sylvari, and a femme sylvari. they're drawn in simple lines and warm colours on a blue gradient background.

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

it's my birthday today! i'd appreciate it if you shared my art as a little gift 😌❤️

Varo, a sylvari mesmer, stands in-between parted, see-through curtains. His bark is a pale coral, and the white foliage on his head is shimmering with opalescent magic. His red eyes are bright as he looks at the camera with a slight smile. Around Varo, magic dissolves in swirls of illusory shards and streams as he dismisses his glamour. Behind him, a vast desert stretches beyond the horizon, glowing golden with the afternoon sun.

A tall, androgynous sylvari stands in with their arms wrapped loosely around their upper torso. Their bark is a dark mossy green, and their foliage, styled like a mullet, is a dull beige. Their keen, lilac eyes are looking to the side.
Their clothing is composed of overlapping layers of leaves that vary in different shades of green, which shift in sunset hues at the elbows, and to lilac at their wrists. Vines in the same lilac shade curl about their form, with their leafy ends wrapping around their back and extending over their shoulders, pointing upwards like a mantle.
The background is an edit of the Landscape (1890 - 1925) painting by Magnus Enckell.

Two charr keep night watch, standing side-to-side on a cliff overlooking Orr. Arventia, the charr further away from the viewer, is dressed in leather armor with a fur collar. Her fur is a powdery grey, which fades to russet on her tail, limbs, and muzzle. She looks off into the distance, her maw slightly ajar as she speaks, her expression solemn. Vestris stands closer to the viewer, don in an intimidating set of heavy armor. Her helmet is made with jagged plates of metal arranged into a tri-horn shape, with the longest horn extending from the forehead like a sabre. Her fur, barely visible because of her attire, is white with grey tiger stripes, and her mane is messy and braided in places. Vestris looks sidelong at the viewer, her intense orange eye sharp and defiant.

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

*shakes fist at bsky resolution limits* best i can do is a crop 🤲

A cropped version of the drawing in the original post:
A tall, androgynous sylvari stands in with their arms wrapped loosely around their upper torso. Their bark is a dark mossy green, and their foliage, styled like a mullet, is a dull beige. Their keen, lilac eyes are looking to the side.
Their clothing is composed of overlapping layers of leaves that vary in different shades of green, which shift in sunset hues at the elbows, and to lilac at their wrists. Vines in the same lilac shade curl about their form, with their leafy ends wrapping around their back and extending over their shoulders, pointing upwards like a mantle.
The background is an edit of the Landscape (1890 - 1925) painting by Magnus Enckell.

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Siobhanoor has been on my mind a lot recently, and it just so happens that they have been in dire need of a portrait ✨ #oc #gw2 #sylvari

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

i decided to treat myself to some Varo art over the holidays 😌 also uploading this crop, which makes it look like someone is standing in front of Varo instead 👀

A digital illustration of Varo - a masc sylvari from Guild Wars 2. His bark is pale coral, his eyes are red, and his messy fronds are variegated white and sage green, with antennae growing at the inner base of his brows.

Varo looks at the viewer with focus, his chin held up by a finger of one Void-made arm holding him possessively by the collarbone. Suspended in-between his crystalline claws, is a shard of the same crystal as they are made of, emitting jagged lines of Chaos and Void magic.

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

i'm back to using Varo as a test subject for trying out new art things. nature is healing 😌 #oc #gw2 #sylvari

A stylized digital drawing of a masc sylvari from GW2, painted in vivid colors against an ultramarine background. His bark is light pink, and the leaves on his head are mostly white, with some pale green variegation. His intensely red gaze is directed at the viewer in a dispassionate sneer.

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Celebrating my return to RP with some much needed art of my elementalist 😌 #gw2 #sylvari #oc

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Varo has a griffon companion, Berry - she was given to him by the Sunspears when she was a hatchling, as a token of gratitude for Varo's support in the Sunspear uprising in Istan. Vestris, who Varo met in the Highlands, helped him raise her (she was quite a handful when she was young).

WIP drawing of Varo and Berry - a pale-coral bark sylvari riding on a lilac corvid-like griffon

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

i will take any opportunity to yap about this guy 🤲 #gw2

pink text on black background saying "one like = one fact about my OC"

a sketch of a pale coral bark sylvari with variegated hair leaves, red eyes, and stamen sprouting from the bridge of his nose

a drawing of a pale coral bark sylvari with variegated hair leaves, red eyes, and stamen sprouting from the bridge of his nose. he's wearing the femme version of the elegant canthan outfit

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

i'd love to see Varo and Berry in your style 😌❤️ thank you for the opportunity!

a screenshot from Guild Wars 2, showcasing a lilac griffon mount stretching as her sylvari rider corrects her tack

a screenshot from Guild Wars 2, showcasing a lilac griffon mount getting some scritches on her beak

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Repost with your first crush(es) (the Spirit to Kaladin pipeline is real btw)

Spirit from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

Howl Pendragon from Howl's Moving Castle (specifically the bird form awakened something in the 12yo me)

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

splitting the year into quarters because of the seasons is out. tracking them through the DGM release schedule is in

a screenshot of a tumblr post:

[dgraymess]
I legally can't die until Allen Walker gets the happiness he deserves

[superbadlydrawnallenwalker]
How does it feel to be immortal?

[dgraymess]
Bad

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I'll go with this shot of Vin, as it's my most recent favorite 😌

A screenshot from Dragon Age: The Veilguard taken in photomode. It depicts a tall qunari mage with long hair and large pale horns, holding two conjured blades in a threatening pose. They're wearing Tevinter-style leather armor and they're surrounded by magical crows, and ruins from Arlathan Forest at night can be seen in the background. Their expression is fierce, and their grey, freckled skin is marred by scars and injuries. They're blind in their right eye.

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Arven and Ves, featuring one of my favorite lines from Stormlight Archive 😌 #oc #gw2 #charr

An illustration stylized to look like a screenshot from a movie.

Two charr keep night watch, standing side-to-side on a cliff overlooking Orr. Arventia, the charr further away from the viewer, is dressed in leather armor with a fur collar. Her fur is a powdery grey, which fades to russet on her tail, limbs, and muzzle. She looks off into the distance, her maw slightly ajar as she speaks, her expression solemn. Vestris stands closer to the viewer, don in an intimidating set of heavy armor. Her helmet is made with jagged plates of metal arranged into a tri-horn shape, with the longest horn extending from the forehead like a sabre. Her fur, barely visible because of her attire, is white with grey tiger stripes, and her mane is messy and braided in places. Vestris looks sidelong at the viewer, her intense orange eye sharp and defiant.

At the bottom of the image, a line of text made to look like subtitles says: "If you can tell me honestly that it’s a good idea for you to be alone tonight, I’ll leave you be."

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

@duchell.bsky.social painted this wonderful portrait of Vin 🥺❤️thank you so much! #rook #dav

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

i'm a big fan of our Vir Dirthara originals, myself

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Here are the panels separately! (because bsky really dislikes images in landscape...)

The first panel depicts a scene from the Grove, with three sylvari surrounded by the curling leaves and branches of the Pale Tree. Two of the sylvari stand facing the camera, while the third one faces away, in the direction of the arched gateway that exits into Caledon Forest. In the background, a fern hound is already on the way out, about to step into the sunlight that floods through from beyond.

The middle panel depicts a Mordrem Guard, armed with a longbow and poised to strike. The creature is trailing wisps of ley energy as it steps over fire and thorns. In the bottom left corner, a hand is desperately reaching upward through the flames. In the middle of the panel, right in Varo's reach, the glass has been shattered, letting through bright white light.

The last panel mirrors the first one in its composition: a depiction of the full moon among the clouds replaces the sunlit archway, and thorny vines and jungle plants replace the branches of the Pale Tree. A lone sylvari mirrors the pose of the one that was turned away, but here, they stand half-submerged in water at the foot of a waterfall. Underneath them is a depiction of a shattered mirror underwater, with shining eyes looking up from its surface. The cracks in the mirror originate from a dagger-shaped shard in its centre, which resembles the dagger that Varo is holding.

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Varo's backstory in stained glass, inspired by the fantastic works of @anniris.bsky.social ❤️ #oc #gw2 #sylvari

The illustration depicts Varo, a sylvari of pale-coral bark and variegated foliage, facing a stained glass triptych made with vibrant glass. He gives an impression of being caught doing something he shouldn't, as he looks over his shoulder at the camera with an expression of sorrow or regret. His arms are behind his back: his left hand is wrapped loosely around his right wrist, and in his right hand he holds an elegant crystalline dagger in a delicate grip.

In front of him, the stained glass window is built into an incomplete circle, with the top and bottom of it cut off. It's separated into three parts:
1) The first panel depicts a scene from the Grove, with three sylvari surrounded by the curling leaves and branches of the Pale Tree. Two of the sylvari stand facing the camera, while the third one faces away, in the direction of the arched gateway that exits into Caledon Forest. In the background, a fern hound is already on the way out, about to step into the sunlight that floods through from beyond.
2) The middle panel depicts a Mordrem Guard, armed with a longbow and poised to strike. The creature is trailing wisps of ley energy as it steps over fire and thorns. In the bottom left corner, a hand is desperately reaching upward through the flames. In the middle of the panel, right in Varo's reach, the glass has been shattered, letting through bright white light.
3) The last panel mirrors the first one in its composition: a depiction of the full moon among the clouds replaces the sunlit archway, and thorny vines and jungle plants replace the branches of the Pale Tree. A lone sylvari mirrors the pose of the one that was turned away, but here, they stand half-submerged in water at the foot of a waterfall. Underneath them is a depiction of a shattered mirror underwater, with shining eyes looking up from its surface. The cracks in the mirror originate from a dagger-shaped shard in its centre, which resembles the dagger that Varo is holding.

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

extra Varo doodles, featuring some fun moments from RP a while back 😎

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

one of my little guys that i can never shut up about... #oc #gw2 #sylvari

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

some extra notes for the species Adam is based on!

A collection of drawings of a fictional bird species called mimicra.
Transcription:
Mimicra - a bird most physically similar to an eagle, but behaviorally akin to a parrot. A highly intelligent omnivore, uses the ability to perfectly mimic sounds to hunt.
Juvenile: a specimen with heavily spotted and banded brown and white feathers
Adult: a specimen with a white head, dark brown body, and dark blue-gray tail. The ventral side of the wings is white in the center, fading to a lighter brown with soft banding.
The males' feathers have an iridescent sheen.

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

hard to dodge a hit they didn't see coming 🤷

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description.

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

the ancient elves were caked up and titans had big naturals. it's canon

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

so... apparently there are two titans at Isana Negat? and a strange green glow behind them 👀 #veilguardspoilers

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

the messiest workplace you've ever seen, featuring the master of terrible first impressions himself 😌 (thank you so much @halkuonn.bsky.social for the template!) #veilguardspoilers

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Jay, the local cryptid 🪶✨ @jayless.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

it's one of the Mourn Watch paintings - here's the asset, if you'd like a better look!

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