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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hello #PortfolioDay ! I'm Nala, a freelance illustrator & designer looking for work in kidlit and layout design mostly. I also love to illustrate fantasy characters for teens and adults. 💼 nalvali.com 📧 nalvali.art@gmail.com #kidlit #layoutdesign #illustration

Illustrated full cover and three spreads for an alternative version of Little Red Riding Hood ("Caperucita"), featuring the girl, a short light grey chubby wolf, and three "bad" wolves. These three are an orange fox-like one, a reddish maned wolf-like, and a pastel yellow hyena-like one.

Work for a detectives book "Detective Miranda", targeted to kids. This picture features on top left two cover designs along a single illustration on the right with the rabbit catching a spider on a desk. The second row features three illustrations: the first one is the antelope delivering a letter to the rabbit, the second has the rabbit asking someone in the street for information on a map, and the third has the rabbit and the antelope peeking through an open door. The last row contains their character sheets with expressions.

Three seamless patterns based on nature. The first is blue with rays and jellyfish, the second features birds, and the third has chestnuts and plants.

Four accordion flyers for a personal project. The one on top of the rest features a white haired woman, with the text "Personajes" (Characters) on top.

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Not sick anymore thankfully, but still dealing with some pain everyday. Tolerable enough to not have me in bed, but annoying enough to have me tired and not going out much. I partially completed some deadlines, and I'm focusing on practicing, experimenting and filling my portfolio this month!

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My clients have always been nice with me, so I know they will understand it, but I also have some non-commission deadlines to fulfill and I've done nothing but stay in bed or foggy brain for the past day

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Getting sick with pain and brain fog when you have a list of stuff to get done within a month is somewhat frustrating for real

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hii I've been jumping from place to place this month from holidays, visiting friends and such, but I'm back and about to catch up with the pile of work that has been increasing

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Sharing my favorite not so colorful/whimsy attacks this year, these were SO fun to do for a change of vibe, a little rougher on the shading but very enjoyable and inspiring OCs ♥️ For ~OceanCryptid, @tallaroo.bsky.social and ~Areas

A female elf about to shoot an arrow with her bow. She has white hair tied in a bun and looks pretty determined. There's a vague snowy background and part of the lyrics of "The calling" by The amazing devil on screen

A goblin character looking spooked or spooky, with hair flowing all around and multiple green glowy eyes around, with some black lines flowing around in an eerie feeling.

A greyscale bust of an adult man with facial hair, a couple light hair streaks, and wearing an armor.

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'll try to upload some more of my artfight attacks this year but definitely won't be able to share all! Season ended but now I find myself in August ready to prepare two, most likely three, layout design bigger commissions, and three smaller illustration commissions so I'll be busy for the month :)

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Thank you again!! ;w; she looks so beautiful and peaceful/soft while keeping her themes so visible, I love the contrast of theme and aesthetic it makes me soft ♥️

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Jaye @kelpienet.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

my final artfight! ヽ(*^ｰ^)ノ for @nalvali.bsky.social #artfight2026

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Thank you again for this years revenge chain it was so fun <3 really enjoying slowly drawing more of your OCs! and you've done so many super cool attacks this year of all styles and types ♥️

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 02/08/2026

finally, my screentone sketchies <33 for ~Lostalyx and @nalvali.bsky.social

a fox boy sits on the edge of a deep hole, covered in mud and dirt. he smiles, feigning innocence. no way could he dig a hole like that with his bare hands.

a pair of portraits, one on the left with a wintery theme, and one on the right with more of an autumny vibe. snow elf and ginkgo dryad <3

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

ES QUE ESTA MONISIMAAA encima la pose es TAN mona y super estable la verdad pick choice 😭❤️🥺❤️❤️

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Cris @ravisuals.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Naah I'm not waiting to upload the rest of the attacks until I reach this one Attack for @nalvali.bsky.social I HAD SO MUCH FUN MAKING ITTT #ShareMyAttack2026 #artfight2026

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Again they look so pretty sobs Im heavily thinking if this would fit well with my clock as a phone background 🥺🥺 also the border collie one also gives off so much joy and whimsy 😭❤️

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 29/07/2026

another small painterly set <3

a transmasc sits at the side of a pool as he is splashed by a very happie border collie

two characters press their foreheads together one another's eyes. they're sat on soft furniture, fairy lights and sashes strung from the ceiling. there's a window behind them, showing the night sky and the moon.

looser portrait of a character smiling, little stars sparkling around them.

a pirate lady smiles over her shoulder, having been stood watching the sun rise in the sky. she's on a boat, its mast in the foreground

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I will definitely be there like this 👀 if Lorn gets back, or in general any other OCs that I may or may not have met! I do recall another fantasy character but I'm pretty sure you have (in general) a lot more OCs than I recall from years ago :3

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

All said, I gotta say I fully understand having one single OC (and/or story/world) consuming your brain to the point that other OCs just don't spark that sort of joy :') (totally not me with Ilenne, I have like four neglected stories behind me) in the end it truly is what you feel in the moment!

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We'll talk then :] for now, to enjoy the rest of artfight, vibing!

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I have no clue where or when I obtained the perspective/foreshortening skills I'm applying to the attack I'm currently drawing, but still, love high and low PoV they are fun to exaggerate proportions! This one has some slight off bits here or there but overall it's looking pretty good imo

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I'd be happy to do a small/chill trade after artfight ends :) (I draw so much I usually need a little cooldown after it) been also looking to draw more little cute arts like chibis and semi-chibis! I do have some work in august but I'm sure I could fit in drawing something like that

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Upon seeing the models they surely look like clay :0! its like little digital figurines

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Hopefully next year, if you participate, I'll be more brave and draw their prosthetic legs in full detail ♥️ they are super cool, I'm still a bit learning how to draw prosthetics :)

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A little attack for @enyard.bsky.social !! I love your sona's colors so much, I hope they get to enjoy a little beverage :)

Bust of a dragon anthro character with yellow-orange and turquoise skin/scales, wearing a lavender scarf that features the non-binary and trans badges. He's holding a cup of a hot beverage!

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Thanks again for these they are so amazing ;w; I also saw the models in blender and woagh it's such an amazing work they look SO good!! and all the others are so clean and neat too, love the lightning and how shaped you do the models ♥️

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 23/07/2026

ok, I don't think I have any more 3D in me, so here is the OC smoothie I made!!

3D model of a lightning gerbil creature. The render has a funky border overlaid on top of it, with hand-lettered MONTANA and wireframe stamps

A 3D render of an elk-like creature and a caracal-like creature. The elk holds an orb of light, while the caracal brandishes a staff. Hand-lettered text on the borders reads "kiz" and "shin"

render of a little guy popping out of a gift box!

render of an android type character (with heavy bloom effects) floating in front of a code editor, the tab(?) titled "px-3"

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My recent artfight attack thumbnails are so funny, there's, left to right: MS Paint art Animated tiny pixel art Textured high contrast BW art Child book-like art My usual lineless art My bright detailed lined art

A series of six art thumbnails each looking a bit different, featuring the faces of the characters - left to right: a tan man with glasses, a purple merfolk, a bearded man in BW, a snow leopard chibi, a faerie with blue hair, and a rabbit anthro.

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I finished this one yesterday and I think it's one of my favorite attacks I've done so far this year! For ~Viola_Moreels who has a super cool, colorful sona and gives a lot of artistic freedom to draw, so I went all out with colors ♥️

A bunny anthro character playing a guitar. Character has two asymmetric horns and wings, rabbit ears, a cheerful expression and is wearing very colorful clothes in black, magenta, blue, yellow and green.

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This drawing means a lot to me, so, thank you! <3

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Thanks again!!! also love to see more song/motif arts, they all look super cool <3 I love your textures

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🪻Aiks/Atom (semi hiatus) @aiksandatoms.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

#art #artfight2026 #af2026 #teammystery Batch two of Artfight attacks! OCs belong to Lycheecat on AF, @thalasso.bsky.social , @nalvali.bsky.social , @muchluckart.bsky.social , @ratoncitas.bsky.social (also yeah I really like drawing flowers this AF)

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🥺🥺❤️ !!! Julius fans unite!!! Ajshahsh as per what you said on the sites comment, Im curious to know where fantasy OCs are at concept wise(?) too cause revisiting our older arts I remember I loved Lorn's vibe and design for example. But also whats the vibe with the modern ones too 👀

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Don't take me back, cause I will find Find it out as I go go go All the answers on this road This is the huge illustration of my original characters I've been working on for more than a year on-and-off ♥️ #NalaOCs #originalcharacter #OCs

Huge illustration with 140 of my OCs distributed in different sizes for the composition. The most relevant ones are two black cryptids at the top (Kiz, an elk-shaped cryptid with a scarf, and Shin, a chubby feline-shaped cryptid holding a globe). Kiz is looking down at Sky, a blue haired man with glasses around the center to the right. Sky is being kind of hugged by his husband Tesh, while Sky holds a small light in his hands, and looks down more or less in the direction of Adrie. Adrie is the bottom center one, a non-binary character stretching a hand to the viewer and pointing back up to Kiz. The other two relevant characters are the women next to Adrie at the bottom: Ilenne, a white haired woman wearing armor, holding a halberd, and Nayru, a woman with a long black braid, winking and holding a spear. The rest of characters are divided by relevancy, bigger at the bottom, smaller at the top. There's a big variety of mostly humanoid characters, furry characters and a few feral (wolves, and invented species). At the top, in the space left as "sky" there are faint hands to the left of Kiz, and some mysterious creature with a halo to the right of Shin.

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Yippee!! honestly I hope these keep being around for a long time, I really really should be doing a lovey dovey art in another battle :)c honestly Cass is so beautiful 😭

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It really really didn't click to me because of the username but upon seeing the older arts I did remember those attacks from your and my side! and saw more art of the same OCs I drew and recognized them too :0 that's SO cool it was such a realization it made me emotional ;w; ♥️

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

And one for @snail-legs.co.uk who, you are not going to believe this because I only noticed now, you were the first person I ever attacked on artfight in 2017! In fact we drew for each other in 2017, 18 and 19 but your UN didn't click because you had another one back in 2018 :0

A character with mid-length wavy hair is looking down peacefully at the globe she's holding on her hands. She has little wings behind her, some sort of metaphoric halo with stars around her head. She has a bow and the whole piece is drawn in greyscale, with ink.

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Gonna share a couple more! First targeted to @sagewiitch.bsky.social who I first met already in 2020! And with @babbyrat.art because these two characters are so beautiful together ;w; Time flies by like what do you mean it's been 6 years, it feels like we were yapping about OCs a year ago :0

A man with dark skin and long black hair, wearing an armor and a gold and blue cape, is holding a sword while there's a semi transparent bust of his partner, a woman with dark skin and hair looking peacefully, wearing jewelry and a white blouse.

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'm still so in love with the pose expression and the skirt 🥹

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shirou 🎃 @shirouda.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Attacks for @nalvali.bsky.social and ~LastSentence ✨️ #artfight #artfight2026

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Thank you! and it's definitely possible, though it is surely a lot of work! if you have less OCs or have them in separate groups or stories, you could even make a few different drawings with each group and then fit them all together in a composition :)

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Thank you!! 🥹♥️ somehow in my case it feels best to make a huge drawing with most of them since I got so many! along the OC animatic that I still have pending to share :)

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Thank you!! This has been my long term project for the past year :]

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

For reference those are 140 of my OCs (most I have but not all), the first rough sketch is from 2024, and it took me a little less than 70h :] I may use this in the future to introduce some OCs or groups of them! The oldest here is from around 2009 and the newest from 2025

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Gracias aaaaaa! Ha sido todo un reto personal que ha llevado tiempo pero estoy super feliz de haberlo podido terminar

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

YEEEY me alegro >:] en verdad te puedes creer que el primer boceto es de 2024-

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

GRACHIAS AAAAH fue practicamente un reto personal

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Thank chuuu 🥹 Im so proud of this one hehe

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Nala 🌱 @nalvali.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

And a few zoom ins, because the real drawing is huge for all this detail. More important characters are more detailed, while smaller are flatter. Here's, in order, some of newer favs, some of my older and still important OCs, my real old OCs, and my sonas!

Highlight of Onyx, an orc-like woman OC with a lot of hair, two bottom fangs, and hairy skin, looking at her friend Vakna, a chubby human woman with hair half-tied, red armor, waving back.

Highlight of the Lilith sisters at the left, one in red and a white top hat, one in black and blue jester outfit, and one in teal and orange jester outfit. To the right, four characters, with Mars telling some sort of joke and having her arm around Quinn, who is laughing along. To Mars' left there's Amir, a short character with little horns and short yellow-red hair, and a taller one named Alma, who has quite some hair volume, and some sort of cloak

Highlight of my old OCs Kai, Abby and Kira. Kai is a guy with short-ish brown hair and a flannel, next there's Abby, a non-binary character with long-ish black hair and some blue streaks, wearing a hoodie and winking at Kira, who is the shorter woman with short ginger hair, smiling back at them.

Highlight of my sonas Nala the brown bear, looking at Hiku the red panda, who is waving his arm.

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