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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Free shipping today at INPRNT: www.inprnt.com/gallery/tree...

A photo of one of my Sacred Object prints, with various objects, sculptures, and museum pieces in a bamboo frame against a gray wall.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

happy belated birthday! i'm glad it was a good day. 🎉🎂

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

throwback to this lovely album by @laurentds.bsky.social that i did the cover for. you can find all their music for 18 magicians on sale atm: musicfor18magicians.bandcamp.com

a digital illustration of an album cover titled "fields and valleys" by music for 18 magicians. the outer border has a stylized dandelion flower on the left and several seeds, blossoms, and ephemera around the frame. hooded figures crowd together toward the bottom. in the interior frame a hooded musician plays a flute while seated on a tree, using arms made of smoke and magic.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

4 page update today. Just need a little more stability so I can work on art more and scramble for loose change less.

An image of two comic panels featuring a thin, naked, light-skinned figure floating in space. In the second panel, their outline is blurred, with a stylistically rendered nervous system running through their body,

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Non-Self for The Institute for Advanced Study

A digital illustration of a cell under a microscope with two human figures in the center whose palms are pressed against one another, eyes closed in contemplation.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Disabled queer still looking for work, please contact me via email or my website if you think I'd be a good fit for your project! danielle.taphanel@gmail.com www.danielletaphanel.com

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Now is a really great time to subscribe to my Patreon 'cause for $5 a month I'll be posting about my new comic once a week. I'm trying to manage $300 a month for meds and groceries. patreon.com/treelet

A spread of two digital comic pages, the left featuring a mountaintop with rounded structures next to a large tree, and a ruined city in the far background. An inset panel shows a pair of hands tugging on cloth. The right page shows the shadow of the tree as it falls over a window and a person using a pipette to draw something out of a syringe body.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

You can now download a big 100 page PDF of my sketchbook from 2022-2025, free or PWYW: treelet.itch.io/palm-leaves-sketchbook-2022-2025

a title page with various sketches rendered in white on a green background. the text reads: "palm leaves 2022-2025 : danielle taphanel".

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Pleased and proud to have helped design Maisey, the main character of Sonnet, which you can wishlist on Steam now: store.steampowered.com/app/4589630/... And follow: @sonnetgame.bsky.social

A digitally illustrated character sheet for Maisey from the game Sonnet. It features Maisey, a brown skinned girl wearing a large yellow tunic that doubles as a cloak/poncho, wielding fighting sticks, and carrying a large blossom in a cylindrical woven container on her back.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

My fridge is empty! Private commissions are open. Email me for more info: danielle.taphanel@gmail.com or use the contact form on my website. No DMs. Thank you!

A commission price sheet with three full color illustrations on it: one of a tiefling figure holding a staff, one of a small shrine in a garden, and the last of a record shop. The text reads:" danielletaphanel.com; can do: tattoo designs, character + inventory art, oc tarot cards, and more~; email: danielle.taphanel@gmail.com

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Finally taking the time to format 4-5 years worth of sketchbook pages into a big PDF.

A digital sketchbook page filled with various human figures, plants, trees, and flowers.

A digital sketchbook page filled with various human figures, animals, plants, trees, and flowers.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Finally fixed my portfolio and reactivated my instagram, feel free to stalk me and/or hire me (links work now): www.danielletaphanel.com instagram.com/treelet

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

My cover for North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher: www.neonhemlock.com/books/north-...

A digital illustration of a figure with long, black, braided hair standing on a cliff edge overlooking a valley forest. A set of tracks winds its way through the trees, and in the distance is a large white structure with a pale ribbon encircling it, reaching toward the sky.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

More old sketches from a comic that doesn't exist.

A digital drawing of a character/expression sheet of a human figure with a black outfit underneath a lab coat and four arms. The box inset has a green bamboo icon and underneath reads: "Dr. ??, Age: ??, traditional medicine, acupuncture, massage, exorcism, warding."

A digital lineart drawing of various human figures in simplified, futuristic looking clothing contrasted against panels and backdrops which feature underground structures, gardens, and biodomes.

A digital line art drawing of several human figures with black hair and long, flowing clothing. The text reads: "Wala Na, hemp, linen, plant dye."

A digital sketch page with three panels at the top that feature a wooden structure on stilts, a rounded stone building, and a person with antennae with a speech bubble that says, "Did you eat yet?" Underneath reads the text, "Wala Na", along with more human figures, abstract shapes, a cutout of a building built on stilts, and a jellyfish.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Despite careful masking, I have a sinus infection, so I am a fevered, leaking, useless mess and will be for the rest of this week at least. Here's another sketch for another comic I will never finish in the meantime.

A line drawing of a simple figure with long hair tied into a bun and a light circle drawn on their forehead. More images show an identical figure with shorter hair and more careworn expression, with a black circle on their forehead. There are several abstract line drawings and the words, "short", "tall", and "snow", "melt/rain", and "growth".

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain for Penguin Random House Publishing.

An illustrated cover for James Baldwin's book "Go Tell It On the Mountain" featuring a young Black boy representing John Grimes, surrounded by a halo of light and crowned by praying angels as he looks downward. To the left are buildings occupied by Black church and community members, and below is a drawing of the hut where his father Gabriel was raised.

A scene from James Baldwin's Go Tell It On the Mountain featuring John Grimes as he experiences hallucinatory religious visions surrounded by his family and community.

A scene from James Baldwin's Go Tell It On the Mountain featuring John Grimes engaged in a wrestling match with Elisha.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Sophie, a private commission for Albert.

A digital color illustration of a small white dog with curly hair sitting next to a small hut with a roof made of leaves resembling a junimo hut from Stardew Valley. Surrounding the dog is a pink flowering bush, grass, and strawberry plants. Three small inset panels show the dog's various expressions.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Coral, a private inventory commission for Claire.

A color digital illustration of a curly-haired brown-skinned woman wearing an oversized dress shirt, pants, blue tie, and blue-tinted glasses, staring at the viewer with a lollipop stick in her mouth. Around her are various objects related to her life and profession: tarot cards, dowsing rods and pendulum, a box of matches, a sticky note from a woman named Vera with lipstick marks, a journal and pen, a walkie talkie and a Polaroid camera from the 90s, a Christian cross, a mirror, candles, lollipop, herbs, a thermos, a handgun, a small baggy with a finger bone inside, a flashlight, stacks of newspaper, a photo of a ghost, holy water, a granola bar, and a ritual knife. Beneath her is an inset image of a messy bedroom with a cork board with multiple papers pinned over a map, bed, a vanity table used as an altar, and a large bookshelf. The inset image is flanked by two small statues of angels.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Went to admire the spot in my shelves where DEAD HORSES by @goblinstunts.bsky.social will soon be.

A photo of a shelf with various comics and manga. Please ignore the kitty cam in the upper right corner.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I count your promises on my finger bones and note you've broken every one.

An illustration of three stylized deer running in panic, each with a necklace of thorns around their necks, with the rightmost deer's collar having been broken. The entire image is framed by threads tied into knots. In the center is a black circle with a drawing of a dilapidated house and a red figure in its doorway, laid over a drawing of a locket. Finger bones are scattered across the image, along with a wedding ring placed at the appropriate junction.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The Magician, private commission for Claire.

A digital color drawing of a female tiefling wearing bright orange robes, holding a staff, in front of a watery field of lotus flowers, framed by ferns, with a rising white tower in the distance.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Patrons get weekly access to the process of my next project, a false materia medica titled "On the Preparation and Use of Medicinal Divinities". patreon.com/treelet

An image of two humanoid figures side-by-side, one with the head of a bird, the other with a star for a head. A crowned eye and a set of tangled, alien ribs is drawn on their chests. Behind them are circular star maps, and further back abstract organic tubes. Parts of them are labeled: eyes, mind, suffering, desire, flesh, blood. The title reads: "On the Preparation and Use of Medicinal Divinities by D. Taphanel"

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Notes on abandoned Orpheus and Eurydice comic.

A series of line drawing thumbnails and sketches titled Orpheus and Eurydice (auloniad). The pages depict Orpheus's descent into the underworld, and small sketches of Eurydice during her wedding, a satyr, Charon the boat men, and Orpheus holding his lyre. The text reads: "she still exists in my mind in that moment, looks of anger, betrayal, sorrow -- perhaps contempt -- crossing her features. expressions alien to me as they had been to her in life. i try to avert her gaze in my memory."

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

We are cooking, we are baking, we are making soup.

A screenshot of the Bitsy tool with various subtool windows open and a transparent blown-up version of pixel art of a moss-covered temple overlaid on top of the left-hand side of the canvas.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I found my notes on my "moth child empress dream eating" Bitsy game from a couple of years ago, so I decided to finish the script and started sketching rooms.

A 128x128 3 color pixel drawing of a temple covered in moss, with several figures surrounding a cocoon-egg.

A 128x128 3 color pixel drawing of a room with paper screen walls and two symmetrical zen gardens.

A 128x128 3 color pixel drawing of a dock in an overgrown swamp overlooking a large clutch of eggs.

A 128x128 3 color pixel drawing of a larva inside an egg, surrounded by ringed halos of sparkling light.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

"i'm in love with my own reflection, i'm in love with the fruited earth."

A green line drawing featuring a figure looking out the port window of a space craft unto the glowing planet below. Various plants sit on the table. The text beneath reads: "i'm in love with my own reflection, i'm in love with the fruited earth."

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Album single cover for Andrew Boylan's "Heaven": open.spotify.com/album/3BvEly...

A digital album cover featuring two figures in repose inside transparent houses depicted in space. Representing the sun and moon, they are connected by a cosmic phone line that travels through the remains of an obliterated planet, their thoughts displayed as memories of the planet's primary wonders. The title "heaven" is written in the corner in ribbon script.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hello #PortfolioDay! I am a self-taught, disabled digital artist who loves folklore and all green and growing things. Find me here: 🪷 danielletaphanel.com 🌴 linktr.ee/treelet 📥 danielle.taphanel@gmail.com

a simple line drawing of a cityscape, punctuated by the violent impact of a human figure with a large abstract wing emerging from it.

A digital color illustration of tall, thin, old growth trees in a forest which appear to lit up from within. At the center bottom of the image, a female figure drinks from a sake cup as a bloom of smoke emerges from her head. Around her are robed figures seated as if they were rock formations. Large fruit hang as abstract motifs within the trees. A panel of transparent hands, palms raised together, nests in the center of the image.

A digital ink drawing of a human figure viewed from behind as they stand next to a pine tree while looking at the silhouette of a city in the distance. Their clothing drapes on the ground similarly to a pool and then forms a rivulet of water that "leaks" out of the panel into the frame.

A digital watercolor painting of an altar for Guanyin with lit incense and a small basket of citrus fruit laid before her. The altar is in a lush courtyard garden, guarded by a solitary black cat. Succulents, bonsai, ferns, vines, flowering and fruiting trees, and plants of all kinds surround the altar, as incense smoke wafts into a pale blue sky.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

This is my third game, about a small delivery robot in a ruined city. I wanted to explore things like: more descriptive text, game over states, inventories, cutscenes, etc. while telling a simpler story. Music by @laurentds.bsky.social! DELIVERY: treelet.itch.io/delivery #bitsy #interactivefiction