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Nala @ summer work

@nalvali.bsky.social

Nala - They/she · Adult · ESP/ENG Illustrator, designer and biotech! Art & science nerd 🌱🖌️ Kidlit and fantasy mostly Tags: #NalaOCs (OC) Portfolio: https://nalvali.com/ VGen: https://vgen.co/Nalvali Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/nalvali

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Nala @ summer work@nalvali.bsky.social · 10h ago

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 :)

Nala @ summer work@nalvali.bsky.social · 2w ago

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

Nala @ summer work@nalvali.bsky.social · 2w ago

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.
Nala @ summer work@nalvali.bsky.social · 3w ago

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

Nala @ summer work@nalvali.bsky.social · 3w ago

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.
Nala @ summer work@nalvali.bsky.social · 4w ago

For reference I'm currently trying to both do revenges for current defenses while also doing some of my bookmarks for OCs I have clear composition ideas :) I'd like to do at least two new attacks tomorrow as long as my body is doing fine

Nala @ summer work@nalvali.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Up on Artfight this year too! And some of my fav attacks I did last year, for ~ravisuals, ~vqniix and ~pamham ♥️ artfight.net/~Abby #Artfight #Artfight2026 #teamcomedy

Artfight comedy template card in browns, oranges and cream, with an icon on top left, main text in white in the middle, and checkboxes to the right (friendly fire, and revenge are ticked). Bottom part is featured characters, with five different icons of OCs (an elf, a demon, a whimsy girl, two cryptids and a furry red panda).
Nala @ summer work@nalvali.bsky.social · last mo.

I finished and uploaded my six first artfight attacks! I will start sharing tomorrow hopefully and like other years, since there's a chance I draw a huge amount of art, I will probably share my favorites, or a selection

Nala @ summer work@nalvali.bsky.social · last mo.

I could have done one full artfight attack today but no, my monkey brain decided to leave two digital wips at the rough flats stage to sketch 4 new attacks on traditional and now start doing the cleaner sketches for two of those

Nala @ summer work@nalvali.bsky.social · last mo.

Today in another site a recurring customer asked me if I had a slot to order a new piece and it always warms my little artist heart that previous customers were so happy with the art they bought that they are excited to come again 🥹❤️

Nala @ summer work@nalvali.bsky.social · last mo.

I would have liked to draw something for pride day but I've been a bit low on energy/motivation to draw in general so I may share an older piece. At least though, I am starting to feel I'm recovering a little bit of my energy, today was a good morning to sketch and recover some hope!

Nala @ summer work@nalvali.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Sun and The Moon These two OCs, Valentine and Alba respectively, are quite opposite in all their themes, and yet they are rather similar in personality - kind people seeking to help others through their roles in life

Halfbody of my character Valentine, a man with pointy ears, dark skin, blonde curly hair, holding a sunflower on his hands. He's wearing a light robe and some sort of golden feathery cape. The background is inspired by art nouveau, with circles on the middle part, rounded corners on top and bars at the bottomHalfbody of my character Alba, a woman with grey skin, dark grey and black hair, and a black eyepatch over her left eye (the one we see as right). She's holding a moonflower up to her face, and she's wearing a purple robe, a navy sash with a pink braided stripe, and a navy scarf. The background is inspired by art deco, with geometric patterns of moons, lines and circles.