Not much to recap the year with - most of my 2025 work is in limbo of temp and perma-NDAs. Certainly had fun making some fan art though, and added another Mass Effect postcard under my belt. Plus MtG! Still hard to believe that one. But trucking on otherwise. Happy holidays!

Got Hades on a huge discount thinking: meh, I’m gonna suck at this, but gotta find out why people say it’s so fun. Well, it’s very fun actually. And somehow I don’t suck at it as much as I thought? And the character art……. OMG. Gorgeous.

✨The everlasting✨ I’m thrilled to share the cover I did in collaboration with owlcrate and Alix E Harrow. This is one of my fav covers I had the chance and opportunity to make this year. It’s was so fun and challenging in a good way. Thanks a lot for having me. #illustration #art #artwork

"I told you it was too early, mi amor." 💕 ... Alistair said twenty to thirty years, right? #dragonage

It’s that time of the year again, the time to look back at the path we’ve walked. #ArtvsArtist #ArtvsArtist2025

It’s that time of the year again, the time to look back at the path we’ve walked. #ArtvsArtist #ArtvsArtist2025

Colonizar otros planetas es un ideal tescrealista de Silicon Valley. Una distracción para atraer inversores y «fascinar» a la sociedad mientras infringen leyes, alteran el orden, compran la política global y devastan la Tierra para someter al mundo a su voluntad. Vídeo: ©Popurrí & Luna Rey Cano

Happy to finally show the illustration 'In Artur Hawkwing’s Hand' that I painted for @dragonsteelbooks.com 's edition of 'The Eye of The World' by Robert Jordan, from 'The Wheel of Time' series!

My work got juried into the Society of Illustrators this year!!

Used to play pretend in a fantasy world at school with my best friend. We came up with weird little creatures to roleplay and have crazy adventures (obvious Pokemon influence). At some point, we decided to draw them all (there were A LOT), and I had so much fun.

This is so true. It’s what the system wants you to think. That ideas are the privilege of a few gifted artists, no way you’re going to have one worth sharing with the world. So just leave the job to the machine and stop thinking for yourself.

Calling this done because if I don't I'll keep fussing with the details forever and it's driving me crazy. 😅 Titling this one "Languish" 🦁

✨ qrp with some pieces from 2025 that you're really proud of! ✨ this year had many bangers but these two are my absolute favorites

More traditional media experimentation! Watercolor, ink, color pencil, and a little bit of digital touchup.

Going to the clinic to have all my four wisdom teeth extracted. Wish me luck. 😮‍💨

My cover artwork for “Mirrorwoven”, by Bori Cser! A sapphic YA fantasy in a Renaissance Venice-inspired setting - out July 2nd, 2026

Ejército de lluvia, en la noche se te oye llegar por sierras y llanadas hacia la ciudad. Las piedras que hace siglos te esperan insomnes entre ellas se ponen a cuchichear. Ilustración basada en "La Tronada" de La Ronda de Boltaña

Give me 5 games to get to know you: - Dragon Age 1-3 - All of Ace Attorney - Xenoblade Chronicles - Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy - Spyro the Dragon

Si avui sentiu l'impuls irresistible de comprar alguna cosa, que sigui un llibre en català.

Read ‘Dragon Rider’ by Cornelia Funke (with her own illustrations) and was like: “Hey, I wanna write stories too. And make drawings to go with them. There’ll be magic and dragons and sad people and kindness.” Took a detour through biomedicine and science journalism, but… here we are again.

Struggling with burnout and genuinelly felt I’d lost the ability to draw for two solid days? Like my hand would physically struggle to draw a line remotely close to what my brain was envisioning? Thankfully it came back today. Just like that. Poof. Anybody else ever feel like this? Any tips?

Finally realized Judas has (in the story) a demon form complete with wings and horns and... I've never drawn it outside the comic??? IDK why I am like this 🤦‍♀️ #ocs #elfenjoyers

Also, a little while ago, I wrote about something that may be more important than any individual tip given during art education. It has changed how I relate to art. I'm talking about having an artist community: elsavelasco.com/blog/the-key...

Sketches/concepts from that time I binged Green Bone Saga and couldn’t let it go. Characters from Jade City era, book by Fonda Lee. Read it.

Curious about how this cover was made? Wrote a behind-the-scenes post on my blog: elsavelasco.com/blog/illustr... It isn't every day one gets to illustrate a theater play!

Also, a little while ago, I wrote about something that may be more important than any individual tip given during art education. It has changed how I relate to art. I'm talking about having an artist community: elsavelasco.com/blog/the-key...

Curious about how this cover was made? Wrote a behind-the-scenes post on my blog: elsavelasco.com/blog/illustr... It isn't every day one gets to illustrate a theater play!

Having to sum up who you are as an artist in a bio of less than 240 characters is a very special flavor of hell I would not wish anybody to experience.

Krona, Keeper of Eons - watercolour, acryla gouache on paper with some digital touchups For Hearthstone's latest expansion, Across the Timeways. AD: Jim Nelson

Interior illustrations for 'La noche de los mundos', by @inesgaliano.bsky.social and Loredana Volpe, published by Ediciones Mutis. Wanted to pay tribute to the amazing cast of the play: Núria Florensa, María Villarejo and Chap Rodríguez.

Interior illustrations for 'La noche de los mundos', by @inesgaliano.bsky.social and Loredana Volpe, published by Ediciones Mutis. Wanted to pay tribute to the amazing cast of the play: Núria Florensa, María Villarejo and Chap Rodríguez.

Here's the endpaper illustration I painted for @adriennebooks.bsky.social 's 'Fallen City' ☀️

Malas noticias: ayer aprobaron Chat Control (no la versión completa, pero sí una muy dañina). Aún tienen que ratificarlo así que aún podéis escribir e insistir para garantizar un internet usable. Son cinco minutos y esta herramienta os lo facilita fightchatcontrol.eu

Cover illustration for ‘La noche de los mundos’, by @inesgaliano.bsky.social and Loredana Volpe, published by Ediciones Mutis. Art direction by Loredana Volpe. Yep, all those lil drawings in the frame have a meaning in the story! Had lots of fun with them.

Cover illustration for ‘La noche de los mundos’, by @inesgaliano.bsky.social and Loredana Volpe, published by Ediciones Mutis. Art direction by Loredana Volpe. Yep, all those lil drawings in the frame have a meaning in the story! Had lots of fun with them.

ALSO, met Claire North at #Festival42BCN. Gifted her a print of my cover art for the Catalan edition of Notes from the Burning Age, and she LOVED it. I’m still crying over the fact 😭😭😭

ALSO, met Claire North at #Festival42BCN. Gifted her a print of my cover art for the Catalan edition of Notes from the Burning Age, and she LOVED it. I’m still crying over the fact 😭😭😭

M'acomiado del #Festival42BCN profundament agraïdi per haver paticipat a la gran taula sobre diversitat amb @haikujosep.bsky.social, @zubieta.bsky.social, @albertfontimar.bsky.social i @ljsalart.bsky.social, moderada per @karenmadrid.bsky.social...

Molt entristides del tracte a la literatura fantàstica en català al #Festival42 Sabem que no tenim les mateixes vendes que en castellà però un Festival organitzat en part amb fons públics hauria de treballar per visibilitzar les llengües i la diversitat @chronoscat.bsky.social @maimes.bsky.social

Ara bé, això d'haver de pidolar a la llibreria per la visibilitat dels llibres de gènere en català a casa nostra, al nostre festival, on s'és vist! Confiem que de cara a l'any vinent hi hagi una reflexió i es demanin uns mínims requisits per defensar la literatura en català.

Tanquem una altra edició fantàstica del millor festival de tots, el #Festival42BCN. Gràcies a tot l'equip humà que ho ha fet possible! 🙏Ens emportem bons records i atresorem moments molt emotius, així com la satisfacció de la feina ben feta i l'escalf dels lectors. ❤️

La gran taula de la diversitat al #Festival42, activisme en la literatura fantàstica de la ma dels autors @haikujosep.bsky.social , @zubieta.bsky.social, @albertfontimar.bsky.social, @evelasco.bsky.social, @ljsalart.bsky.social i conduits per la @karenmadrid.bsky.social

Also got to briefly meet @amalelmohtar.com yesterday, and it was wonderful. What an insightful interview at #Festival42BCN, conducted by @sergiviciana.bsky.social

A punt per xerrar sobre activisme, literatura i il·lustració al #Festival42BCN

Jana Heidersdorf doing it again

🟣 Ursula K. Le Guin 📚 x @dunallibres.bsky.social 💜 @ursulakleguin.com

Today would have been Ursula K. Le Guin’s birthday. Celebrating by sharing this portrait I painted in April, and reading Tehanu.

Fitz and Nighteyes ❤️ #RoTE

Happy to inform you that I now have an art blog! Also happy to inform you that, if you want to know how I made my last piece for The Left Hand of Darkness, you can now find out there: elsavelasco.com/blog/the-lef...