rachelillustrates

About rachelillustrates

Artist // Professional // Traditional Art

Aug 30
United States
Deviant for 21 years
www.rachelillustrates.com/
She / Her

My Bio

I am doing the best I can.

AI art is art theft, including DreamUp.

Check out Glaze for protecting your own work here - Glaze: Protecting Artists from Style Mimicry (uchicago.edu)

Favourite Visual Artist

Cathy Delanssey, Brian and Wendy Froud, Naoko Takeuchi

Favourite Movies

Little Women, Avatar, Princess Mononoke, Tangled, Nimona

Favourite TV Shows

Sailor Moon, Firefly, LotR: Rings of Power, She Ra: Princesses of Power

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

The Beatles, Abney Park, Emerald Rose, Mary Lambert

Favourite Books

Suitor Armor, Lore Olympus, Orcs! (by Christine Larsen), Jane Eyre (by Charlotte Bronte), anything by Brian Froud (especially Trolls)

Favourite Writers

Brian and Wendy Froud, Naoko Takeuchi, Jane Austen, JRR Tolkien, Holly Black

Favourite Games

Dungeons & Dragons, WoW

Favourite Gaming Platform

Table-top :)

Tools of the Trade

Ink, colored pencils

Other Interests

Fantasy, science fiction, comics, Paganism/Goddess religion, Faeries and Faerie spirituality, steampunk, Victorian era, Regency era, Gnomes, Orcs

Update!!

For the first time in probably yeeeeeeeears, I am caught up on all comments and replies!! WHAT WHAT!!! Having basically forgotten how to Internet when the pandemic hit, I have been...... very quiet here, for some time, and I miss it. Ironically, having to dial back my in-person socialization has made it much harder to do things like this, too. I have no idea. BUT I think I might finally be finding a balance now - the app is also finally giving me notifications when they happen, which hadn't been happening for a while, which didn't cause the problem but definitely contributed - SO I will hopefully be able to keep on top of things better, moving forward. Next step, figuring out how to keep up on my +Watch feed well, so hope to be leaving you all some lovely comments in return, soon, too

Jun 8, 2025

For the first time in

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Wonderful pictures 😊

Happy belated birthday Rei... sorry for missing it again... should look into my agenda more often...

Hope you had a great day nevertheless!

All the best and hugs from Germany,

Chris

rachelillustrates

Sep 2, 2025

totally okay dear Chris, it's so sweet that you remembered at all! Best and hugs back from over here, too :hug:

pinkythepink

May 26, 2025

Thank you /so/ much for adding me to your watch! It really brings a smile to my face which is more than I could've asked for. I hope that I can continue to impress with my future pieces!