valerie 🌷🐌
Illustrator, Designer, and tiny visual storyteller 💫 drawing a lot of tiny critters 🌷 also making little paper goods 🐌
valerie-nelson.com
snailerie.co
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- me anytime I automatically go to 1D for comfort and humor
- “I’m all ears”
- reminiscing about that very specific era where you’d go to the mall with your friends, visit the Apple Store and take photo booth pictures
- ✨🌷good things can happen🌷✨
- Little sketchbook painting, gnome dog on a stump log
- hi #portfolioday I'm Valerie Nelson! I'm a Graphic Designer and Illustrator making kid-friendly graphics for books, packaging, and products. I'm currently on the lookout for more work in children's books, play products, or paper goods! 💌valerienelsonart@gmail.com 🌷valerie-nelson.com
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- gonna be at staples during the rapture, idk why but feels right
- snailpup diaries #1: I am snootiful (snail beautiful)
- baby wario!!! #babywario #nintendodirect
- personal picture book WIP 🌻🐌 #kidlitart #wip
- Why yes I do funny little animal doodles but did you know I ALSO paint original fancy watercolor pet portraits? 🐩 I'd love to paint your sweet critter 🐈 valspetportraits.cargo.site #watercolor #petportrait
- remembering my sweet furbaby, phillip ❤️❤️ love and miss him forever
- the sweetest baby ❤️
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- happy #kidlitartpostcard day! Hi I’m Valerie, I like to make heartfelt cozy and silly characters. I’m a graphic designer turned illustrator previously working with a lot of kids brands but now aiming to illustrate picture books ✨☁️ snailerie.co #kidlit #illustration #seekingrepresentation
- short story about taking that scary leap 🌑✨☁️
- what I’ve been trying to tell myself 🥲🪄
- sending thoughts from afar 🌙 #kidlitart
- manifesting lovely and steady work as it’s been very up and down recently 🩷
- Trying to get better (and have more fun) with painting
- there are so! many! incredible artists aaa!!!!! it takes a such a specific level of emotional acuity to be able to adore the beauty and talent in others works while also being confident in my own 🥲
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- Hi #portfolioday 💐 I'm Valerie! I have nearly a decade of experience as a print & branding designer (mostly for kid's craft brands), but I'd really love more opportunities in storybook and character illustration! 💌valerienelsonart@gmail.com linktr.ee/snailerie
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- Hi #kidlitartpostcard ! I’m Valerie 🌷 I’m a graphic-designer-turned-illustrator with an affinity for drawing colorful critters and silly words 🌝 #illustration #lookingforrepresentation
- *david lynch voice* And if youuuuu cannnnn believe it! I’m feeling nostalgic once again
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- Watercoloring my love (Phillip the guinea pig)
- I want a labubu in the same way that I want literally any cute lil fluffy guy on a keychain, I’m not picky
- bringing this puppy back #illustration #kidlitart
- my fellow freelance designers, illustrators, and creatives: is there a time management / calendar app / platform that genuinely helps keep you and your projects organized? and/or/also should I just get a physical planner / calendar (I didn’t get one this year and maybe that’s why I’m struggling lol)
- neotropical dreams #kidlitart #illustration
- little friend 🌝🌼
- I just had the thought of putting some dill on a hot dog and calling it a dildog
- summertime critter cards 🌴
- Reposted by valerie 🌷🐌Raising funds for Rainbow Peeps in Aotearoa the greatest country on earth by doing 21mins exercise every day 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/...
- i've been making a mental list of horrible deceptive UI design that exists in our daily internet lives, but maybe i should channel this into my first ever youtube video being a rant about common deceiving/annoying UI patterns. i feel the need to scream about it somewhere other than the void
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- sketchbook doodles
- just once again thinking about creatives who could make revolutionary and beautiful art if they weren’t in survival mode
- self portrait kinda
- pretty soon it’s going to be “tariffs only on little girls toys” and we’ll all finally see the truth that the entire us government is run by stinky boy toddlers
- some doodles all hanging out with eachother
- just want to draw lil squishy fellas all the time
- Ugh when I see incredibleeeeee artists/designers unemployed and looking for work I feel even worse in my own looking-for-work situation. We should ALL be supported and thriving but it’s so frustrating that we are all competing for the same crumbs
