valerie 🌷🐌
Illustrator, Designer, and tiny visual storyteller 💫 drawing a lot of tiny critters 🌷 also making little paper goods 🐌
valerie-nelson.com
snailerie.co
- Reposted by valerie 🌷🐌For my parents' 50th wedding anniversary, I made 50 tiny doodle frames, showingcasing big and small events from their life together, as well as their hobbies, jobs, pets, places where they lived and traveled to, and more. Assembled on a frame!
- 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
- portfolio link did not post clickable, but here it is! valerie-nelson.com
- 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 ❤️
- Reposted by valerie 🌷🐌No offense, but things should get better, instead of constantly worse
- 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 🥲
- Reposted by valerie 🌷🐌Guys this book is gorgeous please help them get funded!!! It ends in 4 days! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bul...
- 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
- Reposted by valerie 🌷🐌I look to this piece by Seth Tobocman and keep it to my heart when I need it
- 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
- Reposted by valerie 🌷🐌you have a right to be angry
- 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
- Reposted by valerie 🌷🐌Had the lovely opportunity to make art alongside dozens of other artists, musicians, poets, etc, for the “Health Is Life” Creative Jam! What can the world look like if we have health equity? If we don’t have to produce in order to survive? If our basic needs are met? #HealthIsLife #CreativeJam
- 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
