Laya 🌿🍄

@layahimalaya

Hugo award winning illustrator/designer (and sometimes cosplayer) in Aotearoa 🌼 I love fantasy, fungi & books! she/her layaroseart.com/links overgrowncomic.com

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Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· 17d

just finished my first new cosplay in a couple years!!! Sinocia from witch hat atelier! I love a minor character....... #witchhatatelier #cosplay #sinocia #whacosplay

me in cosplay: a green gradient tunic over white shirt with a cross, brown hair in 6 braids, a brown waist belt and black lower belt with a gold diamond buckle.

me in the same cosplay, sitting on the deck. You can see my socks which also have a cross on them.

full body photo of the cosplay, with me lifting the tunic skirt a little.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· 24d

I am at prickly pixie market at thistle hall!

Wide photo of my table, with various nature and fantasy themed prints, stickers, bookmarks.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· 28d

some bugs (etc) 🐞 #art #bugs

digital illustration of various new zealand bugs etc titled aotearoa forest creatures, on a green background. included are: dragonfly, some beetles, moths, green spider, giant weta, giant snail, centipede, velvet worm, cicada, slugs, scale insect, ladybug, stick insect, gecko, and various leaves. signed layaroseart.com

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jul 12

wellington, i will be at prickly pixie market next saturday! Thistle hall, 11am-5.30pm

poster for prickly pixie market, painted white vines on dark blue. Thistle hall, 295 cuba street, 19th july, 11am-5.30pm. Handmade crafts, trinkets, clothing alterations, jewellery, second hand clothing, prints, TTRPG, nails @pricklypixie_market

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jul 5

i love some weird trees #art

digital illustration of various plants, titled aotearoa mountain plants. These include various dracophyllum, pseudopanax, vegetable sheep, spaniards, tussocks, and mountain daisies.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 27

I am at Wellington zinefest today with many zines! And also everything else (just doesn't all fit on the table). at vic design campus until 4pm

Photo of my table with many zines and also stickers.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 25

restocked all my zines ready for zinefest tomorrow

Many zines in a spread out pile. Some are nature (fungi) themed and some books, mixture of art and photos.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 25

these are stickers! and I have a limited amount of this design with a metallic effect on the teal/white! layaroseart.storenvy.com/products/37029104-grace-rocky-art

my hand holding two rocky stickers, showing that the teal sections are especially bright and shiny.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 25

a couple rockys #art #projecthailmary

digital drawing of rocky from project hail mary, in his toolbelt, with a couple music notes. his teal spots are especially bright.

digital drawing of rocky from project hail mary, standing upright. his teal spots are especially bright.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 23

I love richeh from witch hat atelier :) #art #witchhatatelier #whafanart

digital illustration of richeh from witch hat atelier, a small pale girl with long blue hair, in a seafoam blue cloak and white dress. she is floating, and holding brushbuddy (a white fluffy worm thing).

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 23

these are stickers! 🌿 layaroseart.storenvy.com/products/37048606-lichen-stickers

photo of three lichen stickers on the mossy ground, one held in my fingers.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 23

i have been thinking about lichen recently #art #lichen

digital illustration of a pale lichen with a dark centre and red spores, with a smaller green lichen and stringy lichen on it.

digital illustration of a pale lichen with bits of green moss and a moss ball on the side, on a messy bark and lichen background.

digital illustration of a pale lichen with a dark centre and red spores, greenish on the top half, and pinkish on the bottom half.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 17

I have new big bug stickers!!!!!

photo of my hand holding 3 transparen stickers, of a green slug, centipede, and huhu beetle

7 transparent bug stickers on a background of mossy concrete. they are: a powelliphanta snail, gherkin slug, giant centipede, huhu beetle, peripatus, and also a crab and skeleton leaf.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 12

At the underground arts market in newtown today! come visit!

Photo of meat my stall, with lots of bright fantasy art

Close up of my stall, with bookmarks stickers and zines

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 10

ok i will be at the newtown market again this saturday!

poster for underground arts market 2026, june 13th. location: newtown school hall 9am-2pm. goth, punk, metal, alternative, queer, more. image of a red dancing skeleton.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 6

disclaimer that these are so so rough (/photobashed currently) but....possible endpaper/case ideas.....

photobash of various bugs and centipedes and fungi in greens and oranges and magentas as an endpaper concept, sketch of embroidered clothbound case, in white and red, with photos of freeform embroidery examples below

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 4

The plain front & back art! This is the product of the last 6 months..... I also have ideas for endpapers/case & other parts of a speculative special edition... #art #theworksofvermin

detailed digital illustration, It has 3 layers in a vaguely hourglass shape, with trees framing the edges. The top has a man impaling another with a sword on a stage, with people watching from the balconies. The middle has two people on balconies covered in plants facing each other. The bottom has a man in a steampunky exterminator suit being attached by a giant centipede creature.

detailed digital illustration, It has 3 layers in a vaguely hourglass shape, with trees framing the edges. It's the same as previous, but with almost no people - there are giant centipedes eating through the stage and balconies, and in the sewer in the bottom are three people in steampunky suits, one holding her helmet up

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 4

And yes, I did a full cover mockup not just the front! I'm looking into getting it printed for my copy...

mockup of the front and back of my redesign of the works of vermin.

full flat dustjacket mockup. the same art from prev posts is on the front, a version with fewer characters on the back, and the spine and flaps are the tree trunk pattern. the spine has a gold centipede at the top, and a small circular one on the bottom. The left flap has the Hiron Ennes' author bio, the right has the blurb.
I added the quote "stability is fragile, even eternity never lasts" on the back.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 4

I redesigned the cover of The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social 🐛 I've spent so long on this...... #art #theworksofvermin

detailed digital illustration, with the title THE WORKS OF VERMIN in orange. It has 3 layers in a vaguely hourglass shape, with trees framing the edges. The top has a man impaling another with a sword on a stage, with people watching from the balconies. The middle has two people on balconies covered in plants facing each other. The bottom has a man in a steampunky exterminator suit being attached by a giant centipede creature.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 3

another new magic book: scapegracers edition! #art

digital art of a purple spellbook, with a silver blobby pattern on the front, and witchy symbols on the side. the pages are red, and there's a red bookmark. there's black inky swirls around it. it's titled 'scratch spells'.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 1

some witch hat atelier art :) reread it all recently, i love wha sooo much #witchhatatelier #art

digital illustration of qifrey's notebook, a brown book with diamond patterns and a star in the middle, with a black ink pen drawing a spell, and white branches around the top.

digital drawing of coco's ink pen and quire - a round notebook with a spell drawn on the page. there's swirly smoke details behind.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· Jun 1

in the backyard??? hello??

a kārearea sitting on a fence post, probably juvenile female

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· May 26

a couple doodles extracted from my 'figuring out how to draw his face' page #traitorandthewretch

3 pencil sketches of knell. one portrait of him looking down in surprise, one looking confused gesturing at a big bug (is this a pigeon? esque), and one of him dangling from a claw machine grabber

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· May 26

knell from the traitor & the wretch by @mythjae.bsky.social! he's so scrungly #art #traitorandthewretch

sketchy digital illustration in teal/purple tones of a bedraggled man in rags with messy hair and black eyes, with his hands awkwardly in front of his chest and an awkward grin. there's a frame of stalactites & mites, with a couple centipede scoripion creatures on them.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· May 22

I'm at bookmark kāpiti market today! At the waikanae community hall til 3pm. There's also a big secondhand book sale next door!

Photo of my stall, showing many bright coloured bookmarks and stickers

Close up photo of the other side of my stall, showing pins and prints

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· May 18

hura / giant centipede #art #bugs

digital art of a giant centipede arranged in a circle on a brown background. it has a brown body and yellow legs with teal tips.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· May 18

huhu beetle / gherkin slug #art #bugs

digital art of a big dark brown beetle with pale patterns on its shell and very long antennae.

digital illustration of a green slug with bumps that looks like a pickle.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· May 16

I loved designing the cover of COMMON BONDS 3! The crowdfund campaign for this launches soon! #art #bookdesign #commonbonds

mockup of the common bonds 3 cover, illustrated in a flattish style, of two pale pink characters holding steaming mugs and looking at each other, framed by dark blue snow covered trees. text reads: edited by: claudie arseneault, em ishii, roanna sylver. subtitle: a speculative aromantic anthology.

mockup of the common bonds 3 cover on top of a version showing the spine.

the front and spine of the common bonds 3 cover.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· May 16

constellation book ✨🌠 #art

digital illustration of a dark blue book with constellation patterns on some concentric circles. layaroseart.com in the corner.

Laya 🌿🍄@layahimalaya· May 10

emotion check: platform decay was good #art #murderbot