Illustration and Creature/Character Design Animation Graduate Other art account, personal projects only is @tashanimation Email: [email protected]
New pinned post! I’m Tash, a creature and character designer from Scotland. Also into fantasy illustration. I use photoshop, pencil, watercolour and sometimes ink.
I got myself a lovely big Koval Sketchilla sketchbook for Christmas, hoping to do more traditional art with it this year! It has Lana hot press watercolour paper in it and its a dream to draw on.
Wanted to draw my crow thing Resi to give myself a bit of luck for the new year!
I don’t always like drawing on coldpress watercolour paper but the resulting texture can be nice sometimes. Will try to paint this lil guy when I get a moment between commissions.
I thought it would be fun do do some grayscale illustration for the spooky season, though it ended up taking a little longer than I expected.
It’s up to the viewer for the story. But as I was drawing this I was thinking the gargoyle would awaken and be distraught at the sight of its now headless neighbor. Not long after, they spy a figure illuminated by torchlight coming from the nearby village. Are they the culprit? Or have they come to help?
Not that spooky and I’m certainly no writer but I’d at least like to get better at telling some kind of story with illustrations.
Concept sketches for a Halloween gargoyle illustration, here’s hoping I’ll get it done in time!
I want this guy to still look kinda natural so I started by basing them off real animals. First is based on baboons and the second was based on rhinos/paraceratherium. I liked the stony and pebbly texture from the second idea but I can’t imagine it clambering up old ruined castles, so the third sketch is a combination of both. I think it feels more like a typical gargoyle while hopefully looking more natural. I’ll probably go with something along the lines of the third for the final. Heavily armored but still quite agile.
Getting excited about pokemon Z-A so here’s my take on chikorita. I see it as a weird little potato, bean, dinosaur thing. I tried to make it look like a baby sauropod but not give it too long a neck so it wouldn’t be confused with bayleef. Not sure if I’ll pick this guy or totodile as my starter. I think it’ll depend on if they get a good mega evolution.
Finally finished this cat sìth spread for my fantasy felines zine/booklet project!
I’ve kind of merged the cat sìth and cat king folk tale together as they have similar appearances.
I was going to base them off Scottish wildcats and Kellas cats. But I wanted them to a have a more fantasy and regal look so I went for a mix of lynx and domestic long haired cats. Onto the next one!
