Tanya Lam Illustration & Design

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This is for all you new dads:

Adventures in gouache!
And I bring to you, the First Daily Tanya Fail! This one is of how my mother claimed she was going to “just trim your bangs a bit, dear,” and ended up chopping off a head of shoulder-length hair. RAGE!

And there we have [...]

Here’s something I did for a submission for Uppercase Magazine, for their Gallery of Foxes.
Hopefully I am accepted, because I was a bit past deadline!
It will also be going into my portfolio, so sorry for showing it twice.
It’s about foxes and their love of trampolines, as evidenced in this video!

I am planning on doing another [...]

Hey all,
I have been pretty quiet on the blogging/updating thing, but that’s only because I have been super-busy working with the great Kurtis Wiebe, on a pet project. I’ve also been doing things for Bitch Magazine, AHFMR (I hope I got that acronym right!), and various other fantastic magazines.
I’m very excited to be working on [...]

Now for some work that I’ve done recently:

This was for an interior double-page spread in Stephen Magazine, a magazine that is based on Stephen Avenue, here in Calgary.

This was a super-fun assignment, concerning the reshuffling of a lot of students, I am glad the art director pushed me to go super-conceptual, and the end result [...]

Wow, another post in less than a month’s time elapsed?!
Good heavens, I had better pace myself before I pull something, haha.
Anyways, here are a few more images that I did for a job at the studio I work for, Stem Limited, that ended up not being used:

I like to call this one, “Evil Monkey Overlord.”

And [...]

So for work, I have to create compositions for random paintings or projects we are going to do; in this case,
I was to do some abstract work, pertaining to some sort of concept or another. Those got rejected,
but I thought I should still share them, as they are kind of random and different from what [...]