Tanya Lam Illustration

Sorry I’ve been neglecting ye olde blog, it’s been a helluva month. A lot of ups and downs, but things are levelling off, thank goodness. Anyways, here’s some of the shenanigans I’ve been up to in my sketchbook: Cross-posted to my facebook page, and my livejournal.

It’s still freezing cold here in Calgary! Sleet, rain, snow, wind, it’s like the Ice Age all over again. Anyways, here’s some sketchbook shenanigans: This is for the 100th follower on my twitter, that isn’t a sandwich item. (It’ll make sense in a minute!) When I offered a gift drawing for my 100th follower on [...]

Ugh, what is with the weather! It’s been completely insane lately–Calgary is slated to receive 5 more cm of snow on top of the 5-10cm we got last night. Hopefully the city isn’t falling apart; we tend to lose our brains when it snows. Anyways, here’s some art! I’ve been on a gouache/evil drag queen [...]

NSFW, swearing and nude mans! 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! [...]

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 [...]

My sketches have been getting incrementally crazier, as the hours pass. It’s better than nothing, I guess, so here you go: By the way, that image is the most accurate self-portrait of me ever done. Here it is in colour: It also is the start of what I affectionately call, “Tanya Fails.” They are going [...]

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 [...]