Illustration & Portrait Artist

Working on making an Arthur Morgan cosplay for Cheyenne Frontier Days. Still scouring eBay for the perfect pair of jeans. I am partial to the dark pinstripe denim jeans in RDRII - they’re always my go to for Arthur, so naturally I want them for this lol

Additionally, I bought some fabric to attempt a take on the blue opulent vest. Tested a waistcoat pattern and made a black one so far. I was torn between making it from a full-weight canvas duck cloth (bonus points for a more authentic look, but much much hotter to be outdoors in Wyoming July all day) or a lighter cotton canvas (much cooler, - bonus points for being a disappointing weight) 🤣

I’ve dyed the shirt a third time since this photo was taken and it appears to be a true blue to the one Arthur wears.

I learned how to make suspenders yesterday, too! Found a pretty close match of burlap trim at Hobby Lobby for the straps. It’s not identical to his, but close enough for a last minute budget project.

I also made a little (non canon) satchel for my sketchbook lol. Still need a strap and distressing.

I need to concoct four more outfits for the week, but those I think I’ll just hodgepodge with mixed accessories and call it a day. But I figured if I had an excuse to finally dress like Arthur, I was absolutely going to take it.

Posted to TikTok but forgot to post it for the tumblr fam. Back to work giving this purdy boy his curls.

I finally wrapped up with the art show I had been prepping for over the last couple of months. I am excited to share I sold five of my originals, a ton of prints and cards, and I was selected to be the featured artist for next year

I am extremely honored with the title, and am very excited to create the piece of artwork that will be used on next year’s advertising.

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Hard at work (or hardly working 🤣) on projects for next months art show.

I’ve been just a scoshe obsessed with this particular photo recently. The unhinged smile, the black teeth, the uncanny joy. All of it is just really precious lol (also his sparse lil eyebrows)

Longtime no see!

Another Isaac sketch to occupy your homepage. I call this one “Isaac gets his behind kicked by his nephew he underestimated” 🤡

I have been itching to put some originals up in my Etsy store since September, but the problem was that I loved each drawing too much to part with them lol. I made this one specifically with the plan to get rid of it, so if you need an original “Isaac post-butt whoopin” drawing in your life, you can find it here: https://tarynplattart.etsy.com/listing/4499879633

https://tarynplattart.etsy.com/listing/4499879633

I’M SORRY I can only ship to the US right now, there is so much red tape involved with shipping internationally, I need to take time to figure it out how to do it correctly. I used to ship internationally before it got super complicated and I had a few packages go missing and after paying a hefty shipping cost out of pocket twice, it wasn’t a positive experience.

Some silly lil goober sketches I did in church on Sunday. Isaac’s two moods: smug lil salmon patty and confuzzled.

I reallyyy need to work on my gallery pieces for this summer but here we are, drawing Isaac for the upteenth time. 🤣 hey maybe I can smuggle an Isaac drawing into the gallery show and no one will notice lol

The “late night should be sleeping because I have work in the morning but instead I’m hyperfixating” illustration

Obsessedddd with doing studies atm, (of Isaac only if we’re being honest lol) I adore this picture of him.

The goal of this one is to complete the portrait without using any brown. I have a habit of relying heavily on brown in my portraits when there are so many more hues to be used to create a more complex color system, especially in portraiture where greens, reds, and purples have so much impact.

I have been working on this paint study for a few months now, taking long breaks from it when I couldn’t figure out what it needed. I finally got it to a place I can consider it ‘finished’ yesterday.

I really liked this stage of his reanimation, he was unhinged during this stage in a way he wasn’t at any other point in his transformation. Gross, feral, a little bizarre and pure Tim Burton. And the black teeth and goggles? Chefs kiss.

“Judi retired… Permanently.” >:D

I’ve included my zombie Isaac color palette if anyone needs one. 🤣 I have a full procreate color palette dedicated to him with various shades of greens, blues, reds, and purples. It makes sketching him so much easier to have a dedicated palette ready to go.

All done with the standard “plimsol” procreate brush.

And of course, the timelapse:

Drew a decomposing boi

A zesty gala Isaac sketch. Y’all I was supposed to work on my art show projects last night and instead I drew Isaac for two hours. AGH.

I know he never ✨technically✨ munched someone while wearing this outfit, but I like to think he found some snack while prowling around in the dark waiting for Pugsley.

I’m a sap for drawing blood what can I say? 🤣

Really obsessed with this procreate brush haha

(It’s the ‘Bruny’ pencil brush from the new Procreate brush library)

I don’t absolutely love this one, but anytime I get to sketch Isaac is a good time lol 😂

A little art project I did in December for my vintage Victorian /oddities/miss Peregrine-esque living room decor. I want to hang fanart, but subtle fanart. I love illustrations of butterflies, and knew I wanted to have something like that amongst the gallery wall in a gilded frame.

As I began thinking of famous butterflies and moths in horror, I found that there are actually quite a few. The New England Corpse Moth isn’t exactly a “popular” option, but I included it to satisfy my own inner fangirl lol

1. Emily’s butterfly from The Corpse Bride

2. Death’s Head Moth from Silence of the Lambs

3. Ellie’s moth from The Last of Us Part 2

4. New England Corpse Moth from Wednesday

5. Queen Swallowtail from Crimson Peak

For the New England moth, there are no good photos of them so I went off of blurry stills from the last couple episodes to try to get the pattern as close as possible.

The queen swallowtail may or may not be what is actually in Crimson Peak, but after attempting to research it and cross referencing the butterflies in the movie to various types I found, they were the closest match. Butterfly enthusiasts please don’t come after me 🤣

I got a bunch of vintage odd shaped frames last summer from a garage sale and have been waiting for the perfect pieces to put in them. I made this one to fit this narrow girl frame. After sketching the butterflies in graphite, I aged the paper with thinned alcohol ink, a mixture of brown and yellow, thinned with rubbing alcohol and applied with a paint brush.

I didn’t have much patience for the detail work last night lol work was longggg. Hoping to work on giving him his luscious curls on Sunday.

I found a new pencil brush and it is life changing ahh