Tanzenkat

Study of an old photo

My psychosis has been pretty bad for the last few weeks, so I was dreading doing this piece. I put it off and off and off, but finally relented halfway in to December. Painting helps me with a lot of my symptoms but painting under pressure (for a deadline or a gift) generally does the exact opposite. That being said I did enjoy this painting, I think because there are so many gratuitous elements I could get myself lost in while I went. A lot of the mental mirage like haze comes across in the final thing, I think. I had a lot of fun with the colours, and figuring out plants for the first time was an interesting challenge. I’m actually happy with it, which is astonishing as I usually yeet these seasonal mother-tithes into the abyss as soon as I’m done with them.  It’s a really nice feeling to finish a painting and think with certainty, yes, actually, this one will be going on the blog.

more old b&w study stuff- spent a lot of time in 2019 messing around with edges and contrast for effect

old study, messing round with jitter

Painting interesting faces with dramatic lighting is absolutely my comfort zone, if I could just sit and paint faces all day I would die happy.

Procession More super gratuitous personal work from earlier this year, inspired by kelpies, the fae and that one Yeats poem everybody loves. I actually really want to do personal work based off the Mabinogion- a criminally underrepresented collection of Welsh not-quiet-fairytales. They have a lot of this sort of dark imagery, and thats the sort of thing that really gets me going when it comes to art inspo.

The Favoured Son Super gratuitous personal art from earlier this year

Resurrecting this badboy art account :)

a study a day keeps the art block away

Film study from The VIrgin Suicides. Done live on my stream- https://www.twitch.tv/tanzenkat/

study of a film still from Brooklyn (2015). Trying to break my scribbling habit and use bigger brushstrokes, really like the effect :)

study from my stream last week :) https://www.twitch.tv/tanzenkat

First upload in my Abhorsen personal project. I’m a huge fan of Garth Nix’ series and can’t wait to get into the designs and aesthetic of the whole thing.. First up (above) my concept art for Sabriel <3

Some art from the twitch stream today :) There are things i like about this and things I really dont; will have fun trying to fit these lessons into my next image!

Trying to learn 3D and slot it into my concept art workflow. There’s been a lot of growing pains, but I hope I can become more efficient this way and create some kickass work without, well, deadlines kicking my ass.