Tanya Lam Illustration » Illustration

Ghost Story+Sketch

tanyer — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:18:58 +0000

Here’s a little image I did for Jason Neil’s Ghost Story exhibition last year, a fanart of Polyfi Comic and also, a random sketch!

This was actually an embellished version of something I experienced. It was less scary and more interesting.

It’s true, they do!

Also true, it’s actually weird.

Sketch of the day/week: July 18

tanyer — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:21:44 +0000

I’ve been a bad poster, and also a lazy one at that. I’ve had a lot of fun exploring what Montreal has to offer.

Here’s some new images, sorry about the quality, I’ve lost the cord to my scanner.

Sketch of the Day: July 6

tanyer — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:50:46 +0000

I’m a day late and a dollar short, story of my life!

Sled Island

tanyer — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:19:27 +0000

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted; I’ve been a busy busy bee, running around and moving to beautiful British Columbia.

Things have settled somewhat, just in time for me to move to Montreal, Quebec in three weeks!
Anyhow, here’s a preview of something I did for Sled Island Festival in Calgary, June 22-25th. The posters will be beautiful silkscreen posters, and they’ll also be for sale.

If this tickles your fancy, do please pick up a copy and support a great festival and an illustrator who needs money for a cross-Canada move…

Lisbeth Salander WIP

tanyer — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:58:24 +0000

I’m staring a series of awesome fictional/non-fictional female portraits.
This one is of Lisbeth Salander, the anarchist, computer hacker with an eidetic memory from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo/Millenium Trilogy.

The first screen’s a more rendered image, but then I realised I am getting too precious with something I have yet to refine to my liking.

This one’s me messing with the structure a bit more, I plan on stylizing it and emphasizing her delicate frame some more.

I’m thinking of doing this one in paint, real paint!

Nation Show

tanyer — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 05:19:05 +0000

In December of 2010, I had the pleasure of doing a few pieces for Nation Toys.
They said I could do anything I wanted, so I started brainstorming. I’ve always been fascinated by medical photographs, especially those taken at the turn of the 20th century.

I decided to do something haunting, and loosely based off of medical deformities, and to possess the haunted nature of those photographs.

Some of them are in my portfolio, and some I felt didn’t fit in my portfolio.

Cyclops

Possession

Pica

Fetus in Fetu

Tentacles

These images were a lot of fun, as they are a departure from my normally very happy subject matter.

Inaugural Sketchblog Post 2011 (NSFW)

tanyer — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:18:51 +0000

It was time for me to revamp my website, and after much fanfare, it’s up!

Here’s some images to decorate the sketchblog with.

A silly illustration that I never got around to finishing.

Two images I re-visited, just to see what they’d be like, in my current way of working. I subtracted a lot of the extraneous detail, and this is much closer to how I envisioned it.