Natalie Rowland: illustration

Freelance illustrator with a love for stories. Get in touch for quirky, joyful and calming art! You can find my portfolio here: http://www.natrowlandart.com I'm on Instagram and twitter as natrowlandart. I would love to hear from you. Ask me anything.

[natrowlandart]

Don't mind me, just daydreaming of a world where the Remembrance Day Poppy extravaganza is less about tragic militaristic fervour and more about helping people heal. 🙏

[chamerionwrites]

“Crystalline Light,” reduction linocut, 2025. By William Hays

[testosterowned]

SCROLL UP THAT'S NOT A PHOTOGRAPH!!!!

[neonkarkki]

Okay but I don't think "that's not a photograph" is enough for this. That's a reduction linocut and I'm just going to assume a whole lot of the people here won't know what that means or google it. It means that the artist has had a linoleum block and has made this image by carving pieces out of it bit by bit, printing layers upon layers at different stages of carving to get the layered colours on the final print. Hypereaslistic paintings and pencil drawings and such are impressive, but I beg you all to look up how linocuts are done to get an idea of how this has been done.

[natrowlandart]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gävle_goat Got to love the Gävle goat reference.

[natrowlandart]

In a shocking twist I'm actually rooting for it to not burn this year.

[natrowlandart]

Thinking of all the little back-up heaters being put to hard work this week as temperatures where I live dip towards 0° Celsius. 🙏

[natrowlandart]

A wee tennis man sketch from 2019 because why not!

[8pxl]

PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. if you don’t have the option available, update your app or close your browser/refresh a few times. important to note you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

[accursedvoid]

Remember to do so for all side blogs you may have as well!

[natrowlandart]

And that’s it done.

Quoting insectoid5: “The Campaign is a Frozen modern AU fanfic that @searlait is planning on writing for NaNoWriMo.  You can read a preview of it here.“

Good luck with NaNoWriMo Searlait. :)

[patricia-von-arundel]

@insectoid5 helped me track down this old beauty. @dagart , still awesome after all this time. ♡

[natrowlandart]

Huh. I was wondering how old this account was just the other day.

[natrowlandart]

I see cat booping season is upon us tumblrites.

Here's a cat lady from my little Halloween Zine Howling lands. Available on my Etsy.

Boop.

[thecollectibles]

Art by Justine Thibault

[a-book-of-creatures]

Centaur Watching Fish by Arnold Böcklin (1878).

I love love love Böcklin’s mythical pieces, they have this sense of realism, and often even sensitivity.

[thestuffedalligator]

I thought I recognized the style so I looked it up and I’m so happy because this is the same artist who painted Centaur at the Village Blacksmith.

I love that this was a subject he apparently went to multiple times. Centaurs in perfectly mundane situations.

[a-book-of-creatures]

Don’t worry, he also painted them doing what they do best - beating the shit out of each other.

[the-composite-doll]

@horsefigureoftheday

[horsefigureoftheday]

YESSS

My own favorite paintings of centaurs in mundane situations include "The Centaur Playing with Her Child" by Otto Soltau and "A Centaur Playing with His Son" by Otto Bache

[aesthesiamag]

People Matching Artworks: An Unusual Photo Series By Stefan Draschan

People Matching Artworks: An Unusual Photo Series By Stefan Draschan More info: Website | Instagram…

[cynicalbitchmuppet]

I was really hoping these weren’t staged and the artist just spends weeks in art galleries and days in front of paintings to make these

Well guess what… That’s exactly what he did!

[1dietcokeinacan]

Lynda Barry, 2016

[selkieawards]

🦭Announcing the Selkie Awards!🦭

Are you a comic creator based in Scotland who has published a comic in the last 12 months? If so, the newly formed Selkie Awards wants to hear from you!

Inspired by the Scottish Independent Comic Book Alliance (SICBA) Awards, this award aims to celebrate the wealth of talent in the Scottish comic book scene. We welcome submissions of both short comics and graphic novels, ongoing series and standalone stories.

Applications are now open until 23 August 2024. For more details, including information on how to apply, check out our website!

Apply now for 2024

[secretie]

Ink floofers 👀 Prints

[natrowlandart]

A conversation.

[natrowlandart]

Ruh oh

[natrowlandart]

Howling Lands Zine

The denizens of the Howling Lands are ready to welcome you to the small trials and tribulations of their day-to-day. Be it the hungering imp

I am delighted to share this now fully digitally coloured series of 32 4-koma comics with the world.

Who doesn't love cute wee Halloween critters?

🦇💖😈