Tanzenkat

 Hi, my name is Tanzen. I'm a concept artist & illustrator from Wales. This blog is for all my personal work, WIPs, studies, tutorials and bad fan-art. \\ For commissions & enquiries contact: [email protected]

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Study of an old photo

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Every year I ask my mum what she wants for christmas and every year she tells me to do her a painting. I love her very much but this is honestly quite exhausting; her taste is not my taste, and it is hard to get inspired. I have given in a few times, and I gave in again this year . This is a painting inspired a little bit by Bouguereau’s ‘returning from the fields’ and a little by JSS’s ‘carnation lily, lily rose’; then a bunch of her favourite stuff mashed together with lots of colour and cold light. 

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.

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https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ZE34x Earlier this year I got the opportunity to work on art for Path of Exile! Happy to be able to finally share her with you guys :)

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

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old study, messing round with jitter

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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.

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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.

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The Favoured Son Super gratuitous personal art from earlier this year

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Resurrecting this badboy art account :)

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a study a day keeps the art block away

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

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

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

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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

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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!

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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.