Tascha's Portfolio

Russian Pyetra

Tascha — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:03:20 GMT

Russian Pyetra

Two page spread background for their Roleplaying Game Victoriana.

The soulcollector

Tascha — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:01:41 GMT

The soulcollector

For every soul she collects she adds another soulgem to her necklace.
Her raven being her only companion…the soul she never had…

Can't stand the light

Tascha — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:00:42 GMT

Can't stand the light

She doesn’t quite understand why she can’t stand the light despite the fact that she got wings too…like the other creatures she has seen around here..

First of all, this is a personal painting about the question why people need to fit in - so badly that they sometimes give themselves up.
I have two uncles who both grew up being gay. They had an incredibly hard time both being frowned upon by society and family. I can only imagine how hard it must have been to hide their true self and giving it up to fit in. I have a lot of respect for them besides the fact that they belong to the coolest people I know.

I tried to capture the expression of a curious child..just before the moment the pain might hit and the fact that she is more roundish with not perfectly long legs or slender features like we are normally used to see is on purpose. Both to not have her look like a model and to give her more of a feeling of a baroc angel (even though she is non).

Summer

Tascha — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:59:18 GMT

Summer

..too sweet

Tascha — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:58:05 GMT

..too sweet

I have this thing with chocolate - you know: It’s yummie and tasty and tempting but you know it’s not gonne be good for your one way or the other (too much of it anyway) but still - I like to give in the temptation. ^^

That is what this piece is about basically. Sweet innocent looking things tempting you and you want to give in even though you know it could be bad for you - or in this case - even dangerous.

I did chose the bee as topic because it would cover most aspects I wanted to portray: sweetness, fluffy neat things, tiny, dangerous.
Some more themes hidden in the painting but I’ll let you discover them yourself.

The Wax-Dragon

Tascha — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:55:09 GMT

The Wax-Dragon

In ancient times, Wax - Dragons have been known to humans as sources of great wisdom.

Some of their body parts consist of wax elements and are very weak to physical attack. Thus those parts are covered with a transparent shell (specially the chest area - horns and parts of the head) which is supposed to gain them at least a minor protection against predators and heat.

Due to their great weakness and the fact that they are not meant to fight but rather serve as sources of inspiration and advisors, they have been driven very close to extinction.

It takes a long time until a Dragon of this kind makes friendship with a human being. A symbiosis which is however essential for their survival.
They are creatures of snakelike, delicate appearance and feed only on plants. Their character is very tender and protectful which in terms makes them even more vulnurable and weak.

Once a Wax - Dragon has found a human companion it stays loyal until it’s death.