Tamlin V

@tamlinv

Artist, Illustrator, & Game Dev | sharks, pirates, and DMing | current work: escape rooms, props, zines, UE5 & ttrpg maps | (he/them) being a mystery | also can be found online as Tamayrs

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Tamlin V@tamlinv· 4d

in Pittsburgh, like comics & spicy? Show up to the Soft Spot Cafe tonight 6-9 pm! (18+ only)

Poster depicting pie slices and hearts. Text says' " IT'S TONIGHT - A Pittsburgh Indie Expo Fundraiser - Join us Wed Aug 26 6-9 free! - An NSFW comix reading (18+) - A Slice of Spice - AT The Soft Spot Cafe - comix, zines, + live art commissions! - Readers: Higu Rose, Neve M.A., and Kang Ajh - poster signed by HJTART" There is also a lil bit of text with a cat on it that says (IF YOU SAW THE WRONG DATE THAT SAID IT'S ON THE 27TH, NO YOU DIDN'T)

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Jul 22

Fin 🖌

Round canvassed painting of a steam train

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Jul 7

Making progress here 🖌

The train painting has its dark near black sections painted in

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Jul 6

Lines inked; painting next

The train is fully inked on all the lines drawn

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Jul 3

Art ritual of locomotive progressing ✏️🚂🖌

Pencil detail sketch of the train on its gridded circle to aid deciphering it from the photo to the painting canvas

Same locomotive drawing but zoomed out. Certain lines have dark ink on them to define them before painting.

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Jul 1

the ritual begins... ✏️🖌🕯💀

A big gessoed round canvas, square gridded

A mockup printing of a train photo also esoterically square gridded...

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Jul 1

Me too lego skeleton, me too

Lego skeleton in scattered pieces with pirate hat on. he is a mess of disheveled bones under his lego palm leaf and lego tropical flower canopy. He's a mood

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Jun 24

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Jun 23

I have a painting friend

A messy paint pallete, mixing: Mars black, warm light grey, a cool middle grey, and red together.

Genevieve, the cutest tortie kitty cat glued to my leg as I sit cross legged painting

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Jun 18

Busy art studio day

2 wooden circles are the canvasses. On the left a roman coliseum scene of a gladiator vs a lion is partially painted. On the other 2 pirate ships are painted.

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Jun 11

So rough concept art example of the messy, composition and idea, sketches for the client to approve. Following them are the very first rough blocking in of paint based on those sketches.

This rough sketch is of a pirate standing on a rowboat cutlass drawn while int he wide background two tall ships fire cannon volleys at each other. The initial sketch start is in pencil on paper with a paper cut out of the ship hull. The other lines and colour shapes are all digitally pained on top of a photo of the paper and pencil drawing.

A painted wooden circle with the large hull shape of a tall ship painted on it. The rough position of the rowboat is there and the colours are light from doing thin paint layers (so they dry quickly) to block out the initial compositional shapes for the painting.

Like the first loose sketch for the client we have a mix of on paper pencil and digital sketchbooking here. There is a gladiator with sword and trident fighting a rearing lion. A little bit of digital collage was used to loosely line up the collosseum surrounding/behind the two combatants. The initial slash of the lions paw is drawn more gesturally but his legs were cut out from a Rembrandt sketch of a lion to get the quick idea.

The initial paintwook on this gladiator piece im focussing more on getting the sky. base collosseum background, and the floorspace blocked out. The paint is thinned to get it on more quickly and im trying to get good enough background colours to start with blocking out the space. off of this i can dial in more details and the placement of the combatants.

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Jun 9

Gone from this... to crashing the Destiny 2 servers cause I went to frolic with ghosts in the heart of the Traveler (Cause well we all went to frolic with them)

Image of the destiny 2 server offline message displayed during the final server update. It says, "We built a universe. Guardians like you filled it with meaning. Thank you from all of us on Destiny 2."

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Jun 6

Some reallllly rough early sketches for some paintings (Over time I've come to a bit of a strange setup where I collage my sketches, and sometimes a bit of reference, or gestural strokes, or other things together to figure out the composition)

Pieces of paper with rough drawings are collage together. Two of them have circles to encompass the art and sketches. The left has rough gestures of a man with a trident and the light pencil sketches of a tiger lunging. Though the sketch is so rough, one might not figure out it's a tiger. The second circle has a pirate ship hull cut out of paper. That paper cutout is hiding all the water drawing I did under it annoyingly. :/

Tamlin V@tamlinv· May 15

messing with ttrpg d&d battle maps again while waiting for computer parts 💽🖊

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Mar 18

Using this Visorak foot retopology to study all my esoteric quad conversions and start assembling my wizard tome of notes on topology in general. I've got to start somewhere & then I'll have another 3d printable Bionicle part. #blender

A bionicle visorak foot being retopologized in blender3d. Only the central portion is finished as it's a work in progress and I learn.

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Mar 10

Hey if you're in Pittsburgh! You like art, comics, tabletop games, indie stuff!? Come to PIE, pgh indie expo, this weekend!!!

A poster for PIE pittsburgh indie expo a figures head is surrounded by cute and disturbing worms bees and butterflies on the poster. The date time and art sponsors beyond them. It sits on the other side of a window which raindrops splatter across

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Mar 4

Sketchbook messing with npc design and studying how Ocarina of Time did it with sparser geometry

Shown is part of a sketchbook page. The main focus in the Death Mountain Trail Guard from Zelda Ocarina of Time. His art has been coloured in & he's wearing the Keaton fox mask. Sidesketches are of British canal boats a crouching npc guy and wandering merchant with a big box backpack and a lantern.

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Feb 27

my old 'Sharks are Larks' zine

It shows 2 pages of the art zine across from each other. On one page is a large shark mouth and a big ramen bowl in it. On the other page is a Japanese yatai serving ramen to some cozy ass sharks. We got an exterior shot with steam coming out of the stove pipe and showing off the yatai banner. Then we get an interior shot from the customer stools behind the curtain. An angel shark slurps ramen while a pelagic whitetip stirs a pot over the stove.

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Feb 20

I'm having a very specific strange problem? All my scalene triangles are too large!?!

A drafting board for drawing lots of exactly angled specific stuff. The drawing art on it are supposed to become dungeon maps. But like the drafting triangle on it is 45 degrees cause all the scalene ONES ARE JUST SO LARGE

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Feb 2

Well done to Markiplier, Szymanski, cast, & crew. Iron Lung, was a highly enjoyable bloody submersible movie, & very well done!

A poster for the movie, Iron Lung featuring the strange skeletal creatures & features. It is framed and draped by curtains at my local theater.

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Jan 21

Getting some rough sketches together for the alleyways

grey background with loose sketches of thing found in alleyways and Japanese entertainment districts. there are signs, metal business shutters, electrical ples, lights, metal stair railings, and an overhead map view of some of the streets

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Dec 2

Memories of my previous art studio aka a corner of some small apartment with a shelf shoved up near it as the other wall

Looking at the corner of a room where the attic ceiling starts to curve up. There are various bits of paper: art, skeleton & muscle diagrams, comic & manga clippings. As well a rope light is hung up on the wall with a 3d printed skeleton hand and cast of an old jail key.

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Nov 20

OVERY NOISY EXCESSIVE TILE MAP (I'm messing around in Gamemaker Studio with tiles by Szadi arts)

A large tilemap made of metal girder tiles & complex greeblie shapes. It is excessively overdone for fun XD. Imagine lots of metal clanging from a game character running over it.

Same as previous image but zoomed into the corridors with blue light coming up from under the girders

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Nov 7

An artist's (mine) fall 2025 work on PBR materials for #gamedev & #indiedev

A grid collection of images. In the center it says, "Tamlin V Fall 2025 Texture Designwork Ft. Material Maker/CSP/Physical Mixed Media" The grid is filled with imaged of 2d pbr textures for 3d computer models and game dev. There is sand dunes, rock, colour variation, ink like akin to marbled paper, normal maps, ambient occlusion and etc.

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Oct 25

Closest I've gotten to the rock texture I'm aiming for! The texture library is starting to look like I can fill up some shelves of it soon. #MaterialMaker #pbr

A blue normal map of roughish looking rock texture. Beneath it an orb showcasing the roughness and shallow chipped gashes floats midair.

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Oct 16

Aha #MaterialMaker 1.4 did manage to save my sand materials before the freeze! (pretty sure I did not add buffers where needed) #gamedev

Behold it is more sand material, with a orange dusty colouration texture that was used in the process to make it pictured above the sand

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Oct 16

Welp I've frozen #MaterialMaker ... I do hope i get to save my sand textures (pictured here moments before the incident)

thin light sand dune lines interspersed with more flat windblown sections, above this 3d rendered texture is the flat tiling ambient occlusion texture that is part of the overall texture

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Oct 11

Hey thanks! Hope you enjoy my art and shenanigans!

A shark holding a paintbrush in its mouth in a explosion fog cloud with the text, "Thank You !!! for 300 follows"

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Oct 7

Mocking up some level design/architecture & cityscape to hop around in #gamedev #AssetForge

A 3d modelled japanese alley of business in assetforge by Kenney, thin wooden beams crisscross above it

Alernating rooftops and streets loosely modelled

Tamlin V@tamlinv· Oct 1

Reference overload cause it makes my brain function and pleased to do the art making