Hello! I’m Tasha. Welcome to my portfolio.
Take a look around and explore the corners of my creative mind. You’ll probably see lots of flowers and patterns. You may get a bit of colour overload. But mostly you’ll see lots of examples of my loose and a tad quirky (not really*) hand-drawn style.
* I said ‘hand-drawn’ and it kind of is, but it’s pretty much all drawn or painted digitally these days. I use a Surface Book 2 and mostly Photoshop, with a few favourite Kyle Webster brushes. I sometimes vectorise work from Photoshop in Illustrator and, as I tend to quite a flat style, this can work quite well, especially if you need something that will size up easily, or need the flexibility of vector for other reasons.
All that said, I still get my paints (favourites are Turner Acryl Gouache, but I also like Winsor & Newton gouache and watercolours) or Posca Pens out to do a bit of mindful doodling in my Moleskine watercolour sketchbook or a Pink Pig sketchbook (I quite often show sketchbook spreads on Instagram) or to just paint something for the fun of it. And I do still do a lot of sketching with pencil (Blackwing Palomino – love these sooooo much and a £1 A5 sketchbook from The Works) to work through ideas. So, I’m not against creating work non-digitally and then putting it together digitally (I’m not going to lose the digital tool completely), but I love the immediacy and versatility provided by Photoshop and a high-quality touch-screen and portable computer.
I love finding new ways to simplify – whether it’s people, flowers, kitchen pots or elephants – though it will rarely be in a straight-line, geometric way, but usually with a loose and deliberately uneven line and lots of flat shapes. I’m not interested in creating 3D (I am in awe of some of the amazing things my fellow illustrators and designers are currently doing in that field – but happy to leave it to them and stick with my thing). And then using colour, detail or mark-making texture to unsimplify (or prettify, as I like to call it).
I love illustration and pattern fairly equally and am open to licensing opportunities and commissions in any market that my artwork would enhance – editorial illustration, packaging illustration or pattern design, patterns for home décor or stationery, book covers or interiors, illustrations (and simple animations) for websites … or anything else you can think of!
Please feel free to contact me if you want to buy or license any of my designs, or to discuss commissions or collaborations. You can email me at tasha@tashagoddard.com. (If you’re looking for educational publishing services, please look at www.tag-publishing.co.uk.)