Tarmasz and her messy bodies

(Ok, I always find weirdly evocative titles )

But Tarmasz is really the illustrator that I love and look at the most. I am a somewhat (depending on the subject, I mean) a very perfectionist person who wants to get the most realistic imageries, while Tarmasz is more like "f**k it" on that matter. And that's what I love, otherwise, it would be so boring ! I feel now that proportions don't really matter. You know what a real person looks like, so what would be the actual point of despicting always reality ?

She's a French illustrator who like strong pic­tures where sym­bols are more impor­tant than real­ism. She uses medieval, antique art and mythology.



Right here is a scene from The pied piper of Hamelin . Everything is out of proportion, but all the elements that we need to see, aca the villagers mocking the piper for asking to be paid is here, right on the middle. The rest is just showing a village, the background in a Medieval world, to set the story. And that all what is needed to be shown.

And I really love her wolves :


inspiring me these wolves :

and her collage of Leon (what it if you haven't !) : 

both combined inspired me to make a collage of Red Riding hood:

The massive wolf under the girl means that she is threatened, by something she doesn't know, and the black leaves around her indicate a forest, and a trap.