Anastasiya Landasseln is a concept artist, illustrator and creature design teacher from Uzbekistan. She works both digitally in Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint (see our guide to the best digital art software ) and with traditional media.

The fusion of living and artificial forms are central to her work, alongside expressive visual storytelling taking real-life studies with a combination of tech and organic inspirations. Below, she talks us through five examples of her work, including two of her many pieces of art for Warhammer 40,000.

Absetzer

(Image credit: Anastasiya Landasseln)

“After visiting a real bucket-wheel excavator, I made this traditional sketch inspired by the experience. It shows a mass of living human biomatter fused with a gigantic industrial machine.”

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader – Cogitator

(Image credit: Anastasiya Landasseln)

“Cogitators are data-processing machines in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.…