About Lachtaube
How do you do, fellow human?
Hi I’m Lachtaube, but ‘Lach‘ is fine.
I’m a digital artist with roots born of the internet: Neopets, web comics and online art RPGs.
After a brief decade, I bowed out of the games industry to pursue my passion projects in creative storytelling. Many of my works are character-based and narrative driven to tell collaborative stories on community projects like Tokotas and Domain Of The Wolf.
I also sometimes draw silly things just for fun.
My online handle “Lachtaube” comes from Neopets.com. I was ready to start over fresh and have as creative an identity as I could create. After many searches through online non-English dictionaries — non-English names were all the rage on Neopets in 2003 — I landed on something that resonated with me. It made me think back to my origins on the internet, the very first email address username, created with my dad’s help: ‘wisconsin_dove.’ ‘Dove’ became the thematic root, and German was my language of choice for my home state of Wisconsin’s broadly attributed heritage. (I would later come to learn German was not my own personal heritage. Whoops.)
And so, “laughing dove” or Lachtaube was born. I was thirteen years old and do not like change, please forgive me.
I still freelance from time to time, designing and creating art and assets for games, apps and simple browser interactions. I also have a little experience illustrating for print. If you have a project you think I would be a good fit for, please reach out directly via the form below. If online monikers are not your thing, I also answer to ‘Natasha’.