Meet Your Artist
Hi! I’m Parisha Malik — a doctor-turned-digital artist and the illustrator behind The Artistic Scroll.
Fantasy worlds, hidden clues, meaningful objects, bookshops, tarot decks, and the kind of stories that take over your heart and mind for days?
Very much my thing.
My perfect afternoon could quite happily involve getting lost in a bookstore, replaying Stardew Valley, admiring a beautifully illustrated oracle deck, or sinking into the world of The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, ACOTAR, or a long, dramatic Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
In other words: anything that feels rich with story, atmosphere, and little details worth lingering over. That love of imagined worlds is a huge part of what shapes my work.
The projects I’m most drawn to are the ones that need more than something pretty on the surface.
The ones where a cover, a product, a deck, or a piece of worldbuilding art needs to carry a feeling. A clue. A sense of belonging. Something that helps the whole thing feel more alive, more specific, and more itself.
So much of the joy lies in the details: the character’s pose that means something important, the prop that hints at a bigger story, the atmosphere that makes a piece feel cozy, eerie, magical, or unforgettable.
For me, those are the things that help a project feel like it belongs to its own world instead of blending into someone else’s.
My background in medicine might seem like an unexpected route into illustration…
…but it shaped a lot of what matters most in the way I work now: care, discipline, close observation, and a real respect for getting things right. Not just visually, but emotionally too. A lot can be understood by paying attention to the little things, and that same instinct now finds its way into every sketch, composition, and final piece I create.
That’s also why my work stretches beyond books alone. Alongside covers, endpapers, and special editions, there’s a real love for fantasy-led products, tarot and oracle decks, stationery, merch, props, maps, character & creature art,and all the little collectible extras that make a world feel bigger than the page it started on (I’m a proper hoarder too!).
So if you’re looking for an illustrator who genuinely loves fantasy, notices the small stuff, and cares about making the artwork feel right for the heart of your project, you’re in the right place.