Disguise - Illustration Friday

A new character I've created - a bird girl (no name for her yet, sorry!). You have already seen her in my 23rd daily sketch, that was the first time I drew her.

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Moleskine Cahier in gold

Some time ago I bought six Moleskine Cahier notebooks, in small size with plain pages. I wanted to see what will come out of them and I had no specific idea of what I want to achieve. And I'm very very glad that they ended up as they did! All those notebooks look fabulous, if you ask me :)

They all are available in my Secret Drawer shop.

How do you like them? Do you have some nice ideas I could use too? :)

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DS II 50

I've been offered a job :) Or rather - a monthly commission. But first I have to make three outfits. Here are some first ideas.

The are supposed to be painted in a very (I mean VERY) delicate and detailed way. It's so not me. But, well, there's always a good time to learn something new :)

I have already done one outfit as the first try-out. It got me further in the competition :)

The model-lady on which the outfit was done is probably not to be seen by the third party, so you'll just have to imagine her ;)

And now let's get back to my outfits!

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DS II 49

My new T-shirt design. Oh, I will definitely print it for myself :)

It's up for scoring on Threadless -> please go and give it a high five ^^


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Swamp - Illustration Friday + DS II 48

You can see some progress photos of making this picture on my Facebook page.

I have this feeling that I'm reaching my limits with hair pictures. Well, I've made at least 20 of them + countless sketches - I give myself a permission to feel I have used the theme to the full.

Wonder what will come now ;)

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Shades - Illustration Friday + DS II 47

My Love asked me to make something with my Wacom Inkling I've got from him. And here it is :)

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DS II 45 + 46

A group of two.

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From my sketchbook #6

 Let's see what appeared in my sketchbook lately.

 Here's a really fab idea for an illustration. Can you see it? There's a lady in a big dress standing with her back to us but we can see a bit of her face.

 Oh, roses roses... How great you can look!

And here's my feather tattoo. I just need to trace it somehow on me to decide on the size and I can go to get it :)

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DS II 42

I think this is how I understand 'girl badass' ;)

The idea is so nice I'm sure I'll use it again.

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DS II 38 + 39 + 40

The last 3 look best when put together. They should be framed like this.

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DS II 37

Some people look nice with white hair.

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DS II 36

And this one reminds me of Utena the movie. Oh, how I love those characters and settings (I have this feeling I'll watch it again soon  *___*  very soon).

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DS II 35

That's a very simple idea. But I wanted to see how it may come out.

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DS II 34

Having hair long like this must be a pain in the butt. But they surely look amazing.

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Intention - Illustration Friday + DS II 32 and 33

Dual nature.

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DS II 31

This picture is a bit softer from the previous one. It was a good decision to make it so.

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DS II 30

This one, on the other hand, was inspired by Lana Del Rey. The garland she is wearing in the original picture is fabulous.

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DS II 9 - Geography

Word 'geography' appeared to be quite hard to picture. Unlike with other illustrations I had to figure out the idea, it has not been waiting for me in my head. But I guess it's a good thing - making my brain work harder :)

Find it in my Etsy shop :3

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Transportation - Illustration Friday; DS - 98

 

The best transportation is a free transportation, don't you think? maybe you need a ride? Meow? :3

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Beneath - Illustration Friday

Occupied with everyday life we sometimes don't see our true selves. We don't look beneath our own skin.

I wanted to make this piece watercolour but since there's no time left for that the ink version have to do it. Unfortunately, there are no as many details as I wanted to make (because this piece was intended to be a final sketch for watercolour). So you have to imagine that:
- most of the leaves on the tree are visible and quite detailed
- those bruises and sparkles on the water are well drawn too - you can see that it's a water already but in a better version you'd also think that it's a damn pretty water :D
- the thing on the girls hair is a bird's nest and there are little birds inside it and bigger ones flying nearby
And that would be the main point of this work - in everyday life we only hear that those noisy little birds are living in our hair and making it a mess. We can not see that we are like a home tree for them.

More sketches for this work:

My cat Marie Antoinette (Tosia) helped me too :3

*Oh, those silly drawings... Can't you do something more constructive?*

*Play with me!* It's quite hard to teach her not to bite paper. She already left her marks on my too-freaking-expensive-paper for traditional printing.

 *Booooring...*

 And now it's time for a silly face :D :D

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