ColorSPLASH. In your face.
These make me happy for some reason. It also makes me think of frosting and strawberry scented candles. Not that I ever buy strawberry scented candles – we live in a vanilla and lavender house.
What do these, or rather – how do these make you feel? Headache?
All illustrations by Yago Hortal. I think I love you.
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A little bit of crazy, a little bit of fun and a little bit of ‘Hey! I used to do that when I was little!’ I used to put make-up on the magazine cover girls. My Oupa does it too, but he usually adds facial hair and glasses.
Hattie Stewart obviously wins, but in a way I feel like saying ‘game on Hattie!’.
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Oooh! A typewriter that paints. Replace keys with color pads. Woop! Not that I’ll be able to do anything with it, but it is worth a try. Would anyone like to order paintings just in time for the holidays? Send me an email – I’d love to try my best.
Source: Flavorwire
If you have to draw a person, does it generally look like a stick? I find it quite funny, because people tend to forget the ears and eyebrows.
Growing up I had paper dolls. No, I am not that old.
My mom made the dolls for us and Sunday afternoons were spent paging through magazines and cutting out ‘fabric’ for their clothes. Eventually I figured out that I can make my own dolls too – using a cereal box. The faces of these dolls probably did not look as good as the ones my mom made, but I created these little people and they had new clothes every week – designed by, me.
Later when I realized that it is more fun to design clothes for Barbie and co, I got fabric off cuts and pretended to know how the sewing machine worked. My Barbie dolls had all kinds of dresses and early 90s outfits.
These were a hands-on approach, skipping the process of drawing the design and making a pattern. Both processes which I wish I could master. Which probably explains why I am in awe every time I see fashion illustrations like these.
Jessica Quirk (What I Wore), your illustrations make me smile, happy and at the same time want to go home and draw. If only I knew how to draw like you.
Note to self: work on that chunky marker collection.
Tagged Barbie, fashion, illustration, Jessica Quirk, paper dolls, What I Wore
“Armed with a vision and their cans of spray paint, El Mac and Retna will transform a forgotten wall into a piece of art. They combine their artistic forces in a specific way: El Mac creates huge lifelike portraits and Retna, calligraphic brushwork and decoration.”
Created by Joris Debeij & Terence Loos. Music by The Pilots
jorisdebeij.com – terenceloos.com – thepilots.nl
Sounds a bit boring, huh? Nope, different kind of schedule.
Crafts and projects. Finish something you started a long time ago or start something new and creative.
Go to a library or bookstore – or even better – read that book you bought last year. It is still waiting for you.
Try a new recipe, bake cookies. Spice cookies, yum.
Write a letter to someone. Clean up that closet, donate. You do not need 8 pairs of jeans or 40 pairs of shoes.
Take a road trip (or rather save that one for Saturday or Sunday). Try a new restaurant. Go for a walk. Visit a friend you have not seen in a while. Anything, try not to stick to the normal routine.
What better time to start a new, weekly schedule than on a Tuesday? Perfect.
Thank you Stephanie for this great idea.
South African coffee brand, Vida e Caffe, likes to involve the local community in many ways. From training friendly baristas to the lastest competition – design a sleeve and win a year’s worth of coffee. I am sure they will be getting quite a few entries – some prettier than others.
Prettier? Not quite a word that you will use to describe a sleeve for a coffee cup, unless your name is Lavanya Naidoo and you have entered this design.
Blown away by your design Lavanya!
How many magazines do you buy a month?
Me? I do not buy any. A few magazines get delivered to my doorstep – for free*.
I am a page-through-it-once-and-leave-it-on-the-floor-to-collect-dust type of magazine reader.
Vogue is a different story. Especially bright colored Vogue covers. Purple too.
Every now and then I love to browse through the editorials (and covers) at Fashion Gone Rogue. Which is exactly where you’ll find the cover for Vogue Paris 2011.
Isabeli Fotana, you look gawww-juss.
Not your thing? Then knit your own. Or if you prefer embroidery, you can do that too.
Inge Jacobsen, you are quite the embroider.
* Useful tip: It helps to complete online surveys, you win subscriptions. Sometimes 2-year subscriptions. Bessst.
‘Nice window decal.’
Nope, take a closer look.
Wait, can it be hand drawn? Yes.
Uh huh, look.
Hello, I’m ZSO. (AKA Sara Blake.) I’m an illustrator, designer, and fine artist living and loving in New York City.
I graduated from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study with a concentration in Graphic Art and Postmodern Studies—I’ve been working in design and art direction ever since. With a background in advertising I now work as a freelance illustrator and exhibiting artist, as well as work as a small one woman design shop offering digital services.
If you liked that TEDx Brooklyn will make your sink into the floor (I am assuming it has already dropped).
Thank you Stevie Ray for introducing me to Sarah.
Like this. Full stop.
Aitor Throup, you are some kind of amazing.
Thank you for sharing, Ani.
