The sketchbook I have been working on for ages is finally online on issuu, if you’d like to have a gander!
Also, my portfolio website is up to date with my best and most recent pieces this year.
Today was the hand in for the final project. It’s strange to see first year is gone already, but it just makes me feel more excited for what’s to come, as I’ve seen through my boyfriend and his fellow second years’ work, who are soon to become third years themselves. Crazy!
Plans for tonight will include a well deserved dinner, playing Mario Galaxy, probably watching a nice Japanese film and just lazying around like never before.
After weeks of not uploading anything to tumblr, I can finally update on the current state of my final project from first year. So far is so good! been working on my one off little story titled ‘Tillie’s Tipi’, getting to illustrate her hideout and her world.
This was entirely hand drawn straight unto my paperback sketchbook (no planning or sketching beforehand), using green and yellow pro markers, with darker green fineliners. Lots of leaves and dots as you can see :)
From my “hideouts” sketchbook, just a random page of lots of little creatures hiding in someone’s hair- I sort of based on the susutawari from My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away by Studio Ghibli-. Just wanted to depict creatures hiding comfortably on someone’s hair (… not sure why really). When my mom first saw it she asked: ‘are they flees?’. Who knows, it’s open to interpretation.
The hair is from Nadia Esra, who I discovered recently through a friend’s blog and I instantly fell in love with her sense of style and long hair. It was fun drawing it, there were so many colours! It took some time, but I feel quite happy about it. It’s only, as always, a big shame the actual scan doesn’t really represent the actual drawing, but I might just rescan it again some other time.
This was done with black markers, colour pencils on cut out paper.
Currently working on a little character’s story as part of my new project, where I’ll be exploring the theme of ‘hideouts’. Don’t know really why I decided to create a tiny narrative, but I have a good feeling about it and I’ll upload more pages as I do them.
and no, she’s not little red riding hood… the title of the story so far is ‘Tillie’s Tipi’. This drawing was slightly based on this old one I did during summer. Thought it would be nice to have that black and white back.
As part of the week long project “Visions of the Future” set at uni, I did this black pen/fineliner drawing of an astronaut in space. I slightly based it on this song… a rough translation of “Europa VII” by La Oreja de Vangogh” (their songs are so cheesy, but I still love them):
‘As the monitor indicates, I don’t have much time until I suffer the collision that will send me back to the start. And I hear the sound of my voice recording this retransmission, so it’s heard in the future and serves as a lesson’
I was going to edit out the paper creases, but I think it actually looks quite nice with them.
Hey followers! check out a new side project I’ve started recently called “Draw a Film Illustration project”, where I’ll be uploading regularly my own poster designs and similar images depicting my favourite films. If you like what I do and you like films, then don’t give it a miss!
Illustration created in a workshop with Hazel Evans about a brochure for a storytelling festival called ‘Sting in the tale’, taking on base ‘legends and ballads in the forest’. Pretty fun and relaxing to go back to black pens after nearly five weeks of doing digital work.
My name is Mari, currently doing an Illustration degree in AUCB. In here you'll find my own drawings, sketches and such, between other personal thoughts and randomness.
