Helen & sapphires

As I promised to draw something, here is today’s harvest! Illustration of gorgeous model Helen….and some serious diamonds and sapphires by Cartier. (See Helen’s portfolio here).

   

I took some pictures in the dark so the shine of the gems is visible reflected from the flash:

 

I changed the color a bit. Sapphires are more in this season ;) Nevertheless, the necklace is absolutely amazing.

Here are the originals from which are illustrations are made. The original images are ©NadiPhotography2013 visit here.

The two images are drawn on the same paper sheet:

I really need perhaps to find a different layout for the blog to be able to post WIDER images.

Helen is a dancer too, you can really see that in postures:

See Helen’s blog here.

Pic credit of gems in Pinterest.

Jaguar E-type, Danger Diabolik & other cool stuff

The Jaguar E-Type (a.k.a. Jaguar XK-E) is a British sports car, manufactured by Jaguar Cars Ltd between 1961 and 1974. Its combination of good looks, high performance, and competitive pricing established the marque as an icon of 1960s motoring. More than 70,000 E-Types were sold.

In March 2008, the Jaguar E-Type ranked first in a The Daily Telegraph online list of the world’s “100 most beautiful cars” of all time. (Source: Wikipedia)

As I am interested in beauty of all sorts – I decided to draw this beautiful car…

 

Some details:

Ok, just for the record – my house is a mess. I am drawing on the floor, because it is comfortable.

The painting is actually very large – and it is a present.

There is a  movie I absolutely love – Danger Diabolik (1968), starring John Phillip Law and Marisa Mell. It was an Italian-French film based on one of the coolest comics ever. I like comics, action films etc, but this movie is a class apart from other  movie comics from 60′s, 70′s and 80′s because of the design element. Well, first of all of course the car! No comment needed on that.

Naturally , he has a black one too:

Secondly, the actors are gorgeous:

 

Stunning beauty Marisa Mell:

Thirdly, the interior design is amazing. Imagine, this was in the late 60′s (!!!) and the interior design of his house is today’s modern. I love the glass shower with frosted glass to hide privacy and the red glass boxes to prevent the hair getting wet! Look at the lines!

Fourthly, the clothes are pretty stylish too. Seriously, they can be worn today in 2013 and look good:

Fifth reason – the action is really exciting. Robbing banks and world’s most expensive jewelry:

 

But mostly, I love the way HE loves HER, the woman of his dreams:

And the whole idea, that they are a perfect match – they don’t care about the rest of the world and are self-sufficient. Just the two of them!

While searching for info about the movie, I found a great review post with pictures (so the credit for some pictures goes there) and also some comic style posters here. Check it out, pure awesomeness!

Otherwise, sources: Pinterest, Wikipedia & Telegraph

Mary Katrantzou AW13

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Pic credit: Mary Katrantzou FB

Selfless Portraits

There is an art project I bumped into in Facebook – Selfless Portraits:

Basically, the app lets you upload you profile pic for being drawn and then you receive somebody else’s picture to draw. You have 48 hours to complete it. I got a picture of Lara from Lima:

Here is my illustration:

Can’t wait to get mine!!

Cheers, O.

Styling Mary Katrantzou

Hello there! Here are some illustrations of how I styled Mary Katrantzou clothes.

Be my Valentine

Wonderful red wedges and cute charm bracelet. Yes, Valentine’s day is on its way.

Please note the lace eye-liner

The dress.

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Business Chic

The details (which took a while to draw):

Lady #1

The face close-up:

How cool does she look??!

The amazing skirt:

Lady # 2

She is wearing a pale/nude pink see-through blouse:

This printed skirt is sooo stunning!

I took a picture in the dark so you can see my favorite golden ink:

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Casual smart

  

the golden boots!

The clothes used here are:

 

What do you think?

(Picture sources: Pinterest & Mary Katrantzou Facebook)

Heidi T. // Searching for the Little Black Dress

My illustrations of Heidi Tuominen of the Searching for the Little Black Dress blog:

http://searchingforlbd.blogspot.fi/

 

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Original photos by Aleksandr Lazarevski (website):

 

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Two illustrations are actually done on the same piece of paper:

 I am super satisfied with my new camera – as you can see, quality is much better now. More about this in the next post. But, check out how cool these are. I took pictures in a very dark room with little lighting. The neon paints turned out amazing – like they glow in the dark!

 

This is also taken in the dark.

Red Poppy // Anna Z.

My latest illustration. This is a portrait of my friend Anna Z. and her friend drawn from their photograph. Beautiful girls and an amazing photo.

Close up of Anna:

Close up of her friend:

 Here is the original photo:

See the similarity:

My dad recently bought me a book on drawing and also sometime ago he bought me excellent studio pencils, so I have been really excited testing them with some new skills.

    

I really like these kinds of head pieces, national Ukrainian with bright red poppies. I already have made few illustrations with similar, like for example “Autumn”:

And also poppies are pretty. Here is an illustration with famous Marimekko’s “unikko” pattern (unikko means poppy in Finnish):

Marimekko Unikko (pic via here )

Poppies (pic via here)

Golden Ink

whoever invented the golden ink, thank you!

 

Halloween 2012

Apparently last night I did look like one of my paintings!

Veera L.

Here is a portrait illustration of a friend based on a photo:

The frame was very nice, wooden painted into white but you can see the wooden texture through and also the color is a bit blue-ish to suit the mints and pastels on the illustration.

Here are some close ups:

And now without the glass:

Earlier at some point I mentioned that I need a better camera. Well, I got one. I just don’t know how to use it yet! :)

But here is Veera’s picture, she is a dancer, so that is why I chose that pose and puffy dancing skirt. She loved the picture!

Smoking Diamond

I’ve been trying to study shadows and how to draw skin and face features with shades of grey (using diluted ink):

Autumn tactics

I’ve been busy drawing, I finally have had some free time and a suitable peaceful state of mind…

I think this is one of the coolest eye-make ups Ive ever drawn. And the eye-brows are awesome too:

I’ve been slightly obsessed with lace: