Mara Draws

Working on a new animation. My last one just got accepted in the Senior Show! I’ll post that one as soon as the exhibit opens. #art #wip #workinprogress

The model for this illustration really reminded me of the actress Amanda Hale currently Emily Reid in the BBC series Ripper Street. 

(Source: esiuolaram)

Today I Illustrated beautiful wild haired models wearing casual and yet gorgeous Autumn/Winter 2013 collection by Ann Yee at the GO Studio Penthouse. See more of the illustrations at esiuolaram

Really cool experience!! I hope I can be in more of these with different kinds of designers in the future! Anyway, check out Ann Yee’s collections because they’re beautiful!

Playing with After Effects. 

Tried the Vanilla Spice Latte at Starbucks yesterday which was the first day of my final semester at FIT. The beverage was fine but I still prefer Starbucks’ hot chocolate. Of course I should limit my consumption of their products because they’re really too expensive @_@

I’ve been googling images of some celebrities and practicing some fashion style portraits. Click on each portrait to enlarge.

Click on their names on the bottom to get to the original references:

Emily Blunt

Craig Frank

Lucy Liu

Kareena Kapoor

Daniel Vincent Gordh

Lee Pace

Erich Gonzales

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Amy Adams

My goal really is to find some consistency.. Anyway, hope you guys enjoy these even though they’re just practice. Gotta keep pushing it.

Second illustration based on another Clothes Horse photo from this cute Christmas blog post. Thanks again Rebecca!!

The Clothes Horse

Hi guys! This is an illustration based on a photo of The Clothes Horse a “personal style and inspiration” blogger. Please click the photo to go to the blog post with the reference photo!

I really like her photos so I asked her permission if I could draw from them and she said yes! 

I will be going into General Illustration in the Fall so I won’t be doing fashion illustrations anymore unless its for a job so I thought I would ask some of my favorite bloggers if I could illustrate them. I will be drawing three others as well.

Hope you guys still enjoy the fashion illustrations! Also please check out The Clothes Horse!! Her blog is very inspiring! Well at least for me but I’m sure if you enjoy fashion you’ll enjoy her blog too!! 

The Parents

Watercolor inks, Photoshop

Sketches from my summer in the Philippines in 2010 have been long overdue… This is the start of the “I miss brownouts” series, which I will be putting up during the summer of 2011. This first illustration was based on a photo of my parents in JFK airport just before our flight to Korea. 

PS. In the Philippines, we say “brownout” instead of “blackouts”.