"Done is better than perfect"

"Done is better than perfect"

Heard from Sheryl Sandberg's 'Lean In'.

I am following this philosophy since my "get it perfect or give up ever being good enough" one hasn't been great.

Though grateful to have a job and projects to do, I have been extremely overwhealmed by lack of time.

Therefore, I will present the incomplete, bad and really ugly pieces in this blog.

Artists I like

Dian Flagerholm

He makes 3D Gifs, hand drawn.

http://daingifs.tumblr.com/

I am very interested in creating picture books for children, so I made a few sketches for an idea. 

Took me 2 days to do this:

I'm determined to master Illustrator. 

Rise and shine

Its easter break time! 

Feeling really good.

New projects coming up; dusted my sketchbooks and scanner so this blog can be updated a little more than it usually is.

So I made a mini-animation for my  friend Medina, of MK Kids (give her a little shout out, she's starting out a great business)  When her main site is up and running, I'll put the link here.

There are a few other collaborative projects in the bag at the moment at early stages so they won't be mentioned here.

Hopefully I will have much more time now since the whirlwind that was my life has died down. 

Created in Illustrator.

Simon Vaeth

Jule Hjerter time! Making some christmas decorations with my cousin (post some pics soon). 

While searching for some templates this morning I came across this artist, Simon Vaeth and absolutely fell in love with his illustrations. 

His blog and website. 

Christmas

My friends and family always give me cards for Christmas so I thought I'd make some for them.  

It was also a great opportunity to work with Illustrator. Took a long, long time, but I learned so much.

 The card in print didn't come out as I wanted. It seemed a bit plain, so I painted a border. It didn't help. Anyways, it wasn't too bad so I sent it anyways.

Hopefully they will be happy with it.

Being inspired by Pinterest, I thought of decorating a jar and making it a candy jar for someone. 

First stages:

 

Old work

Used a photograph and played around with textures and shapes. 

 It was all done in Photoshop. 

This was another personal piece for World Mental Health day (10 October). 

 Again, playing with textures using Photoshop.

Inspired by Londoners

Assembled by Picmonkey

Images for prints

These are some images I created in Sept/Oct in my sketchbook.  I scanned them in because I thought they would be fun to play with on Photoshop. Really liked them, so I wanted to see how they would look like on print.

Inspired by Londoners and fashion.
A few adjustments here and there is required. Its slightly dirty and pixilated. 

Prints and fun

Thank you moo.com

First of the prints. It looks good on photo although the colours were not the ones I expected- which was due to my old mac and its calibration.  

Begining another art blog

Marie, Mary and Maria refers to the various ways my name has been pronounced throughout my life.

My background is animation. However, I am drawn to the delicacy and expressiveness of fashion illustration and I love the thrill of experimenting with different art techniques. I like to make pieces that make people think or smile.