a little place to call my own (art and fashion blog)

 Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers. I hope you have had a lovely Christmas celebration (if you celebrated it yesterday that is). If you plan to spend this weekend with a book and aren't sure what book to pick, you have come to the right place for I prepared some holiday reading recommendations for you. Today I'm back with a holiday rereading list that features seven novels and one play. I tried to include something for everyone, there are classics on this list but also thrillers, SF and crime novels. If you don't have the time to read my book reviews, you can just check the titles or come back to this post when you are ready. Scroll down to see more. THE FORGER, A NOVEL BY EDGAR WALLACE 3/5   PUBLISHED IN 1927 The Forger hasn't aged well in some ways, but it is still an entertaining book to read. In terms of the writing style, The Forger is a classical murder/crime mystery. Not much attention is given to the characters themselves, there is little if any character ...

EN Hello dear readers! I was thinking of taking a break from art  related projects but then I decided not to and ended up doing even more art related projects. If I seem distracted or not myself in the future, that's probably the reason-  I'm really focusing on developing my art muscles right now and all the other stuff is sort of in the background. So, today I'm back with some more Christmas inspired fashion illustrations to get you and me in the mood for the holidays. The medium for these fashion drawings is mostly coloured pencils but I used markers on some of them as well. In addition,  I played a bit with digital effects. The illustrations are mostly done in fashion illustration style, girls wearing flowers or gifts and that kind of stuff. I'm working on improving the way I illustrating movement, so I made some of these for practice- and some of them I made for fun. My favourite is the girl in a red mini dress and stilettoes.  Which one is your favourite? Scroll...

 Hello there! This post is going to be super short because I'm feeling depressed and tired, probably because of all the art projects I'm currently working on. I'm probably spending too much time drawing these days for I cannot see another reason why my energy levels are so low. Anyhow, today I'll just show you a couple of illustration I did (in different versions). So, let's start the one I'm most satisfied with. Bellow you can see how I illustrated a girl sitting on her balcony in an urban setting. After I finished the original illustration, I painted it digitally in Paint 3D in two main ways: one was colouring and working with the original colours and the other was by turning it black and white and then colouring it from the beginning. I ended up with five or six different version and I really cannot pick a favourite, they are all interesting in their own way. I also love that this illustration just came straight out of my head, without any planning or thought...