{illustration friday} winter

Hey there! I hope everyone on the East Coast is enjoying the massive blizzard we had. I'm making the most out of it; playing on my tablet for hours on end. My flight to California was delayed 2 days, so I'm pretty bummed...

Since this week's Illustration Friday topic is winter, I decided to illustrate my unfortunate situation, which turned out pretty good I think! So there's me, my cat, and my god-awful suitcase that I have to lug around {it has hot pink lips all over it... doesn't quite match my pretty toile carry-on.} Also this could be counted as a "what I wore" post too, since I basically wear that sweater every day.

click image to enlarge! or view on flickr

Hopefully I will be leaving Tuesday morning!!! Wish me luck. Good luck to any one else out there who has to travel as well...

See you in the new year!

-gabrielle

{illustration friday} mail

Hi there.

This week I attempted drawing something for Illustration Friday. Then a lot of unexpected things happened on the homefront so I didn't have much time to finish it up :(

However, I did start using my Wacom Bamboo pen/tablet for this, and let me tell you... I absolutely LOVE it! It's the best thing and I know I will be using it all the time.

So here's my drawing for Illustration Friday. The topic was "mail."

Hope you like, despite it being slightly unfinished. Maybe I'll get around to finishing it up one day :)

-gabrielle.

marcel ceuppens

Marcel Ceuppens is an art director and graphic designer from Belgium. His digital paintings of the "everyman" is very reminiscent of Rene Magritte... the faceless man, a simple setting...

I feel that Ceuppen's paintings are very relevant for the present day, where too many people have a hard time differentiating between their work life and their personal life...

From Aqua Velvet:

Marcel’s protagonist—his “everyman”—appears solo or with cookie cutter duplicity throughout these paintings. Each work possesses a specified narrative within a spare, minimalist context and no doubt is very communicative. It is easy to either directly relate, or be rather familiar with this universal character as he conforms to the expected norms of both life and work in an unresisting manner and as he passively observes out of the ordinary natural disasters. Our protagonist appears detached; he is faceless and nonemotive but we empathize with him nonetheless.

-g.