Happy Wedding Anniversary!

Tomorrow is my cousin's wedding anniversary, here is a quick sketch for her and her husband :)

A Castle full of Games: Vevey Museum of Games

The Museum of Games 

so cute!

Yes, there's a hopscotch

All rooms are full of different games from all over the world.

All different kinds of versions

From old to new

Some toys you were allowed to play with

CARROM is my new favorite game to play.

All kinds of  playing cards

Pictoplasma: The Character Encyclopedia

A friendly classmate from my french class, lend me this pretty cool book called "Pictoplasma: The character Encyclopedia". It's pratically a catalogue sharing you most of the contemporary characters done till now. It's a great source of inspiration and makes you want to start creating some characters yourself. Pictoplasma is a company that support contemporary character design and art and does it trhough events like exhibitions and publishing books like this encyclopedia.

Go check out their website @ http://pictoplasma.com/

and learn more about the book @ HERE

and now enjoy some sneak peeks:

Summer

Some ways to cool off during the summers:

• Le fan
• La pool
• Les popsicles
• Le cold Coca-Cola
• Le cold beer
• Le downhill bike ride
• Les sprinkles
• Le frozen food aisle

Sally Mavor

I truly admire illustrators whose work is 3D Wether is sculpture to sewing skills, I quite admire the attention they pay to the details.  The way she handles her fabric creations are beautiful! I love to spend time looking at how she did every detail and boy the lettering she does is so mouthwatering!!! Once I'm settled in Mexico, I can't wait to include her books in my library.


Visit her website for more wonders @ http://www.weefolkstudio.com/
And her blog @ http://weefolk.wordpress.com/

The White Castle of Nyon, Switzerland

Cool thing about Europe? All the castles it has. Here is the White Castle of Nyon!

Loved this room, I want a room just like it :p

<3 the page holder

The prisoner's room

Hope you enjoyed the photos and more castles coming soon :)

Brandi Milne

When doing my Influence Map I couldn't believe I haven't shared one of my favorite, sweet and inspirational illustrator Brandi Milne (even her name sounds cool). I actually first saw her work at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, CA. She also visited my school to give a talk, and she's a really sweet, funny and charismatic person. Her illustrations really reflect the person she is. I love her style from how she draws her sweet characters from flora,fauna and humans, her color palette has a candy touch to it, and it almost feel as if she've been to candy land or wonderland!


Go visit her Website @ http://brandimilne.com
Visit her blog @ http://brandimilne.blogspot.com/
See some cool videos of her sketching @ http://www.sketchtheatre.com/?p=3815

Your Influence Map

A few days ago Laura Gomez,an illustrator from Barcelona,Spain(by the way check her BLOG,It's really cute!)shared her "Influence Map" and I loved seeing the artists that inspires her all next to each other. So here I am with my Influence Map and go ahead Make yours HERE! and share it with others :)

From top to bottom, left to right:

• Arthur Rackham
• Kelly Murphy
• Mathias Inks
• Jose Sanabria
• Brandi Milne

Little squares top to bottom:

• Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay
• Mary Grandpre
• Studio Ghibli

From my Sketchbook:Pancho

Wishing you all a great week.
Here I'll leave you with a page of my sketchbook. Pancho was a childhood pet, whom I'll always tenderly remember.

Raquel Aparicio

I love Raquel Aparicio's illustrations I feel she uses negative space so well. She uses different media but I love the ink style it has and how simple she keeps her illustrations. They have a sense of it being suspended in time. Very cool. Go visit her website to see more awesome work @ http://www.raquelissima.com/