Blog — Joana, designer & illustrator

New books on the shelf and new music on the cd player

New Music on the CD Player

Mississippi John Hurt, I’m Satisfied

Mississippi John Hurt was a blues singer and guitar player and this is, hopefully, the beginning of my Blues collection!

New Books on the shelf

Typography, Ambrose / Harris

Basics Design Vol.3, AVA

Text and Image, Mark Wigan

Basics Illustration Vol.3, AVA

Guerilla Art, Sebastian Peiter

Laurence King Publishing

Joker, Brian Azzarello

DC Comics

100 Bullets, Brian Azzarello / Eduardo Risso

Vertigo

Since school is over, gotta find alternative ways to learn something. The difficult part is that sometimes you just have to guess which book is the best, amongst the 23.457.673 thousands on the store, related to whatever it is you want to know more about.
I started with Typography by Ambrose and Harris, it was a lucky guess and I’m almost finished with it. If you are like me, who never really talked about typography (other than distinguish serif from non-serif) then this can be a good start.
In the mean while, Guerilla Art “features profiles of and interviews with the most influencial street artists including Banksy, os Gêmeos, Invader, Branstormers, WK Interact, Zevs and André” so I’m pretty sure it’s a good one!
About the comics, well… I bought Joker, because I’m a huge fan of Batman, and the guy from the comic book store told me to read 100 Bullets because Brian Azzarello is really great and so I trusted him. Also, I finished reading the Joker, so yeah, I’m convinced!

Gianluca Fallone

I thought it would be nice to show other people’s art, because growing as an illustrator/webdesigner is not just about drawing everyday but also about visual culture. I like to see what other people are doing, I like to be inspired and somehow challenged.
So, on the first of this kind of posts, I’ll show you Gianluca Fallone – a young designer and illustrator from Argentina who’s worked for MTV, NIKE and Cartoon Network (1). I first read about him at The Cool Hunter website and quickly added his personal website/portfolio to my favorites.
I love his vector illustrations, specially the ones with neon-light-bright effects.
So check him out because he’s really awesome.

Joana

(1) via The Cool Hunter

November-December crops

Watercolor studies.

I’m back with the watercolors, so I picked a few simple drawings to test a little bit. I’m still learning how to control the ink flow which is harder than I thought… My excuse is – I need a bigger brush!

The quality of the photo is crap I know, I have to get a good camera. I’ll scan the final pieces sometime soon and post them on the illustration section.