Blog — Joana, designer & illustrator

Custom made T-shirt

O meu nome é Lua T-shirt

A friend of mine asked me to do an illustration for a t-shirt which was a birthday present for a friend of his.
It’s kind of a caricature, the girl’s nickname is Lua (moon)

Adobe Illustrator
2010

Lord Peacock – Engine of the Arts

“Our mission is to organize the world’s quality creative works and to make them informational and universally accessible in a format that pays homage to the rich heritage, innovation and beauty that the arts imbue.”

Today I found out about Lord Peacock – Engine of the Arts.
It’s a search engine but only for Art related content in different industries – design, cinema, literature, advertising, design, fashion and so on.

It works like a wiki platform, in the way that, once you join you can add and edit content, the difference is that these new articles or changes have to be approved by the administrators. This was the strategy used to make sure that the content displayed doesn’t lack quality or at least to minimize the risk of giving people wrong information.

As my first contribution, I created a new listing about Alberto Vargas, my favorite pin-up artist!

Joana

Online Shopping

I’m really excited about these 2 websites I just joined. Both of them are a kind of virtual community for designers to submit/sell their work and everyone to buy it – as t-shirts and/or artwork.

The 1st one is MySoti where I submitted Cavaliers of Fun official t-shirt and some posters all for sale.
The 2nd one is Threadless where my design is up for scoring and if it gets a good score it will be printed and I’ll get a prize for it!

So, if there’s someone’s birthday and you don’t know what to give them, or if you just like shopping for some nice tees, go on and get one designed by yours truly!

Joana

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.