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Helena Bertinelli in Zuhair Murad Fall 2023
reference under cut
OKAY TAKING PITY ON THE GIRLIES here’s the Helena dress I designed for @laurie-juspeczyk on a whim today WITHOUT the suffering
Downloaded image vs picture of my iPad
Inspo and lunch time doodle under cut cause I waited all day to draw this RIP I had work😔😔
Carol Ferris for @vampirehal 🫶💕
very mecore to send like fifty different inspo dresses when asked which of them reminds you of a fictional character. very mecore indeed.
anyways
drew Talia in Elie Saab Fall 2023 Couture for @gretaghostgirl for no reason other than i have a desperate need to draw characters in couture and if no one’s gonna commission me then i’m gonna make them anyways for my friends and cas deserves it for being insane about fashion like me <3
just finished huntress 1989. is this anything.
just finished huntress 1989. is this anything. pt. 2
miss sohee f/w 2021
um after i finished i was like “it’d look so good if i drew a crossbow in her hand” and then im like “does she even use one in this run” and then i skimmed through every issue and also i asked ireth and ireth like looked through all the issues and found one (1) single mentioned but im too tired to draw it now so whatever
should i read my friends fic even tho i haven’t read the comics for it the answer is yes
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Shira I think I could take a couple hours to gush about your art. I think about your art a lot.
The way that you allow colors to flow on the paper and not feel to constrained by any lines you add. It makes the art feel like a personality. It's like the characters can't be contained within artwork, and I don't know if that was ever what you were going for but it's what I get from it alot.
The colors you add and the way you make them pop on art is very beautiful and I want your art to be scanned and uploaded into the synapses of my brain because I just you're art is so amazing.
I think I once compared it to the stars, and going back, the stars are too constraining. They are the fabric of the intricate universe.
You draw characters in outfits that feel like an extension of their personality, but unique in a way that comics still have not been able to fully capture.
I also like how your blogs always have a consistent profile picture, because everytime you have changed blogs I know that it will be easy to find again because there is no way that I want to miss out on any of your art.
I also enjoy your live blogging. It'd nice to know that others are going through the same type of emotions every day. It grounds you a bit in reality if that makes sense.
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i know that this is like. maybe making it about me. but holy shit. the way you write, like, your compliments about my art? it’s. it’s fucking MAGICAL. you say my art is like the stars, your WRITING is like the stars it’s so DESCRIPTIVE and WONDERFUL (and makes me feel AMAZING and captures the ESSENCE of it and 😳) like i am literally at a loss for words every time, not just cause i’m lonely and desperate for compliments and attention cause i am but just cause like you paint such a picture it’s just… wow… like… ANYWAYS okay right yea, i love how organized and dedicated and passionate you are about your comic reading, i know, this is not surprising that i can say this about multiple mutuals, but also just your passion in like even just analyzing posts the observing oh yea i already told you we are like 🤝 with that but also SORRY I AM NOT AS GOOD AS WRITING AS YOU PRETEND THIS MESSAGE IS BETTER❗️❗️❗️
wait shoot. finishing RHATO would only get royalties above ollie, not kory….okay i may need to sidequest and find like random comics she was in in the past that i haven’t read yet…..
Undersea Alien collection by Shira S for @starfirecentral STARFIRE: A Fashion Zine
Shoutout to Per for coming up with the name actually XD
I’ve been avoiding making this post, because I have a lot to say about this collection, especially about my various inspirations as well as my design process. The former of which I’m going to try to condense underneath a cut, the latter I’m debating maybe making a second post where I show discarded design concepts/different looks I had to cut when finalizing my designs. I’m just a *teensy?* bit passionate about it all, as I put a LOT of time and thought into this collection.
WOW OKAY!!! I have WAY too much to say!!!
Initially, my idea spawned from a drawing I never finished of Kory in a mermaidcore look I designed for fun, when I was brainstorming ideas for this collection I decided to then take that further and use the ocean as my core concept. Kory’s from space which is like. unexplored and mysterious and like looks cool as shit. You can say the same about the ocean. I actually had a number of more conceptual ideas based off more specific sea creatures, alas, this IS a very small collection with limited looks, so I only did 4 underwater ones and only 2 of those being sea creatures (jellyfish)
What was also really amazing, is that around the time that I was designing these looks, Halle Bailey was doing press for the Little Mermaid movie, and when I tell you that every single red carpet I saw her step on my jaw fell open in “holy shit, that’s the vibe i want to get across” or this photoshoot she did. I’ve also used Chloe Bailey a number of times as a Kory reference and I think Halle’s face is actually perfect for her but that’s besides the point.
My last main inspiration i’ll touch upon is Miss Sohee. I think it will be obvious when I show pictures of some of her gowns, how her design aesthetic influenced me in designing the dresses my own dress. Fun fact! One of the aforementioned press tour looks was a custom miss sohee gown!! (the other one I used as inspiration is the purple one I include later)
FINALLY!!! here are more specific inspirations for each look!😄 (you can scroll up to compare, alas i have no room to include them side by side)
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(as well as the inspo for #1)
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