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2016

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Digital experiments

December 26, 2016
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Just a random post to announce to the WWW my overwhelming excitement for Santa’s gift: a graphic tablet (Wacom Intuos Art, to be precise). I have been coveting it for like 7 years (don’t ask me why I never bought one, it’s like that scanner thing, sometimes my brain goes short-circuit) but I very soon discovered it’s much less easy to use than I thought. I suddenly felt again like a 10 year-old kid trying to use Microsoft Paint with…

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The first New Year’s resolution

December 20, 2016
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Can you believe I’ve never ever made New Year’s resolutions? I don’t know why. Probably because I usually spend the first days of the year in a food/hangover coma and in general in a partial lobotomy condition on my couch, surely not thinking about productivity goals. No but seriously, I would really like to know how many of you use the first days of the year to think about sparkling wishful plans that will bring you to a better bikini…

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Ong Shunmugam – The Cheongsam collection 2017

December 13, 2016
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Illustration inspired by the Ong Shunmugam Cheongsam 2017 collectionIf you’re interested in fashion and you happen to move to a new Country, you’re likely to check out the local designers as soon as you land (actually I did already weeks before, while I was still packing my apartment in Belgium… I’ve always been a good student). The brand Ong Shunmugam (by wonderwoman Priscilla Shunmugam) is the first I found out in my pre-move Google searches targeted at discovering Singapore fashion.…

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Random fashion illustration #4: Aquazzura shoes (reprise)

August 12, 2016
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Because I can never stop drawing Aquazzura shoes, they’re simply perfect in shape and design. Because I’m still dreaming that one day I’ll be able to afford one pair *hope springs eternal* Because I was in a yellow period (in my illustration I often have color obsessions for a while… Like, this was from my yellow and blue period from a couple of weeks ago. Now I noticed I’m turning back to red a bit. That’s so Picasso of me).…

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Singapore bound!

August 11, 2016
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Drawing inspiration: Singapore beauty and fashion influencer Yoyo Cao, a dress by the Singapore designer Ong Shunmugam and, of course, the Singapore lion Yep, that is what the title of this post is saying: I’m moving to Singapore.(it’s so cool when I write it like this black on white because seriously, I still have problems believing it…) It all happened pretty fast.I went from “Oh, yeah, my boyfriend and I sometimes talk about moving outside of Europe for a while,…

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