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I want to break free… From Instagram!

January 24, 2018
Iris Van Herpen Couture Alessia Landi fashion illustration watercolor ink

When I write about my progresses with my mental health I always feel like a mix between a B series self-improvement website, Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop, a desperate housewife and a new age freak (which is like Goop, but less Santa Monica-yoga-chic). Believe me it’s not fun*. But on the other hand, I like to write about it because it helps me to fix the milestones I am achieving. They might be small steps and I can tell you I am…

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You asked, I answered! My experience with live sketching

April 27, 2017
Alessia Landi Fashion Illustration live sketching Piaget

A few of my followers on Instagram and fellow fashion illustrators asked me a lot of questions about my live sketching events lately. How do I find the confidence to draw a portrait in public in 5 minutes? Did I do any special training? How did I decide my rates? Different artists were asking me very similar questions, so I decided group my answers and write a post about it to share my experience (albeit still limited). I feel like…

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The first New Year’s resolution

December 20, 2016
Al Draws Alessia Landi fashion illustration new year champagne watercolor rose moet fashion illustration

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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Hi, it’s me, I’m back

October 27, 2015
aldraws fashion digital illustration raf simons dior emma watson golden globes 2014

The dress is a Dior Couture (by Mr. FashionGenius Raf Simmons) as worn by Emma Watson at the Golden Globes 2014 Saturn in opposition to Taurus. That’s what was about to happen in the year 2012. And Saturn is a slow bitch so it would stay in opposition to my sign for around two years. So the horoscope said. Revolutions, tragedies and a gloomy mood like a perennial pre-menstrual syndrome were about to happen. But you know, I’m a scientist…

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