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Ink illustration with the title 'Illustration of a stately 19th century gentleman on a bicycle'

Illustration of a stately 19th century gentleman on a bicycle

The goal was to create an illustration of 19th century gentleman wearing a hat and on an old style bike.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Illustration - New York Skyline office view'

Illustration - New York Skyline office view

Featured in Foundr's Creative Edition

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Ink illustration with the title 'Packaging design'

Packaging design

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Ink illustration with the title 'Tattoo'

Tattoo

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Ink illustration with the title 'Wise Wolf '

Wise Wolf

Wolf that see through your soul, vibrating in love with the northern lights and the moon. Drawing made on paper and a simple black pen.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Design for the Gift Wrapping Paper'

Design for the Gift Wrapping Paper

Here, we had freedom to explore and the art was welcome,so that's something I like and appreciate - and I enjoyed in working it so much!

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Ink illustration with the title 'The Diamond Queen - Margot Robbie'

The Diamond Queen - Margot Robbie

Margot Robbie in the guise of the Queen of Diamonds. Poster for the wall.

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Watercolor Logo

A handmade logo d esign for the Irish Trad Sessioes

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Ink illustration with the title 'Zombies In The Mall'

Zombies In The Mall

Comic book page.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Drawings that Include Alphabet '

Drawings that Include Alphabet

"...a rough, black-and-white illustration in your own style of the Vermeer below" .. Drawings that Include Alphabet . The author provided concepts that que eu worked with ink on cotton paper. The project, designed for a creative grammar, includes internal illustrations and the book cover.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Drawings that Include Alphabet '

Drawings that Include Alphabet

"... an ampersand whose form is filled with small symbols of opposites—maybe yin and yang, a rabbit and a snail, the word "strive" and the words "be still," an isolated hiker and a fiesta, etc." . Drawings that Include Alphabets The author provided concepts with which I worked with ink on cotton paper. The result will be published in your book.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Drawings that Include Alphabet '

Drawings that Include Alphabet

"..a passive human figure fishing at a stream or pond where the fish are made of alphabet and punctuation marks" . Drawings that Include Alphabet . The author provided concepts that que eu worked with ink on cotton paper. The result will be published in your book.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Book Illustration'

Book Illustration

Illustration and book cover for the interior of a novel.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Set of illustrations for Website.'

Set of illustrations for Website.

Set of illustrations for the website. The journey of a company with a mission: to integrate the human element with technology. The future can count on cybersecurity. The illustration-style drawings that tell a story were asked to present color as the factor that represented this integration. The characters were also asked to show the diversity that the company values and operates with.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Illustration for novel'

Illustration for novel

A vintage style illustration for an internal page in a novel. The client had a photo he'd been using and decided an illustration based on the photo would suit his historical novel better.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Afro american womam'

Afro american womam

Original Artwork portrait theme Afro american womam.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Illustrations for book'

Illustrations for book

A sample of 18 illustrations done for a personal book of memories (printed book). All monotone black digital ink style based on the client's memory references. AI was used to get the lighting reference for the dog standing in grass with a tutu on. No AI was used in the actual illustration work. The brick wall is mismatched and uneven as the reference wall was *very* old and had repaired areas, plus areas where bricks had collapsed and chipped badly.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Sketches for fantasy book'

Sketches for fantasy book

The client wanted several sketch-style illustrations for their fantasy novel. Nothing overly detailed, in a rough pen and ink sketch style based on book excerpts. This particular illustration is of a flooded valley with the top of a broken old wizard tower poking up from an inky dark lake, lighting bolts shooting down around the tower, mountains behind it forming a geo-political border.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Illustration for a book cover contest.'

Illustration for a book cover contest.

""Son plumage était gris comme un ciel de tempête et blanc comme de l’écume fraiche, ses yeux perçants et son bec recourbé brillaient d’un jaune de coucher de soleil qui ne finissait jamais. » . Illustration for a book cover contest.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Illustration'

Illustration

Illustratio for a cover book. . "Why settle for a normal book on grammar when you could learn new things about it and become your own best self at the same time? If you’re looking for a traditional manual of rules, this much-acclaimed, groundbreaking book by a cofounder of Harvard University’s Writing Center may not be the one for you. Grammar is about much more than rules: it’s about choices, too—since a thought can always be expressed correctly in multiple ways. In Grammar for a Full Life, author Lawrence Weinstein reveals how our grammatical choices either stifle or boost our…

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Ink illustration with the title 'Skyline'

Skyline

Skyline of Coeur d'Alene / Idaho, mix of bold and line, hand painting, and vector to compose the illustration of this beautiful place.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Hand-drawn Chinese ink.'

Hand-drawn Chinese ink.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Coloring Pages For Kids'

Coloring Pages For Kids

I have the honor to be a finalist and one of two winners of this beautiful illustration contest – coloring pages for kids at different ages. It was a pleasure. Some of my strenghts in this project – My liveley brushstroke and cute, friendly and expressive characters.

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Ink illustration with the title 'The Reaper - book interior illustration '

The Reaper - book interior illustration

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Ink illustration with the title 'Design a medieval heraldic symbol'

Design a medieval heraldic symbol

A black & white coat of arms / heraldic sign illustrating a two-headed dragon protecting and holding an apple.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Covid-19 Skull Illustration'

Covid-19 Skull Illustration

Vector illustration for print on a T-shirt for a religious organization.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Erica Tetralix'

Erica Tetralix

Botanical illustration in classic ink technique. The final round of the tattoo design competition.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Anatomy Print Poster Proposal'

Anatomy Print Poster Proposal

I have recreated a drawing in a style typical of engravings from the beginning of the last century.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Cake'

Cake

Hand-drawn illustration turned into a sticker

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Ink illustration with the title 'Calvin and Hobbes style illustration'

Calvin and Hobbes style illustration

Illustration made in ink and watercolor at the request of the client, it had to emulate the comic "Cavin and Hobbes" replacing them with a Hindu boy and his elephant.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Children's Poster Illustration'

Children's Poster Illustration

Hand-drawn illustration of a badger family on a balloon made with ink and pens and composed digitally in Photoshop.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Illustrative icons'

Illustrative icons

A set of custom made icons

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Ink illustration with the title 'Watercolor Van Gogh style'

Watercolor Van Gogh style

Paris with a starry night.

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Ink illustration with the title 'Watercolor '

Watercolor

Watercolor hand made illustration of the city with sky

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Ink illustration with the title 'Beric Dondarrion '

Beric Dondarrion

"Death is the enemy"

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