Brace yourselves summer is coming

Sorry for such a long break. During last time I was busy with... hmm.. nothing, so I decided to make some graphic and... Here it is, my latest work :) I love the face and the dress. I hate the hand. The rest part is average in my opinion.
What do you guys think? Leave a comment and see ya next time.

Deciphering the Spring Season

About a month back, I was asked to complete the Spring banner for Underneath Stardoll. Being the exceptionally lazy person I am, put the task off, and when the time had risen, I realized I had a request to finish. First I wanted to add the three USD founders of the blog, but if you're a graphic designer, you'd realize some skin tones are extremely hard to work with--and that's what I found with the two remaining founders.

So with a bit more photo-searching, I found an easier reference to work with. None the less, I'm really quite happy with the results:

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I think this is another one of my better graphics. While the skin is rather lightly shaded, and the dress is much darker, I think it transitions nicely. I also love the hair, and I find the shadows cast on the model's skin are really quite nice.

I also did the cheekbones different from what I normally do, and I think this doesn't make the graphic as harsh-looking.

My only complaint is the mouth is a bit blurry.

The one thing I had the most difficult time with was the background. Believe it or not, but I couldn't really find anything that worked well with the model. The final background selection itself is a bit choppy, but I'm not sure if it'd look better if I blurred it.

All in all, I think this wasn't too bad of a fail. What do you guys think?

Behind the clouds, the sun is shining...

Finally I've thought of a good title for a graphic post! :)

Well, I haven't been making that many graphics recently as I was on a class trip, but I made this on the way back in the bus (driving for 10 hours can be quite boring, you know).

The main focus is the rays of sunlight, because I wanted to try to do a graphic with a different sort of lighting. The original photo was of me holding a dandelion, I'm too lazy to find it, but it's quite similar to this graphic.

This is the original version:

I decided it was too choppy so I tried to blur it:

I think I blurred it too much this time! I like that it underlines that the sunshine on the dandelion is the focal point. but the rest is too blurry.

Which version do you like better?

Oh, and it reminds me of this song from my favorite movie:

:D

Maria/mgirl07

At the moment i'm working on graphics for magazine & blogs, which i can't post right now, but i did promise that i would post twice a week, so for now i'm just going to post one of my completed graphics. 

This one was done a month ago (i think) I've gotten a lot better since then, but i thought this was cute: 

SPRING INSPIRATION: Seasonalhotbuys

Out With The Old, In With The New

The original version of the graphic

I also did it in black I got a bit bored so this was the outcome of it.

Something I did a bit earlier this month, I didn't finish the hair just because the fact I'm not gonna use it.

I'd like to make a few graphics for TGV because the graphics I am working on a magazine atm. I'll probably do something spring inspired with mint green in it! One of my favorite colors.

Thoughts?, comments?, suggestions?