Esra Roise and Me....

So sketching seems to be it for me right now... I'm loving that for some one like me it seems to be just coming kind of naturally.... I know you're thinking "hey you're a designer if you cant sketch who can?" and in a way that's true... but see i also grew up with an artist, my mum.... so while i was a designer the artist was always just her... i was so in awe of her work and they way she paints that all my life i have been fearful of the pencil and paint brush...

and the few sketches i put up earlier of the Yoga art and the Cityscapes i made in pure dread of the outcome!

But its been liked and so i decided to go a step further... paints!!!

i Love water colors over acrylics... love love love... something about a watercolor artwork just looks all mystical to me... so i googled a few works and found Esra Roise. She mainly does illustrations for fashion magazines and designers... and her women are just plain sexy! Her lines are so simple (even tougher to copy) and yet so so detailed... my favorite part is how she sketches the hair... so intricate... and i swear it seems like it would be so easy to redo... but it isn't....

I find her women so hot and so rebellious with super crazy hair flying all around and she uses really minimum color and yet her works looks colorful (the magic of watercolor i think). So i picked a few of her art works and redid them my style!!

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My version.... this was the first one i did....

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My version.... just couldn't get her to turn back like Esra did... but i added the tattoo ...!

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My version... you see what I'm saying about the hair.... she gets it to look so good... and the whole posture the slouch.... its so difficult to redo... and most most tough is the look in the eye... i guess i'll have to do lots more work to get to there!!!!

So here are a few more of mine that i did with out a reference but still along her lines...

And here are a few more of Esra's works.... You have to check out her website though... she is fantastic!

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I cant wait to try this one...the colors are madly fascinating...

Makes me want to wear my spectacles more often!!! 

So dark but what detailing... love it! and i love how she has added such little color to add such a dark effect...

Love the splatter of paint as a backdrop... stunning...

Such innocence... and yet so wild!!!

So here ends my tribute to Esra Roise... who will always be the first to inspire me to sketch... and here begins my forever love to sketch!!!