New web design: Natalitique

June 6th, 2010

I am happy to introduce to you a new pretty destination on the World-wide-web: www.natalitique.com

Natalitique is the home of web developer Natalia Pavlova whom I have had the pleasure of working with on a number of projects. She is the master of details and it seems no matter how impossible a visual you come up with, she can manage to build it.

So I was quite excited when she asked me to help out with the visuals for her new website.

She wanted something clean and uncluttered to reflect what it is she does, namely writing clean, short and clever xhtml and css that works across browsers. No less!

So we made a very white  and clean design with a few nice details such as little fancy bullets to spice it up.

detail from Natalitique

To contrast all the white and straight lines we chose to use a coloured background and an illustrated header with a green natural touch- this because of  Natalia’s personal interests in ecology and her love of nature.

Check out the site and meet Natalia here

Party-dress ala andaluz

April 23rd, 2010

Senora de La Feria

As it is friday, I thought some party-atmos would be in order.

Here in Andalucia where I am now, the feria season has kicked off- That means week long town celebrations with fairs and music and nice food. And then of course, this is the time  for little girls, hot latinas and grandmothers too, to get that flamenco dress out and the big earrings on!

This Señora is inspired by a lovely lady I saw at the Feria in La Linea last year.

Gibraltar

March 24th, 2010

This week I went to Gibraltar so I decided to finish up this illustration based on a sketch I made on my first visit to Spain and Gibraltar.

The original sketch

And this is what it looks like in real life

Spring wallpaper

March 3rd, 2010

Most of my work is character based, so I wanted to have a go at creating something more abstract and based on geometric shapes.

And as it is now – according to the calendar anyway- spring, I thought it appropriate to make something more colourful and happy go lucky than I normally do.

If you like it you can download it as a desktop wallpaper here:

wallpaper in size 1280 x 800 px

wallpaper in size 1280 x 1024 px

Adrift

February 16th, 2010

This weeks Illustration Friday topic was; Adrift.

Polar bear cub and inuit child adrift on ice

My submission this week is representing the polar bears, and the people living in the arctic that will be among the first to feel the effects of global warming.

The melting of their natural habitat is a very pressing environmental concern.

You can read more about polar bears and global warming here:

http://www.bearplanet.org/global-warming-polar-bears.shtml