🌟Congratulations to Sarah Gonzales whose art from Maribel’s Year is in this year’s Society of Illustrators The Original Art annual exhibition! 🌟
From Sarah Gonzales —
“Maribel’s Year has been selected to be part of @soi128 The Original Art 43rd Annual Exhibition!!!
Here’s some process behind this starry parol* scene. Pencil sketches, digital colour processing, line art and a bit of inspiration.
*parols are Filipino ornamental star lanterns.
The photos are from my last trip to the Philippines back in 2016. A lot of time was spent travelling by car so most of my photos were snapped through the window. Along the roads the nature was vast and life was in layers.
A home with caged windows and all its tiny details caught my eye — pots, bottles and containers were reused and stacked with plants. From the archives I pulled up one of my studies and redrew it in this spread.
Big thanks to Art Director Dana Fritts and Editor @hellomabel 💛”
Click here to get a behind-the-scenes at Sarah’s creative process for the illustrations in Maribel’s Year.