tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42696659398862365192024-02-21T02:19:44.624-08:00Maya Beus Maya Beus Fashion Illustration blogMaya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-80186502594419767742014-03-10T19:12:00.000-07:002014-03-10T19:12:17.049-07:00Catwalk sketching <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just wanted to post a quick little sketch from today. It's from one of the couture shows (I think) but due to my lack of organizing my files and transferring images from my Ipad about a month late, I do not know who is the designer.<br />
My apologies....<br />Other than that, it's all good. I am working a lot (in a good way) and will post a few things I did in the last couple of months that are finally being published in March.Maya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-51411552241293311652014-02-13T22:13:00.000-08:002014-02-13T22:13:15.865-08:00Happy Valentine's day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am not big on Valentine's day. Romance, for me, is much deeper than heart packaged chocolates. That said, I know people are totally into it so am happy for everyone that is. Hence something like a photo op... I did this illustration for something else a while back and here is a perfect opportunity to post it. <br />Hope everyone who cares about it has a lovely and loving Valentine's day!</div>
Maya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-65449901972087187432013-11-19T23:32:00.001-08:002013-11-19T23:32:43.224-08:00First times<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I skim the brief: magazine, good: San Pellegrino bottles, cool: they like my freehand style, great. Sure, am available!</div>
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<br />And there it is. Vogue. </div>
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I have done my first Vogue. </div>
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Maya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-76391208018503159872013-11-11T18:54:00.003-08:002013-11-11T18:54:45.210-08:00*<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Maya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-23451536243452075862013-11-07T11:11:00.000-08:002013-11-07T11:11:33.342-08:00My chaise<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am between apartments so this was maybe a bad time to restart the blog… </div>
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am just saying there might be a lot of collages this month as my scanner is in storage so no new drawings are gonna make it into a computer. </div>
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At the same time, by coincidence or reaction, I have fallen in love with a Marrimekko fabric chaise. <br />I saw it in a shop on South Granville 2 months ago and it just stayed in my head. I am fighting an urge to spend almost my whole rent to buy it. It promises happiness to me. How cool would it be that the only two pieces of furniture i own in Canada are a drawing table and this flower print chaise.</div>
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I am walking down the west 17th the other day after viewing another God awful apartment when I look up and see this… <br />
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and for a moment that lasts for eternity everything is fine and beautiful. <br />
Blinding sun and blood red leaves, green trees and the sound of a mower in the background<br />
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Maya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-25666580313324184182013-07-29T22:27:00.001-07:002013-07-29T22:27:45.890-07:00I often find myself yearning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There is a strong probability that, for this illustration, I was inspired by running errands in the heat today... or reading Italian Vogue. Might be both tho.<br />
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Being removed from life has always been good for my creative side. Somehow all the energy I would otherwise use for other things just channels through to paper. I am starting to realize this is something to be utilized, something I can use to my advantage .Maya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-28638309828833792412013-07-06T21:49:00.001-07:002013-07-06T21:49:15.784-07:00Lone wolf<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We haven't seen each other in so long. What's new?<br />
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Kanye West has a new album and I have it on repeat.<br />
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Yeah, sorry, I tend to resort to humor when I am not sure what to say. <br />
So last six months or so I spent back home, at the south of Croatia, and two weeks ago I moved to Vancouver. <br />
I worked a lot during that period. And I drank a lot. And ate lot. I worked a little less in these drinking/eating times, that's true...<br />
Basically what I am saying is this: Even though I had new stuff and enough material to post during these months, for the most part I had to much fun to blog.<br />
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Good news is having a life for a while has given me a lot of inspiration, and being in a new city/continent definitely has had an interesting influence on my head.<br />
Anyways for you guys who are still with me, hope to see you around again. <br />
<br />Maya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-70319862866402128092013-01-15T09:00:00.000-08:002013-01-15T09:00:06.121-08:00Are we there yet?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hi you guys!!! How was Christmas? New Years? Resolutioning much?<br />
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I am drawing. Not as much as I hoped, but I am. My style is going through a mutation. Nothing drastic, but I can already see it.<b><span style="color: #a64d79;"> </span></b>So I am having a sale of some of my earlier drawings on Etsy. These are the prints I have already made before for one reason or another, and after I sell them I plan to retire them. This ways they will live out their purpose, hopefully find a loving home and then happily retire for me to visit them all too rarely (isn't it always like that).<br />
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I just love when I find an image that completely embodies my state of mind. I prefer it to be illustration, but it's time to let that pipe dream go ( I mean a dream that I will have 3 new illustrations each week that will show exactly what I think and feel and would like to express. It's a small miracle I made it so far!).<br />So as you can see am thinking. Or to be a exact, mulling. Perfectionism is trying to sink it's claws into me and am all like "Thank you but I'll pass" and perfectionism is all like "Trust me I know what I am doing. I just want everything to be perfect. It's for your own good" and I am like "Yeah, been there done that and not much good came out of it, so I think I'll pass". I beth you thought the girl in the picture is thinking something much more romantic and glamourous. I can promise you she isn't!<br />Anyway, I have again taken too much on and am in a grave danger on being overwhelmed. As I've "been there done that" I want to think of a plan to make this work. Something's gotta a give and I need to come up with a workable solution.<br /><b>HERE IS THE PLAN</b><br />So this is what I am thinking: I am gonna take a month off from blogging. I am going to use all the free time to draw and I'll see where this takes me. I think this is a much better option than to just go "reluctant boyfriend" on you and disappear.<br />Sending lots of kisses to everyone and see you on Facebook and Twitter and hopefully in one month, new and improved and ready to rock.<br />Maya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-62705513234119593442012-11-28T08:10:00.000-08:002012-12-05T01:02:31.275-08:00All about lips
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As you can see I've been absent for more than a few days again. Which means I've been working. There was a deadline for a an illustration competition this weekend. It was about portraits and that is still my weak spot so I've worked really hard to make something I love. I have no big expectations but it means working on my skill and you know how greedy I am about that.<br />
Then I did some drawings for Amelia's magazine of some male fashions which actually looked great but it turned out there was a bit of a misunderstanding there so they won't be published just yet.<br />
Add a day job on top of that, working on finishing the blog redesign, a bit of a cold and here I am, week later and just now a new post.<br />
To compensate here is a lot of lips from my various portrait exercises and my three favorite lipsticks: Mac Nude, Chanel Charme and TopShop Rio Rio.<br />
<br />Maya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-19219610133737467182012-11-21T07:30:00.000-08:002012-11-21T07:30:01.278-08:00Kate Moss territory <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />I am on the lookout for my winter ankle boots. I love ankle boots. <br />I have a friend who lives by very strict fashion rules and she claims they fall into the Kate Moss territory*.<br />But as we are not in the same town at the moment I will easily lead a secret life with my new pretty booties. And skip just like the model above.<br />Providing I find the one's I like. And I am looking but not finding for a while now.... <br /><br /><br />*Did I not mention Kate Moss territory before? Oh, sorry. Kate Moss territory is a place which contains bunch of fashion items that look good only on Kate Moss because she has this power to make anything she wears cool. Ankle boots are there because they apparently make legs look fat and no one in the world can pull them off. Except Kate Moss. And my problem is I like too many things from Kate Moss territory; for example. I like rock-chick highlights, you know the one with untouched roots. That apparently looks good and intentional only on Kate Moss. Everyone else looks like Courtney Love on a specially bad week!Maya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-9102318766385219172012-11-17T09:18:00.000-08:002012-11-17T09:18:39.219-08:00Feeling sentimental<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This illustration is a pretty accurate description of how I feel today although I made it on Sunday with a completely different post. <br />Which begs the question: Am I psychic? Or were things simply brewing in my head already on Sunday and it's just surfacing now.<br /><br />The mushrooms btw are from the ones my parents brought home from mushroom picking. That's one of the perks of living in the countryside: seasonal eating is still a rule not something you need to make a conscious choice to do. But when there is mushrooms, there IS mushrooms: there is an omelet for breakfast, there is a risotto, there is pasta, sauce for the meat, omelet again and on and on in different versions. Because when you pick mushrooms and don't buy them at the supermarket, there is no 250 g version. <br />But I really like this feeling of being a bit more connected with everything. Of not bringing food home in plastic. There is something very right about that.Maya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-81950052248200789822012-11-12T23:27:00.000-08:002012-11-12T23:27:09.686-08:00Autumn colors & 50's lingerie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My favorite thing about fall is the colors. I spent the entire last week up north in the capital and I have to say continent looks much better in fall than the mediterranean. They have the right kind of trees to showcase all the golden range a leaf can achieve. And it's a right pleasure for us. Plus one day the sunset was so magnificent that it was actually trending on Instagram. One of those no FX needed kind of things. When I write things like this am reminded of how much in the future we are. How much digital and physical are entwined. If I experience digital as reality and I am almost a pre PC generation, how is it for the 20 year olds or teenagers who were practically born with a computer. But this is off subject...<br />Also I've been shopping for lingerie, and I would love something like this. Very 50's and vintage-y, something modest but very feminine and sensual. Grown up sexy. But, and this is a big but, it seems to me that these kind of items look good only in magazines and wonderfully styled and strategically lighted photo shoots. In real life, at least in my experience, it can look so dumpy. Specially the colors. All the champagnes and nudes and pastels can look just washed out. Specially on my white complexion with pink undertones (which I am totally into if someone asks.) On the plus side, not a trace muffin top. So I stick to the blacks and pinks and keep looking. <br /><br />Also one more thing, I noticed this is the place more expensive brands do much better at. Probably because a good cut i so important here.Maya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-788800846997143022012-11-09T08:00:00.000-08:002012-11-10T02:31:04.087-08:00Perfect winter outfit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This outfit is like my perfect outfit at the moment. <br />
Down to the last detail... tone of hair color, make up, the texture of the sweater, drawing of the owl. <br />
It's feminine but not girly. It would look great in the office yet it's not office-y, it has a dash of hipster in it. I tell you, just yummy!<br />
To emulate it I just need to buy the sweater, the skirt, the gloves, the belt and the shoes. <br />
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In other news, I have enjoyed a fulfilling social life this week. Drinks, dinners, chats, wine, giggling, laughing. The package.<br />
So am thinking maybe this whole get up might just work out. For 2 weeks I live down south where I work my ass off, and then on the third week I come here where I see and hang out with my lovely lovely friends and they always have time for me because I don't live here. And I stop complaining I don't have balance.<br />
It's a win/win I tell you. Maya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-2757369014744753642012-11-07T08:46:00.001-08:002012-11-10T02:44:45.124-08:00I love coats but have trouble picking a color<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am back in the capital for a few days and coat time is officially here.<br />
Which I LOVE!<br />
Which means a coat post. I had a drawing I made a few weeks back and loved. so it was supposed to be easy peasy lemon squeezy. But then I decided to see how would it look on a white background.<br />
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Darker off-white.<br />
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I'll spare you the rest, but it goes on like this for a while until my computer starts to have tantrums. Computer just starts saying " No, I've had enough, turn me off NOW. I don't want to work anymore today and frankly I'll shoot myself if I ever have to show you another version off cream to white background". Or at least this is what I believe he/it says. It could just be that his working memory is full and I have to restart it. Which is basically the same thing if you think about it.<br />
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I have to say I enjoy continental autumn much more than the mediteranian one. All the pretty colors are here. Down south where I am at the moment autumn just doesn't have a place to show it's glory.Maya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-59871372771069901262012-11-05T04:00:00.000-08:002012-11-10T02:31:33.893-08:00What's brewing on the inside<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Good news or bad news first?<br />
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Good news is that I am in such a creative phase you wouldn't believe. I know that look of the blog doesn't really reflect that at the moment, but trust me it will. I am applying everything I learned in designing other people's blogs and visual identities to this blog and it's god awful hard work. Also, I am drawing so much ( I mean as much as someone with an 8 hour day job can) and just devouring fashion. Mostly in digital form as my immediate environment is not very... shall we say imaginative. I constantly work ... Even when I am not working I am working... My head is rummaging through all the images in my head putting them all together making new combinations, new connections, new ideas.<br />
I love it. I love everything that comes out of that. I love that I am bringing back collage to my work. I forsake it at one point long time ago when I realized I used it as a crutch for my lack of skill in some areas. But this is not the issue anymore so yeah, we are together again. :-)<br />
Bad news is that once again I have no social life to speak of. Wonderful how I keep doing this... Trust me ladies, at the moment I live of your going out, your cafe and restaurant pictures, places you see, go and do. So please, go out, Instagram, Tweet, Facebook and generally share. You never know who might be at the other side.<br />
See you soon.Maya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-76951708442602947632012-10-27T08:23:00.004-07:002012-11-10T02:31:51.997-08:00Skin deep<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is an important piece of information about me: I have had bad skin almost my entire life. Actually that sounds wrong because at this point I don't feel like my skin is doing something to me but rather that I am doing something to my skin. And I don't know what it is.<br />
I have had acne in one form or another since I was 12. And I am very ashamed of it. I always felt and still feel there is something wrong with because of that. I have tried every solution under the sun and never got completely rid of it.<br />
At one point, while still living in London I managed to reduce it to very minimal levels than did some microdermoabrassion and at the ripe age of 27 had OK skin. But then a stressful time came along and it started again, and it went up and down, up and down, until last winter it started going bad again and I am now at a point where I lost almost all hope and things are... bad. <br />
The reason I am writing this is because I want to get it out there exactly because of the shame I feel about it... and I think I am on a verge of accepting it. Accepting like people accept they have an illness. Something not too serious, but still chronic and persistent. Like type 1 diabetes. Because this is how much out of control I feel about it. <br />
I do want to say that at the moment there are a few products that are keeping me sane and stop me from crying before I leave the house in the morning (unfortunately I don't have an illustration for each one).<br />
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1.<b> La Roche Posay Effeclar cleanser.<br />2. Giorgio Armani Luminous silk foundation</b> (This saved me during fashion week. I swear, if I didn't have it I might have not gone).<br />
3.<b> Vichy Dermablend foundation</b> (stays on and has great coverage)<br />
4. <b>Trilogy Rosehip oil</b> (again hope it might fix any long term damage)<br />
5. <b>Australian organic's Tea tree oil</b> (I try not to be too aggressive to my skin so I go natural wherever I can)<br />
<br />Maya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4269665939886236519.post-41140731506957708692012-10-23T08:30:00.000-07:002012-11-10T02:43:06.930-08:00I am remodeling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I know, I know there is no header. I am redesigning, so I constantly have to try out some new code in an effort to customize the design. I always thought why do people make such a big deal about Wordpress being different but I think I see it now: it just allows much more of the serious stuff. Blogger is great for some entry level options.You can play around with a bunch of really easy customizable options, as long as they options Blogger offers. If not, it links you to some obscure French wine making blocks and all you asked was how to get rid of the shadow on images. So yeah...<br />
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Anyways, here is some Miu MIu action from the next season. I really set myself for a challenge when I started the Alexander McQueen drawings. I tell you, pattern is hard but beehive pattern is a BITCH. Lot of trees have died in vain for me to get it right... and it's still very much an option that I won't. In the meantime feast your eyes on Miu Miu. I like it. It looks like some weird Butterfly 8 mix. Very hard around the edges though.<br />
Off now. I need to catch some light and go for a run/hikeMaya • Fashion Illustration bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768407909070377076noreply@blogger.com2