A selection of some of my early work with colorful digital illustrations.
Laetitia is turning 25 and is going through her quarter life crisis. Will she be okay? Will she be truly loved? Is she beautiful enough? Is she clever enough? Will she accomplish a life she’s proud of?
Does she have what it takes? Is she meditating enough?
Naima is a successful runway model. Her beautiful dark skin, graceful long limbs and shaved head have become her trademark. Despite her success, she still has doubts about her beauty. Is she beautiful enough to the world? Will she age gracefully? What if her body changes before she’s ready for it?
Amidst all the doubts, today she decides to smell the flowers and exhale.
Serena, the accomplished woman. A public figure. Nothing is ever out of place in her world. Everything is always under control. In another life, she is backpacking through Asia, travels to Hawaii on a whim and dances naked with the birds of paradise.
Both are married. They have nothing else to reveal to us for the moment.
Angela is embracing her natural hair. She is discovering and redefining the meaning of beauty to herself. More importantly, she is finding out just how much more beauty there is in the world now that her eyes are open to it.
She is trusting the process. She is learning to be in the present and seeing each moment out and each moment in as it presents itself. She is learning to trust the seed to germ for the flowers to bloom. She is at ease with the process.
It is the first days of summer. The sun is bright and still soft, the wind is a tender breeze in the palm trees. She languorously stretches her body on the balcony like a kitten, in anticipation of sensuous adventures, only the good days of summer can bring.
Its the first week of the new year. She is looking back at her last year’s successes and wondering if she can top that. It never seems to end. She is supposed to keep going. There is so much more she has yet to discover, but how is she going to go about that?
She is easing in the moment knowing that what is meant for her will never miss her and that which misses her was never meant for her.
The neutral girl gone crazy in color.
She is realizing just how much she’s missed out and beginning to ask herself; just how many other things in life did she miss out closing herself in one box.