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Hello! As you can see I've stopped doing daily illustrations. It became too much in addition to my commissions and other works. Going forward Ill will be posting on my website. Hope to see you there!

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I'm giving up soda for Lent. What are you giving up?

-Tawana

(2/9/16)

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I absolutely detest Mondays!

Animated version → here ←

-Tawana

(2/8/16)

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The three wise naturalista.

See no evil--Hear no evil--Speak no evil

-Tawana

(2/7/16)

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Whoo hoo! I hit over 10K adorkable supporters on Instagram! I wait till it said 10.1K so I knew it was real!

-Tawana

(2/6/16)

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Me and flexirods do not go together at all. Every time I hope my set will turn out bomb.com and it NEVER does...will I try again? Probably! 

-Tawana

(2/5/16)

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(2/5/16)

-Tawana

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(2/3/16)

-Tawana

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(2/2/16)

-Tawana

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(2/1/16)

-Tawana

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Faith

-Tawana

(1/31/16)

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Red Lips...

-Tawana

(1/30/16)

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Don't really have a theme for these next seven days so here's some profile avatars...?

Cotton Candy

-Tawana

(1/29/16)

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S.H.I.T. . . I'm One Curly Cutie!!

Occasionally I draw children illustrations → Curls Club

-Tawana

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The finally OOTD (outfit of the day) is inspired by an IG supporter pick, Dayna Dane. Saw the pink fur coat and first though of Camron then was like I gotta illustrate that. I'm loving her rings and short do'. Kinda inspired by Dej Loaf. I love animal print and had to throw it in somehow. She fly tho!

-Tawana

(1/28/16)

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Today's outfit is an IG support pick and inspired by Boho Rho. I love how she is constantly changing up her hair color. I wish I could do that but I'm a lazy naturalista and would end up with major breakage. I've been seeing the jacket she is wearing around and racked my brain to find out what this style is called. Finally found out its called a cape blazer. The fashion industry is so clever...Once I saw this on her page I knew I wanted to illustrate it. I went with a shorter cut for the blazer. I played around with colors for this character. At first I had the skirt as a tan color and it worked but I want the piece to stay somewhat consistent with the inspiration's color scheme. And that's also what I've done with the other illustrations for this theme. The character is fancy and cute. I'm also loving her bold pink hair color. I made her color floral like Boho Rho. Honestly I wish I had this characters shows in every imaginable color...i love flats.

-Tawana

(1/27/16)

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I wanted to draw a male and picked Kelvin aka Notoriously Dapper on IG. I follow his page and love his style. He's a body positive advocate which makes him even more awesome! I liked the print on his shirt and based my inspiration off that...kept the yellow beanie. Peep the solo cup lol. Is that crown and coke or just coke? You decide.

-Tawana

(1/26/16)

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So this past weekend I came across the beautiful body positive lady HauteHero and loved her bio. "Unapologetically Fat & Fly" I just loved that statement. Thus it inspired the outfit of the day illustration. Big is beautiful too! I wanted this + size beauty to have a causal outfit. Gave her some purple hair. At first I had her with a mauve lip then a pink one and it was not working. Once I went with a nude clear lip I felt like eureka!! Hope you like her too!

-Tawana

(1/25/16)

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Again I would like to thank one of my IG supporters for suggesting Shirley Eniang for the outfit inspiration. As soon as I saw this all white outfit I was like jumpsuit. I think that idea also came from the Penny Proud illustration I did. For this fashion illustration like I said I wanted to do a jumpsuit plus incorporate the gold belt. I added some gold spikes on the shoulders.  Got some open toed nude pumps on which reminds me I need to schedule a pedicure session asap.  I'm really loving her mauve clutch. The checkered pattern makes it look extra fancy huh. Below is also a version with a jacket hanging on her wrist but I'm just not diggin' it.

I''m really liking these fashion illustrations and might start incorporating celebrity looks...idk yet it's up in the air. 

-Tawana

(1/24/16)

With jacket...yes or no?

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