Chiara Ferragni

It's never too late to finish some illustrations you started drawing a couple of months ago. I'm happy to show you my newest illustration inspired by a photo of the blogger Chiara Ferragni wearing an Alexander McQueen sweater.

Is it obvious that I love black and white patterns? If the answer is no, I'm going to have to draw more illustrations in this style (:

Crowned

I have some news for you. There's now a Gypsy Ballads store on Society6 so if there's a print or an item you would like to buy with our illustrations you can do it over there. At the moment there's only one illustration uploaded but more will soon be available.

Author: Andrea Perkov

Anja Konstantinova

I have finally come around to writing a post for this blog. Maybe I'm lazy as my beautiful Andrea says Today's illustration is inspired by Anja Konstantinova who stars Stylestalker's lookbook. It was made a couple of weeks ago and now you can check it out.... bubbles bubbles bubbles!
Just in case you were wondering... I'm Tamara (the other half of the Gypsy Ballads duo)

Olga Skazkina

I'm in a total rush but I want to finally post my new illustration. It's inspired by Olga Skazkina's collection and I planned to finish it for Valentine's day. I know I'm more than a week late but just to make me happy, let's pretend today's Valentine's day :)
I hope that each day you love and feel loved in return!

Have a fabulous day 'n' night!
Andrea

Braided Wonder

There's something so perfect about any type of braid. Whenever I see a photo with a model that has braids I immediately love it. So it's no wonder that today's fashion illustration is all about the braid :)
After drawing it with a pencil I played around in Photoshop until I added a touch of color.

P.S. If I have almost 5000 pins on Pinterest, does that officially make me a Pinterest addict?
Andrea

Happy New Year

Hello dear friends,
first I want to wish you all a Happy New Year. I hope you all celebrated in good company.
I have to say my evening surpassed all my expectations. It was a combination of great friends and listening to an awesome band (whose singer was a David Bowie look alike). What more could a girl wish for? :)

I came across a perfect quote that an amazing artist Red Hong shared on her page and I think you will also like it:
"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.

So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever."
-"Make Good Art", Neil Gaiman
On the 1st of January was the 1st birthday of this blog. I'm looking forward to sharing more illustrations with you all, to a year filled with learning about new things and making mistakes.

Happy Halloween

As the title says I wish everyone a happy Halloween. Here's one illustration for this occasion inspired by Minnie Mouse:

Cheers,

Andrea

Shoe & Shoes

 Hi guys!
This will be a very short post from me because I'm going on a trip tomorrow, well actually today. I was supposed to go to sleep a couple of hours ago but, as usual, packing things took longer than I planned. I realize some time has past since the last post on this blog, but finally I have something new to show you :)
Hopefully I'll draw some new illustrations while I'm travelling, but since I won't be able to take my scanner with me you can follow me on Instagram (@gypsyballadsandy) and I'll post photos of anything I draw there.
As you can see I was a bit shoe obsessed...

Fashion illustration by Andrea Perkov inspired by Lara Hotz's photo

Fashion illustration inspired by Duccio Venturi's collection 

Hope you have a lovely day wherever you are :)

Andrea

Must have been a Think Pink moment

You know that feeling when inspiration catches you in her claws and then you start drawing and don't stop until you have finished. That happened with these two illustrations. Today it's just me because Tamara is too busy being lazy aka doing her day job. As soon as she manages to find time she'll post her new illustrations here. Until then you're stuck with me (cue evil laughter).

Illustration by Andrea (inspired by Arizona Muse for Vogue Paris photographed by Inez and Vinoodh)

Illustration by Andrea Perkov inspired by Drielle Valeretto for Nylon Korea

I'm looking forward to hearing what you think about my two pink ladies :)

Andrea