Happy Easter :)

I know it's a little belated but Happy Easter to all the bloggers, especially to all my blog followers!
And though Easter has passed, here's the link to my latest AGI Ecard, an Easter one of course :)
I wish I had time to do all this before but better late than never, right?! Lol!
So, I hope you had lovely time over these holidays and you're well rested and ready for the new Spring adventures! 'Till next time- when I hope I'll have some more exciting news to share with you all :)

xoxo Ant

Antoana Oreški ©2012

New AGI Ecard

I haven't been posting anything new for ages! I was very busy...1st with making the illustrations for enigmatic magazine I do on monthly basis and then I got another project from AGI to create another Ecard, that is illustrations for another E-card...I don't do animation even tho I'd love to learn :) Then I got down with some sort of flu and am still fighting it...and now I'm trying to get organized and send my work for the 4th Croatian Biennale of Illustrations in Zagreb, submissions due 18th March.
Since I'm not feeling that well...I'll be short for now and let you see a preview of what I've been working on for AGI. Hmmmmm...I wonder what's behind those doors? :))

Antoana Oreški ©2012

St. Valentine's Ecard!

Today was an awesome day for me...I got a lovely deposit on my bank account from the clients and I got a link to my Ecard as well, so I wanted to share it with you! I'm glad they were happy with my work and then as I visited their site I've noticed they used my flower concept as their background and clouds as their Valentine's background...cool :) So without further ado I present you my 1st(out of many I hope) Ecard I did for American Greetings :)

CLICK ON THE FLOWER TO SEE THE E-CARD!

New Year new projects :)

Hello everybody and Happy belated New Year!

First I hope you all had very lovely and blessed holidays, especially Christmas. It is my most favourite and important day of the year as being a christian, since God is God of families I love this day when all of my family comes together to celebrate Christ and to simply enjoy eachothers company and share the laughs :)

We each bring something we made and this year I brought some Sarma (minced meat and rice rolled in cabbage leaf) and I made 2 different cakes- the pear cake with wild fruit sauce and almond/vanilla biscuits (with the help of my liitle elf-Noalinn, my precious 3yr old :)) Yummmm yummmm, I tell ya :)

Just 2 days before Christmas I received a really cool job offer from American Greetings to do a St. Valentine's Ecard...never done Ecards before but I love new projects and challenges and so I embarked on the new voyage and I LOVED it!!! It was a really cool new experince and I must say the AG directors are a lovely bunch, with lot's of understanding and patience :) It's so different to think in the lines of making the Ecard vs. regular painting of illustrations, but since I got accustomed to seperate things in loads of layers (it's how I have to do all my enigmatic illustrations too) it didn't take me that long to start making the mental notes of painting everything on a fresh new layer and making order within different folders.

Also a big THANK YOU to Nate and Salli from They Draw and Cook for featuring my little green furry monster Grinch in their Jumbothrone. It's thanks to their lovely site that I got that contract thru. So, thank you guys! :)

So the Ecard is finished and the animation team is working on it now, hopefully I'll be able to share the end result with all of you when it's all done, and I'm moving onwards with some new projects that came thru yesterday and today, but more about those in the next post :)

Here's just a tiny preview of my work for the Ecard, can't see much but all I can show you for now.

Antoana Oreški ©2012

And lastly, I'm wishing you all a very productive year ahead and may it be best yet to come!

All my love,

Ant xoxo