Sayada's Illustrations and such.

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Challenge 111: Menagerie: A-Z Menagerie

For this challenge, I decided to make my most detailed repeat pattern yet. There’s 26 zoo animals, one for each letter of the alphabet! I think this would make a nice accent wall wallpaper in a child’s bedroom, at a library, or perhaps on the gift shop bags at a zoo.

-Sayada

So I know I haven’t posted much here in the past few…years really :s but since everyone seems to be heading out, y'all can find me on instagram at @sayadaramdial​. I’m way more active there!

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Challenge 110: Crisp: Crisp Leaf

This one’s pretty straightforward- I chose to combine some hand lettering with one of the best parts of autumn, the crisp leaves!

-Sayada

I mean who doesn’t love stepping on some crunchy leaves?

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Challenge 109: Moody: The Lethargy Chronicles

For this challenge, I chose to depict something I’m all to familiar with: lethargy. It’s like being held down by a heavy, cozy blanket, or buried in warm sand. I decided to turn that idea into a fantasy/fiction book cover design, and now I want to read it!

- Sayada

And here is it without the text!

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Challenge 108: Uniform: Rule Breakers

This challenge was inspired by my adolescent years spent in different school uniforms. The one shown here was from my first high school, which was an all-girls catholic school with a nun as the principal.
I wanted to show all the ways girls broke the uniform rules: top button unbuttoned, not wearing your badge, having dirty shoes, having not completely white shoes, wearing makeup or nail polish, wearing hair accessories that weren’t a neutral colour or blue, not wearing a white belt, rolling up your sleeves, having your shirt untucked, wearing your socks below ankle height, wearing too large of earrings, wearing too tight or short of a skirt (i.e. above the knee)…. So many ways to rebel 😎

-Sayada

Convent girls know.

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Challenge 107: Redesign Refresher: Blonde Beer Label

This challenge was the perfect jumpstart for me to try my hand at some beverage label designing! I chose a local brand, Barrio Brewing, and redesigned their flagship beer, the Barrio Blonde. Here’s the original design: 

I wanted to give a nod to the original, whilst making it my own at the same time. Thanks so much to the other members of @squarecarousel for the helpful feedback along the way!

Anyone want me to design their product labels? This was really fun and I’m itching to do some more!
 -Sayada

Hit me up if you have a product label you need illustrated and designed! 😃

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Challenge 106: I Know What You Did Last Summer: Summer Fruit Lolly

One of the best parts of summer is the seasonal fruit! A perfectly ripe peach is nature’s candy in my hand (or pie). And since it’s as hot as the outer ring of hell where I live now, lollies (popsicles) are a godsend. 
-Sayada

❄️Ice ice lolly❄️

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Challenge 105: In An Alternate Reality…: Underwater Greenhouse 

In this alternate reality, the place to go to enjoy some greenery is at undersea greenhouses like this one. Since climate change melted the polar icecaps and flooded 80% of the land, humanity was forced underwater. This particular greenhouse abode is privately owned by a reclusive baroness, who chose to construct it in a secluded oceanic trench.

-Sayada

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Challenge 103: Love Your ‘Hood: Tucson

Some of my favorite things about Tucson are the native flora and fauna. It’s awesome seeing all the cacti in bloom in spring, or encountering wildlife while taking a walk around the neighborhood. In tribute, I decided to turn these desert gems into stickers!

-Sayada

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Challenge 101: Album Cover: Lo-Fi Hip Hop Compilation Album

My go-to background music lately has been the soothing sounds of Lo-Fi hiphop playlists on Youtube, so I decided on making this the subject of my album cover! I wanted to pay homage to the customary ‘anime girl at a desk’ visual that so many of these playlists use, but with my own spin. The background is a visual representation of how listening to lo-fi hiphop makes me feel.

-Sayada

*comes out from the shadows for a brief moment*
😬

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Challenge 100: Carousel Animal: Flamingo

For this challenge, I wanted to draw something fun. As one of the goofiest but beautiful birds around, the flamingo was a perfect option. I’ve styled him as I would imagine a real flamingo would react if dressed as a king and expected to give rides to children.

Congrats to SCC for reading this amazing milestone! Happy to be here for challenge 100!

Seriously though, 100 challenges and counting is laudable! Maintaining an active illustration collective is no easy task.

Man, I love drawing these whacky birds.

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Challenge 99: Freebie: Pumpkin Pattern

Lately I’ve been enjoying designing patterns and roasting pumpkins, so I decided to combine the two! Here are two colour variations, one more traditionally autumnal, and the other more funky.

-Sayada

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Challenge 98: Practice Makes Progress: Cliff with a View

It was the year 2006. Anime and fantasy art ruled the artistic influences of a teen girl named Sayada. A fairy sits upon a crumbling cliff surveying the view below, proportion and anatomy a mere fuzzy concept in the distance.
Flash forward 11 years and 1 art degree later, an older and wiser woman now sits, reminiscing her past and looking out towards the future.

-Sayada

Oh look, my embarrassing old art that I had to dig through a very old anime forum account to find! Doing a redraw was fun ^_^

Exciting news: I’m now an official full time member of the Square Carousel Collective! If you’re not already, go follow them here!

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Challenge 97: Subway Card Art: Urban Jungle

Wild characters, jungle foliage and animals are probably not the craziest things seen in the New York metro, I’d reckon.
I may have bitten off more than I could chew with this one, but hopefully it would make for something fun to stare at for commuters!

-Sayada (guest posting for Casey)

Guest spotting for Square Carousel again. Oh man did this turn out to be a challenge to complete! It’s 9″ x 44″, meant to fit the art slot on the NYC trains.

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Challenge 95: Western : Westward Travel Poster 

What better way to showcase the splendor of the old west landscapes than with a vintage-style travel poster for Westworld? 

 -Sayada