This series stemmed from an old and discarded concept that's been lying dormant in my computer since last year. I struggled for ages to complete it, due indecisive direction aka overthinking!

Rosa

Rosa closeup

Lilium

Lilium closeup

Narcissus

Narcissus closeup

Btw I'll be selling prints soon! Here's my prototype. (forgive the grainy photo)

Hello!

New stuff here, nothing much to say about them though. These were fairly quick edits I did during my downtime while my kids are asleep.

Fragility

Fragility closeup 01

Fragility closeup 02

Second Sight

Second Sight closeup 01

Second Sight closeup 02

Hello!

Long time no post, I've been on the fence on whether or not this blog should still be alive. Keeping up a consistent online presence has always been somewhat of a challenge to me, I've thought about migrating this blog into a proper website, or just removing everything and just sticking to Instagram. But then someone on Pinterest had pinned my artworks via this blog and now I cant bring myself to delete it. :)

So at the end of the day I'll keep this place alive for the lovely people who find joy in what I do. <3 Sorry for the lack of posts, I hope to change that.

So without further ado, here's a new post after 5 months of mulling!

Luna

Hola i'm back in Palopo, this place is slowly turning into home for me, I'll be here for a while which means limited internet. Urgh. Still love it here though. :3

Here's a new piece, I got stuck & pretty much gave up on it for a while. Eventually tried to play around with textures and patterns and voila! done.

(closeups under the cut)

New works up! wasnt sure what was gonna come out of it actually. I started with the CARAMEL piece, which was a zoomed out image with her shoulders and torso, but I got stuck halfway not sure how to finish it so I cut her up and made CHALICE. After a while I zoomed in and realised she looked better composition-wise as a closeup face :)

Hola, looks like I can't get over my lazy bloggin habits! Well in this case I've retreated into the mountains in Palopo and internet is pretty much rarity. I'll be here for a couple of months, we'll see :P

I love being away from civilisation and well Bali is becoming a tad overcrowded.

Anyhoo the lack of internet distractions and people can be quite inspiring!

Here's a little edit quickie:

Can you keep a secret?

Hi ya'll

I've decided to reset this blog. I've been planning to split my brand and separate my commercial work with my personal work. This blog will contain most of my personal illustrations & digital imaging projects instead.

But if you wanna browse my old blog its still around at: rachelmantiri.blogspot.com
My commercial portfolio can be viewed here: rachelmantiri.tumblr.com

cheers
-Rach

EDIT: Some posts from the old blog has migrated here.