Flava and the Seven Wonders

It's a wrap! was the only thing I could think of uttering when this art project was finally finished. Yes, a project based on my college friends and I, titled Flava and the Seven Wonders. It all started on one night when we had a chat together. One of them, Kanira, insisted on having an all-English conversation in our chat room, said that it was to improve her English. So all of us agree, I mean, why not? We have left our English speaking and writing skill for quite some times anyway. So there we had it.

We shared about most things, practicing our English along, and so I did. I shared them my current favorite song, the one I had been listening to quite a lot since I watched Rio 2. It was an OST from the movie, sung beautifully by Anne Hathaway and Flavia Maia, both in English and Portuguese, titled Don't Go Away. That was when I fell deeply in love with Brazil, its culture, and its language.

I couldn't clearly remember how did it all started but I chose Flava, from Flavia Maia's name of course, to be my name during our so-called English session, said that she (Flava) was from Rio de Janeiro, which how she had her full name: Flava de Janeiro (amazing how Janeiro means January, since I was born in that exact month). Two of my friends who joined the nickname thingy right away were Arin and Tia. Each chose the name Sexy and Latin as theirs.

It all went fun, calling each other with our new names with new background, it was like having an exclusive inner-group roleplay. (Sexy and Latin were from South America btw). And so the others followed; Kanira as Snow, Sarah as Candy, Manda as Ruby, Tria as Dove, and Sheilla as White. There was when it all started, I guess, the idea of doodling-out Flava and her seven wonders.

The idea was warmly welcomed by my girls and so I started that night right away, begun with some ugly drafts and raw sketches, 'till I finally used my big thumb over my giant-screen of my phablet to visualize them into a colored digital doodle. I updated them on my Instagram, one character per one day, started by Flava, Latin, Candy, and so's and so's and on and on. It took me eight days in a row to upload them all, and this is how they turned out:

Flava and the Seven Wonders

I know lotso practices are needed, but I'm pretty happy with the result, for each character represents at least a little of my true seven wonders. (Look how Flava's explosive hairs represent mine! Lol!) Until the next art project, (thinking of a Trio Rio for Ochi, Aii, and I) thanks for stopping by!

Xoxo,

Q :D