Marcelo Paiva

All illustrations

A young woman and an older woman face each other in profile, surrounded by swirling patterns and scattered circles.

Draws this one again — same subject and the same people, a new palette and a new angle on it, described afresh. It replaces the drawing on this page for everyone, until somebody draws another. Costs the site about eight cents, and a few seconds.

Or press the left arrow and the right arrow.

What would you ask your future self?

Writing — read the piece

Meant to show
A designer facing her older self. Most people will be disabled at some point, and the exercise starts from there.
Asked for
A young woman and her elderly self facing each other across a table scattered with sticky notes
Drawn with (split)
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The colors are not a choice. They are three hues derived from this piece’s slug and handed to the model as numbers. How these are made.

A drawing

This is a museum label beside a picture. The drawing comes first, and everything about it comes after.

From top to bottom

  1. At the top, the site header: my name, which goes home, then links to Writing, Work, Signal, Tools and Resume, then Settings, where you choose the drawings, light or dark, and movement.
  2. A link back to all the illustrations.
  3. The drawing, large.
  4. Links to the previous and next drawing, and where this one falls among them. The left and right arrow keys go there too.
  5. The title of the piece the drawing belongs to, with a link to read it. On this page the heading comes after the drawing.
  6. What the drawing was meant to show, what was asked for, and its three colors.
  7. Why these three: how the colors were picked, with a color wheel and the steps.
  8. At the bottom, the footer: a note on how this site is built, links to Illustrations, Pens and Accessibility, this Describe this page button, then GitHub, LinkedIn and email.

What you can do here

Read about how this drawing was made, or step through the others.