Mary Delaney
Telling your story with images and motion
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Sharing last year's #mascot designs for Prompt Cowboy!
All created in Illustrator, 100% vectors (no 3D programs used!).
Stay tuned for some behind the scenes sketches 👀
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happy International Women's Day!
This illustration is from an article I illustrated on financial communities targeted toward women. Even in 2026, and even in developed countries, women still face plenty of financial challenges from lack of education, lack of skills training in negotiation, limiting beliefs about self worth and pressure to be "polite", and implicit and explicit discrimination.
I'd be really interested in seeing @Contra HQ's breakdown on how much women creators on the platform earn vs men. If there's a gap (as I expect there would be), let's find out why and figure out how to smash it!
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Another sketch vs final comparison.
This one is on the rougher side; you can see what I put my long-suffering clients through with my rough little scribbles!
Creating a scene like this is always a challenge, but the fun is in adding background details and characters.
In this scene in particular I had fun adding Prim and Proper Jewelry Selling Man, and I even did a cheeky self-insert in the form of the woman trying on bags ;)
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Sharing a rare behind-the-scenes look at my illustration process 👀
When clients first come to me with ideas, the first step is always to build a shared goal for the final illustration with them 🤝
After making sure we're on the same page about the goal of the final product, the next step is always to provide several sketches ✍️
I’m a very messy sketcher in general 😅 and I’m always impressed by illustrators who do really meticulous sketches with shading and fine details.
Somehow though I’ve always been lucky to have clients who trust my process (and have excellent imaginations) and can make the leap from a scribbled mess to the finished product 💡
Any illustrators out there want to share your process for sharing sketches?
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Recently redid this illustration from a few years ago and added a little frame by frame magic ✨
https://www.mailpoet.com/blog/package-price-email-marketing-wordpress/
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Working on a lot of behind the scenes stuff right now 👀 in the meantime, throwback to a little animation for Kununu from earlier this year
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Just finished spiffing up the case study for Lendwill, my first collaboration with superstar art director @Dario⚡️ Ferrando
Who says fintech can't be cute? Not us! Check out the case study to learn how we created a lush illustrated world full of forest animals for this Fintech startup.
#shareyourwork #branddesign #illustration #photohsop
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Just playing with a little motion ✨
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