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Happy birthday to the hilarious tour de force @moenie_coenie whose bestie @lonzie_lonz commissioned this one for him. They also go by “Coeñana” 👟👟👡👡 #happybirthday #nannacommish #blackandwhite #brushpen #pentelbrushpen #housemates (at Cape Town, Western Cape)

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“The life and times of @brendanstuck and @deancharles” from @louiseberrywessels’ brief: “They like ACNE, AKJP and support local design. They watch Ru Pauls Dragrace and Survivor. They like to eat takeaways in the way of pizza, pasta, dim sum and sushi (dean loves instant noodles, B love pizza) Brendan is the Apparel designer for ALC_MAN and ALC_WOMAN & Dean is Trend forecaster at Mr Price. Can we have full body drawing?” I tried to fit in as much as I could! featuring my choice @_akjp shirt and @acnestudios jacket on these amazing boys 😜 #nannacommish #art #pentelbrushpen #copics #fashionkids #liftselfie #streetwear #akjp #acnestudios (at Cape Town, Western Cape)

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“Please could you do a special birthday portrait of the Sam Fam for her birthday, featuring @greenham_sam, Marty P, and her cat Digby, with an erotic Japanese octopus or tentacles somewhere in the background and anything else that says Sam to you. Maybe some hint of writing ambitions? A typewriter might be too obvious, but maybe flapping books in the background like birds?” - @laurenbeukes @simondingle and @shen.tian 🦑📚#eroticoctopus #tentacles #cutecats #nannacommish #illustration #commissionsopen (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqeD8VzByvu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=738f8ovlpd4p

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“Hi Anja, I would love an anniversary portrait of my boyfriend and I. We have been dating for three years this September. We are moving to Madrid at the end of September, and I would love to put this in our apartment. Some Icon references: 1. Table Mountain: We met in Cape Town, so I feel this is important. 2. Pizza: Alvaro, my boyfriend loves NY Pizza Slice and will find any excuse to eat it. 3. Gardening: We have a small garden box with tomatoes, jalapenos and various veggies. He’s very particular about it and really enjoys potting around with the various plants. So some greenery would be cool. 4. I’m a filmmaker, so anything cliche icons related to that would be rad. 5. An aeroplane: My feeling is that our lives are going to involve a lot of travelling. 6. Koalas. I once made a meme comparing his face to a happy Koala (so corny, I know) but now we have a running joke about it. Many a WhatsApp message is ended with Koala emoticon. Personality/Dress-code references: 1. Alvaro’s stock standard outfit: A shirt, jeans, glasses and a beard. 2. My outfit: This varies, but I always wear my hair down.” - @gabriella_pinto_ 🐨🐨 #koala #nannacommish #commission #illustration #pentelbrushpen #comics #tablemountain #capetownartist (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqXdTaaBSu4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jujl6odjluhd

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“I would love for you to capture our little family of 3 as a surprise for my girlfriend. We live in a small cottage in Harfield Village and are Cape Town obsessed. We have been together for 5 years and recently became puppy parents to our Jack Russell, Riley. Some of the things we love: – Swimming at Beta Beach – Coffee Missions + Market mornings – Travelling (we have traveled India, Sweden, Copenhagen, Hong Kong and Phillipines together) and love our Durban holidays to the Oyster Box – Flowers Flowers Flowers – anything plant orientated – We love adventuring in any form (swimming, hiking, walking, running) and general outdoors – Wine and Pink Gin All I want the photo to capture is our little family, so myself and Kirsten and then our little pup Riley between us and anything of the above could be cool to include! The black and white photo in the references is one of our favourites and the title references the James Bay song, ‘Wild Love’.” - @stacerehbock for @gerber_kirsten 🌵🌱🌳🌴 #nannacommish #art #capetownart #commissionsopen #brushpenart #pentel #comics (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp3xdv4BqqV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nym1osov1vg8

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"10 years together" for @VanessanPhillips: "My husband and myself with our two cats, Cali and Toby. I’d love to include some⠀ references to the places we’ve lived together: Cape Town, San Francisco and⠀ London. (maybe the bridge for SF, mountain or nature for CT, something londonlike)⠀ and then if we can include a bialetti coffee pot somewhere that would be cool⠀ too" ☕☕ #nannacommish #blackandwhite #comicart (at Cape Town, Western Cape)

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"The Fletcher Four: The artwork is of my girlfriend and her siblings, who are spread across the⠀ globe (Cape Town, Boston, Hong Kong) and were last ALL together in one place in 2012 (pic of them in the couch. It would be awesome if you could include some landmarks from where each of them stay maybe in the background! Thanks!" - @lancejdaniels 🌎🌍🌏 #nannacommish #siblings #worldwide #art (at Cape Town, Western Cape)

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"Last year, we got engaged in Monet’s Garden in France. It was a really special day – the sun was shining, it had that real spring feeling that Europe gets so right. We rented bicycles and cycled through the countryside, explored Monet’s garden and the little village. Jannik proposed at the end of the day while we were picnicking on pastries and beers in a park in the village. We picnicked on grass under trees, it was very green – that fresh new green of spring. We were looking out over fields over the tops of trees. The lawn we were sitting on was full of little white daisies and after I said yes he got up and picked me a bunch. The picnic spot didn’t really have many other flowers around, but if I had to summarise the day in visuals, it would be mountains of flowers! So many colours and shapes, roses climbing cottages, walkways of chrysanthamums, water lilies in ponds, I don’t know the names but hundreds of flowers in bloom. Jannik took me back to Monet’s garden because I love it there so much. I am weirdly excited by greeness and gardens, so it was perfect. So I have included photos from that day, including quite a few of flowers, the gardens and the picnic spot. Feel free to decide how you want to portray the day – I am sure we will be happy with your take on it! Our cats weren’t there, obviously, but we would like to include them if possible. Unless you think that it would work better without them? Trust your judgement on this one. Oh and some of the pics of Jannik he is wearing glasses, he says he would prefer not to have glasses on in the drawing please 🙂 The cat’s personalities (in case you need them) are: Toulouse: shy fluffball tabby, tail has a personality of its own, does not like cuddling, but must be near me at all times, likes to follow me around the garden. Pierewiet: really big black and white cat, explorer of note – spends most of his time outdoors, but loves a good cuddle. Primarily Jannik’s cat. Let me know if there is anything else. I may have included a few too many pics, but thought rather too many than not, right???" - @lahumbee 🌸 #monet #monetsgarden #nannacommish #comicart #illustrationart #blackandwhite #illust (at Cape Town, Western Cape)