Posts by Margherita Cole

Margherita Cole

Margherita Cole is a Contributing Writer at My Modern Met and illustrator based in Southern California. She holds a BA in Art History with a minor in Studio Art from Wofford College, and an MA in Illustration: Authorial Practice from Falmouth University in the UK. She wrote and illustrated an instructional art book about how to draw cartoons titled 'Cartooning Made Easy: Circle, Triangle, Square' that was published by Walter Foster in 2022.
Inspiring
June 16, 2022

Grandma Makes Amazing Gundam Models to Bond With Her Grandchildren

One grandma in Japan went above and beyond to connect with her grandchildren. Taechan, a woman in her 70s, began making Gundam models—plastic armor suits inspired by the anime Mobile Suit Gundam. Her amazing results impressed her grandchildren and sparked an unexpected passion. Gundam suits are sold as kits by Bandai. They're sometimes called “Gunpla,” which combines the words “Gundam” and “plastic model.

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Food Art
June 13, 2022

Pastry Chef Creates 8-Foot-Tall Giraffe Made Entirely of Chocolate

Chef Amaury Guichon has made a dream cake for animal lovers and chocoholics. Well-known for his realistic cake sculptures, his latest creation is an 8-foot-tall and 160 pound giraffe made entirely of chocolate. The lifesize pastry has been carefully sculpted and painted to bear an uncanny resemblance to its real-life inspiration. Originally from France, Guichon became an executive chef when he was 21 years old.

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Pencil Drawing
June 11, 2022

Artist Spends 200 Hours Bringing This Amazing Hyperrealistic Drawing to Life

Some works of art are realistic, while others appear so true-to-life that they blow your mind. New York-based artist Dylan Eakin spent 25 days—approximately 200 hours—working on a large-scale hyperrealistic drawing that looks just like a real person. Using a combination of graphite and charcoal pencils, he rendered the young woman cupping her face between her hands while expertly sketching the texture of her skin, hair, and clothes so that they fool the eye.

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Entertainment
June 10, 2022

Studio Ghibli’s Theme Park Releases More Illustrations of Its Imaginative Attractions

One of Studio Ghibli‘s most anticipated projects is not another animated feature; instead, it's a unique theme park based on past films. Called Ghibli Park, this immersive amusement park is set to open on November 1, 2022, with some of the areas scheduled to be completed the following fall, in 2023. While fans wait, however, they can pore over new illustrations of some of the sites that will be available to see.

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My Modern Met

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