FashionFriday, my muses ISO, Razz and Zell, model madness!

 

FashionFriday early because I can't even handle Throwback Thursday! Life is a whirlwind smile emoticon Here are my muses! ISO, Razz, Zell! One's a blonde with a sweet nature, care-free, but has a savvy take-no-shit vibe in a leather jacket and does a lot of beauty campaigns--the beauty girl, one's a brunette with bangs, and a coy expression, who means well until you mess with her, she's risen up and is now booking luxury retail campaigns like Dolce & Gabbana. One has dark short hair, a total badass, and....can be a big bitch, eyes with a story, for the camera and in life--here face is known all over the world, she's done it all, aging a bit but she is dancing on a table somewhere tonight!

 

The Model Life series set featuring Model Life Takes Fashion Week (NYC) and Model Life Takes Shanghai is available now on Amazon!  More outlets soon, Nook, iBookstore! etc!

Meet the Supermodels of the Model Life graphic novel digital series!

 

(Model Life series episode 1 and 2, Model Life Takes Fashion Week and Model Life Takes Shanghai)

 

 

 

Zell, makes her debut in Model Life Takes Shanghai, she's a free spirit, and loves animals, but she still loves her bacon! She loves the beach and concerts too.

 

 

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Razz you meet in Model Life Takes Fashion Week, and see her more in detail in Model Life Takes Shanghai! Go Razz! Go Razz , she's a risk-taker, the fashion model you call when you need a crazy shot! Like hanging out of a helicopter!

 

 

 

 

ISO, a shorter than average model, with a coy expression but tough-shell. She's ready to rock the fashion world, don't even try to stop her. A runway fall won't damper her spirit! Her story starts in Model Life Takes Fashion Week and her mission to get revenge on Razz continues in Model Life Takes Shanghai. 

 

 

 

 

The Model Life series is on Amazon for the Kindle and on the ComicsPlus app!

 

Isobella Jade, writer of the Model Life series: https://instagram.com/ijademoon3/

Jazmin Ruotolo, illustrator of the Model Life series: https://instagram.com/angeltripstudio/

 

Catch Jazmin at ComicCon 2015!!! See more of her work and buy prints:

www.angeltripstudio.com

 

 

 

Zell, a fashion model based in Shanghai, was posing with a butterfly at a photoshoot and then...

Zell, a rising fashion model in Shanghai, was just posing with a butterfly at the tip of her finger during a magazine shoot when she gets a text from her good friend, fashion model ISO based in NYC, letting her know that world-renowned fashion model Razz, has landed in Shanghai. This isn't a model soirée--it's a story about revenge, friendship, love and loyalty. The story goes from NYC to Shanghai...and...more cities to come! Model Life Takes Shanghai follows Model Life Takes Fashion Week, learn more about Zell, Razz and ISO on the ComicsPlus app for Apple and Android or for the Kindle and Kindle app (on Amazon here). On sale now! The series continues!! Check out the work of the series illustrator Jazmin Ruotolo​

 

 

 

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Jazmin and Isobella

 

Model Life Takes Shanghai episode#2 of the Model Life series is available 9/2!!!

Model Life Takes Shanghai will be here soon!!

September 2nd!!

Download the ComicsPlus app and follow the Model Life story on your digital device!

ComicsPlus app for Apple

ComicsPlus app for Android


Model Life Takes Shanghai shares a moment in time with Shanghai based fashion model Zell, and Razz, who just arrived in town from New York City. Their story reveals the darkness that occurs when perfection and beauty encounter revenge and betrayal.

 

Fashion illustration meets the graphic novel world in an eye-catching and dramatic style by Jazmin Ruotolo.

The fashion illustration is a fun twist to bring to the graphic novel world and my hope is this series will also bring more female readers, or those who have never read graphic novels, to the graphic novel side of storytelling and enjoy the reading experience, and want more.

 

You've met Razz and ISO before in episode 1- Model Life Takes Fashion Week, and they are carried through into this second episode, and it's all about revenge and friendship.

The story also involves photographic Shanghai --- The Bund, to the Oriental Pearl Tower, Yu Garden, Nanjing Road and more, from real photographs of my trip to Shanghai a few years ago.

Here are some sketch-to-page illustrations from Model Life Takes Shanghai and also photos from my trip.

 

 

Model Life Takes Shanghai! the mobile-graphic novel series continues!

 

 

 

MODEL LIFE TAKES SHANGHAI!

Episode 2 of the Model Life on-going mobile series takes place in Shanghai! Zell is a rising fashion model and her face is all over Shanghai. Finding success is her only priority until NYC's longest running-muse, Razz, arrives in town. Between photo shoots Zell is on a mission to assist one of her best model-friends, ISO, seek revenge on Razz because ISO believes Razz killed her favorite NYC-based photographer before moving to Shanghai. Only Zell's promise to ISO is shaken when the mission proves that choosing to be true to your word can mean the betrayal of a new friend. Fashion illustration meets the graphic novel world with Jazmin Ruotolo’s expressive and dramatic style and Isobella Jade brings years of experience in the modeling industry to the page with some added chaos and weapons.

 

AVAILABLE at the end of August on the COMICS PLUS app!

 

Check out episode 1, Model Life Takes Fashion Week, to catch up with ISO and her beginnings with Razz.  The "pen" used in Model Life Takes Shanghai is a tool ISO first created in Model Life Takes Fashion Week.

 

 

 

 

This Week BOOK SALE! Any 2 books for $15 includes shipping too!

Starting tonight!

BABY BUMP BOOK SALE!

I'm entering my third trimester and making room for baby #2!!

Almost 5'4"

Short Stuff and my YA novel Careful

book sale!


Almost 5'4" is about my true-life modeling experiences in NYC as a shorter than average model, from the grit to the glam, Short Stuff follows Almost 5'4" with short stories from on the job with national brands and magazines as a parts model, and Careful is the first book of my YA series Careful, Quiet, Invisible.

Any 2 books for $15 includes shipping too! ( if you put your name in the notes I will sign the books to you.)

CLICK HERE TO ORDER ALMOST 5'4" AND CAREFUL

CLICK HERE TO ORDER ALMOST 5'4" AND SHORT STUFF

CLICK HERE TO ORDER CAREFUL AND SHORT STUFF 

 

Please email me at petitepride@yahoo.com or include in your payment notes your email so I can confirm the books you want and let you know when shipped (usually 1-3 days).

I will email you to confirm the books you'd like.

SALE ENDS 9pm EST on 9/22/14

To read free excerpts of my books you can find them on my website and on Amazon or BN.com

Cheers!

Isobella

Models being more than a pretty face

It's extremely important to be more than a pretty face even in this world obsessed with beauty, youth and perfection. Sure, models get told what to do a lot, you're sort of a rag doll in this industry, it's all about the client and the look for the campaign, editorial, project, but I think being easy to work with is key, communicating well with the photographer, going with the flow—and that's all a personality thing. I've been at shoots where the atmosphere was stressed and I could tell my presence and upbeat persona was what kept the energy at the shoot going. A model's job isn't just to hold a pose while wearing beautiful clothes and flaunting gorgeous makeup, it's to use her own creative energy, perceptive mind and skills of expression to help create the story around the product. Without personality you have a pretty model without life in her eyes, which isn't really pretty at all.

Check out my new graphic novel series Model Life Takes Fashion Week on the Comics Plus app.

Download the app and search for Gamine Press and find the series.

The Comics Plus app

 

The series involves how beauty can be deceiving and how unglamorous the modeling world can actually be, while revealing a moment-in-time with models, fashion editors, modeling agents, and photographers from around the globe and each of their missions to survive in the industry or get rid of the evil.

 

It's sort of Kill Bill Meets the Modeling World.

 

 

 

 

New graphic novel series launch: Model Life Takes Fashion Week

It's Here! Download the Comic Plus app and checkout the new graphic novel Model Life Takes Fashion Week. A great pocket fashion accessory! 

Available for Android and iOS: 
http://digital.comicsplusapp.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/comics-plus/id323397665?mt=8

After downloading the app search Gamine Press under Publishers to find the series and check out the other awesome graphic novels too.

And be sure to friend and follow the work the fab illustrator: Jazmin 'Jaz Kitty' Ruotolo

With a Kill Bill meets the Fashion World vibe, the Model Life on-going series shares a moment in time with fashion’s elite all around the globe and reveals the glamour and darkness that occurs when perfection and beauty encounter revenge, tragedy and betrayal. Fashion illustration meets the graphic novel world with Jazmin Ruotolo’s expressive and dramatic style and author-model Isobella Jade brings years of experience in the modeling industry to the page with some added chaos and weapons.

 

#1 MODEL LIFE TAKES FASHION WEEK

It's New York Fashion Week and fashion model ISO's debut. She has risen from the ditches and darkness of the industry to become the "little Heron." It's her model moment, despite her recent involvement in the mega court case against a malicious magazine editor.

All promises to be glamorous until her tragic runway fall that tumbles into a streak of painful surprises. ISO walks the catwalk by day and by night goes undercover in disguise, led by the cries of the model newbies who ISO feels obligated to protect. Just when she’s found that feeling of empowerment again, pain strikes and she’s on a mission to find out who killed her best friend.

View preview pages here:
www.isobelladreams.com

 

 

 

 

New graphic novel on-going series: # Model Life Takes Fashion Week coming November 2013

MODEL LIFE TAKES FASHION WEEK!

Coming November 2013!

This new mobile on-going series shares a moment in time with fashion’s elite all around the globe and reveals the glamour and darkness that occurs when perfection and beauty encounter revenge, tragedy and betrayal. Fashion illustration meets the graphic novel world with Jazmin Ruotolo’s expressive and dramatic style and author-model Isobella Jade brings years of experience in the modeling industry to the page with some added chaos and weapons.

 

 

 

#1

 

It's New York Fashion Week and fashion model ISO's debut. She has risen from the ditches and darkness of the industry to become the "little Heron." It's her model moment, despite her recent involvement in the mega court case against a malicious magazine editor.

All promises to be glamorous until her tragic runway fall that tumbles into a streak of painful surprises. ISO walks the catwalk by day and by night goes undercover in disguise, led by the cries of the model newbies who ISO feels obligated to protect. Just when she’s found that feeling of empowerment again, pain strikes and she’s on a mission to find out who killed her best friend.

 

 

Will be available on iVerse's Comics Plus App.

 

Click here to download the Comics Plus App now!

 

 

 

Live in the moment, it passes quickly

Sorry haven't written in awhile, working on the second book of the Careful, Quiet, Invisible series and busy with being the greatest job in the world as a mother. Usually by 8 p.m I have some time to myself and all I want to do is eat, shower and sleep. But I have lots to share about the past months working in the baby modeling industry and also some tips from questions I've recieved from readers via email. I'll be back. Stay focused with your pursuits and believe in yourself, you are your best cheerleader, start your engines!

Isobella