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¡Hola!
I spend all day long at work drawing with a Cintiq so I usually go home and draw with traditional media. I normally use and mixed whatever I can to make it work.
This weekend I went back to an exercise that I really enjoy and got inspired a while ago by Marcelo Vignali and my good friend Brett Bean. I spot interesting people on the street and try to analyze them: I look for body shapes, cloth patterns and colors, props or whatever I can describe that person with and the most important I try to observe their mood or at least create a story behind them.
I then go back home and see what are the most iconic elements that are still on my mind and play with them.

For these I used Prismacolor and Copic markers, ink for the blacks parts and colour pencil to give accent to specific places. It is a really fun exercise plus I love getting out of the computer world.

Hope you like it!
¡Pura Vida!

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Two more

Two more for this collection

Random drawings

Profiles and random doodles

''Must be seen with'' series 2

Lluvia en el Jardín del Edén

Process: http://instagram.com/p/g7Op56NO2a/

This must be seen with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC5sVqkmFh4&app=desktop

OTOÑO

Process: http://instagram.com/p/hAYTMZNOyH/

This must be seen with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy0NySCmuFU

Random Sketches and Halloween

Week on Sketchbook

Having fun with my ''Toned'' sketchbook. I dig the fact that white is not the base colour and I just use it as a light kind of thing. I normally use it as a one side contour line. 

The second image is one week of doodles during the night on my normal sketchbook. (not counting the first image of that sequence which is digital ).

Here the inspiration images: Image 1  Image 2  Image 3 

Conquistamos las estrellas y aun asi te vas

Well I've been crazy busy these days. Working in a lot of things that I can't show yet. Here is something I did on a break. The sentence is from a song. 

Also I will share today a really cool project a good friend is developing. You must check this thing out. It's PLANET CUBE 23, a really nice looking art and good animation together this an interesting 8 bit sound fxs. I'm sure you will enjoy it. And soon he will be doing apps as well, so yeah good things will come from this. 

For now that it is, here the inspiration images:  Image 1  Image 2  Image 3

Barbarian

Recently I bought an amazing app. It's the PoseBook by the great Stephen Silver. Here is a drawing based on one of its images. It is such a nice app, and you can carry them in your smart-phone for whenever you want to draw.  He has 2 editions: Males and Females, so far I just got the Female's one, but I'm getting the other one for sure. It is totally worthy! 

Inspiration images of today here: Image 1  Image 2  Image 3 

God of Thunder

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The God of Thunder. This is a poster I had for a while waiting to be paint. I've been having a lot of fun working as a Storyboard Clean up/Revisionist  in the new Avengers Assemble series. So I decided to make a fan art. It has been a great experience, specially to improve my drawing skills on this ''american comic style'' characters.  

You can check some AVENGERS ASSEMBLE promo clip here. 

I also asked 2 other artists to paint this drawing, so hopefully I can see someone else interpretation on the colouring soon. 

Next some making of this drawing, hopefully it helps someone somehow. 

Here is how the composition and colours work. 

Composition (green): I put the attention on the center of the image.  I used the elements like: mountains, cape and the thunders to point towards Thor's head-chest. Now, the thunders work a bit different because they point to the Mjolnir (hammer) then from there the arm brings us again to Thor's head-chest.  

Colour (red): Again the colours meet in the center of the drawing. It travels from the Blue all the way to the Yellow meeting each other in the center. 

Next is a process from Sketch all the way to Final, really straight forward. 

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And last but not least the inspiration images of today: Image 1  Image 2  Image 3

Trinquétte challenge

This is my weekly entry for the Trinquétte challenge. I'm going back to black pencil and just some whites after a long period of doing stuff in digital. 

On these ones I tried to simplify lines and shapes, hopefully I will be posting more. 

Inspiration images: Image 1  Image 2  Image 3 

Random things on a Sunday

Today a couple of drawings: Jon Snow and a french girl. 

On this post I also want to promote a friend's project, that I hope you could support as well.  They are a couple of friends from Costa Rica and they are doing an animated feature film. The project is really cool and I know them so I'm sure it will be great. They have been nominated before for Annecy with a short film they did a while ago. 

The movie is called 'The Esoteric Birthday''

You can find the teaser/trailer of the movie here: Trailer

And here the funding campaign: The Esoteric Birthday

Please help them :)

As always the inspiration images: Image 1  Image 2  Image 3

More Acrylic

Another Sunday with Acrylics. This time trying more colors and filling more the page, not worrying about cutting the drawing out of the page. Also painted every part with a different tool: some brushes, napkins, by finger and some charcoal for whites. 

Inspiration images of today: Image 1  Image 2  Image 3

CYM and G #2

Here are the next 4 of this serie. I'm trying to incorporate animals on my drawings in general. This weekend I will be posting some other stuff , hopefully later on today.

I watched a couple of documentaries this week. Here is one that I really enjoyed about Salvador Dalí. He is a truly inspiration and a genius.

Inspiration images: Image 1  Image 2  Image 3

CYM and G

I'm testing silhouettes and brushes on PS. First I painted a random shape with a neutral colour, then I started taking out specific shapes for the characters.  Also decided to add fur to them and at the end I based them on Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and the Green colour. Im working on 4 more. 

Inspiration images: Image 1  Image 2  Image 3

Acrylics and water-colour

Sunday night I took it to use the acrylics a friend gave me as a present. I used them for the shirt and the background of the illustration, on the other hand the face has bits of water-colour, the blacks are Sharpie marker and some Copic marker here and there. I will tried to do a few and frame them to see if someone seems interest. 

Inspiration images: Image 1  Image 2  Image 3

Sketchbook Images

After a crazy month with a lot of work, finally I can put together some stuff to upload. I was for the first time TA of the Flash class at VFS. It was a pleasure for me to help out the students in their Flash films.  They did a really great job on them. Here is a little picture I took on their grad to say Congratulations to them!. 

Here are some images of my sketchbook that I've been taking on Instagram. ( You can follow me by clicking the right tab of the screen). I've been mixing all kind of media for these drawings with pieces of songs from my playlist. 

As always some inspiration images: Image 1  Image 2  Image 3 

READ. You'll be out of this world

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Here is the first of a series of illustration I have in mind. Hopefully I can continue with them. Also trying some brushes and different kind of colouring. 

Let's see if I can get out of action characters for a while. Trying to reach other styles. 

Today's images are about motorcycles: Image 1  Image 2  Image 3

Iron Sketch

Rights belong to Marvel

I had to post something. I haven't been able to. I'm doing an animation for a music video and it's taking my time. I need to scan stuff and post in the blog. I hope this week goes better. I missed the Emerald Comic Con!!! I hope next year I can go for sure. 

Fore now here some images for inspiration:  Image 1  Image 2  Image 3

Tank Girl

I've been really busy these last weeks with my job. I apologize and I hope this week I can post some sketches and couple of things that have been waiting in the list. 

This one is a Fan-art of TANK GIRL, it's such an amazing comic. It is for BOCETOS a nice blog from Costa Rica, in which there is a character design challenge every week. It is not a competition, it's just for fun and to receive feedback. 

Also I got posted in this amazing blog: JAZZ and DRAW in which it's all about jazz. Thanks to Philippe for the opportunity, and I have a new art for this jazz blog waiting to be finish. 

Here today's inspiration images: Image 1  Image 2  Image 3