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Traditional and Digital sketches and whatsoever. 

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I am really happy to announce that I will be part of this amazing book with some of my favourites artists. The campaign is on Indiegogo here : LINK if you are interest please support :). 

Atomic Betty Fan art

Here a quick Fan Art of Atomic Betty. Character belongs to ATOMIC CARTOONS.

Inspiration image of today: Image 1

Monday to Sunday girls

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I've been really busy these days. Working on a new show and finishing a music video. 

Right before sleeping I've been drawing these extreme-shapes-design-girls trying to find other ways to simplify the body with a straight and curve lines rule. So far I've been having lots of fun, thinking more in geometrical shapes and putting them in the body as they are and mixing them with life drawing studies. 

This set of Monday to Sunday Girls will be soon on an Etsy account I am preparing, they will be well framed and ready for someone to buy. They are all done in animation paper size. 

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

VFS Flash class and more

Last Friday August 16th was the graduation of the second class that I have worked as a Teacher Assistant for the Flash class at VFS.  So far it has been an amazing experience. Being able to teach and at the same time help the students in their own short films. At the end I feel I'm the one who learns the most by adapting to each student with different stories in their own short films and different kind of approaches to explain the things to them. They did a really amazing job in their Flash films. 

I have been busy working in a music video for a Spanish band. I can't post anything yet but as soon as I finish I will put some frames from the animation. 

I was looking in my computer back ups for a plug in to use in this music video and I found an old storyboard about red riding hood I did back when I was in Costa Rica studying 3D.  I don't know why this tale has been always from my interest. So here are just a few pages of the story I was developing.

           

           

What I enjoy the most from this project was that I gave to the entire storyboard the mood. The pages as you can see where design according to the story. So at the end it was more like a storyboard art book.

So yesterday I took  half an hour to do this quick visual developing of Red Riding Hood.

(You can also take a look to the other version of Red-Riding-Hood I did last year).

Here are the inspiration images of today: Image 1   Image 2   Image 3

Vikingo

Today I'm posting a Viking I did on a local live stream-blog from Costa Rica named BOCETOS. I was  a guest on the live stream with the other 3 host of the blog. Here is the link if the VIDEO.
If you want, follow them on Facebook for a weekly challenge.

Here is my inspiration images: Image 1 Image 2  Image 3

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

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 

powerpuff girl!

I decided to make a version of one PPG. Now I feel like doing the 3 of them, so I might have to work on it. I've been really busy these days but I have drawings to post so hopefully this week will be the week for it. 

I'm working a side on a music video which seems to go really nice. I will be also posting a few designs from it in a while. 

For now some images: Image 1  Image 2  Image 3

End of the year sketches

So the end of the year is really close. I decided to scan some old sketches that never made it to my blog with some new ones. It has been a really wonderful year and I'm looking forward to see what is 2013 bringing to me. I'm really excited with my job right now and let's see if I can finish some projects I have for my own. 

I am also starting a series of drawings to sell, and hopefully some people are interest on them. Here is an example: 

14''*11'' inches (pencil and marker)

So if anyone wants more information about them please send me a shout to my email. 

Also I will post some pictures of the VFS Impact Awards, which I had the pleasure to be part of, by doing caricatures while the show was on. (And you will see the girls that were dancing while I was drawing.)  Thanks a lot to Alfred Ngubane for inviting me to this event and for the pictures. 

So that's it for me right now. Thanks to the people who are always following my art and I will be posting on 2013. As always some reference/inspiration images: Image 1  Image 2  Image 3

Cheers and enjoy the girls of the show (which I don't remember the name of it).

Luis