Hey hey! I havent’ posted anything here for quite a while so here’s a little something I made for Conceptart’s Character of the Week activity, the topic was “the Dragon Egg” and it was supposed to be a cover for a Young Adult novel including a girl 12 to 16 years old and a dragon egg, the rest was pretty much open for interpretation. Sooo here’s what I did. I’m including the final illo, the “cover” version with title, and some little steps of the process. Again, made with Illustrator and Photoshop. Hope you like it!
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Holassss! Hace rato que no posteo nada así que acá les va una ilus que hice esta semana para la actividad “Character of the Week” en Conceptart, el tema era “El huevo de dragón” y se suponía que era una tapa de una novela Young Adult (que pese al nombre creo que suelen estar más bien apuntadas a púberes), había que incluir una chica de unos 12 a 16 años y un huevo de dragón, lo demás era interpretación libre, y esto es lo que yo hice. Puse la versión final de la ilus, una con el título y diseño “de tapa”, y unas capturas del proceso de yapa. Nuevamente, Illustrator y Photoshop

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You may or may not know this, but I’m a biiiig Pulp fan. And Jarvis Cocker has a really interesting face. And we spent all of last week wandering around London and Brighton (which was awesome, and I totally fell in love with London, by the way). So we could say that all stars aligned and I though I should do a portrait of Jarvis. And here it is!

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Puede que no lo sepan (o sí!), pero soy gran fan de Pulp. Y lo cierto es que Jarvis Cocker tiene una cara super interesante. Y además nos pasamos toda la semana pasada deambulando por Londres y Brighton, lo que fue absolutamente genial y maravilloso. Así que podríamos decir que todos los astros se alinearon y pensé que sería una buena idea hacer un retrato de Jarvis. Helo aquí!

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I forgot to post this CHOW I did a few weeks ago. I fought a lot with it and I’m still not entirely happy with how it turned out in the end but I guess it’s not all that bad
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Me olvidé de subir este CHOW que hice hace un par de semanas. Luché muchísimo con esta ilus, y la verdad no estoy del todo conforme con los cambios que fui haciendo y con el resultados, pero bueno supongo que podría ser peor

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This is something I did recently just to try a new approach. I also was in the mood for drawing animals, they’re so much fun

I’m including the final sketch too, I’m usually not so fond of showing my sketches (although this one is not so bad compared to my usual ones ) but I gotta shake that bad habit off so there you go

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Acá va algo que hice recientemente para probar un método nuevo, y porque tenía ganas de dibujar animaletes que es muy entretenido

Incluyo esta vuelta también el boceto, aunque generalemente soy medio reacia a mostrarlos (aunque este honestamente no está tan mal comparado con los que normalmente hago ) creo que es un mal hábito que debo superar, así que ahí va

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Heya! Sorry for the lack of updates recently. This has been one hectic month! I’ll try to keep this up to date a bit more from now on. Yes I know… I always say the same One days it’s gonna be the truth!

Anyways, here’s something I did this past weekend for Conceptart’s CHoW (Character of the Week), topic was Puss in Boots. I included the WIPs as well , since they’re a requirement for the activity and they’re always cool to share.

In any case, I figured this cat here was a nice guy, not a self-centered bully like the one in the original story. This particular feline, he probably just got these cool cowboy boots to boost his self-confidence a bit, and he’s gonna start looking for jobs to support his poor owner, whose dad just died and left him nothing, and who clearly doesn’t have any useful skills. So there you go!

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Jelou! Perdón por la falta de constancia con este blog, este último mes ha sido realmente movido, trataré de mantenerlo al día de ahora en más. Ya sé, siempre digo lo mismo, pero uno de estos días va a ser cierto, ya van a ver!!

En fin, acá pongo una cosilla que hice este finde para el CHoW de Conceptart (o Personaje de la Semana), el tema era Gato con Botas, y les pongo también el proceso, que lo armé porque era un requerimiento de la actividad en realidad, pero siempre está bueno verlo.

Respecto del personaje, yo me imaginé que este gato no era un arrogante autoritario como el del cuento, sino un pobre tipo con poca autoestima que se compró unas botas de cowboy copadas para darse ánimos, porque dado que su dueño es un huérfano sin un mango que parece además ser un inhábil total, seguro que el pobre felino se tiene que poner a buscar laburo en cualquier momento. Así que acá está

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Hey there! For this Christmas I wanted to paint Vic a present, and why the heck not, share my process with you all.

After passing my sketchbook on to Vic so she could choose a doodle to get things started (yup, I’m not only cheap but also unimaginative) she pointed out this one:

I used it as a starting point and came up with the following sketch, about A6 in size. I love composing with big shapes, so the idea behind working so small is that I can really focus in the shapes, curves, overlapping and composition without getting lost in the details:

I knew from the beginning that I was going to paint this one with gouache, so doing a color key was a must. Gouache is one tricky medium, specially in the color department, so it’s better to know clearly where you want to go with it beforehand. I slapped some colors in a new multiply layer on top of my drawing:

I then enlarged the sketch in photoshop so it fits an A4 and printed it. I taped it to my lightbox and taped a white piece of paper over it (some really basic 300gm paper I think, it’s actually called Basik). Having the sketch below allows me to work directly with paint without having to somehow transfer it to the final surface, so it’s a kinda nifty trick. I turned the lightbox on whenever I needed to see my lines. I worked basically flat, no rendering or soft edges, some drybrushing here and there but nothing fancy, just kept my color key as a rough reference in my computer’s monitor. Here’s the result:

Here it is with some added photoshoppery and a detail just for funsies (click to enlarge):

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