These last few weeks have been full of happenings and they are still coming. In January I went back to London to work on a pitch for Lobo after a bit more than a year that I left the city.
The travel was a mixed bag... It was good to walk on those old streets again, seeing friends and eating duck wraps, on the other hand I got sick resulting in some sleepless nights (maybe the inverse?) and had a weird nostalgic feeling for the days I lived there, even if London is though sometimes, It got things to offer and I should've taken more out of it, forgetting the fear of big mistakes... BUT, what is gone, is gone.
A work in progress, in the initial painting stages now.
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Elephantman
Pencil on 200gr watercolor paper
20x25cm
This other guy I painted about one year ago and came across him today while browsing some old folders. He still doesn't seem to have come over his mid-age crisis.
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Escorpiao
Pencil and Corel Painter IX
I hope everyone have a peaceful and happy new year. -
So, yeah, I didn't die but a lot of things (some bad, some good and some were even excellent) happened that took me away from updating this, for you people that check this site on a regular basis (and care about it) that might have been annoying, really sorry about that... to make it easier for you, the blog now has a RSS feed so you know when it's updated.
Enough excuses and some art for a change. One of the loads of projects I am currently working on is a whole album packaging, including multiple illustrations, designing typefaces/logo and planning the whole printing scheme. I am really excited about it. The band is called Labirinto, they are from here, São Paulo and play really good post-rock. The album will be called "Anátema".
When I was younger after my superheroes phase all I did were fantasy drawings. I was inspired by great movies like Dark Crystal and The Neverending Story.
Since the last couple years I have loads of ideas about tales that I would like to realize in some kind of media but I always stop during development. Writing a good, subtle and original story is a million times harder than drawing.
The following picture is a character study for a Story called the "Red River" thats is somewhere under my bed, maybe one day it'll come to light.
Anybody that tries to do something related to visual arts is often advised to take life drawing classes. It's a great exercise to evolve our perceptions using a subject that has the deepest of unconscient abstractions in our minds wich is the human body. While looking at it and trying to capture the essence of a pose, those abstractions and vices start to fade away and new doors are open.
There's a lot of talk about processes and techniques for life drawing (and other things) but none is superior to another, they are all there to be studied and acknowledged but drawing and it's mother, art, are not exact sciences, everybody is different and acts likewise, so, go on and search your way.
Hey there, nothing much this time. I started doodling some vikings bums a few weeks ago and during this last sunday afternoon I decided to throw some ink on it. I wish I could work constantly with traditional media, the process is so much more fun and risky. The result itself is kinda stiff and boring but it works as a mood and character study.
I got a Robert Mcginnis book this week, he's such an inspiration. His pieces are strongly connected to (and smell like) the 60's/70's, dictating the style of an era. You can hear the echoes of his work in pretty much every artist that tries to make retro looking illustration nowadays.
What is "better", to make timeless art or something like Mcginnis does? Well, maybe the 2000's with it's colored lights and photoshop filters visuals are not as appealling as the past but it may have something interesting deep there, so let's dig... until they create a time machine.
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Partyzan Girl #5
Pencils on 180g Canson, Photoshop.
More girls, more parkas.
Hello peeps, hope you are all doing well. Long time no see, two pics it needs to be.
During the past weeks I wasn't able to update the site, my time is extremely rare and when I have some I'd rather rest to keep my braincells alive. Full-time job is getting harder and harder but at least I am working on a cool project for a series/movie that will come out soon here in Brazil and probably will reach Europe beaches as well (I'll write more about it in the future).
Oh, Souvlaki is one year old, time for a little change.
I am (well, was) restrict about letters here because I wanted it to be a visual diary kinda thing but, as it became more and more public, I need to respect the fact that people want to know more about who and what process is behind this.
Don't worry, I am not gonna start to talk about stupid and normal issues that happen in my life as if it was something special, like most of the blogs and other internet critters out there but I will try to be more descriptive about my inspirations, motivations and thoughts about what I do... also, more of my "commercial" work will be present.
Hopefully, it will be better.
Ps.: Thanks to Drawn.ca for the link last week, It's a true pleasure to be featured on such a nice resource site.
I am really sorry for the lack of answers/updates but these days I am extremely busy with my fulltime work and a ultra short comic for the second issue of the anthology created by Ivan Brandon called 24 Seven wich is published by Image (I think).
The rules for the book are that the story needs to have only robots and the scenario is NY, wich sounds simple but is kinda complicated and it's even worse when you have 2 pages like me and no comic related experience at all... but I got a simple idea that can work (maybe).
Well, that's it for now and here's a character sketch for this side project:
Hi visitor from outer space, I colored this old sketch this morning for fun. It's a pirate (yes, uber creativity...).
Im in a happy mood this week, I was informed that the picture from the last post won a silver award and that the gouache painting with the flying pigs got a gold for the next Spectrum book! I didn't even got angry when I stepped on some dog crap that day.
I worked on a tutorial about texture usage and whatnot for the latest issue of ImagineFX (15), if you are in UK any WH Smith's sells the magazine. Here's the final image.
Did some comic fan art today in around 3 hours or so, quite relaxing.
On a side note, you may want to check out Rafael Grampá´s blog with info about his upcoming comic book and other stuff, great lines and a striking poster: http://furrywater.wordpress.com/
I did this in maybe 2 hours, it was supposed to be Johnny Cash but I didn´t want to search for reference and it doesn´t look like him at all... so he became Tentacles Cash.
more gouacheness + a pic of my workplace, it's tiny but i feel extremely confortable there, it's the same table I use since i was a kid, you can even see a 1989 calendar there.
