When I reach home, I take off my shoes, and the summer heat briefly goes away, as pushed away by the cool inner breeze that comes from the floor's tiles. My feet breath, and little birds of joy come to greet me.

_{Ink and watercolors. Levels and cleaning in PS.}

Labels: illustrations, ink, watercolor

Leandro thinks he can do it. He still doesn't know he can.

Labels: illustrations, ink, linkage, watercolor

Two days ago my sister asked me to do some new tags or label to use on the Christmas' gifts under our tree. This is what came out:

I draw the little fellow with Rotring pens, and the curls with a soft grey marker. I left the place for the name of the lucky recipient of the gift blank to write it after printing. I scanned and painted the whole thing on Photoshop. Then I thought it would be nice to make a more internationalized version to put it on the web so a bit of Wacom writing did the trick:

Then I went even further and made an A4 sized Acrobat PDF with several of these labels packed together for easy printing and cutting. I guess you could even print them over sticker paper and make it extra easy. Ruler and cutter and transparent wide tape will do the trick for me. You can download the file here.

Happy holidays and gift making for us all!

Labels: illustrations, photoshop, resources, rotring

Inspired by recent editorial illustrations I've seen, and tried to make more of that abstracty style that works so well on magazines. Also inspired by the sometimes overwhelming amount of feed items to read on my reader and the whole concept behind rss and content syndication.
I think this is the kind of stock illustration I should do more often to enlarge my portfolio. What do you think?

Labels: illustrations, photoshop, wacom

Let me blow off the dust on your skin,
so you can breath again.
Let me blow away the doubts on your way,
so you can see my footprints beside.
Let me blow out the cold in your feet,
so you can warm mine.
Let me blow up myself,
so you can join me again, pretty lady.

Labels: illustrations, moleskine, rotring

The feeling that chance, luck, fortune, or better said, opportunity is behind us may strike us more than once. Hopefully not often, but that deep low humming behind our backs can be hear sometimes. Some people try desperately to be ready for the moment opportunity knocks on your door. They stand eager and crouching, with a tighten contained running behaviour, ready to be unleashed and to prove themselves worthy of that opportunity. That is a hard wait. Some people take an even harder path, they turn their backs to external fortune, they start walking on a dark endless room, filled with random windows filled with striking bright light, each one a different color, and they start to stumble, each step a bit deeper, each foot a foot further away from the help of others, but also statiscally closer to find one of those windows. I think there are a good number of those people here in the internet. Those are the persons who create.

Good luck!

I start this one on Painter because it was so long since I tried something there that I thought it was going to be fun, and it was, but kudos to the people at Corel, the thing is too realistic and I'm a mess. I ended it on Photoshop, my usual weapon of choice, but I like the texture it kept from the brush tool in Painter, it must look really nice printed on canvas.

Labels: illustrations, shop, wacom

As Fingo walked through the park, stepping on dried wet leaves that crunched like moist crackers from yesterday, raindrops slowed down, ceasing to descend. Silence covered all things like a damp thick blanket, and then he noticed a warm glow growing, his umbrella humming low. That's when he realized...

Oh the mystery. Made this afternoon from scratch with the Graphire4 and Photoshop CS2. I used one texture I got from dA's stock gallery to emphasize the canvas look. You can even get this printed on real canvas and it should look awesomely canvassy. Wanted to improvise a bit without following the usual draw-scan-paint workflow. Made for this month's topic at the children's illustrators group at dA.

Labels: illustrations, shop, wacom

I've been working for the past week on graphics for a great theater play it's going to premiere next tuesday night here in Buenos Aires. It's called Lisístrata Unplugged as it's based on classical Aristophanes' comic play Lysistrata, but with a musical touch to it (and some hilarious bits). It's presented by the group Los Valijeros, and I I previously known some of them, they did the right thing and hired me to illustrate stuff. Here's some other material, a promotional light animated GIF for mailing:

It's in spanish, but the basic idea is that to stop the war, greek women decided to shelter on the parthenon and refuse to have sex with their husbands until they stop fighting. Needless to say the whole thing is very funny. So if you happen to be around Buenos Aires for some teather night, check it out.

Labels: illustrations, work

The children illustrators group at deviantART have an assigment this month called "cup of tea". I made this drawing on the Moleskine sketchbook I bought in the Art Gallery of NSW with my trusty black birome:

Then after a bit of scanning and photoshoppin' with the wacom it ended up looking like this:

You can click on it and see it bigger at dA, this is what I wrote about it:

For those couples out there that sometimes feel everybody else is not their cup of tea.
For those who managed to get their own cup of tea to be happy in.
For those who chosed having less room and more hugs.

Labels: birome, da, illustrations, moleskine, sketches, wacom