I made a small video with the two clips I asked Yami to take while we were coming back from our weekend at Mar de las Pampas. The clips were intended for passingby.net (and you can see them there by looking right!) but just a couple of hours earlier I had the idea it might be nice to put those together with some music and quick sketching about the trip itself. So I looked and found CamStudio and used it while I played with Photoshop and the Wacom. The music is CC licensed and I got it from Magnatune, both songs are by Arthur Yoria from his album Handshake Smiles.

Labels: life, photoshop, vacations, video, wacom

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

She feels the breeze and stops.
The first chill dries her moist soily hands, slowly.
Warmth rises from the ground through her legs, balancing it all.
She has the whispering voice of any wet dream, but remains silent.
Until I sleep.


Single pencil drawing, A4 size. Scanned and painted in Photoshop CS3 with Wacom Graphire4, a Raphael's painting as color reference, standard round brush only. (+/- size, opacity, and flow)
Why Maria? She looks latin, nice, and it's generic enough. Also has a religious connotation because of the pose and the palette which reminds of renacentist artwork. Why Calas? Because of Maria Callas, and calas, of course. Am I smart or what?

This print is available for purchase at the store.

Labels: drawings, pencil, photoshop, wacom

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