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

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

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

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