Illustration for "The children´s book of american birds" magazine
I´ve been messing with my colour pencils and my moleskine again...
Hi! I promised to be back soon, so... here I am.
This is my latest illustration, once again experimenting with digital painting.
It is fun to do works like this but I dont feel like I´m gonna start to make only this sort of things. This was fun but now I´m gonna go back to my normal style.
1- the lines:
2- big colour zones:
3- a few shadows:
4- the face and hair:
5- light work and background:
6- Fully detailed:
A quick coloring for this quick sketch... Maybe I will recolour it for fun...
A few sketches I´ve been doing lately.
I´m in a sort of a "break" from work because of stress troubles. I´m sorry for this lapse with no illustrations. I´ll soon be back at work, I promise.
Yesterday Corcoise and I stumbled upon the Madrid'd book fair during one of our walks. Among all the stands of old books I found this little jewels:
First, 2 books of the Very-very-hard-to-find spanish edition of the adventures of Moomintroll by Tove Jansson. I truely adore theese books since i was ten and I found an edition of "Moomin at winter" in my school library. Since then I´ve never had the chance to read another one until yesterday :)
Secondly, we found this french book of "one story a day" with such wonderful wonderful illustrations in it. I was only 3 € so it was a very lucky discovering. As you see the cover isn´t much great...
But when you open it...
There are hundreds of ispirating illustrations on it from 6 different illustrators: Porter G, Hilda Offen, Esme Eve, Alain Jesset, Richard Hooke and Pradera... Now I´m "google-ing" them to know more about them...
I also found the boock that neil Gaiman wrote in collaboration with my beloved terry pratchett "Good Omens", an hillarant novel about the end of the world. Now I´ve got a huge pile of readings over my table :)
PS:Sorry for this "non-illustrations" period, I´m taking a little break from stress troubles and having time to take care of myself.
I´m not used to do this sort of illustrations. but this time I wanted to challenge myself to see if I was capable to do something different. I´ve enjoyed a lot the experience :)
With no time to breath between posts, I´d like to introduce you the new and better version of "A can full of secrets". The reason? Im going to take part in an illustration contest and I felt it was very unperfect for a contest. Also, I had to translate it to spanish so the jury can understand the subject...
I really feel it is much better now. I post the old version too so you can compare and judge by yourselves.
PS:I´m really ashamed of the old version now...
I´m very happy to announce my participation with an interview in the site "The Tools Artists Use". A really interesting web/weblog full of interviews with worldwide artists and illustrators around the technics, tools and methods they use in their works.
I want to thank the webmaster and creator Bill Turner for this invitation.
Take a look because it really worths it!
Or the 80cm of table I call study.
I´d love to have a real study so I´d never need to clean the mess after every session.
Picture taken by Corcoise while I was working on the "will you stay?" painting a few months ago.
To celebratethe 100th post in the Sailing Sailing blog, another "stage by stage" of the painting I've finished today. It is made with acryllics and colour pencils on wood.
1- The lines and first plain colours.
2-Shadows and volumes in the figure with acryllics (for the clothes) and colour pencils (for the skin, hair and bird). Sorry for the quality, this one is a camera pic...
3- The final results with hand made patterns and all the details.
And a few close ups (from a non finished stage)...
Thank you to all the people who reads and follows this blog. Your visits and comments really make my day :).
I wont keep your secrets.
number 3 of the second series of random thoughts
This is my latest work stage by stage...
(Click on the images to see them larger)
1- The lines
2-Plain colours
3- Few details in the figure
4- Full detailled with backgrounds and adjustments
Finally I´ve finished my own web. It has been a long process because I did it by myself in my free times.
www.poorsailor.es
I want to give special thanks to Corcoise, for his patience, and to Barbarella chu and Pakitroki for supervising my "tarzan-ish" english.
as seen on Wikipedia:
Mono no aware (物の哀れ, lit. "the pathos of things"), also translated as "an empathy toward things," or "a sensitivity of ephemera," is a Japanese term used to describe the awareness of mujo or the transience of things and a bittersweet sadness at their passing.Finally i had time to finish it. Now it´s time to print this and the other two last paintings and send them to an illustration contest. I will need a lot of luck, because my style never fit the taste of the contest panel of judges. To be honest, I never win anything.
New painting on process. This one and the last two ("stay" and"heart lighter than feathers") are going to an illustration contest. I need all the luck I can get.
Also, the calendar downloads limit was reached a week ago, but it´s now that I have noticed :-S. I´m sorry if you try to get it and cant.
I have to say that finally the limit was 200 downloads, not 100 as I first said, so, yeah, it has been so popular. Thanks to all, I hope you enjoy it!!!
My latest illustration. Inspired by this short and strong poem by Gwendolyn Brooks:
THE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
