Tryng to Move On (WIP + Finished)

Hello again!

I wanted to bring this to you, so you can see how I looked the past 2 weeks

while I was moving on xD

First of all, I don't have as many photos as the others WIP, but I

believe that these three are enough for what I want to explain...

Do you know that expression that sometimes mistakes give opportunities to great

discoveries, well, this big brown stain on my drawing is the proof of it, but let's go step by step, shall we?

First I Traced a previous Sketch on a watercolor paper and stained with a sponge the whole paper with brown, then (I most say this was the first time I actually made something seriously on gouache) I started painting, that dark brown "teddybear" was the first thing I did, I regret it as soon as I did it, but the it became a wonderful funny add to the final painting...

 

I made a very watery gouache, since this was my first time, but the figure of the teddybear, gave me Literally headache, no joke, was a total pain in the eyes... 

 Here, as you can see, disappeared, my teacher had the most fantastic Idea, cover it till' we could decide properly how to fix it, So I continued painting, adding lights and shadows to the composition.

When I got almost everything done, my teacher came again and said: "I would just tear that brown thing"

Magic Words were those, thus 'that' we did, then everything made sense, it was the right color,

the right place, the right amount and of course, the right time...

Now you can see why...

After that I just added some graphite on some places.

Hope you like this as much as I did!! =D

P.D.: The original from this one probably will be posted on the "Salón del Cómic" at Barcelona

on my school Stand, "Escola Llotja", so if you want to see it on live, go and check out some other great Illustrations from my classmates =)

See you!!!

Fast-Painting

A while ago I made a fast-painting, 

it was a pretty nice thing to try, but I must say, doing it on traditional media

is quite a journey, you just don't put whatever you want wherever you want.

 I made this first one with a Watercolor base and then used Gouache to create the more thick and opaque parts, almost all the strokes were made with an sponge to get that texture, at the end I just didn't use much water so I could make drier strokes.

Then we have this one, I made it on Painter, first time I used this program, I couldn't get 

the same feeling as in the traditional, but as a first touch this was pretty nice, I made it on  half hour more  or less, I can't wait to get a new computer to test more this program, even though it's more complicated than Photoshop you get other interesting results =D

In case I get the chance, I'll bring you more speed paintings and stuff made with Painter.

Hope you liked it

See You!!

Being Creative

Hello people, I'll have to apologize, 

this weekend I won't be able to bring you

  the Sketch Corner section, I've been full of work the whole week, 

instead, I bring you this sketches I made on class =D

The Idea was to take the pose of the model and basically create a different version

just using his body position as a reference, we had 20 min between poses to observe and draw it.

These are my weird creations, I used watercolor, color pencil and graphite

Enjoy!!! =D

Hope u liked it!

See you next weekend (After Apocalypse) with the Skecth Corner!!

Have a nice end of the world!! =D

Mr. Kneeless

People!!

Here I introduce you Mr. Kneeless, This is the story of how we met...

Enjoy!!

Di END! =D

Hahaha, was kinda funny looking at this again =)

Well, I guess u want an explanation about what's this, don't you?

Last year on Photography class we had to make a story with 10 photographs. As I'm 

ugly as hell, the option of Me being the main character of the story was totally discarded, so, as

I'm studying Illustration, making a character was a very good idea.

I saw a lot of people doing this kind of interaction with paper characters, so I wanted to give

it a try, and this was the result =D

Mr. Kneeless and the background were made with watercolor and a black pen on a 370gr watercolor paper. I made the photos with a PENTAX camera and then added some final touches with Photoshop.

Hope you enjoyed and laughed as much as I did!

See you guys!! =O 

Watercolor WIP of a Post-Apocalyptic Illustration

HI!

I decided to bring you this "work in progress" of a Watercolor I made last year, I have other two WIP's that i'll be posting for the next week, in each one (including this) I'll explain step by step, helping  with some pics, the process I went through =)

Hope u like it!

For this illustration I was thinking on a Post-Apocalyptic scene, so, I took as a refference the game I AM ALIVE, a short game set on this ambience I wanted to create. Saw some concept art and also played the Demo for PS3.

So, after I got all the refferences needed I did this sketch:

Some collapsed buildings and this character risking his life 

in the middle of the composition...

So, I started painting, first layer to know colors and position of 

every object and get rid off all those white spaces...

 At the same time I started to try to control the perspective 

and the change of planes...

 In here I already had all the objects with its respective color 

so I coul start focusing just on the change of planes and the little details, 

like reflections and some pipes and cables that are hanging...

  To bring some of the building to the foregound I added some shadows and darker colors

 was pretty difficult cuz it's a backlighting scene and almost everything should be dark...

 Then sended to the background the brown 

building at the right by taking out some pigment and Finally I added a very 

watery ocher to the whole composition...

And this is the final Result =)

Everything made on a 23x16,5cm Fine grained watercolor paper of 370gr

If you have any question about the process, don't hesitate to asking =D

Hope u Liked it! 

Watercolor

This was the last illustration we had to do last year. Our Teacher

gave us this illustration from a kid book: 

The Idea was to change the composition, make it a little bit more dinamic, we

had to change the typography too, so it could add movement to the scene, and, of course,

add some color...

We also had the chance to 

edit a little bit the text so we could work better, but never loosing the sense of it.

The text reads:

There is a wind of freedom, hard to control in this beginning of the year. 

The kids are really excited and the girls do not stop chatting.

The wind has been blowing hard and pushes the four leaves that are firm on the trees. 

From the window, Bibi feels them hitting the crystals...

This was my result =)

Hope u enjoy it as i did making it!!

see you next time! =)