New BLOG!

New Blog Thing GUYS!!

I guess being sorry doesn't work around here anymore, so I'm Moving on to this new Blog =D

I'm trying to be more active on the comunity, but beig at home with my family sometimes makes me very lazy, that's why I'm taking a new path to solve this lazy thing...

As I had some unsolved problems with this blog's templates (It doesn't friggin' WORK!!) I decided to give a new face to my presentation here on the internet by creating a new one, I'll put a link on the main bar so you don't get lost, and also a link to this one on the new blog so I don't lose the posts I made here =B

Also I take the oportunity to Thank you guys, I've been receiving a lot of views even though I haven't posted a living thing for the longest time, and also tell you that I would like to have a little more of feedback from you by making some commisions or contests =D

Well, here you have the link to the new Blog

See You There!!

 The Gus' Art

Expo-Photos!!!

Hey Guys!

The Exposition went GREAT!!! =D

Thanks a lot to all those who went or still going, since it'll be open 'till September, more or less.

We are very happy with this first experience, and also we've learned a lot from this.

In case you're not able to go and check it out, here are some photos taken the opening day

Enjoy!! =D

 Here we are from left to right Diana, Hakima, Me and David

 The entrance to the shop (Kamaleonika)

 My Mom's friends from work from left to right (Eva, my Mom, Mariano and Eva)

I also take a chance to tell you an update I've made on the blog. Since I got a DeviantART

account, I have some drawings there you can actually buy in many different ways. I added this "Shop" button so you can go and check it out =)

I'll be uploading some new Illustrations there, so if you want, you can buy them, and alongside I'll be putting in this blog the process for some of those same drawings, with some extra sketches to explain a little bit how I work =)

See you guys!!

EXPO TIME!!

HELLO GUYS!!!!! =D

After EONS (almost), of no posting anything, but ANYTHING! at all

I'm back, so you can punch me in the face anytime you want for abandoning you =)

BUT!, before you do me a facial surgery with your fists, I want to invite you all

(that means all the people that might be near Barcelona or IN Barcelona) to my first

EXPO!!! YEAAH!!

This is a collab-expo with my classmates and also very good friends of mine, Diana Francitorra, David Fernández and Hakima El Kaddouri, all of them very professionals and also very talented.

You'll see lots of very good illustrations and you'll also be able to buy some reproductions 

we made, but in case u don't find an specific one just ask us if you go and see the expo!! =D

The name of the expo is "Leaving the Locker", we named it like that, since we all are leaving

this common life we had of putting everything we had inside the lockers at school, and also the schedules, classes and everything that meant that routine of going to school.

We're now a step from our title of illustrators, even though we have done something in the professional  world already, we want to celebrate all the artistic knowledge and skills we've gathered on school and show it to the world! xD

So I hope to see you there, even though I barely know anyone who sees this blog xD

Here you have our Poster, every face is a self-portrait, I put them together on Ps and the rest was also made digitally.

We'll open this Friday July 12th at 18:00 in El Guinardó, Cartagena St. 318. BCN

You can take the Metro service, Line 5, it's the dark-blue one and arrive to Sant Pau / Dos de Maig, so you'll be closer xD

Here I also leave you my fellas' Blogs, so you can check them out too =)

Diana Francitorra

David Fernández

Hakima El Kaddouri

You can also check out the store where we're doing this, they sell amazing handmade stuff:

Kamaleonika

Well guys, may this post be the first of many on this month.

I really hope to keep up the rhythm this time and start posting everything I've been working on this time =)

All said, you now can proceed with the face-punching

See you soon!!!! =D  

Petshopmania - Shops around the World

Finally Guys!!

After several months working along with a very talented crew,Petshopmania, the game were my classmate Marina Vidal and myself made all the illustrations, has been released!!! =D

It's a very addictive and challenging game, I must say that I enjoyed looking and being part of the process of creating a game, was a wonderful experience throughout these months, were not only I saw and realize how much work this takes to be done, even being a small game, but I could also see, along with my classmate, that as illustrators, this kind of challenges makes us better, at least that's what I can tell from the firsts ideas and sketches we had.

As the game goes through pet shops around the world, I was requested to make the backgrounds for each of them, while my classmate was asked to make the animals that were inside.

And here I introduce you all the pet shops backgrounds I made for the game =)

African Pet Shop

Chinese Pet Shop

Poles Pet Shop

Indian Pet Shop

Martian Pet Shop

Sea Pet Shop

Throughout the development we were also asked to make other ilustrations for the game, for example, I made the background for the main menu, but I also used the animals Marina made previously; the slide menu were you choose the worlds were something that I made too using backgrounds and animals made previously; also the inside of every shop was drawn by me, and the shop were you can buy coins and stuff was made by Marina.

Obviously this was a team work, the developers and designers made a fantastic job giving life  to this nice game, so I basically give all my thanks to them who did and still doing a great work =D

If you think I'm fooling you, try Petshopmania yourself, and you'll see that I'm no joking, for the apple users the game will come out in less than a week I guess, I'll post the link here as soon as  possible =D 

And here you have the page of Marina Vidal Illustrations, so you can see some of her work too =)

Well guys, see you soon and 

expect some Sketch Corner for the end of the week!

Byeee!! =D

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!!!

Sketch Corner 16

Hi Guys!

I'm so sorry for the delay, I've been moving on the past 2 weeks and my internet

connection right now sucks, so, today I'll bring you not 6, or 7 pages, but 100!! pages =D

I'm just kidding haha...   Please don't kill me D=  

Here you have 8 pages =)

Enjoy!!

Here are some random sketches, trying to use more the blue pencil...

More Sketches for TED by Tony DiTerlizzi

Another Sketch for TED xD

This was a class stuff, the thing is there had to be a repetition and then 
a sudden change you could see from very far...

Some random sketches and the Mite from Ni No Kuni xD

Getting bored in the train back home, so I made this Bully-face guy
and that weird looking Alien[?]

Testing some poses inspired by some epic songs I use to hear xD

And finally this masked guy and some sketches on the right for the
Under the Dome's class-project I'm working on =)

I gotta say I wont be uploading weekly as I use to, due to my problem with the internet xD
but don't worry, I'll be working on new stuff, and as soon as I get a better connection
I hope that I can upload things more often...

So, see you next time!!

Fast-Painting 2

Hi Guys!

Since I've been doing some of this fast-painting, I guess I can make a some kind of 

series if this gets enough love =D

These were made with Corel Painter 11 in less than 3 hours, finally I got the

chance to test better the program and see how it's like.

These are based on Under the Dome novel by Stephen King, if you had read it, you might know

what's going on xD

Enjoy!!