2012

Happy 2012, guys!

All the best in the new year.

Handless Maiden Part 2

Here is the second page of the Handless Maiden story I planned on illustrating a few months ago. I'm not going in order. I'm just illustrating the scenes I find most visually stimulating for the purpose of this exercise. I decided to play with type too for a bit, nothing too fancy. Here's also the preliminary sketch for those who like to see process shots:

There's something I realized about my process while working on this, and that is that the generation of ideas does not end at sketching. Maybe it's because I'm sort of anxious to start working on the final already. There are a lot of ideas that come to mind while I am actually working on the image; in this case, the black feathers and the light coming from the back, which are key elements to the solution of the illustration, I think. 

I'm planning on illustrating more pages this month and the next.

 Hope you are doing great, peeps.

Stay cool.

O u O

Red

Trying to incorporate a bit more of design in my pictures.

Arcano

Here's a piece I did for Week Me Up. It's a project super talented illustrator Julian Totino Tedesco invited me to be a part of. The blog was started by him and two of his very talented friends Juan Manuel Tumburús and Sebastián Giacobino It's updated every Tuesday and features work by all of us, based on a word or theme. This week's theme was "Arcane". 

It's really great being a part of a collective of people that love illustrating. I'm really excited about it.

Thanks for passing by!

P.S. I've also updated my collab blog with Jean S&E and VanitasDaily too.

Sketches

Here are a few sketches I've done these days. Mostly studies or just random stuff.

Sometimes we take practice too seriously

This started as a practice and then I got a bit carried away.

Something a bit more illustrative and happy, no concepts here. This one was completely done in PS. I'm experimenting with different process approaches. Trying to find something a bit more clean, fast and effective...We'll see where this goes.

Hope you guys are doing great!

Some pages from the sketchbook

These are some really quick doodles I did on post-its during a power outage we had thanks to Irene:

This is an experiment/weird thing:

Playing with ideas/design a bit:

Exciting things are happening around here...but I'll tell you guys later.

Hope you are all doing fine and thanks for the support, as always :)

New Fashion Blog

Hey guys! I started a new blog at tumblr with fashion sketches made by yours truly. I'm not a fashion eminence but I really enjoy it, especially when it's drawn. I've been seeing a few blogs around dedicated to this for a while now and  found them so inspiring I decided to do one too. It's also a great incentive to draw everyday. Some of these designs are mine(I'll state so when it happens) and others are inspired in fashion pics (old ones most likely). I'm enjoying doing this as I haven't enjoyed anything in a while. Hope you enjoy it along with me! 

Heres the link: http://vanitasdaily.tumblr.com/

Have a good one :)

Here's the last cover I did for Plan B. I had never worked with this lighting and it was quite the experience. Learned a lot.

As always, a great thing working with Joshua. He's very respectful of the artists craft and judgement. Hope all employers were this good.

You might be asking:

"Hey, Ericka that rabbit is dead. Does he have something against cute-looking rodents? To which I willl reply:  "You'll have to read the comic to find out."

OooOOooo! Mysterious!

I know, right?

Go read!

planbwebcomic.com

Have a good one, guys :)

P.S. Remember I'm selling prints. 

Now offering prints

Yes, that is right! I'm finally selling prints of my work. Here you can see a few samples of the format and quality:

They are matte gallery-quality giclée prints on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks. I was pretty impressed the first time  I saw them. Colors are just as you see them on screen or incredibly close. If you are interested, here is a link to the SHOP. Also, I still have to upload more pieces to offer, if there's one you particularly want, let me know!

Have a good one, guys!

Hello there. This is the cover of a Grimm's tale I'm planning on illustrating. It's called "The handless maiden" or "The girl without hands", whichever you prefer. You should read it if you haven't, it's full of what-the-heck-really moments. Though this is not my fav by the G Bros, I think it has pretty interesting imagery and I've hardly seen it illustrated so I thought it was good not having preconceived images in my mind, as one would have with...say, Red Riding Hood. I will be working on this over the course of the year so expect pages popping around occasionally. :)

I have a few commissions ahead of me this month, including our beloved Plan B cover so expect that soon. Hope you guys are doing good.

Anything interesting going on your side of town?

Little sculpture I did yesterday. Started it at work , finished it at home.
This is probably my 4th or 5th time sculpting and it keeps feeling better and better. I lose track of time.

In other news: New actual illustrative work is on it's way. I've got a few commissions going on this month and also a pretty exciting project I will talk to you guys about later! Keep your eyes opened!

O_O

Starter

Long time no see. Here is a sketch I did a few weeks ago and to which I decided to quickly apply some color. Man, I felt weird using my tablet again.

In other news: I'm happy. So so very very happy.

Oh, and for those of you who didn't know, Jean and I have a new blog now. There's not much in there yet, but stayed tuned if you wish. We don't know what we'll do with it, but that's just part of the fun.

That's about it. Have a good one, guys.

Sketch time with Miss Ericka

Here are some random old sketches. If you follow me on twitter you might have already seen most of these.

I do hope to post something finished soon. From having no job at all, I now have two so... please bear with me while I get used to it. It's been a time of change and lots of adjustments but it has been great, I can't complain. Hopefully it will be the start of a bunch of other awesome things to come.

And since it seems I post once a month now: I wish you all a great month.

Thanks for always stopping by. :)

Ghostown

This was a gift for the ridiculously talented Jean Fhilippe because he blew my mind with all his ideas for this amazing story he is currently working on. I felt so inspired by it all, that I started playing with a picture I had in mind after reading the first few paragraphs of the story. Seriously guys, this man is just too much, when you get to know the details it sounds like some sort of epic thing Miyazaki would have come up with. When he finishes it, I'll try to convince him to get it published. In the meantime, enjoy the fan art.

And be sure to check out his blog soon cause there will be some nice sketches based on the story, plus some other goodies.

Hope the new year is treating you well!

Plan B Chapter 4

Another image for the web-comic Plan B. Check it out!

Hope you had a great New Year's. I had a blast in mine, lots of laughter, fun and food.

Happy Holidays!!

"OoOOoooOOOoOoooo!!!"

Hope you have a great Christmas and New Year!

See you in 2011.

The collab between us

Here it is! Finally.

Here's the list of items you guys asked for:

-Atari 2600 Joystick (this one's not too obvious)

-Fedora hat

-Adonis (looks kinda like a woman but look again!)

-Grand Piano (looks more like a mini grand piano)

-Narwhals

-Whistle

-Banjo

-Japanese mask (s, haha)

-Puffer fish

-Old washing machine (had a hard time figuring how to incorporate this one)

-Rubber duckie

-Peacock

-Pirate

-Stinkbug

-Bubbles (yes, what an obvious place to put them)

-Dragonfly

-Samus armor

-Underwater (later changed to Robot via personal message)

-Cubes of light

-Durians

-Bacon

-Windup bird

It's kind of different from my usual stuff but I just bought my first brush pen and was too excited to try it. Still am. Btw, excuse my perfect pulse...ha...

Coloring was completely inspired by Eduardo Medeiro's comic work. So wonderful. Check it out! Though it is in portuguese...but then again, who needs to understand language to appreciate a good image?

I never paint with flats. It was fun.

Hope you guys have a good week and had fun finding the objects.

Drawing Dreams

Last month I was asked to share .jpegs of my work with this great non-profit organization in California called Drawing Dreams. This foundation helps provide art supplies to hospitalized children, children's hospitals' Artist-in-Residence and Child Life programs, and other organizations where the need arises. It obviously sounded like a great cause and I had to contribute. A bunch of artist I admire were also included in their gallery so it was a total honor they considered me. Then a few days ago, Derek May -board member of the organization and the one who contacted me in the first place- informed me that my pieces were featured atop of the artists gallery and one of them was also the image of the main artists index page.

Now I have to ask: What did I ever do to deserve that? I simply have no idea, but it was a super surprise and I could not feel more honored and unworthy.

So anyway, go check out their site and if you can, contribute to the wonderful cause.

www.drawingdreams.org

Oh and check out the kids gallery, it is totally mind-blowing!