Banano´s Journal

UPDATE!!!

2011-12-07T01:56:00.007+01:00

Heh, it's been a while again. Is anyone still coming here??

Well, I finally set the time aside for a much needed update to my Portfolio site. There are a lot of jobs I still can't post that I'm really looking forward to showing, but in the meantime,this will do . Check out the skethes section. There might be some stuff there you haven't seen.

Thanks again for popping in everybody!

PS. those who have suffered my "tangent obsession" will easily spot the massive one on this painting!

tease

2011-03-21T16:19:00.003+01:00

Hi!

little tease. new things to come. portfolio/site update soon.

Coca Cola Siege Superbowl Ad

2011-02-23T17:31:00.010+01:00

The last thing I worked has been getting quite a bit of attention. I was lucky enough to be part of the team behind the last Coca Cola Superbowl ad. The ad was directed by FX & Mat (Nexus), Framestore was in charge of all the CGI and the mattepainting work was outsourced to Painting Practice . Together with Justin Atkinson (mattepainting sup. at Painting Practice), I worked on mattepaintings and cg-paintovers. More info here & here.

I´d like to take the chance to thank Justin, everyone at Painting Practice, Fx & Matt, Russel, Diarmid, Tom & Possini. Thank you all!

I worked on the matte for the first shot in the ad. It was a tricky one and getting the final look would have been impossible without Justin, Russel and Diarmid´s work and direction. Head over at to Fx & Mats´s new site to see hi-res stills.

This is my favourite painting from the whole job, I was really "in the zone" while doing it. The 3d base, which came in quite handy, was done by Justin using a combination of models he´d done and assets provided my Framestore. Check out a higher res here. This isn´t finished nor the version that shows up in the ad, but that´s what blogs are for, right?!

We also did some cg overpaints on some of the shots.

This is a painting from the early stages when we were still trying to figure out some things. Didn´t get to finish it ( tree brush! yay! ), but I like where it was going. You´ll see a better res version if you click. I´m starting to hate blogger, publishing is a bit nightmareish... Higher res here

and this is the main temple. Here I only took over adding some detail to render. Higher res here.

Thanks for watching!

lunchtime quickie

2010-12-14T15:36:00.005+01:00

ideas & sketches

2010-12-03T05:51:00.010+01:00

more fun with sculptris

2010-11-15T04:08:00.006+01:00

Some heads done with sculptris ( check previous posts for link). I´m quite enjoying it, although the meshes get quite heavy and i cant really do much with them later.

I was checking out reference on the first one. Gotta learn anatomy once and for all!

bust wip

another head with some doodling on top

trying to understand mia_fast skin shader. Can´t recommend Alex Alvarez´s free tutorials over at Gnomon enough.

Thoughts

2010-11-08T05:16:00.011+01:00

I occasionally used grids and hard edges but just now I´m starting to see how important these two things are. I did a one point perspective grid to use as a shape in photoshop. Download it, save it somewhere and load it up.

Since its a shape, it can be transformed many times without having to worry about quality loss. I find it really helpful although it´s a tricky thing to avoid getting carried away and letting perspective get in the way of creativity or design.

I´ve been thinking a lot about process and purpose lately. I´m finding it quite useful to try to visualize in my head what I want to paint. Making color/palette decisions even before I lay a stroke. And I´m finally understanding, I think, there are several aspects of an image ( composition, mood, color palette, design, story) that I need to pay attention to in the very beginning.

A great idea can be badly rendered and still be great, making a point. And perfectly rendered painting, might be purposeless. I don´t want to find myself again adding detail or fiddling with lighting on a painting when no matter how well I render it, the end result will be bland due to bad design or the lack of a storytelling point.

Soooo, anyway! Here´s a perfect example of what I´m saying. Nice perspective grid, but what now, composition is all wrong. It´s like the hint of a set in a badly composed photograph waiting for actors to show up and do something worth watching.

And here´s another one wip. It was a lot of fun. I really used the pen tool a lot on this one. I´m enjoying to control and "finetuneability". But again, I gotta think more. about scale, composition, design and the list goes on!

So stay tuned for some more paintings were I really really think about what I´m doing. I´m thinking a series of some sort would be a nice and effective way to "tackle" these problems. And I wont avoid characters this time.

Next time, more pics , less words!

sci-fi sketch

2010-11-05T03:45:00.006+01:00

miniupdate:

don´t really know where this is going. Will spend more time on it. Think a bit more about shapes/function/design, add people etc. Thanks Peter for the tips:)

Sculptris

2010-11-04T06:31:00.005+01:00

PS on model from Sculptris. Give it a go, it´s free!

night speedie

2010-11-02T03:42:00.004+01:00

I´m really looking forward to posting some recent freelance work. Until then, speedie.

more stuff

2010-10-13T18:09:00.004+02:00

Harbor matte wip

2010-10-06T20:15:00.007+02:00

One of the many reasons of why I haven´t been posting for a long while was that I really though I wasn´t doing anything "good enough". I´m taking it less seriously now, so here are some process pics o a painting I started but never finished. I was learning a little bit of 3d too.

This is a very quick sketch I did first to get a sense of what I was going to do. I knew I wanted to create some sort of harbor scene with silhouetting (sp?) cranes, some sort of shiny architecture and a some far away hills. I cringe when I look at it now, but hey, that´s that.

I started modelling some elements and playing around with the camera to find a nice compostion.

I did some 3dtests to see how much detail I could create using displacement either from custom maps or even googleearth images. I wasn´t really going for the most efficient workflow but rather trying to learn new things. I knew some elements where going to be up close so I put more work on them. I also though having a semi decent 3d base would give me the chance to render ou different lighting conditions and POVs so that I could create several mattepaintings.

And these are some wip images. I´ll finish/redo this at some point to add into my portfolio.

Snow

2010-10-05T09:12:00.003+02:00

Some quick tests using Geocontrol & Vue with some PS comp. They´re quite fun to use and I think with some work you could some impressive results. I´m still learning both & trying to figure out the best workflow.

hello?

2010-09-30T19:50:00.004+02:00

It´s been quite a while since my last post (can´t believe it´s been over a YEAR). I´m now living in Londinium. I moved here to work on Cartoon Network´s "The Amazing World of Gumball" at Dandelion Studios. I learned a lot from workmates there. The crew was unbelieveably just REALLY good.

And now I´m FREElancing!

One of the last things I did was a background for Passion Pictures last installment of Coca Cola Zero´s Happy Kingdom. I had a very clear direction from the supertalented Lukasz Pazera. I was provided with an approved colorkey, so the process was quite straightforward. I also used the 3d elements they had used. So there was some texture painting, lighting and final painting in PS.

Since the ad is finally out, here´s my part.

Bagckground and some details

thanks to all of those who´ve commented in my absence. You finally got me to move my ass!

quick sketch

2009-01-26T02:30:00.003+01:00

Had to stay away from drawing/painting but I couldn´t resist playing around with the finger tool. I like the painterly qualities you can get without having to go to painter.

unfinished

2008-12-08T20:41:00.003+01:00

sunday unfinished studies & sketches

I´m back?

2008-11-04T01:29:00.005+01:00

Has it been so long already!?

well, well...

I´m not really happy with any of these. I gotta think , think, think.

Time keeps passing by and I´m still not working on my color/compostition/form and so on, hard enough.

a ponerse las pilas!!

Thank´s for visiting

catchin up, again

2008-09-15T02:30:00.004+02:00

I finally got my lazy ass to update. Thanks everybody for the encouraging comments, will get to answer tomorrow hopefully.

My work was featured at Illustrophile* . Go check out the blog and add it to your bookmarks.

Quick DS sketch on a great relaxing trip a few weekends ago. Get the great app Colors! here (now for iPhone ,too)

catchin up

2008-06-25T02:23:00.002+02:00

wow, already four months... So much for neglection. Anyone still visiting? :)

Will try to post regularly again.

Thanks for visiting everyone

the usual unfinished stuff. Still struggling with composition, construction,etc.

y ahora qué?

2008-03-26T03:51:00.003+01:00

quick idea for bussiness card idea & late night sketch

2008-01-30T01:53:00.001+01:00

ONLINE PORTFOLIO

2008-01-22T02:36:00.000+01:00

At last! I finished my online portfolio! After trying different, pre-built gallery templates, I went for indexhibit, a supercool tool built by Daniel Eatock and Jeffery Vaska. Check it out.

My online portfolio

crits & comments more than welcome. Make sure you check out the process/unfinished section, lots of new stuff there and a bit of an insight into how I work

more sketches

2008-01-04T05:21:00.002+01:00

I guess this is my blue period...

ARRRRRRRRRRRRR

2008-01-02T07:27:00.000+01:00

Happy New Year Everybody!!

more speedies

2007-12-08T21:03:00.000+01:00

Work in progress

2007-12-04T00:19:00.000+01:00

EDIT: pictures don´t seem to load properly, browser just downloads the picture. Sorry for the hassle, will try to fix it.

So here I am again! I´m not totally recovered, arm hurts from time to time, but at least I could get back to work and even paint some personal stuff.

I´m in the process of updating my portfolio now. I feel I have learned a few things this last months and I want to paint some stuff that shows it.

Animation, compositing, illustration, painting, 3d so many things I´m interested in. But I think it´s about time that I focus a bit. Visual Development is drawing most of my attention lately.

In the meantime, some work in progress. I really gotta get used to investing several days in a piece, I usually only spend like a day in a painting.

First of all, a painting I started with Peter. He came over to my place, were supposed to go out party, but ended up painting all night. We´d take 10/15/20 min shots at it and speedpaint.

I was thinking I´d work a bit more on the pic before posting, but its too late now. Hope to finish it this week or so.

here:

process:

A painting I did using a 3d render. I´m planning on doing a series of this & try develop some vis dev skills.

A speedie gone too far. Not finished yet, palm trees and some parts to be refined. A bit proud of this one, no reference or textures used.

Hiatus

2007-11-01T20:06:00.000+01:00

Its been a long time since last post as usual. I´ve been having to keep away from drawing. There´s something wrong with my arm and for a few weeks already, I can´t draw/type for more than a few hours without pain. I even had to take sick leave. Dr. says it´ll go away with medication and physiotherapy. Crossing fingers, because now, it really sucks.

dump

sketchbook paintovers

2007-09-12T10:14:00.000+02:00

I was going to post some sketchbook pages and I couldn´t resist and had to play around a little bit. Just trying out new things. It felt really well doing these, letting go.

In chronological order:

escanerlainen

2007-09-04T02:50:00.000+02:00

Holiday´s over, but man was it great. Forest, sauna, beer, swimming naked in the lake, cottages, smoke sauna, beer, rowing boat, fishing, party, friends, sun, roof, time-lapse, friends, guitar, campfire, flesh-country, kossu, soumi. Thanks to all of you who made it possible.

I just bought a scaner, so expect a croqui dump soon. Here´s a little something

Dump

2007-08-17T17:05:00.000+02:00

Work stuff and a TMNT speedie for the frikiton blog.. Thanks for visiting

doodle

2007-06-25T02:00:00.000+02:00

Afternoon doodle. Started laying out some abstract shapes see if they suggested me something.

The file ended up being huge. Over 7000 pixels high. It felt really nice being able to paint in some details without any pixelation. I kept going back and forth between PS and Artrage.

doodle, process and closeups.

Life Drawing

2007-06-14T03:01:00.000+02:00

So I finally started going to a life drawing course. And boy is it a humbling experience. Ive been going for two days with Mr. Peter and Mr. Borja. The model does 2 min poses for an hour which is what I really need.

I read a chapter of the Stanchfield notes the second day. I focused on pushing the pose and on straight versus curvess. Sometimes the pose was not so interesting and I drew the people instead.

Here are some with phoshop makeup yo help the uglyness.

sketches

2007-06-04T22:14:00.000+02:00

I went out sketching and took some pictures as reference for painting the drawings back in PS. I really didnt think much about composition while drawing. I keep doing that and it always hurts the final thing.

Ill get to do some life dawing soon and I hope that gets juices flowing and I start posting more often.

Thanks for visiting!

links

2007-03-26T18:10:00.000+02:00

Here are some links from people at work and some old friends. Lots of talent, check them out.

edit:ok, I dont know wether its blogger or macs or me or what, but I can´t get to post this correctly. So: here are the pics, the links can be found to the right, new ones at the bottom. thanks!

Some concept art

2007-03-22T22:35:00.000+01:00

Here´s some work stuff. Early conceptwork for an ad. It took me little time to do these, but I´m actually quite happy about them. The ad ended up looking nothing like this, so this remains a graphic style I´d like to see in movement someday.

I always avoided to include photography in any realistic piece I painted, but the client wanted to see what more detailed enviroments might look like. I painted this in one night, after having spent allready too many hours awake.I used photos and everything at hand to get the job done quickly. There´s lots of thing wrong with this one, but I´m happy I tried and learn some new things along the way.

merde

2007-03-03T19:08:00.000+01:00

I had some billing problems with my host and lost my domain as well as the hosting space. So most of the stuff on the blog is down. Im really not having much free time lately so I dont know if Ill have the time to clean up the mess... mierda

...

2007-02-23T04:09:00.000+01:00

I really dont know how this happened

DEADlines...

2007-02-20T02:10:00.000+01:00

empty metro station. Will try to make a better version if I have time.

2007-02-06T23:48:00.000+01:00

About time!

2007-02-06T23:32:00.000+01:00

Some sketches! I finally manage to find some energy to post something. I started on a new job and it has been draining most of it lately. Im learning a lot here. Ive never been surrounded by so much talent, ever. Its great.

inspired you know who

W-O-W!

2006-12-28T06:32:00.000+01:00

check this out

Carlos Vermut

2006-12-28T04:29:00.000+01:00

I was in Madrid´s comic con Expocomic recently and well, I didn´t too many interesting things, but it was all worth it, since I got to know the work of Carlos Vermut. I had the chance to speak to him briefly and he seem a really nice and humble guy. Heres a pic of his work, but if you can , get his last comicbook "El Banyan Rojo", published by dibukks.

strong design, beautiful coloring, I just want more.

His blog
His site
Dibbuks

a panel from "El Banyan Rojo" by Carlos Vermut

I know know...

2006-12-22T05:02:00.000+01:00

Long time without posting...again.

Late night digital doodle. Practicing values, texture & stuff. Should have really tried to follow a METHOD, but... Theres lots of things wrong with it, but I had fun and learned a few things along the way.

Will soon catch up answering e-mails and comments and will show some pics from an artist that blew my mind in this year's Comic Expo in Madrid.

Wish you all enjoy your holidays with your loved ones.

bigger

2006-10-30T21:34:00.000+01:00

Long time without updating. Leaving Prague on Friday. Strange to leave after such a long time.

No call from any animation studio yet. I´ll add some new stuff to my showreel and portfolio when I get to Valencia, then I´ll try my luck in Barcelona.

Here are some pics. As I said, this are all just doodles. Should have thought more about what I was doing.

como churros

2006-10-19T00:25:00.000+02:00

Here are a few sketches I did these last to days. This lasso painting method ïs really great. Im using shapes, forms, to define what Im drawing. First, an interesting silouhette, then see how it plays against/with other shapes. Then just fill the minimum necessary blank spaces. Its really fun. And its all actually doodling. Would be interesting to see how this method works whith a clear goal in mind.

Anyway, heres a teaser, I really have to wait a few days to "reevaluate" this sketches. Im doing them so fast that its almost intoxicating, I dont really know if theyre "good".

Heres an insight into the process.

I like this one for some reason. Looks really rough if you look it up close

oh! and Uesugi should also be in the to the list

And even more

2006-10-14T20:20:00.000+02:00

These two days have been a blast. Just couldnt stop drawing. Now I started using a different aproach in PS. Im using the lasso tool to select areas, then I paint them with the brush. I got to be quite fast at it, being able to lay shapes down pretty quickly. I tried not to worry to much about getting the "right proportions or shape" in the begining, which led to nice accidental discoveries.
It also sometimes happens that you just dont know which way to go with a sketch, so also, instead of choosing one "path" , Id copy paste the image and work in different versions at the same time. It was a really refreshing aproach.

Sorry about the huge filesize on the GIFs, I thought it was the only one everyone with any browser could see them.

While I was drawing I started to think about artists that Id been checking up lately or that left some good impression on me. Artists or books that have influenced what I did these last days.

and... in no particular order:
Jim Flora, The Incredibles Book, Lou Romano, Neil Ross, Hans Bacher, Barth, Javier Olivares, Mignola, Ashley Wood, Pictoplasma, Robert Valley, Cheeks, Loius Gonzales, Uwe Heidschoetter, Cartoon Modern, Jamie Hewlett, Jose Luis Agreda, Cheeks, Alberto Mielgo, Chris Sanders, James Robertson, Nick Sung , Stephane Kardos.

process

process

and a few in higher res:

In Prague

2006-10-12T22:12:00.000+02:00

So here I am again. Sorry for the lack of posts. Things have been a bit crazy lately. Spent some time in Madrid with my good friend Pablo, visited some animation studios to leave the reel. And lots of drawing now here in Prague.

After a few days of "I cant draw" frustration, I managed to do a few sketches that I like.

Ok, this I dont even know if its worth posting, but here it goes. Speed paint on PS and Painter.

A few doodles. Pictoplasma inspired.

Ive lately started to experiment with paths on PS. Never before I felt like learning a vector drawing program, but I would give anything for a copy of Illustrator now. Theres something about that total control of the perfect curve, that feels so...good.

So here are a few sketches I did puting a black layer on top of another layer of brushstrokes done in Painter. I then use the lasso tool to define shapes. Brushes also from time to time. Its quite a playful aproach actually. You can get some nice surpises.

I start playing around, sometimes things change drastically, others I just do "variations"

and then... (desktop background size, here)

and...

And this

can turn into this...

and one more

?

these two days were a crewative explosion.
thanks for visiting!

¡y.....OTRA!

2006-09-28T02:55:00.000+02:00

I cant help it, I simply love painter. Its been literally years since I painted for the last time for diferent reasons. This is, by now, the closest I can get to it. And I am enjoying it.

Should be working on the webpage, here I am, painting at 2:52am...

Este va por MR. Mielgo, que me acorde de ti cuando estaba dando las pinceladas planas.

promotion

2006-09-27T13:49:00.000+02:00

I started playing around with the last thing I did and came up with this. I thought that rather than giving dvds away to promote my work, it might be better to print "postcards" with an illustration/sketch with my web address on it and only give DVDs to potential employees.

Im leaving on Sunday, Ill spend a few days in Madrid before I go to Prague. Lucky me , theres an animation festival in Madrid right around the time I was planing to go to Prague. While Im in the capital city Ill also visit some animation studios to leave copies of the DVD I put together.

Only a few things have changed since the first sketch, but I think I pushed things a bit and I find the final version to be the best one. Hope it stands the "morning after I draw it" review...

and pseudo final here. If only I could print the typo with silverink...

Painter IX is niiiice(boratstyle)!!!!!

2006-09-26T18:13:00.000+02:00

I was somehow reluctant to give it a serious try for many years. Dunno why, I guess I feel to confortable in PS. But wow, this program really is amazing.

I painted this on a laptop. I wish I could someday master the ins and outs of color profiles...

showreel 0.5

2006-09-21T19:30:00.000+02:00

So finally I moved my ass. I got a call from a good friend the other day (ese Luigi) and I got to meet a friend of his with some contacts. I had to put together a showreel in no time. Doesnt seem like it will turn into a job in the short term, but good thing is, it got me to start actually doing something.

This showreel is not final, some edit changes will be done and some shots will be removed. Hopefully Ill be able to do some real animation to put in there. In the DVD Im puting together there will also be some sketches and lifedrawings.

Ill be in Prague next month, but I first have to go to Madrid, so I will leave the DVD at some animation studios. Time to finally get a job. Crossing fingers!

Final image for the ad

2006-09-09T14:34:00.000+02:00

ooops!

2006-08-31T20:40:00.000+02:00

I was thinking that I might have rushed posting the last image, and after speaking with two friends of mine I see so many things going wrong with the picture. Part of getting to see the process, I guess. So update soon.

Siempre Solo

2006-08-30T20:43:00.000+02:00

So... Things are slowly moving forward. Heres a rough for a "siempre solo" ad thats going to show up in a small but very nice magazine here in Valencia. The format made me do some changes to the original idea I had. Its quite rough as I said, composition/type are temporary and painting is unfinished. The font has been changed. Going for a caligraphy style now. I like it, let me know what you all think. And be harsh, I want it to be good.

Any tips on poster composition would be wellcome. Well, I guess I can move my lazy ass and try to find it myself in google. Ive never been a designer and its now that Im starting to realize how hard it is to put text and image together. Will start checking out good poster artists see how they do it

thanks to everyone whos been stopping by to comment, you all make it easier.

higher res

Diarios de Motocicleta

2006-08-16T13:47:00.000+02:00

Its nice to sketch from a DVD, pausing it whenever you want. Its somehow liberating after struggling with moving people. Here are some sketchbook pages I filled in while "pausing" the movie "Diarios de Motocicleta". As usual, I couldnt help myself adding some tones in PS. Bigger sizes here and here.

Clothing brand thing slowly moving forward. I am really enjoying coming up with the whole thing. Icons/flyers/posters coming coon.

probando cosas

2006-08-08T18:21:00.000+02:00

Moving forward

2006-08-07T22:23:00.000+02:00

I've been playing around with one of the drawings. I printed it out and started erasing and drawing. With ink/brush and whith a white out pen. What can I say, its been great to do some traditional media drawing/experimenting. Im really surprised of how rewarding it has been.

I changed the character's head, still have to work on the sweatshirt/torso. These are pictures I took with the digicam after putting the drawing on a sweater. Seeing something vaguely similar to the final product is exciting.

and... FLICKR TIME!!!

2006-08-06T21:01:00.000+02:00

And another small step towards self promotion. Flickr account and two sets of pictures. Now its easier to see all my stuff.

life drawings and illustrations/sketches

If you have the time, please check it out and let me know what you think.

Posters

2006-08-05T19:45:00.000+02:00

As promised, here are the roughs.
I was just playing around with some ideas for posters to promote the brand. Have to put more time into it to get to a point were Im satisfied with it. Maybe some of these could be adapted for a T-shirt design. But I really want to think of Posters/Flyers and T-shirts as different mediums, I just cant do the same thing in all of them. I must take advantage of each medium's own singularities.

Sin colear, pero vivo

2006-08-04T20:47:00.000+02:00

Yep. After a long time without doing much, Im slowly starting to "recover". Ugh, hate this periods.

The animation gig is allready over = start getting portfolio/showreel together to get me a job. Wish me luck.

Heres a sketch. (bigger size HERE) Poster and template roughs for the T-shirt brand some friends and me are starting together coming soon.

Sorry for the lack of posts, and very happy to have you here again. Keep coming for more!

Not yet

2006-05-30T00:57:00.000+02:00

First of all, sorry to all of you who have been coming for a few days allready and have seen no update. Im having a few days of crunch time at work. But Im still sketching on my way there. Heres a little something I did just now before I head home to sleep.

Thanks to all of you who have been leaving comment these days.

And oh boy , tomorrow Ill comment on so many blogs! Have been trying to restrain myself since I hadnt even answer comments here.

Well, hold on. Real post when Im done with work!!

Hold on

2006-05-20T18:56:00.000+02:00

Off to Anifest

2006-05-03T18:54:00.000+02:00

Its been a long time since last post. I had friends visiting, a deadline, was sick a few days. Well, excuses.

Theres a few things I wanted to post before I left to Anifest. Its going to be great. Films during the day and concert and party in the night. Friends, Becherovka, Salmiaki, Jameson, guitars and animation. Cant wait.

I´ve kept on drawing in the metro, bus etc. Theres something about sketching that I just dont get from anything else. Its relaxing and thrilling at the same time. And that feeling when the wheels are allready turning and you just dont stop finding apealing things to draw. Its so good.

I was just thinking the other day that all this drawing around might have actually made me get better at it. I didnt realize until I rememebred the days when the only thing about drawing people was that they just moved too quickly. It would really anoy me. No one would hold a pose long enough! And all poses were so static. Now I cant stop seeing figures in contraposto, tilted waists, squashes and stretches. Not that Im able to put it on paper all the time, but it just feels good to remember those times. Now Im struggling with other problems, think I will always be.

These are all quick sketches done while commuting . In some I tried to use a broken line, trying to get rid of my tendency of laying it all down with as few lines as possible, which sometimes leads to a very flat drawing. I remember how I told one of my friends once (hola peibol) "Why your using 24 lines when you can just draw one??" We where just 14 or something like that and maybe I just didnt know what I was talking about.

I was wondering wether I should write this or not, but I guess I just will. Theres some sort thing going around in the "blogger community", at least to me, that I really dont like. Its like this thing ..Well, I dont know how to explain. It just looks like your commenting on peoples blogs so they go check your blog out. And of course you really want that to happen but it is not your goal when you post. So its like your expecting something when you praise someone´s work. So I was thinking about not writing this but I will:

I´ve been really impressed/influenced by Nick Sung´s and James Robertson´s artwork lately. They really are the kind of guys that you look up to, learn from and make you want to improve. They have been blowing up my mind post after post. and it just gets better and better.This sound like cheap ass-licking, but its just the way I feel it. Thank you for the inspiration.

Ive been wanting to post for so long, and now that I see these I dont really like them. Next time, itll be better, I promise. Now I have a MOLESKINE :)

Amsterdam

2006-04-09T16:46:00.000+02:00

Its my fourth day in Amsterdam. Im here with Pablo visiting my sister. Having a great time. This city is just great. I should come live here for a few years sometime. Too bad, I havent been able to draw as much as I would have liked.

We went to a few museums (de gratis, gracias ,banana), Rembrandt, Van der Weiden, Van Gogh but I couldnt help it. I had been there before a year ago. I checked my favourite paintings and then I couldnt resist. I was drawing people instead of looking at the paintings! It was like sketching glory that museum!Lots of people, not moving much, interesting body languaje.wow...

Heres some drawings from prague and one from the museum. No scaner here in Amsterdam, so you'll be getting some more digitalcamera/mousecoloring glory.

Lets see if I can make some drawings of these great city's streets today

I´m happy + Sun shined today

2006-03-28T00:16:00.000+02:00

Wow, time just goes so fast. Weeks keep flying and I never find the day to do some personal animation. You can take the sketchbook with you wherever you go and just sketch, but I dont want to start any portfolio animation without puting the right planing into it. I know it pays off in the end.

In this bunch I used a chipsel pen I bought last week, I like the feel a lot. But thinking about shadows and line thickness leaves very little brain for other stuff like pose, expresion etc. Like its not hard enough to try to get them right usually. But the change of materials was a nice blow of fresh air.

Here are some ef last weeks sketches. Of course I couldnt resist PSing them a bit (No wacom, mouse and lasso) Its just like when you would colour stuff as a kid, now worries, just having fun fooling around.

Hope you like them.

Ups and Downs

2006-03-22T00:21:00.000+01:00

This weeks rumblings

1. Sometimes I just can´t work.
2.I´m addicted to Band of Brothers

...Guess point one and two can be easily related.

Here´s a few more from the sketchbook after being PSed.

Still trying to "capture the pose/essence". The guy with the newspaper, however, looks completely like I was not working enough on shifting "mental gears". By the way, gonna get the book printed soon, the mental gears one, not that I´m going to print any of my stuff. mmm This is getting confusing...

Sketches

2006-03-13T19:52:00.000+01:00

So I finally dared drawing in my brand new sketchbook. Hardcover, good binding, good paper. I thought I was over the days in which I wouldnt dare to draw on good paper. But no.

I havent been very inspired this last week. But I decided I had to get over it. I went through some of Stanchfield´s notes again, man is he inspiring, and a new sketching day begun today.

I really tried to concentrate in capturing the pose, forgeting about folds and details. Just the esence. Well, not that Im there allready, but I kinda feel today was a small step. And that feels good.

Do you feel good because you draw or do you draw because you feel good? I still dont know.

So here are the ones I like the most.

This time, instead of puting the sketchbook back in the bag while transfering buses/metros, I kept it in my hand ALL the time. And did it pay-off. I felt like a sniper scouting for my next victim.

I hadnt though of the psycological value of the size of the sketchbook. This one is way bigger than the last one and it shows, its obvious you are drawing, I couldnt hide it behind the backpack anymore. Now it feels like "HEY, look at me! Im sketching!"

Hope you like them. And comments are really apreciated.

Life Drawing...

2006-03-09T20:04:00.000+01:00

So finally, I went to do some life drawing. Theres no teacher or anything, just a bunch of people who like to draw.

Man am I rusty. In fact, its just that I have to get better, not that I ever was really good at it. They started with some 1 min poses, but sadly they only did a few of them. Didnt feel like asking for more since it was my first day and I dont really know the people. Hope I can get to draw more of those poses in the future. I think its what I need.

So, theres nothing from that session that I dont feel really embarassed about, but since I said Id post some pics next time, here are some really old sketches.

And check this website out. Its when I see these kind of things when I get amazed and frustrated at the same time. How am I ever gonna be able to do hand drawn animation if I cant get to draw a single pose?

2006-03-06T20:46:00.000+01:00

I´d ordered some books last month and a bunch of them arrived today, all at the same time. Great

I got the Jack Jack Attack children book, with drawings from Tony Fucile. It´s only a few pages, but the drawings are 100% Mr. Fucile with great poses and effortless looking drawings.

I also got Unlikely by Jeffrey Brown. First time I saw any of his books was in a comic store in Germany. "Clumsy" was the one I saw. I flipped through a few pages and I had to buy it. His stuff is so sincere and gets you so hooked that you just can´t the book down. I really liked Unlikely.

There was another package, this one not from Amazon but from Sam Hiti. I got the books through his web. He was really cool and send in an extra comic and did sketches on the first pages on the comics. The comic I liked the most was "El Largo Tren Oscuro", really inspiriong stuff.

There´s something special in buying the stuff from the artist itself that I really like. We even exchanged a few e-mails and he was kind enough to add me to the links in his blog. Thanks again from here.

I really like Sam Hiti´s style. I was inspired after reading the comics and did a couple of ink and brush doodles, I hadnt picked up the brush in a long time.

So that´s it for today. Animation/drawings next time.

Doodles

2006-03-01T19:50:00.000+01:00

Hello hello everybody!! Im about to finish my scene and theres a party in school later! Good things are happening. Now that I have a host, Ill start building up my portfolio. Its going to be tough to decide what things to leave out, I have so many sketches and doodles. Its been some days without any updates, so i thought it would be nice to post.

When I dont know what to draw I tend to do the same kind of face and I ALWAYS start it the same way: eyebrow first, then the eye, etc. Its quite easy to fall in the trap of drawing the same thing everytime, and I think its happening to me lately. When I draw this faces I always draw them in the same way, I dont think in terms of mass or volume. But I kinda like the end result, so its pleasing, but theres no "learning" in the process. Well, dont know if Im making sense.

I think most of us have this kind of doodle we are obssesed with, this head, animal or whatever that we keep on doing. Here's a video of me drawing some of those faces I was talking about. You can see theres not much thinking, just the same thing over and over with some slight changes. I noticed how much I doubt when I start drawing the neck are on the third guy. I knew I had to do my homework on head connecting neck and torso, but seeing the video again, just makes it more evident. Oh, and of course I don't draw that fast. :)

I dont know how many people actually read this, I mean, I know how many times this page is loaded but not how many people actually follow the blog. I know theres some really talented people coming here. Id love to see/know what it is that you constantly draw, and it would be amazing to see a video of you in action!

Yuhuuuuuuuu!!

2006-02-24T01:13:00.000+01:00

I now have a host! Im so happy about that.

So the after effects sketch is here and if you feel like it you can check out how things looked like before putting them together, here, and a view of the after effects workspace, here.

First time that I do this, so hope there´s nothing wrong.

I have a host!

After Effects doodling

2006-02-21T22:40:00.000+01:00

I could finally take some reference with my camera and download the pics and videos that were on the card. There was this house or cottage I saw one night after getting out of a pub that really striked me. It was so...I dont know, it was begging to be turned into something, an animation, an illustration. So I started playing around with it in PS, one thing led to the other and there I was again fooling around with After Effects until pretty late. Id calle this an "aftereffects sketch". It gives me some design ideas to try out in the future. And of course next time things will be much faster, I just need to plan things beforehand.

So here are some frames from the short thing. I wont post the video until I have a host, it really bugs me to put up lowres versions of the videos.

in the meantime...

2006-02-14T22:54:00.000+01:00

Tryed to buy the cable for my camera today. They don´t have it. I really want to start working on the AE Workshop thing. I have some ideas, but I certainly need reference . I´d go sketching but it´s cold.

I´ll try to post some animation soon. Here are some recent doodles. I still struggle with giving life to my characters, they´re so...well, yeah, lifeless. I´m a bit afraid of doing full figures, I´m so bad at it. But I think I should start to do more story oriented drawings, not just faces. Oh, by the way, this month I should get my "In Your Face" and "Flight 2" books! Really want to have them.

And check the new links, the last ones, some amazing stuff there to see.

Pojd´te Pane Budeme Si Hrát

2006-02-07T22:51:00.000+01:00

This is one of my favourite animations. Directed by B. Pojar and created in the "golden ages" of Czech animation, it has excellent character design, amazing animation, charming characters and well, I could go on for ages. I simply love these cartoons. They combine puppets, paper and cell cutout animation, sand animation, everything. Many of the things in these films,if not all , hold up today. Here are some screen grabs. I think these cartoon should be more known. For all of you who like 50´s animation, I think theres some really inspiring stuff here. You just cannot appreciate the thing in its full glory if you dont see the thing moving, but here are the screengrabs.

Speed paint

2006-02-01T20:08:00.000+01:00

Quick update.

I started doodling around while taking a break from animating and this came out. I wanted to have a guy on a horse waving at the camera, like he was telling his friends " hey, we finally found the lost city" or something. Well, I ended up doing a cow/some animal. Should have worked on the silhouette to make it readable. No reference. Oh, and check the Monkey Island/Fate of Atlantis/Beneath a Steel Sky version here. I´ve been doing this to my stuff lately, it gives it such a old school games feeling.

higher res

Lots of lemons

2006-01-31T23:26:00.000+01:00

This week has been a bit frustrating. A walk I wanted a character to do made me crawl on my hand and knees. Just a walk! I couldn't move forward in days. Eventually I had to give up and move on. That and the fact that the rig went crazy sometimes and made me start over from scratch has made for a lot of lemons. I could do lots of lemonade this week. (If you don't get the whole lemon thing go to the great site Seward Street and check out Dave Pimentel´s great article. Or click here )

So looks like I should forget about acting which is what I really really want to get into and start working on walks. Ken Harris said that was the way to go. Guess I should first get that right.

And from now on I´ll post here every little thing that I learn and makes me go "ah HA!!".I didn´t have a solid animation education so I had to learn almost everything myself. Books, tutorials, internet. So I´ll just share the things I find out on the way, maybe someone actually learns something!

So: I found out today that you can get rid of the strobo effect of a character walking on twos over a background moving on ones if you move the character every frame. Just move the pose/drawing, displace it. Even if the pose is the same, as long as it is moves on ones, it will work. Maybe someone didn´t know.

And some doodles. Mouse colored! Hope I can post something more juicy next time.

New links!

2006-01-25T18:45:00.000+01:00

check them out. sooo good (cant help remembering Syndrome saying it when he finds the whole family)

Walt, Mayaa nd no sleep

2006-01-21T22:31:00.000+01:00

Every week is like a new adventure. I've learned more in a few days than what I've learned in a lot of time. So many times I said “ I'm sure you learn so much faster if you have a job, it'll not be like making a few sketches here and there, or doing some animation test every now and then, you really have to get things done ”. Well, it's so true.

Only this week I came to realize how true the book is to it's title. It really was my “survival kit”. Man, that book is good. I ordered “The Illusion of Life” a few days ago. I'm so looking forward to getting it.

I've been trying to sketch quite a lot lately. I downloaded Walt Stanchfield's notes. I've been going through them. I knew they were around, but I really didn't know how good they were. James Robertson pointed me to them. I really admire his drawings, so straight away I went check them out. It has been a real eye opener for me. Really changed the way in which I approach a drawing. I'm still working on it. I'm trying to develop that cartooning sense that I admire so much from the artists that I like. I also want to tell something with what I draw, have a story in them. But, boy, is that hard. It's going to be a long way, but it just feels good knowing where I want to go. I dont really think you can feel any difference in my drawings. yet.

Rigs, sketches and frustration.

2006-01-13T20:23:00.000+01:00

Hello everybody!

This week has been quite strange. I had to do 40 seconds of animation in 5 days. To me thats a lot. I was working for the whole night yesterday, didnt sleep and went to work. The thing is, the rig was doing strange things, I didnt really know at the time it started to happen, but it seems it goes a bit crazy if you switch from FK to IK and viceversa. So after keying all my keyposes, Maya would go completely crazy and my poses looked liked shit.

After too many hours without sleeping, I had nothing. But I have a super cool boss, he fixed the problem and gave me some more time.

While I was waiting for the program to render or when I got completely frustrated, I tryed to relaxe, looked at some pics/drawings/paintings from the artists that I like and sketched. This are the ones that I like most. As u can see, I really need to start drawing poses, not only heads. And yeah, I tend to draw them always the same. Have to keep on practicing!

It also looks like Ill be giving an After Effects workshop in the animation studio. Im really looking forward to it, and its also pushing me to do some little animations. Hope I can show something soon.

And I still cant believe Im feeling so bad, Its hardly been 30 hours with no sleep. The days where I could spend days without sleeping are gone...Am I getting old?...

ais....

oh!

2006-01-04T20:38:00.000+01:00

I forgot! and this guy I drew while the AE thing was rendering. Now I have a bunch of blank papers on my desk, so I can draw while the computer is "thinking". For some reason I like this one.

Playing arround with the soldier

2006-01-04T16:00:00.000+01:00

The other day I did this sketch in PS.

I couldnt post it because I could resize the image in the computer I was writing on. The thing is I installed After Effects on my computer yesterday night. I really love that program. Hadnt used it in ages. I started fooling arround. So I imported this sketch and started doing something. It was a bit too complicated because I already had a flat image. If I had though about it before, I would have saved it in layers. So there was lots of cloning around. Then I started addin little bits in. Some background animation I did quickly in flash, some shitty vehicles. All too fast and with not much thinking into it, just for the sake of tryin out new things and having fun.

Of course the thing is nothing special, theres no character animation and composition sucks as usual.But it gave me some ideas of some tests that I could do in the future. Next time with some real animation.I guess if I think of it in advance, I could do something nice. Enough blablabla.

here

happy new year everyone

2006-01-02T20:32:00.000+01:00

Ahoj, ahoj!!!

Ispiriration comes in the least expected moments. I went to bed at 6 in the morning.

Really have to organize myself, days just fly by.

For those of you who show up regularly, thank you, heres a sketch.

click me , baby

yastoiaki!!!!

2005-12-21T15:48:00.000+01:00

Ahoj everybody!

It's been a long time. I've been out of the bloggin thing for some time now. I don't know, sometimes this can get so overwhelming. So many talented people out there, so many blogs, so many updates. It's hard keeping up. Somehow I felt I had to take a rest from all this, allthough I've been checking some blogs from time to time. This, added to other things, kept me away from updating.

Thanks to all the people who kept coming. And thank you so much for the nice comments Luis, Banana, Teemu, Pekka, Alberto, Earl, Carre, Gabriele, Julai and James. Thank you.

But here I am again. Many things have changed since last post. The most important one: I have a job. And I'm not teaching spanish or working as a tourist guide, I'm working in a small animation studio as an ANIMATOR. Today I got my first scene approved by the director.I still can't believe it myself... Looks like what I say in my profile might become true some day

I'd been looking for a job for allready one month and nothing. Almost no hope. Then, thanks to my former animation proffesor in school, Mr. Tyller ( thank you, thank you, thank you) I got an interview. After reading for so many years how important who you knew was, I got to realize it's true in the best possible way.

I'm learning so much everyday. The characters I'm animating are very simple, which forces me to pay atention to the basics. I think I'll really improve here.

Now. I got my wacom to work again yesterday and it happened again. Photoshop frenzy. Hope you like them.

I don't know what this is supposed to mean, but here it is.

Hans Bacher and Limbolo posted their Prague pictures, now its my turn. Of course I didn't capture THAT thing, but this was rather and excercise of using texture. Compostion sucks, should pay more atention to those things next time. bigger HERE

Sketching day

2005-11-22T20:17:00.000+01:00

I know I said next post was going to be animation related, but after reading Teemu´s and Pekka´s posts (check them out here and here) about that afternoon, I couldn´t resist.

It was Pekka, Teemu and me in Velryba, eating, talking and sketching. Without even noticing, eight (!) hours went past. They did great drawings, but I was kind of uninspired. I see other artists blogs and I can´t help but think about how static and life-less my work is.

Solution: life-drawing.

Oferta Oferta!

2005-11-16T18:00:00.000+01:00

So I´m working on that walkcycle.
Soooo many things to learn still. But it´s amazing, now a see a dog walking on the street and what before seemed impossible to figure out is now so clear. I can see how muscles flex, shapes change, weight is transfered, I see the contact positions , the extremes, timing and spacing. Its amazing, and it´s happening a loo. Like I see this guy running and I can almost fisically see the arcs he´s drawing with his feet in the air.

Well.

AND!!!

Everything you see on this page is for sale!!! If your interested, just mail me and we can arrange a price. And I´m not famous nor a great draftsman, so expect low prices.

That was it. no drawings this time.

Guys with hats

2005-11-10T02:36:00.000+01:00

I´m working on a fourlegd walkcycle but before that this:

I was in the school the other day and I went draw arround Prague and I ended up drawing the guys that look like they´ve been taken from a "Jack the Ripper" movie and work riding the chariots that take the tourists arround the old town .

At least they didn´t move much.

Slooow

2005-11-02T20:21:00.000+01:00

Things are going slowly here.

Searching for a part-time job and trying to get the "I´m learnig animation thing" rolling.

Some night-bus life drawings from a few days ago and random stuff

Hope next post is about animation....

BlogBlOgBlOgBloGbloGblog

2005-10-26T16:08:00.000+02:00

Two friends have recently started their own blogs.

Luis, whose drawing style I really like, can be checked out here. He´s got some really great stuff. Like these: O O O O O O

Pekka has also started a blog. Check it out and get ready for some impressive stuff. Goooood .

Brush pen, T-shirt ideas, masks & monkeys

2005-10-22T06:27:00.000+02:00

I finally bought ink today. I´d forgotten how much fun drawing with a brushpen is.

One more time

2005-10-19T07:03:00.000+02:00

So here I am enjoying my second "inspiration" night. I have to finish some drawings for a present. I think I´ll leave it until tomorrow, and then I´ll have a fresh look at what I´ve done tonight.

I tried a new style ( cheers, antti). I wanted to use black ink, but I didn´t have any. But in the end, the grey one was better: I could lay down more values.

This is the kind of thing I´m doing. Hope you like it. I think I more or less do. There are some things bothering me, but I think I will go for this style for the present.

I think it was Alberto´s last posts that made me try using really saturated colors. I just thought about it.

Night time inspiration

2005-10-17T04:47:00.000+02:00

So here I am at 4:47 in the morning typing this.

This all started when I was rereading a Hellboy comic. I though: "Hey I should copy some Mignola-faces see if something stays". So I took my sketchbook and started referencing the drawings to draw faces. Everythig was crap. Then I took some magazines and started drawing faces.

After a few minutes of warming up I actually did some drawings that I like!

Here they are. Of course not all where done on the same page, I only pasted the good ones.

Hope you like them!

don´t you love gorillas. they have such a powerful design!

Blog discoveries!

2005-10-15T17:50:00.000+02:00

It happens from time to time, you find some blogs/pages that completely blow you away. To me it has happened several times, always the same way. Good blogs link to good blogs, so once you find one , it´s easy to be overwhelmed with what you find. It happened to me when I found Hans Bacher´s, Harald Siepermann´s and John Nevarez´s blogs. Then it happended again: Limbolo, Alberto Mielgo.

Now it happened one more time. Make sure you check out this blogs/sites, the work is amazing.

Antoine Birot. Beautiful artwork. But the thing I liked most was the animations he had online. Check out the one called "Hector". Amazing, sweet design, nice colour palette, fluid animation. Really enjoyable.

Evka´s drawings. Really liked the drawing style. Go & see.

Xav Animation Illustration. Envolved in the production of "Le Building", need to know more?

I DID NOT DRAW THESE : ARTISTS LINKED UP HERE

copyright owned by respective authors

One of those days in which you feel you can´t draw

2005-10-12T18:58:00.000+02:00

This was it?

2005-10-10T02:01:00.000+02:00

I just remembered I had e-mailed a w.i.p. low-res version of my showreel to a friend (hi, Teemu!). After losing the info in the DVD on which I had the showreel, I thought it was going to be almost impossible to get anything back. And I remember this e-mail. I just had log into my account and download it!

I though the reel was good. Now I look at it and, well, I don´t feel that proud at all. Guess that´s something good...

These are the parts of the reel that I like the most. Sorry for the big files and the really bad quality...

This was a short little test I did playing arround with Flash and AE. I used a simple cycle for the character and spent most of the time on the transition and on the shadow of the car. I was going for a very atmospheric style. If you pay attention, you can see a sun reflection on the window right before the car exits the garage. I though it looked great, but its on screen for so little time that no one notices!

I quickly added some sounds now.

This one is the very first time I tryed cut out paper animation out. I loved it! So direct. The character was a 2cm drawing I had in my sketchbook. I liked his pose and looks, so I scanned and retouched it in photoshop added the joints and started animating.

I was going to add a background, but in the end it ended up looking better as it is, with no background! It actually transmits some sort of atelier feeling. In one of the tests you could see my feet popping in and out under the glass table! After I shot it, I added a hand-drawn mustache in Flash. The clip here is part of a small film that I did, all improvised.

No sound here, which is a pitty , because I think the sound really made it better.

And these are the jazz players. I wanted to keep on experimenting with cutout animation. This time I did it in flash. It took me a looong time to retouch the painting so that the arms could move without leaving a blank space behind them. The same with the instrument and the head. If you pay attention , you can also see that in some parts, the linework "floats" over the watercolour. Unluckily, this video is very low quality... This time I also drew on top with flash.

I tryed to sync with the music. I was on a rush, so the finger animation is horrible. But I still want to do a jazz players animation, with lots of reference this time!

I would realy appreciate any comments.

thanks in advance!

Sketch Dump

2005-10-05T03:52:00.000+02:00

All these drawings are part of a sketchbook that I intended to self-publish last year. Things dind´t work out as expected and it never happened. I liked the idea of sharing my drawings with others, although I didn´t know if someone that wasn´t my friend would buy such a thing.

Anyway, at least I can share them here. These are some of my favourites. All drawings are from life except for the ones of the old men which are from tv. I drew them in front of a TV that had a remote control with a "freeze" button. Great thing if you see an interesting face!

Last summer I took my sketchbook with me all the time. Somehow I didn´t have the energy this summer.

I hope you enjoy them.

Warming up

2005-10-03T02:49:00.000+02:00

Haven´t drawn much lately... that´s bad. Tomorrow I´ll buy a brush and some pens and I´ll go sketching.

This is a picture I did straight in PS. The street is in a tiny amazingly beautiful village in Spain called "Albarracín". I had been there as a kid many years ago, but I didn´t remember anything. The street was beautiful and I had forgotten my sketchbook home that day.Its one of those places where you go "Dam it, I wish I had brought my sketchbook!".

Check some pictures of the village here: O O O O

Sketches

2005-09-22T23:15:00.000+02:00

First of all, make sure you check out Pekka´s incredible painting here.

Some sketching. First two with Alias Sketchbook Pro, first time I used it. Seems better for sketching than PS. Last one is an unfinished speedpaint. When I dont use reference I always get to the point where I cant keep on painting...

2005-09-14T21:03:00.000+02:00

These are some of the drawings I did in Prague. They are concept drawings for two different animations I was going to make. I was trying to draw with a style that would depart from what I normally do.

The guys playing were supposed to appear in a Jazz concert. I tried to develop a story in which the little bird from the last post would appear on screen at the same time as the musicians . Like he was flying arround the city and peeking through windows in pubs and houses.

The black & white drawing was for a story of a guy that dreams of living in the beach, fishing and riding his bycicle arround, enjoying life, but has a boring computer job.

I actually did some animation of these two ideas. For the jazzguys, I combined cutout animation and hand drawn animation (all in flash) and for the other story I worked on 6´s in flash.

I was really happy with how the jazz animations turned out. Those animations where in the DVD that was damaged, but they are also in last years animation department DVD of which I will get a copy, so I might be able to post them in a few months.

Watercolor and ink on paper.

Lost & Found..almost

2005-09-13T09:20:00.000+02:00

I spent days putting my reel for this summer together. It ended up looking quite nice... interactive DVD with menus for animation tests, drawings and a little shortfilm. But I arrive in Spain and BANG, no dvd player or computer will recognize it! So, all my work, to hell.

I had some flash tests on my mp3 player, those I saved. So now that I can post videos for free (www.putfile.com) , here u go. Its a little something I did in Flash and in After Effects. Straight ahead animation. It was very spontaneous but I tryed to give it a 50´s animation design feeling, dont know if it shows. I found the original flash file and quickly rerendered it in AE. hope you like it!

Catchin up

2005-09-01T03:36:00.000+02:00

Wow, last post May 12... I was still in Prague.

I´m so stupid that it has taken me almost a month to realize that I´m not happy if I don´t draw.
Simple as that. For some reason I forced myself into not drawing, even when I wanted to, I made that feeling that you all know go away. To see what happened. It ended up turning into a vicious circle where I would never feel completely ok and never feel like drawing anymore which made me feel "not so good". bla bla bla.

So, for a few days allready I doodle arround. Trying. Delivering crap. And then I check out some art blogs. Inspiration. Like a chain reaction: straight to the computer, plug the wacom for THE FIRST TIME in 3 months and start drawing. I end up whith something that I like. Nothing special, but Im happy with it and it gives me some lost confidence back.

Hope you like it.

by the way, these are the blogs:

John Nervaez . Great style & poses

Great sketches by different artists

Amazing portfolio