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chloe e book cover meet chloe she is anna s best friend she s also the main character of pat elliott s novel leaves for chloe and once again i ve had the opportunity to bring her to life for the e book cover portraying chloe has been such a different experience compared to anna by the time i started working on chloe i had read the first novel so this chick wasn t a brief but someone i already knew it s been a super fun project drawing outfits laughing with pat turning dogs into lambs and into dogs again i would have liked to park a trike somewhere in there but she has high heeled boots in the country so i regret nothing leaves for chloe will be available for purchase by the end of november you ll be able to get updates on the dates and selling platforms in pat elliott s web page or her twitter feed a tea leaf reading a prediction of turmoil two men fighting over her and a house move can your future really be told in a cup chloe is feeling down in the dumps her best friend got married her new boyfriend lives at the other end of the country and her ex won t leave her alone can she ever have a settled love life she has her fortune told hoping to find some clues to her future her tea cup reading promises a mixed future with despair love new friends and two men fighting for her love only when chloe finds her true self will the future be the happy one she longs for join chloe as misery strikes hope returns and the battle for happiness begins 3 comentarios tags digital final piece email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest december 26 2013 happy holidays seventeen of these present bearers have already accomplished their task and are enjoying the holidays in their new homes or are about to arrive there this one though was stubbornly set on doing it xxi century cyber style so there wishing you all merry christmas and a wonderful 2014 6 comentarios tags final piece metal leaf watercolor email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest november 16 2013 all in the leaves e book cover meet anna she s the main character of pat elliott s novel all in the leaves and i ve had the opportunity to design the e book cover for her it s been a long way baby and as exciting as it is to see how all the work is wrapping up and finally out in the open i have to admit i m gonna miss all the laughs we ve had during the process even through the pert boob incident ooops shhhh i m happy to say that it s finally out for sale on apple s itunes and amazon and it ll soon appear on barnes noble kobo sony waterstones check it out a tea leaf reading a prediction of a fabulous life to come can your future really be told in a cup anna is feeling down in the dumps she s nearly thirty painfully shy and has no boyfriend she s still living at home and has a boring job can this really be all there is a chance bout of tears leads to a tea leaf reading which predicts a wonderful future for her a future which promises a new career a new home and a husband all by the following christmas join anna as opportunities arise calamity strikes and the battle for happiness begins 7 comentarios tags digital final piece email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest october 11 2013 back to basics summer has come and gone and i didn t even notice how did that happen it s been full of ups and downs but i think i m going to let the downs wash away and just cherish the sunny days beautiful cucumbers photo shooting outdoors action movies and new geckos visiting the terrace during the evenings don t know about you but i didn t get to use my watercolors during most of the summer got to do sketches and studies though and got ready to start a new series of paintings and now finally my brushes are getting wet again yeah and i m taking the opportunity to go back to basics and use some pigments i haven t used for years i can t even remember why they got replaced with something different in the palette but hey i m having a blast rediscovering experimenting and finding how to integrate them in my current painting processes 5 comentarios tags final piece watercolor email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest april 8 2013 traditional vs digital take 2 not long ago i was musing about digital and traditional art about them being two sides of the same coin two tools serving the same goal this weekend i ve been making a back up of some image files from last year and came by a good example of using traditional mediums to do what s usually a digital task see this portrait last summer i was lucky enough to work for a man who wanted to take an old and damaged photo of his mother when she was a baby reprint it and use it as a gift anyone would have asked for a clean up in photoshop or similar instead this man chose to commission the revamp of the photo as a watercolour painting how amazing is that each time i fall in the digital traditional debate i end up thinking the same the tools are not important just make meaningful art 7 comentarios tags final piece portraiture watercolor email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest march 1 2013 work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion that is parkinson s law ok not exactly there s a whole essay that i have not read honestly i didn t know the full name of mr parkinson nor how he got to such conclusion or why but i always pictured it like a fellow sitting on the grass elbows on his knees chin on his hands chewing on a straw while thinking nah i don t think that s gonna get finished today yes my mind likes it simple and now it s wondering how on earth do you stop work from expanding how do you optimize the work to finish the task on time i ve been doing portraiture warm ups in 15 minutes daily after switching from monochrome to a limited palette of 4 somehow the task does not just fill the time frame anymore it overflows it entirely is there a secret to speed up the painting process inquiring minds need to know these have improved after i forgot about my usual layering way of painting and just attacked full on with darks first in and out but i still can t get half of a portrait finished in 15 minutes if they don t lack the nose they lack one eye if they have a mouth they don t have a head some of them manage to have hair and a mouth and a nose but not eyes the only other idea i ve had to try and finish one completely is repeating in my mind faster faster do it faster fasteeeeeer during those 15 minutes but so far that doesn t seem to work i refuse to put anything better than a hmmmm by their side until they look at least half finished so any suggestions to speed up the painting process i promise even if they sound weird i m willing to try which are your secrets when you want to paint fast and accurately and finish the task in a short period of time please share them with me 8 comentarios tags portraiture warm up watercolor email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest february 20 2013 perturbadito this is a little thing i ve been working in small slots of time on the side of other works it feels good to paint something without other purpose than relaxing and enjoy the flow of paint on the paper since this little fellow has been guarding my conte pencils for quite some time now i decided he deserved an homage i got rid of his stray eyes not sure why they give him this disturbed look that oddly enough grows on you after a while might do a second version just to include them 4 comentarios tags final piece watercolor email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest february 13 2013 back to the drawing table this is the last figure drawing i did a couple of weeks ago i loved focusing on the neck and face for once i m so ready to resume my daily warm ups today is the day 4 comentarios tags conte figure drawing email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest february 7 2013 digital vs traditional i ve been ill for over a week guys have you ever been ill but feeling well enough to get to the painting table just to discover the little nuisances of it all it can be so frustrating that pencil stroke running in the wrong direction thanks to a coughing fit or the paint from your brush splattered all over the paper because of a sudden sneeze how about the brush falling from your hand and rolling over your paper believe me not fun at some point i decided to redirect all my creative efforts towards digital which i seldom do the result has been a bunch of new icons some textures to tweak future images couldn t let those splatters go to waste now could i and a couple of little pics for the web like this little id card it s so much fun grabbing scanned images some stock a bunch of fonts and unused sketches throw them all together stir while it boils and see what comes out of it i guess i just need to fangirl for a little bit over the chance of having one art medium that s not messy when you need it one that allows as much flexibility as any other traditional medium one that lets you undo the unwanted stray stroke that you make when you cough or maybe the point of this post is simply to acknowledge that digital and traditional are two sides of the same coin that it doesn t need to be one or the other but both complementing each other whatever works right 5 comentarios tags digital final piece email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest january 30 2013 every time i paint a portrait i lose a friend wasn t it sargent who said that well why nobody asked mr sargent what happens when it s a self portrait i ve found out it s horrible to give yourself the silent treatment but you do it s quite interesting how easy it is making a self portrait just for yourself and how difficult it is to do it to show it to others the reason is quite simple you just want to look good yes i m hearing darren hayes singing ego inside my head shut up darren after some failed attempts it turns out that only i can look like me and that s a good thing ha go figure it is what it is and i think this one is truly me not just physically and that s the goal rocking my american retro t shirt comfy socks my beloved escoda in hand and a big smile plastered on my face and hopefully sending those vibes to you c mon you know what i m talking about and yes it doesn t hurt that the engaging and dynamic angle hides any fat that might or might not be down there ha ha after all i want to start talking to myself again as soon as possible have you painted a selfportrait i want to see them point me in the right direction and please tell me you ve gone through the same narcissistic mini crisis 7 comentarios tags final piece watercolor email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest january 23 2013 always practice long time without posting any figure drawing feels good to keep doing them daily and it s kind of funny to remember how that clock used to freak me out i don t even think about the time anymore i ve been doing drawing exercises daily for a while but all this time i ve been wondering how could i incorporate the same kind of quick exercise in watercolor to maybe round one hour of warm up everyday in late september i decided that trying portraits in the warmup would be a good complement to the figure drawings so i added a 15 minute portrait in watercolor to the daily routine being completely honest i got mess after mess they truly sucked got discouraged and stopped for a while then got back to it this time taking one step at a time first in monochrome trying to get right proportions then trying to get some resemblance to the model then trying to speed up the process yep that clock is freaking me out again it happens if you re a turtle when painting i still get messes 90 of the time tons of aaaargh and ewwww and l written next to them right after the 15 mins are over those will never see the light of day but from time to time i manage to get something that looks like an actual perfectly fine person every time i incorporate one more change it feels like the dreaded step back but i guess it s needed to get to the couple of steps forward so i think i ll keep at it since i want to see that percentage change to at least 90 of successes lesson learned if it s too big of a piece to swallow break it down into smaller bits and chew chew chew 7 comentarios tags conte figure drawing watercolor email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest january 16 2013 last minute panic are you familiar with bill watterson s calvin hobbes do you remember that strip where hobbes asks calvin whether he already has come up with an idea for something he should be doing and calvin s retort is that you have to be in the right mood when hobbes asks what mood is that calvin goes last minute panic well i ve been in last minute panic mode for over a week painting like a possessed woman painting and ripping and restarting and layering paint like there were no tomorrow disregarding hours of work in 15 minutes by hitting full blast what once were mild dark areas with a brush loaded with thick dark paint mercilessly removing masking tape which btw managed to take with it some of my hair yes the gum in the hair nightmare come true way after grade school just to realize i wanted more darks hence laying down some more masking tape after taking this photo yesterday those darks have expanded up the neck to the jaw and under the chin last minute panic what a ride and loved each second of it now onto the next one j 9 comentarios tags watercolor wip email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest november 26 2012 embrace fear want to know a secret fear has been one of my closest companions my whole life here s a fact fear is a strong source of motivation sometimes the strongest here s another fact that motivation can get you to better places the problem is that more often than not it seems to motivate you to turn and run in the opposite direction or just freeze sporting the dumbest face you re capable of do you want to know another secret fear probably just wants to help you to reach that better place but the wacko has not the best sense of direction so you need add your two cents too it s just trying to give you some advice you can take it ignore it or bend it letting fear lead probably won t end pretty well but once you turn it into a team work chances are that you weren t condemned to doom after all this conversation happened last wednesday regarding this illustration not your best is it o_o well it s not that bad she seems calculating you should fix it yeah a pity there s no time it s going in the mail tomorrow morning and it s such a tiny area that is going to be difficult to lift it completely and probably will look weirder after that there s no time to redo the whole thing if i ruin it it really needs to be in the mail tomorrow blah blah blah change it o_o rest assured i was the one ge...