BACK TO BASICS.

So, I moved to L.A in August to start my MFA at USC.

I just spent most of the previous month, and then some, getting things in order. So I haven't been able to do or post anything.

However, class exercises are starting to come about, so I'll try to make some cool things to post.
but I must warn you...I'm pretty rusty with non digital techniques. So, let's see...

I begin with a Zoetrope exercise.

Here are some animated gifs showing how the thing ended up looking.
(Click them to see the animation)

1. Face (Frame by frame)

2. Face (With a blur)

THE HOUND OF THE EMPIRE

You should not sketch the dog of the venezuelan ambassador at the 7th avenue with 85th street in Bogotá, because the police immediately comes to bother. 

Under the gray sky of Bogotá, some quick sketches of people exercise in the 7th Avenue Bikeway (ciclovía).

IT ONLY RAINS IN PANAMA II

This is the view from my room in Clayton, Panama City.

It's not the same house from when I painted this

ROSIE THE ROBOTEER

This is the cover I did for PROYECTO DISEÑO MAGAZINE #72 XIV LAPIZ DE ACERO (steel pencil) AWARD NOMINEES Edition.

This is a simple story. I was asked to do a cover with the only condition that I should include the "Lapiz de Acero" statuette in the image. I did four proposals for this cover.

1. War of the worlds 2.Space Oddysey
3. Steampunk 4. The window.

For some people it may be kind of obvious that most images come from some specific references. I have a lot of baggage in my head.

Fortunately my friend (and sometimes mentor) Andres Barrientos, one of Colombia's best illustrators, gave me some advice on the management of cliches in the image. So, I subverted the meaning of the images. Woman building robot, turned into Robot building human. Giving life with the afore mentioned Statuette.

I worked mostly on lights and transparencies. Not so much on textures. I gave it an over all shadow that turned it a bit "baroque" at the end.

Here are some shots of the PROYECTO DISEÑO stand at the FERIA DEL LIBRO BOGOTÁ 2011.

A shot about the  cover at an expo called ZONA D at LOS HEROES monument (Thanks to Catalina for this one)

<> another one...

And a shot of the inside article they did about my work

And now, it's been featured in SUPER PUNCH :D

Really nice.
Thanks for reading.

(Thanks to Paula, Juan Felipe, Adriana, Santiago, Javier, Another Santiago and Andres, Willy, Gustavo, Emiliana, Camila, Blanca) who took the time to give me their opinion.

HOW TO COOK A RAMEN CUP OF NOODLES

My Friend Catalina Alba, author of the Blog www.loquesecocinaenestacasa.com invited me to participate in her website with an illustrated recipe. Very kindly she describes the process that produced this result. You should visit her site (with google translate) because it's pretty useful and the presentation it's so nice. 


Now, onto the Image.


For this image, I tried to concentrate  mostly on creative layout, which I think is one of the main (and sometimes overlooked) strengths of comic books. The challenge was to squeeze the biggest amount of story into the image, making the most of the spaces. 

Also, I used a lot of sinuous patterns to complete and make a more dynamic image, sort of referencing early Japanese design. 

For those of you who don't know, FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER is a very popular deity on the Internet.

It was invented by some guy challenging the feasibility of god and satirically pointing that he might as well pray to a flying spaghetti monster. 

Previously I posted the Lettering design for FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER . Inspired, obviously, by Ultraman's Font design.

HERE ARE SOME STEPS OF THE PROCESS.

Step one. Pencil Layout

Step two. First Clean up.

Thanks for watching.

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