Inktober 2015 (5)

More of my inktober, there is a little more left to post here (not sure if in a post or two).


These days are busy with personal stuff, but once it's over I will be able to go back to normal and work. I will try to post something more at the end of the week, something new this time, but today is impossible :(

Again, please remember that you can find all of my Inktober in my Twitter,FaceBook and Tumblr

See you soon!

Inktober 2015 (4)

As these days I'm quite busy with work and I have no time, here are the next five illustrations I did for Inktober this year.

I will do my best to post something new next week ><

Remember that you can find the rest of my Inktober's illustrations in my Twitter, FaceBook and Tumblr

Now back to work! Hope you have a really nice start of December (really, December already??)

Inktober 2015 (3)

 

Inktober again! 5 more drawings these days.

I keep practicing with the markers and having more and more fun! Once this month finish I will post some new digital illustrations and hopefully a good new. Can't wait!

Please remember that you can find the rest of my Inktober's illustrations in my other social media, such as Twitter, FaceBook and Tumblr

Let's keep working! Hope you have a nice day!

Inktober 2015 (2)

Here we go again, five more drawings I have done for this year's Inktober.

I'm really loving playing with these new markets, even if they are cheap, the practice is always welcome to keep improving and I'm learning a lot! I wish I could get better markers, but they can get really expensive, so it's all for the moment.

Can't wait to post the rest of the illustrations I'm doing here little by little, I'm with the 12th already! If you are curious, you can see them in my other social media, such as Twitter, FaceBook and Tumblr

Hope you have a nice day!

Inktober 2015 (1)

These days I'm participating in Inktober. It means I will draw (most like try if I have enough time) a new illustration with inks during all this month of October. I was planing to participate for a few years, why not to try it this year and try some new markers I got recently?

For now I have 5 drawings (the one above this text was made for the first day)! Here are the others:

I'm trying my best to keep doing a new one everyday, but I will do one only when I get time. So if I can do a drawing every day during a month great, if not, I had fun and I drew a lot, which is good enough.

Hope you have a nice October!

Leaf Girl

I can't help feeling like drawing plats-related illustrations lately. Nature is all around us, just take a look!! :)

This illustration was made with some old rotrings, and later colored digitally. I had a lot of fun with it!!

So, I keep on working on some illustrations and so, but I'm finishing them little by little, and everything is going nicely. I hope soon I get time to draw some things for myself, as lately I'm only able to do fast sketches, and from time to time. They help me to relax. For now, I can't do more than to go (happily) back to work!

As soon as possible I will go back to my old self, showing a new illustration every week. Till then, have fun and thank you for being there!!

Oval

Something a little different this time, it's a little sketch I made in my sketchbook, last year, using black ink and grey markers. It relax me to try this kind of thing in it from time to time :)

I have prepared next illustrations to show you, the ones I made during last year. And some new ready to be show in the future here. There are many things I want to do during this year... I hope I get enough energy, and inspiration, to start and to finish them properly. There's still a long way to go, but better not to let time goes by too fast. Step by step but without stop!

Hope you have a nice day and week!!! See you!!

Fast sketches

Finally, I decided to post some of those illustrations I left done for the live drawing session I attended.

As I said last week, I took with me some fast illustrations done the day before for people to take. All of these have now a new home! But I wanted to show you just a few of them here. These are done with pencil colors and ink, except for the last illustration of the little boy, which is done with water-based markers.

I don't think I will post more of these, at least not for a while. Have fun!! :)

Girl with long hair

Today I'm in a hurry, but at least I wanted to post something today as every week.

This time, it's a little test I made some weeks ago with water-based markers. I had a few of them in my power for a long time and I'm starting to get the hang of them little by little... I'm getting quite addicted! I like using them as watercolors, especially for sketches because of they are faster to use (and they dry fast, so it's always good when you are in a hurry. I think will keep using them for a while :).

Many things to do! Anyway, I will try to make a new post this week if I get some free time, also, I have pending to post some of the illustrations I made for the live drawing session I attended last week.

See you!

Live drawing session

This Sunday (16th November), as I told you last post, I was invited to participate in a live drawing session as part of an event called "Te-beo en la calle" celebrated in my city. Well, the day arrived and I had to draw whatever people wanted me to draw.

I was a little nervous at first, it makes me nervous to have people watching intently what I'm doing, but it was something I wanted to try and to test myself. At the end that nervousness went away and I was able to make it! I had a lot fun drawing among really talented artists (I loved the time we had drawing for each other!! :).

It was great to talk to those who came to you asking for a drawing (especially little kids, like the one on the photo who asked me for a princess). Here you have a photo my sister took of me while I was drawing one of these (from my Instagram). Surely I will edit this post later to add more:

This time I was asked for an Alice eating the magic mushroom. Here is a photo of its inking process.

A cat with a cloth hat.

But not everything will be photos in this post! I took there with me some fast illustrations I drew the day before with me. I thought that maybe it would take me a long time to finish just a few illustrations, so I let people in a hurry to take one of those with them. I'm glad I did it because sometimes there were too many people waiting!! Here you have two of them, I will post some of these maybe in my Twitter:

Two random illustrations done with ink and markers

All I can say is that it was a great experience, I'm glad I took part in it, as it was a new challenge for me for sure! People was really nice and I can't wait to meet again all those talented artists who participated. A great way to spend a Sunday! Sure thing I ended exausted, but it was deserved.

Hope you have fun!! Have a nice day!!

Handmade Stamp

 

Something different for today!! I wanted to show you a stamp I made to decorate paper for a present. I also created one to stamp this other present months ago, and I remembered that that day I told you I wanted to tell you how I made it... So that's how ;)

Let me tell you I'm not an expert with carving or rubber stamps. I made them for fun and to decorate certain presents. I know professional people who specially in it, that use professional tools/materials to make their stamps, but in my case, I use more "at hand" and cheaper items, (excepts for my carving set, which I used during my classes to carve linoleum) like an eraser, so maybe I'm not too orthodox with the technique. In case you are really interested I would recommend you to look for information in blogs, books or internet. There many reliable and inspirational sites ;)

I decided to make some photos during the process of my craving to show them you.

Before anything, I would tell you to start with simpler and bigger illustrations or motif, as those will be easier to carve and will help you to practice and improve :).

Also!! it's very important, be REALLY careful with your hands. Burins are very cutting and you can hurt your fingers in the process. Keep always the hand you are not using to hold your carving tool behind the direction you are cutting or far away of your eraser (in this case). No joke, it can be really painful and dangerous.

Once I'm ready, I start with a sketch, which I transfer to my eraser, keeping always in mind this illustration will end up looking at the opposite side (if in my drawing this orc is looking at your left, when you stamp in, it will look to your right).  Be also careful before carving it, and think which part you want to be "transparent" and which one will appear painted. You must ONLY carve "white" spaces.

Time to use your burins!!, I would recommend you to use wider shapes (U-shaped for example) at first, and V-shaped burins detail your stamp. It will be easier at first, but once you keep going you will need to be more and more careful to not "break" your eraser by accident or carving too much on it.

Keep going that way till you are satisfied and use your ink pad (I forgot to photograph it, sorry) pressing a little on it and try to make a first stamp in the paper you choose. Make little changes in it if necessary and start the fun!!

I would recommend you to play with the rotation of your stamp, and the color of it. Be creative and have fun!! ;). You will get addicted once you start.

Once you finish to stamp, clear your rubber to eliminate ink excess.


As I told you, I'm not an expert, but I really have a lot of fun carving to decorate presents. I will show you some photos of my whale stamp and how I decorated the paper in the future, but for now, it's enough for today.

Have fun!!

My second Moleskine

Today I decided to make a different post.

Do you remember my second Moleskine? I got it as a present from my sister. Once I finished with my old one, I decided to start with it. I was really surprised when I saw that the new one came with a little... "imperfection".

Yeah, it was... "stabbed" from its front cover through some pages (watercolor pages, I mean, they're not very thin). Because of its rubber-band, my sister didn't see it. Too bad, it was a present and there was no way I could return it to get a new one because I ripped its protector plastic.

Then I thought... why not to take advantage of it? Time to decorate! Nothing complicated, jut simple and cute.

Right after opening it I decided to cover the hole with decorated tape as if it was a strip. But before, I glued a piece of wrapping paper and drew its cord.

For the next page, where you can write your personal information in case of loss, I decided to use one of the lines and continue drawing it to use to tie the hanging cage. This time, this little illustration is more conceptual, the sky is trapped inside the cage, but the birds are flying free away ;)

For the next page, I played again with collage using different papers. The hole hides thanks to the basket.

What do I want to say with it? If you have someday a similar "problem" (as I now know it's not THAT bad), take advantage of it and use your imagination! Thanks to this little "imperfection" I love a lot my second Moleskine, even if it's still not finished.

Have fun!!

Jump and continue

I never intended to post this illustration in my blog (which I made in my Moleskine some months ago). But I changed my mind, I thought that I only could post it today...

My best wishes for you.

Zebra X-ing

Today I'm busy! so, here a show you a sketch I decided to clean before posting it here :). I made it to practice another style with watercolor markers.

Yesterday I drew a lot with pencils, and I think I will keep doing it later today, just with another brand! Also, this morning I have been scanning some old negatives with my scanner for the first time. I need to practice a little but I'm glad I decided to buy this scanner.

It gave the idea to speak about the scanners I used so far, even if I'm not an expert.

Have fun! Look back for some memories, and see you tomorrow.

Sketch practice

Sketch from my Moleskine!!

This day I wanted to draw something different and faster to do. The drawing bellow is done with black rotring, and the two faces are done with a blue pen directly, without a sketch.

Next days will be a little busy for me, but once September is started, around the second week, I will have more time, hopefully.

Asphalt and foundation

Asphalt and foundation to break through when you need to breathe again.

A little experimentation from my old Moleskine with watercolor markers. Also something different to what I usually post here but that I wanted to show anyway.

Have a nice day and see you tomorrow!!

Butterfly in a jar

 Again another illustration from my Moleskine. I drew it almost at the same I drew this one. Also with gouache and rotring! Although I used a slightly different style with this one, but just a little ;)

I will post something written for tomorrow here in my blog, if all goes well. I also got some ideas for other posts, but I need "to research" before, and time to write them.

I have too many things to do for next month. The end of this one is being very busy, in different aspects.

So, see you tomorrow!!

Book Style

Today I'm busy, and a little tired, but I will get some sketches scanned. Blame busy Sundays.

For now, it's a little bookmark, which was posted here on my Facebook page. It was originally drawn in my Moleskine, as you can see below these lines. The girl and typography were drawn traditionally with sepia ink and watercolor, and later I edited the background digitally and retouched the girl "hair" to adapt the drawing to the bookmark format.

Here is the illustration as I drew it in my Moleskine.

That's all for now! Tomorrow something new.

At the bus stop

Quick ink and watercolor drawing from my Moleskine. I wanted to try out a fast and irregular style, which relaxed me a lot at that moment.

Tomorrow I won't post anything here or anywhere, because a friend of mine who is living right now in another city will come here for a few hours!! She won't come back again for a time, so I will be out almost all day to enjoy the day with her. Tomorrow I will also have to wait at the bus stop :D!!

So, a day of rest to my blog :). Have a nice day!!