Very important short documentary about whats happening in the VFX community and the Film industry as a whole. Must watch.
Muy importante corto documental sobre lo que esta pasando en la comunidad de efectos visuales y la industria del cine en genera. Tienen que verlo!
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Starting a Creative New Year!
Hello everybody!
Last Saturday was the first session of my Schetchoholics group. There was not that many people at the shopping mall, wich was weird, but at least I got to draw a few people.
If you ever come visit Buenos Aires, you are welcome to come draw with us every Saturday, You can contact me if you are interested in dropping by.
Anyway, here are my drawings.
Happy new year!
Last Saturday was the first session of my Schetchoholics group. There was not that many people at the shopping mall, wich was weird, but at least I got to draw a few people.
If you ever come visit Buenos Aires, you are welcome to come draw with us every Saturday, You can contact me if you are interested in dropping by.
Anyway, here are my drawings.
Happy new year!
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Come Join Sketchoholics!!
Lately I've been wanting to get back on painting more, so I'm getting back to basics. I'm back to
sketching and I've started the Sketchoholics Group with my good friend Chris Granados
Inspired by Bobby Chiu's Toronto Subway Sketchgroup, we would go to the subway station on Sundays to draw people that got on and off the subway, so it's a great way to observe new people and have live models.
This group is for everyone and anyone that wants to sketch just for the sake of sketching and having fun. Whether you are a student, a professional, or just an art enthusiast and want start drawing.
The goal of this Sketchoholics Group is to come join me and Chris to sketch on a public place on saturdays, creating an opportunity to share and enjoy drawing and grow as a community and as an artist. The point of this is to also give comments on how to improve our techniques.
The blog is in Spanish and the Sketchoholics group is being held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. If you're around, you are more than welcome to join us! And if you would like to join The blog to post your sketches and get some feedback, let me know by contacting me. You are welcome to post in English if you like.
Here are the sketches I did today for the first group session.
Hope to see you around! Thanks for reading!
sketching and I've started the Sketchoholics Group with my good friend Chris Granados
Inspired by Bobby Chiu's Toronto Subway Sketchgroup, we would go to the subway station on Sundays to draw people that got on and off the subway, so it's a great way to observe new people and have live models.
This group is for everyone and anyone that wants to sketch just for the sake of sketching and having fun. Whether you are a student, a professional, or just an art enthusiast and want start drawing.
The goal of this Sketchoholics Group is to come join me and Chris to sketch on a public place on saturdays, creating an opportunity to share and enjoy drawing and grow as a community and as an artist. The point of this is to also give comments on how to improve our techniques.
The blog is in Spanish and the Sketchoholics group is being held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. If you're around, you are more than welcome to join us! And if you would like to join The blog to post your sketches and get some feedback, let me know by contacting me. You are welcome to post in English if you like.
Here are the sketches I did today for the first group session.
Hope to see you around! Thanks for reading!
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Happy Thanksgiving!
For Thanksgiving, I did this quick drawing/sketch, for I wanted to share a nice image whither the
things I'm thankful for: I'm thankful for all the good things in my
life: my family, my fiance, my friends, the great people I'm
inspired by and got the chance to meeting, the different teachers in life (not
only by profession), the opportunities given to me and the ones by
chance, for being me and for the life and talent/skills I am lucky to
have been born with. But I am also thankful for the bad things in life
as well, because it is a chance to see the other beautiful things and
potential there is in life and gives you a chance to also appreciate the
precious things one once had. Happy thanksgiving everyone!
Saturday, August 4, 2012
My Imaginism In-House Workshop Experience
Hello everyone!
I just came back from the amazing experience of the Imaginism In-House Workshop. I finally got some free time to write a bit about it and show what I was up to.
I still can't believe I got chosen to be part of the Imaginism Workshop family. It is such a great honor and a really unique experience. First day, I was the first to arrive to Toronto Airport, where master artist, Thierry Lafontaine, picked me up and took me to the Imaginism Workshop House. After getting my stuff a bit settled where I would be sleeping for the month, we went back to the airport to pick up one of my fellow peers, June Shieh (from LA). While we waited for the other two apprentices, we accompanied Thierry to buy a foosball table, which I found it a pretty fun and weird way of starting this workshop. And let me tell ya, that foosball table got used and played a lot during the duration of the workshop.
Later that day, the third apprentice, Ryan Van Eyk (from Johannesburg, South Africa) arrived to the Workshop house and finally, Sergio Tomo (from Sao Paulo, Brazil) arrived the next day.
When Thierry first took me to the Workshop House, I was blown away. Just being inside, with all those walls full of the amazing paintings from Thierry, Bobby Chiu and Kei Acedera I got inspired right away.
The workshop was what I was waiting for a long time and much more than that. I was looking for a way to keep studying, improve my painting skills, and more importantly, I've been looking for a physical place to work on those things where me and other artists would inspire each other in a stimulating and creative environment. This was exactly what I've been looking for.
Not only I got to improve my skills significantly, but I also got to meet great people and some of my idol artists which I always look up to for inspiration in art and their philosophies.
The first day, we had a lecture with Bobby to start the Workshop. He gave us as a small gift his book "The Perfect Bait" autographed by him. By the way, I really recommend you to get this book, since it talks about how to become a successful artist by doing what really is a passion to you and becoming your own brand. But as I was reading it, I realized it can be applied not to only artists, but to any kind of professional out there. Because it talks about how to get over the million reasons to give up your pursuit of whatever your passion is, motivate yourself and take all those bad things to bury them and build up above, overcoming them and succeeding.
On that first day, he shared some of his life experiences in the industry, how he came about, and what he did to overcome some of the bad things life threw at him. He also got us really motivated and pumped up, which was a perfect start to this workshop. He also did a small motivational exercise at the end of the lecture. It was such an intense feeling what he made me feel from his words and what he helped us envision what could be part of our future. I literally cried from that intense feeling, because it felt so real, I could grasp it right then and there and realized that I can achieve whatever I draw as my path. It blew my mind away. There is a video by Bobby that talks a bit about this things and a similar exercise to the one at the workshop here. Check it out.
After that day, we started the drawing lectures with Thierry. That first week was about the very basics of drawing and art being a form of comunication. Also the fact of really understanding something before drawing or writing about it. We drew from lines, to squares, to boxes. I didn't realize how hard it really is to do that, trying to maintain the same spacing between each other and drawing perfect squares by hand. And realizing that everything is based of a line, square and ultimately a box and how everything we see can be based off a box. Also mind blowing. That first week was all about getting a really solid ground to build up and improve, to later applying this techniques when creating new art.
Here are some of the exercises and paintings I did at the Workshop:
You can view three of the other paintings I did at the Workshop here.
I had an amazing experience there. I got all boosted up to keep at my craft and keep pursuing my goals as a professional artist. Little by little I'll be posting more and more often with new creations and hopefully get really god at it for what I want to do.
Here's a blog post about the Workshop I attended and other interesting things by Imaginism here
I hope this post inspires you to keep at your craft and pursue your passion. If you wanna ask anything about the workshop or anything in general, don't hesitate to contact me. :)
Thanks for reading!
I just came back from the amazing experience of the Imaginism In-House Workshop. I finally got some free time to write a bit about it and show what I was up to.
I still can't believe I got chosen to be part of the Imaginism Workshop family. It is such a great honor and a really unique experience. First day, I was the first to arrive to Toronto Airport, where master artist, Thierry Lafontaine, picked me up and took me to the Imaginism Workshop House. After getting my stuff a bit settled where I would be sleeping for the month, we went back to the airport to pick up one of my fellow peers, June Shieh (from LA). While we waited for the other two apprentices, we accompanied Thierry to buy a foosball table, which I found it a pretty fun and weird way of starting this workshop. And let me tell ya, that foosball table got used and played a lot during the duration of the workshop.
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| Thierry also taught us so many awesome tricks and plays, while relating it to our painting lessons, visualizing our goals and life itself. |
When Thierry first took me to the Workshop House, I was blown away. Just being inside, with all those walls full of the amazing paintings from Thierry, Bobby Chiu and Kei Acedera I got inspired right away.
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| Pictures of what would be my bedroom for the month, the staircase and the creative/learning area. |
The workshop was what I was waiting for a long time and much more than that. I was looking for a way to keep studying, improve my painting skills, and more importantly, I've been looking for a physical place to work on those things where me and other artists would inspire each other in a stimulating and creative environment. This was exactly what I've been looking for.
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| All of us would normally be working till late, but pushing each other and getting creative. |
Not only I got to improve my skills significantly, but I also got to meet great people and some of my idol artists which I always look up to for inspiration in art and their philosophies.
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| From left to right: June Shie, Ryan Van Eyk, Bobby Chiu, Kei Acedera, me, Peter Chan, Thierry Lafontaine and Sergio Tomo. |
The first day, we had a lecture with Bobby to start the Workshop. He gave us as a small gift his book "The Perfect Bait" autographed by him. By the way, I really recommend you to get this book, since it talks about how to become a successful artist by doing what really is a passion to you and becoming your own brand. But as I was reading it, I realized it can be applied not to only artists, but to any kind of professional out there. Because it talks about how to get over the million reasons to give up your pursuit of whatever your passion is, motivate yourself and take all those bad things to bury them and build up above, overcoming them and succeeding.
On that first day, he shared some of his life experiences in the industry, how he came about, and what he did to overcome some of the bad things life threw at him. He also got us really motivated and pumped up, which was a perfect start to this workshop. He also did a small motivational exercise at the end of the lecture. It was such an intense feeling what he made me feel from his words and what he helped us envision what could be part of our future. I literally cried from that intense feeling, because it felt so real, I could grasp it right then and there and realized that I can achieve whatever I draw as my path. It blew my mind away. There is a video by Bobby that talks a bit about this things and a similar exercise to the one at the workshop here. Check it out.
After that day, we started the drawing lectures with Thierry. That first week was about the very basics of drawing and art being a form of comunication. Also the fact of really understanding something before drawing or writing about it. We drew from lines, to squares, to boxes. I didn't realize how hard it really is to do that, trying to maintain the same spacing between each other and drawing perfect squares by hand. And realizing that everything is based of a line, square and ultimately a box and how everything we see can be based off a box. Also mind blowing. That first week was all about getting a really solid ground to build up and improve, to later applying this techniques when creating new art.
Here are some of the exercises and paintings I did at the Workshop:
You can view three of the other paintings I did at the Workshop here.
I had an amazing experience there. I got all boosted up to keep at my craft and keep pursuing my goals as a professional artist. Little by little I'll be posting more and more often with new creations and hopefully get really god at it for what I want to do.
Here's a blog post about the Workshop I attended and other interesting things by Imaginism here
I hope this post inspires you to keep at your craft and pursue your passion. If you wanna ask anything about the workshop or anything in general, don't hesitate to contact me. :)
Thanks for reading!
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Candy Viking Chief
Hello everybody! Sorry for not really posting that often, but I'm hoping I'll get some more spare time now, because I really want to work on my personal projects.
But for now, I though I should post my last 2D piece I made at the Imaginism In-House Workshop i took in June this year. I'll be posting soon about my experience in the Workshop.
I hope you like it.
Thanks for reading!
Thanks for reading!
Monday, April 2, 2012
Red Temptation (Excercise)
Hi everyone!
This post is to hopefully committing and posting a lot more often.
My purpose and objective is to really commit to practicing and improving my art level for all art forms I love doing really. Being sketching, drawing, painting, sculpting (real life and 3D sculpting) and anything in between. And at the same time, receiving feedback to have a better view of all angles to how I can improve.
To restart my posts in my sketchbook, I’ve decided to finish this piece. It was originally an exercise from a seminar I attended in Mexico called “Objective, Hollywood: the 10 techniques used in visual effects for the film industry”. Basically the goal of this exercise was to try and achieve realism, painting from a photo reference as a guide and try to get it as close to the real photo as possible. This was made in Photoshop.
I know it’s not the most amazing piece, nor the most original thing out there (the original picture has been seen so many times all over the place). But I decided I should finish what I’ve started, and start like that with all other projects that I’ve left pending overtime. And then from there pick it up and do more ambitious projects one step at a time.
C&C are most welcome.
Thanks for reading.
Cheers!
Cheers!
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