tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46169424990216439082024-02-07T22:24:32.676-06:00ESPIRALES WHIMSICALESHelena Ecija's illustration blog en spanglishHelena Ecijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964799941666264886noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616942499021643908.post-52523777241341544102012-11-28T04:25:00.001-06:002012-11-28T05:08:15.019-06:00I have moved!<div style="text-align: center;">
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I have moved!<br />
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My blog will now be found at www.helenaecija.com/blog. <br />
I migrated all the content so all posts in this blog are already in the new one.<br />
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Helena Ecijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964799941666264886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616942499021643908.post-21309108182553455232012-10-03T23:48:00.003-05:002012-10-03T23:48:45.717-05:00Draw it again contest: Cetrina II<div style="text-align: center;">
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I decided to enter a contest on Deviant art. The goal of the contest was to re-paint something you have painted before to see the progress in style and technique. I chose an illustration from 2007. I feel my style has evolved quite a bit, I like the more hand drawn feeling my illustrations have now, but I have to say that I still love that illustration from 2007.<br />
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<a href="http://fav.me/du9vea" target="_blank">Original 2007</a><br />
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1. Sketch on Photoshop CS5<br />
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2. Overal values in b/w<br />
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3. Rendering in b/w<br />
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4. Color and final</div>
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The contest is now on the jury stage, wish me luch, 50 semifinalists and 10 finalist will win premium memberships in DA.</div>
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Helena Ecijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964799941666264886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616942499021643908.post-38352196796289333622012-09-21T12:59:00.002-05:002012-09-21T13:00:30.150-05:00Yard sale!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Yard sale people!</div>
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My bf and I are moving to Europe, everything must go!</div>
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If you live in Chicago close to Uptown, come join us!!</div>
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Sep 29th 2012, 4703 N. Malden St. 9 am to 5 pm</div>
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It's on!</div>
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Helena Ecijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964799941666264886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616942499021643908.post-73253254587550040982012-07-21T10:00:00.000-05:002012-07-22T12:00:09.959-05:00Hand Lettering Week - Saturday<div style="text-align: center;">
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And finally.... Saturday!</div>
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I think I might continue with the hand lettering, Maybe one style per day this time :)</div>
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<a href="http://ecija.deviantart.com/">Ecija on DeviantArt</a></div>Helena Ecijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964799941666264886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616942499021643908.post-23792839302743345472012-07-20T07:30:00.000-05:002012-07-20T07:30:02.953-05:00Hand Lettering Week - Friday<div style="text-align: center;">
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Friday is my favorite day!</div>
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<a href="http://ecija.deviantart.com/">Ecija on DeviantArt</a></div>Helena Ecijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964799941666264886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616942499021643908.post-81801717825027954582012-07-19T12:48:00.000-05:002012-07-19T12:48:43.425-05:00Hand Lettering Week - Thursday<div style="text-align: center;">
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Rainy Thursday deserved a warm color to compensate the lack of sun :)</div>
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I tried to make a nice ligature for the TH... ligatures are the best!</div>
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<a href="http://ecija.deviantart.com/">Ecija on DeviantArt</a><br />
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Wednesday is very pleasant so far. Blue for a nice day.</div>
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<a href="http://ecija.deviantart.com/">Ecija on DeviantArt</a></div>Helena Ecijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964799941666264886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616942499021643908.post-7724664201766480422012-07-17T08:00:00.000-05:002012-07-17T08:00:01.116-05:00Hand Lettering week - Tuesday<div style="text-align: center;">
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The project has decided that this will be Scripty Week. I have been trying other styles that I want to show you guys but I want to make all the days in Script style first.</div>
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The next step is to try some of these letterings with my illustrations.</div>
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<a href="http://ecija.deviantart.com/">Ecija on DeviantArt</a></div>Helena Ecijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964799941666264886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616942499021643908.post-8652421006710891302012-07-16T08:00:00.000-05:002012-07-16T08:00:15.787-05:00Hand Lettering Week - Monday<div style="text-align: center;">
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I went to school for Fine Arts with emphasis in Illustration. Typography was never my forte, I never took a single class about it. I didn't even understood how people would like to make their own fonts, it just seemed boring. However, when I left school and started to hang out with graphic designers, my desire to get better at typography has grown exponentially. I would say they brought me to the dark side. I have been getting better and better at graphic design, typeset and all that thanks to my pirate friends. But it wasn't enough to turn the switch and made me love it.</div>
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It's so addicting that I decided to hand letter all the days of the week for one week.</div>
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I don't have a lettering pen (yet), so I have been using a Pilot pen and filling in the strokes. It's time consuming but I am getting better at it. I like how this "sunday" looks. So far my letter repertoire it's kinda limited but I am trying to make more and more variations as I go. Capital letters are far harder to me. You know what they say though, practice makes perfect!</div>
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<a href="http://ecija.deviantart.com/">Ecija on DeviantArt</a></div>Helena Ecijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964799941666264886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616942499021643908.post-81420724707593697182012-07-14T16:23:00.001-05:002012-07-14T16:23:24.194-05:00Poster Saturdays - Be Extraordinary<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://ecija.deviantart.com/">Ecija on DeviantArt</a></div>Helena Ecijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964799941666264886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616942499021643908.post-34594573897428542542012-06-10T22:16:00.000-05:002012-06-10T22:16:18.482-05:00Queen of birds Work in Progress<div style="text-align: center;">
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Queen of birds! take 1</div>
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I have been working on designs for a Deck of Cards. I am not yet decided on the suits. So far I have tried to sketch the Queen of Woods, the Queen of Birds, the Queen of the Sky/Sun and the Queen of Mammals. I like to start with the queens because drawing women is my favorite and helps me get in to the zone. I am deciding if I want to incorporate Type as a really prominent part of the card's design or not. I want to do so as a challenge, because I love type but I am not to good at it. I think I should, illustrations will get to a whole new level.<br />
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Maybe I will put them as part of the frame? We will see, First I need to decide the suits. I would like the suits to make sense with each other as a ecosystem of sorts. Or like layers of the woods (sun, sky, woods, roots, underground water...). I really like the idea of the queen of birds so I don't want to give that one up, but I think that is precisely the one that I could live without concept wise.<br />
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<a href="http://ecija.deviantart.com/">Ecija on DeviantArt</a></div>Helena Ecijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964799941666264886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616942499021643908.post-19423603253317900242012-04-08T12:07:00.001-05:002012-05-07T00:27:17.633-05:00Happy Easter!Happy Easter everyone!<br />
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We had so much fun decorating eggs! Check out some of the eggs I did! My boyfriend helped me with the Stormtroopers and the death star! I think they came out really good. You can tell I got pretty intense by the last ones. Ha ha<br />
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I made a little toy! </div>
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This is my little girl without name (but for short "Nonami") She is a character that lives inside Pi's head and explains her whimsically how the world works. Pi has Aspergers Sindrome. Both are characters of mine for a project about autism. It is a long term project but I like to treat myself into doing some fun stuff while some other projects take the priority. I hope I can find some time to get back to it soon</div>
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The sculpture/toy measures about 4 inches (10 cm) and it's made out of Sculpey. Spray painted white and then painted with acrylic paint. It was really hard to keep the symmetry, I tried to do my best.</div>
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Here is an old drawing of the Girl without name:</div>
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I am proudly exhibiting my master piece on my living room. I love it! </div>
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<a href="http://ecija.deviantart.com/">Ecija on DeviantArt</a></div>Helena Ecijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964799941666264886noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616942499021643908.post-37764528169147354172012-02-26T19:40:00.002-06:002012-02-26T19:41:52.805-06:00Japanese crafts<div style="text-align: center;">
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My sister in law brought me some fun little novelties from Japan. I used to them today as a good end point to the weekend. It was really fun (and relaxing) to decorate the girl in the kimono and make some sushis. I paint and design dress up dolls for work so this was a really thought full gift.</div>
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Here is a drawing of my girl Shizue, she is a BJD doll and character of mine. Shizue (Zoe for short) is a Halloween elf that helps to spread the spirit of Halloween all across the world. I have made some other drawings of her but I think this one really captures her gaze.</div>
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I am starting a new challenge today, 30 days of drawings of things I like or things I have made illustrations of before (that I like). So, I expect to do some illustrations of my characters and re-illustrate some of my pin-up-type illustrations, but who knows, I am not really planning anything. This will be another 30 days, because that seems to work pretty good. It is just for fun! Fun drawings to help me strengthen my style and my drawing speed. I hope to move into a more concept-oriented challenges after finishing with this one if I get the results I am looking forward to achive.</div>
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I want to make some new illustrations in Photoshop with wood block feeling and I decided to make my very own textures with what I had at hand. I didn't have wood block paint so I used Blick's student acrylic. I also didn't have etching paper so I tried a couple types of papers from my sketchbooks. A mat to avoid making a mess and big brush and I had everything I needed for some experimentation!</div>
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It was a little tricky to make them look just like the wood block etching but it was lots of fun. Here is how you can do it.</div>
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1. get a piece of wood</div>
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2. Apply the paint with a roller. I didn't have one so I used a big brush.</div>
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3. Place your paper on top and apply pressure with your hands or another utensil. I some times helped myself with other piece of wood, a coworker told me you could use a wood spoon. Ultimately the amount of pressure depends on the type, thickness and quantity of the paint you used. This one of those trial and error thing:<br />
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4. Peel it up and enjoy!!<br />
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Today, it was Pirate Dinner. Some very talented friends of mine and I hold a monthly design challenge, that means getting together, eating some good home made food and laughing a lot. Each month's host proposes a theme for the challenge and gives us especial directions if needed, we make a design and bring it with us. There is no pressure, it's just to have fun designing.<br />
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January's challenge was Puppy Treats.<br />
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This was my design.</div>
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I thought I will tell you a bit about my creative process. The name that was picked for me was "Lick, sniff and bite" which is a very dirty sounding name. So, I wanted to make into a yuppy, kinda classy design to add some drama. I was thinking that it would be a good contrast. I started by doing some research and drew some title options in my sketchbook:</div>
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I liked how the last one on the right looked, so I went on the computer and worked on the idea, tried different typefaces and color combinations. I usually choose few font options with Font Book, but I am open to try other things along the way. </div>
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I start designing on black and white first, then I keep duplicating the logo and make slight changes to it until I am happy with the result, same with color schemes, diecuts and all. After a few hours I decide to stop and make a decision. I choose a design and then apply it to the different flavors. I like to see how the idea will be implemented in series. That helps me decide how big the type should be (for instance I had to reduce the type on the flavor because longer titles needed smaller type and I wanted to keep it consistent). Or what color schemes I am using, I had to make changes to my bacon color scheme in favor of the beef flavor. </div>
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This is what my file looked like when I finished.</div>
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For a professional job I would probably had more comps and more sketches but this is just for fun. And I had lots of fun in fact this is what I devoted pretty much the whole Saturday afternoon to.</div>
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Looking forward to the next challenge of the Pirate Day/dinner/awesomeness!</div>
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<a href="http://ecija.deviantart.com/">Ecija on DeviantArt</a></div>Helena Ecijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964799941666264886noreply@blogger.com0Chicago, IL, USA41.8781136 -87.629798241.6889521 -87.94565519999999 42.067275099999996 -87.3139412tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616942499021643908.post-87808263593097244162011-12-14T01:46:00.001-06:002011-12-14T01:46:59.452-06:00Daily Creation Challenge #30 and last!!!<div style="text-align: center;">
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For my last challenge I wanted to do something that I was supposed to do months ago. I finished the final business card comp for my cousin's craft label. It's a comp, subject to improve. She makes awesome handmade jewelry and accessories. I am not sure that she has a website but if she does I will update the post.<br />
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And now I am "free". But I have a very tasty project lined up next. I will be making illustrations for a friend's website. Will keep you updated!<br />
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The daily challenge has been an awesome experience and I have been thinking in other types of challenges to do next. I will leave it for 2012, since I will leave for a couple weeks and go home in Spain, and will be very busy with the holidays. Also, my brother has asked me for a drawing to put on his gaming stick and that has to happen before the wise men day!<br />
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Merry Christmas! y ¡Feliz Navidad!<br />
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So... I was thinking to make a nice looking Alice in wonderland piece and many people liked <a href="http://espiraleswhimsicales.blogspot.com/2011/11/daily-creation-challenge-4.html">the last illustration</a> I made of Alice. So I decided to make the rabbit as a reflect of Alice. I think I will put them together in a image and color the whole thing. Sounds like a good mini project.</div>
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This is the Alice I was talking about:</div>
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Ok, only 2 more challenges to go! I can't wait to finish and feel as accomplished I think I will feel.<br />
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<a href="http://ecija.deviantart.com/">Ecija on DeviantArt</a></div>Helena Ecijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964799941666264886noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4616942499021643908.post-61934740829140422002011-12-11T00:11:00.001-06:002011-12-11T00:30:49.667-06:00Daily Creation Challenge #27<div style="text-align: center;">
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Challenge #27!! I can't believe that I made it this far! </div>
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This is a piece that Diana Torres and I made together. She is a very good friend of mine and an excellent artist. She created the idea and the line work I applied color to it. It was super super fun! Diana and I need to do this again for sure. </div>
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Here is an animated gif with the main steps that usually also means the main layers. Photoshop CS5 :)</div>
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Thanks Diana!!</div>
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PS: I am wearing my new DC jacket and smells so good! I was not meant for the snow but I really wanna use it on the snow!</div>
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As os now, they are printing about 500 copies and they won't be for sale. Instead they will donate the books to kids in events for children. I think that is wonderful. Don't despair though, We are thinking on other ways to publish the book and make it available for everybody. :)<br />
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The book is about a round kid named Otto that moves to a Square town and he has some trouble to fit in at first. But hey! We are all different but we are all the same after all! Right?<br />
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