Queen Designs

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.

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.

What do you guys think? Birds, Sky, Woods and Mammals? Seems incomplete, where is the water?

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Daily Creation Challenge #28

So... I was thinking to make a nice looking Alice in wonderland piece and many people liked the last illustration 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.

This is the Alice I was talking about:

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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.

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Daily Creation Challenge #2-18

just a late night sketch.

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Daily Creation Challenge #2-14

I really wanted to participate in a illustration contest my friend Laura Garijo put together. The prize was one of her wonderful Enyos, a BJD designed by her.
I was very busy finishing a children's book for another contest and I couldn't make it. Good thing I won the children's book contest!

But I was bummed I never painted my version of Enyo. And here it comes the sketch!

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Para ti Sakuli! No podia esperar a terminarlo para enseñarlo asi que aqui va el bocetillo!

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Daily Creation Challenge #2-11

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

and happy step 4!

4.1 Get up late

4.2 Don't have breakfast

4.3 Don't have lunch

4.4 Do drink some water or gatorade, I don't want to be responsible if you fainted for not eating... 

4.5 Paint something on your computer to not think in the turkey that is coming soon!

4.6 Add a layer on Overlay mode and give some color that will indeed overlay on the values you already created. Set the layer to a lower opacity if it ended up being too bright. This was my layer:

4.7 Go and enjoy some good turkey and sweet potatoes, you should be very very hungry now!

Yummie!

Enjoy!

PS: If you don't live in the US or don't celebrate Thanksgiving, go and make yourself a turkey deli sandwich! It counts.

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Daily Creation Challenge #2-10

STEP 3!

3.1 Add Gradient layer on mode "color". Like this:

3.2 Add a Color layer underneath the previous layer on mode "multiply". I played with the opacity until I was satisfied with the results. My layer looked like this:

3.3 Go and eat a cookie!

Step 4 is coming soon!

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Daily Creation Challenge #2-9

STEP 2!!

2.1 Create a Multiply layer on top of the layer with your sketch.

2.2  Bored already? Go to the kitchen and open the fridge.

2.3 Realize there isn't anything you wanna eat right now.

2.4 Close the fridge.

2.5 Go back to your computer.

2.6 Shade your illustration thinking "value". It doesn't have to be perfect, it will help us to color the illustration without losing the overall illumination.

Step 3 tomorrow!

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Daily Creation Challenge #2-8

STEP 1!!

1.1 Watch Twilight and The Walking Dead in the same night. 

1.2 Think about vampires. 

1.3 Make your sketch. I made mine in a really small piece of paper like 2.5"x 1.5" (about 6 x 4 cm), because I feel less intimidated by small surfaces, ha.

Don't be afraid of shading and leave lines everywhere because we will cover them or we might leave them to add some handmade effect.

Step #2 tomorrow!

PS: I am eating the most delicious Spanish meatballs ever!

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Daily Creation Challenge #4

Daily Creation Challenge #4

Lately I am pretty happy. I feel free!

As promised, today something more fun. Lately I have been triying to get back to my roots, to when I drew and painted just for fun, so I thought of making something mixing the lolita series I made in 2007 (http://fav.me/dtwelw) and my fascination for Alice in wonderland. I love drawing lolita... I wonder why I haven't done in so long! For being a drawing for the daily challenge I am pretty happy. I plan to color it and fix some drawing issues, but that will be tomorrow: not only Daily creation day but also Project Night with my boyfriend.

I wanna paint this one soon!

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Fashion doodle

I was doodling and suddenly got inspired by a friend's fashion show that she put together some time ago. I love the styling she chooses for her models! You can check out her Facebook page and give her a like! Envieux Style

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Doodle 02

A fun doodle before going to bed.

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Mole sketches 01

Fashion sketches from my Moleskine sketchbook

Yesterday I drew and painted quite a lot.... I loved it :)

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