Daily Creation Challenge #2-17

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And here it is Enyo for Laura Garijo. Enyo is one of her original characters and her first BJD that she made to sell. Enyo is soooo cute! Check her website at www.lauragarijo.com

See the Sketch and previous post about her character 

I tried to make an animated gif in Photoshop, not the smoothest thing in the world but there is only 20 min left till midnight and I needed to submit my daily challenge!

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Daily Creation Challenge #2-16

This is a watercolor demo I did for the class Objects, Fashion and lifestyle Illustration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was an awesome experience, I talked to the students about my job as an illustrator and art director and showed them one of my approachs to paint a handbag. It was really enlightening to listen to fellow artists and get to understand how it feels today to be about to graduate. I think it was a good talk for all of us. 

In broad lines, I first sketch, ink with watercolor, apply big masses of color and work out the values. Texture is last which was applied with colored pencils. I can't wait to go again!

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Daily Creation Challenge #2-15

"Recuerda que ambos teneís el mismo rango. La lucha de poder sólo os hará débiles"

He hecho esta ilustración para Tortuga Blanca. Es parte de una serie de dibujos que ilustran frases de la tortuga blanca. No olvidéis echarle un vistazo a su web :)

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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 #2-13

STEP 6: FINAL ADJUSTEMENTS

6.1 Realize that it's been feeling like saturday since Thursday... It is indeed awesome.
6.2 be ready to finish this thing
6.3 Add some adjustment layers on top of all the layers. Mine were:

6.3.1 A pattern layer to add some texture to the whole illustration (I used a pattern that I made with acrylic paint)

6.3.2 A photo filter layer with a Warming filter (85) to unify the colors a bit and also to make his face a little warmer.
6.3.3 Levels layer to push the darks and make the illustration more vibrant since the colors were a little washed out.

6.4 Sign and sing
6.5 Be proud.

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Daily Creation Challenge #2-12

STEP 5! COLOR!

5.1 Eat a turkey sandwich with stuffing for breakfast, you'll thank me later.

5.2 Time for vampires. Rent or get a movie on demand about vampires!

5.3 Add a Multipy layer on top of your other layers and add some more values and color.  

5.4 Create a new layer on top in normal mode. I sometimes paint it all on that layer, like it was acrylic or some times I  create two or three to be safe or just to look at the progress at end because it's fun to do.
I just started to create my own brushes with textures and it's super fun. You can emulate pretty much every technique, but acrylic-ish looking brush it's probably the easiest to get right.

5.5 After two layers that is what I made. Just about done.

Check out tomorrow's final chapter for the final adjustements!

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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 #2-5

Another drawing from yesterday's live figure drawing session. :)

Same, 45 min pose, pastel and conté pencils on charcoal paper

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Daily Creation Challenge #2-4

Figure Drawing for today's Challenge! 45 min pose, pastel and conté pencils on charcoal paper.

I loooove going to figure drawing! 

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Daily Creation Challenge #2-3

I am making a little guy!!

Pez in cage. Daily Creation Challenge #2-2

Trying the Blogger app for Iphone...

Daily creation number 2 of the second run!! So, 2-2. I missed Sunday and I had to start over, I was out of town and I completely forgot. I posted No 2-1 on my Fb :)

Daily Creation Challenge #7

Taurus, an earthy horoscope sign

I made this one with an old Sketch that I made last year but never colored. Not sure I love it... but works for the daily challenge :)

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Daily Creation Challenge #6

 I did these tattoo designs for my very good friend Brittany. These are my interpretations of the Dwennimmen,  an african symbol of 2 ram's horns coming together. It a symbol of humility together with strength. The ram will fight fiercely against an adversary, but it also submits humbly to slaughter, emphasizing that even the strong need to be humble. (Source)

Enjoy!

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Daily Creation Challenge #5

For day 5 I have created some acrylic textures for photoshop brushes :)

Something simple but necesary. I usually don't use textures on my Photoshop brushes but I want to try! 

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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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Daily Creation Challenge #3

Day 3!!

I did this one while I was watching The walking dead... not really related to zombies. I used reference, but no tracing. Photoshop CS5. About an hour  or 2 ... with zombie distractions included!

Tomorrow something more fun.

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Daily Creation Challenge #2

Second day!!!! yey!

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Creation challenge. Day 1. Creation #1

I have been really busy creating illustrations for a children's book with my friend Antonio Cartier. He wrote the story and I made the illustrations. I have to say that is was a heck a lot of work, but it was worth it. I ended up going on a bender for 36 hours, (secretly I am kind of proud that I could manage so many hours awake without crashing. It reminded me to college days!). The book was made for a contest, we hope to get a prize! we have turned the book in today, and we will find out in a month or less. I am really excited. I wish I could show something but the work has to be unpublished ever, so I will keep it secret for now.

The day that I finished I went to a live drawing session with a fellow illustrator and we had a blast. I hope to take a picture tomorrow to what I did. I would like to go next week, it was so relaxing and great. Definitely going again.

But what this post is about..... is about creating! I was so busy creating that book that now that I am done I feel I can do so much with my day that I have been doing so I decided that I am auto-enter in a auto imposed challenge.

The challenge is to create 1 thing a day and post it. very simple. The goal is to get a combo of 30 creations. If I miss one day, the count starts on 1 again.

ready? go!

This is #1 creation! a minidrawing of my original character Pi.

#1. Pi.

What have I created today?

 I have painted one sketch I made in 2007, retrace it, and painted it.

Bring it on Saturday!

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