Procrastinando

This whole animation for my thesis business is creating me some sort of double personality: whenever I'm animating I can think of about 78 different ideas for illustrations, and whenever I'm painting I can't stop thinking of how much I still have to animate. And what is worse, my time is running out - even though it was supposed to be less.

Luckily, the moment I'm done I HAVE to illustrate my arse off: not only do I have to manage to sell my illustration works; I also joined the Arthouse's Sketchbook Project, so I have to send my finished sketchbook filled with Nighttime Stories by Halloween.

Este asunto de la tesis me está generando doble personalidad, o algo así: cuando estoy animando se me ocurren 87 (cambié el número por variedad XD) ideas para ilustrar, y cuando ilustro no puedo dejar de pensar en lo que tengo todavía que animar. Para acabarla, mi tiempo se acaba.

Por suerte en cuanto se termine, tengo (TENGO) que ilustrar intensamente: no solamente ocupo comenzar a posicionar ilustraciones en algún lado; también me uní al Sketchbook Project, y tengo que llenar mi sketchbook con Nighttime Stories (el tema que me tocó).

(And Perry, 'cause he's awesome :D)

In the meantime, here's a comission that took me just three days to paint (four, if you count sketching time) and a year and a half to actually do. I know, I know. Talk about procrastination. (And animation!! It's absorbing me!! D:)

To make up for this, I'm also sending her an extra sketch to thank her patience. At least I rather like the final result n_n

Por lo pronto, una comisión que me tomó tres días hacer y un año y medio decidirme a hacerla XD. Soy una verguenza, pero por lo menos voy a compensar el tiempo perdido enviando un sketch extra :D

Regresando

Long time no see n.n

The animation isn't done yet - I've got thirty more seconds to go, and my final deadline is June 25th. So I should go upstairs, turn my lightbox on and keep doing that.
But I've neglected my blog for quite a while, so I guess it's about time I post something - and since I was rather pleased with yesterday's exercise for Shut Up And Draw! at Sketchoholics.com, I'm showing it.


The goal was to illustrate Eosop's fable of The Fox and The Stork - you know, that fable where the fox invited the stork to have soup on flat bowls, and then the stork payed it back by asking the fox to dinner and serving the soup on long-necked vases. It was done in one hour, so there's still some work to do with it - and since I liked it, I should finish it.

But after I'm done with the shortcut. n.n One thing at a time.

Adios decadita

Xmas birdie - and the inks of that. I actually like the inked version better.

Last post of the decade!!! My God, you never realize really how old you are until you start talking in those terms. XD

This has been a good year - and the next one promises to beat him badly :). I should start working on the animation for my thesis project, of which I've already worked out most of the pre-production - I actually intend to blog about the process so I don't forget anything whenever I write it down (in spanish though - I need to think in those terms since I'd be describing the process as it will be on the thesis). Once I'm done with that, I might actually go to Ireland - since my parents mean to pay it for me as a graduation gift. :D

My best wishes: Hope you all have a GREAT DECADE. :3

Love, Erika*

Psyque en líneas

So, back on working on my thesis. For those of you who don't know, I'm working on a project trying to link Design with Animation - the connection is there, I know. I'm just pointing it out - and the project's culmination is producing a nano-budget, hand-drawn animated shortcut. I'm almost through with the theory, which means I must start now with the shortcut so I can finish it (hopefully) at around December.

For this piece? Ink and markers. I work really fast with this medium - so I may post everything with this for the next few months, if I even manage to do some personal work. I should.

Hiroshima

This is oddly fitting, since for many reasons I had been delaying posting this piece since I made it on April - and remembering today is the anniversary of the bombing in Hiroshima, I decided to stop doing so.

This is my portfolio's "main piece", for lack of a better term. It is my interpretation of Miyoko Matsubara's testimony of what happened that morning. I came across it while doing a research on the bombing, and shocked me so I decided to try and illustrate it.










I used two medium to try and capture the feeling of what happened, and create a more intense 'before' and 'after' with the color palette. They're meant to be viewed in sequence, so perhaps we could try and define them as a Colored Storyboard.

A video of Miyoko Mitsubara's testimony can be found here.

De volada

This is a very quick piece I did for my portfolio - I'll be showing it around at Comic-Con and see what happens. I really like the way it came out, with the two atmospheres in the same space. I'll probably see everything that is wrong with it tomorrow... but for now, I'm okay.

It is based on Les Miserables, on the part where Cosette's looking at the doll she wants while she's still at the Thenardiér's. Photoshop. With love. :)

A las carreras

My boyfriend borrowed my lap-top, and hence I stayed away from the internetz quite a while. And now I'm trying to put together some stuff to show around at the Comic-Con, and (hopefully) try and get a job. :)

Of course, it would have been easier if I had just drawn during all the time I was without computer instead of playing with my window's blinds.