Cat city Illustrations

This is a 3 illustration series I had to make as a final homework at an illustration workshop. The theme was "My invented country" and I decided to make a country of cats >_> I'm so original -__-;

They where all sketched in pencil and painted in Photoshop. It looks dirty and not perfect because that's what I tried to achive >_> I would had make them traditioanlly if I had the time, but no ;_;

“Only in the most exclusive restaurants we can find the unique option of having a bird served alive, in which the necesity of hunting for fresh food remains completely obsolete*”

*The restaurant isn’t responsible if your order escapes before arriving to your dish. 

“…and when August arrives, we can see the endless parties that take place on the roofs of the entire city. The music, lights and the euphoric meowing, invade the tranquility of the night."

“…and when August arrives, we can see the endless parties that take place on the roofs of the entire city. The music, lights and the euphoric meowing, invade the tranquility of the night.”

Practice sketches

There's nothing that drives me more to make quick sketches than going to http://es-es.colourlovers.com/ and select cool colour palletes to play with. I choosed 4 different combinations and made 4 quick sketches (around 10 min each) to experiment, I hope to make of this a daily habit, but who knows >_>

Short Animation

This is an animated intro for the Guth Gafa Documentary film festival, held in Ireland this year. The backgrounds were made in photoshop, the animation in TVPaint animation and the music is by Reto Stamm.

It was one of the most fun and challenging jobs I did, it was cool since they told me "We want YOUR characters! We like what you do!" So basically I just had to be myself, a thing that rarely happens in animation :) It was a small job but still, I'm pretty proud of it 

4 Year Aniversary and Totoro

I couldn't help to blog about this. On thrursday 12th it was our 4 year aniversary with my boyfriend :) It's funny because we both did Totoro themed gifts for each other xDD He made this amazing illustration, I loved eveything about it, it doesn't even notice that he's colorblind ;) It's the two of us flying with Totoro

And this was my gift for him, a pop up card of the two of us, sadly I couldn't take any photos, but it kinda worked fine for being my first paper craft (and I'm horrible at crafting I must say)

The Thumb Cinema Characters : The story of Tanuki-San

Maybe you people have seen my Judo racoon illustration on my Etsy shop, but who is this character? What's his story?

Well, Tanuki-san was born for a College examn, where we were supposed to representate a sport through a short animation. At the very first moment I choosed Judo, because I love martial arts, and really the only interesting sports for me. So we had to do a lot of investigation of the sport to make the short film, along that I decided that my film should had a japanese traditional style. But who or what should be the main character? I really don't like animating humans very much, so I needed an animal. I choosed a racoon because it's a traditional japanese animal and it's the main character of many japanese folk tales, incluiding for they mischievous acts like robbing food.

I also think that one of the stereotypes of japan was the typicall Godzilla-like monster that terrorized the town, and I HAD to add something like that xD that's why Tanuki-san is a Giant Judo Racoon hahaha.

Here's the character Sheet for Tanuki-san, it explains several things about his personality :) Click to see it:

And the result of all this was this short, it's subbed in spanish but maybe you could understand it anyway. A giant judo raccon terrorizes a small japanese traditional town. He easts and drinks everything that crosses his way, and it's having a great time. The town people are very scared and call the town's protectors, who are a Sumo wrestler, a Karate-kid and a Samurai. With the power of Judo, tanuki-san defeats them all very easily until a small Judoka like himself challeges him. In the end, size or power didn't matter, because the little judoka knew how to use his opponent force in his favor. Tanuki-san leaves town defeated, but not wothout robbing the last montain of food he could!