Dark Alleys

In fact it is only 'one' dark alley, and a close up of the architecture at the very background. Again, inspirational stuff for PIB, very early in production.

Ladies in orange, and shoe repair sign

Gals in orange for today.
...(Read in a shoe repair store sign, in the Philippines:
'Jesus' shoe repair, I will heel you, I will save your sole, and I will even dye for you)
Love it!

Two more drawings

And two more drawings I did for the same show

Puss In Boots nominated

So, nominated to an Academy Award it is! Congrats to all the team and best of lucks.
Here are another two sketches I did for the show...more to come.
Great rest of the week everyone.

...And more PIB

So here are 3 more pieces I did for the show, composition ideas for the same story moment.
Good weekend to everyone!

Puss In Boots

Wow! It's been a while, and incredibly busy lately. I hope everybody is doing great in this New 2012.
Here are two of the many images I developed in the time I worked doing visual development for the fantastic Puss in Boots!

CTN Burbank 2001!

One more year Tina Price and her team have put together another fantastic CTN long animation weekend (Nov 18-20) for all of us to enjoy. The list of talent that will show up for the event is incredible and I will be fortunate to share some of this time on Saturday Nov 19th at noon (from 12-1 pm) on a one hour signing session of my book 'Framed Ink', where we can also have time to chat in this great location (see link for more details on the whole weekend).
Hope to see you guys there!

Kings and Vikings

These are from some older projects I worked on while back in Spain, in the early 2000's.
The first piece comes from a feature show directed by my friend Antonio Navarro called 'The Three Wise Men', in which I got credited as art director. This is one of the early inspirational illustrations I did for it.
The other two are from 'Asterix And The Vikings', also lots of fun to work in with the great crew from A-Film in Denmark. Some of you will notice I already posted some pieces from this show in the past.
I hope everyone is doing great.

Moonshine on Vimeo

Alexis Wanneroy and Christophe Lautrette recently put together a video with interviews with some of the artists from Dreamworks who participated in the making of 'Moonshine', a publication with some of their (our) personal artwork.
The project was originally put together by Christophe and Pierre Olivier Vincent a few years ago and finally saw the light about a year ago now.
Enjoy the video!

Burrufu

Check it out, my friend (and great storyteller) Alberto Corral has just put a new children's book out there called "My Monster Burrufu". The story is his and the illustrations are Alessandra Sorrentino's. Fantastic duo!
Here is the link to the book in Amazon.

ComiCon aftermath, and sketch

Busy busy lately, but still here is a sketch I recently did, at least to keep the blog breathing!
ComiCon went great, both DSP and LAAFA booths busy and exciting.
I met Jim Steranko and Bill Sienkiewicz, couldn't ask for more after shaking hands that have produced such fantastic and inspirational artwork for so long!

ComiCon San Diego 2011

Hi everyone,
I'll be at San Diego ComiCon this year on Saturday 23rd, first at the LAAFA booth between 11:00 and 11:30 am for a demo and Q&A, and right after that (between 12:00 and 2:00 pm) at Design Studio Press' stand (Booth 1701, inside door marked B2) signing copies of 'Framed Ink'.
I hope to see you all soon!

'Framed Ink' lecture at LAAFA

Hi everyone, this really is a long notice, I will be giving a lecture on composition for visual storytellers based on my book at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art (LAAFA).
It's a great place where I have taught composition classes before, so I hope I'll be seeing you there on December 1st.