Time for a 'new' one

I was particularly interested in achieving a mysterious atmosphere on this one.
I quite liked the two characters since the beginning and had fun with the study of their hands.
Once the illustration was 'finished' I played a bit with the color saturation and contrast (wonders of the digital age!) until I got the desired effect.

Dos dibuixos mes (or 'two more drawings'!)

Two more pieces from 2003/4.
The Sci-Fi one was just a personal one, I hadn't been using 'painter' long by then and that was part of my 'gotta get to know this tool' period.
The other is a character design I did for an animation series idea of my own. I'll just say it's been in a drawer ever since!

...And a Happy New Year.

...Or at least I figure this will be my last post for 2007.
I did this illustration a few years ago while in Spain, just for my personal portfolio which I try to update as soon as I have a chance.
Anyway -as I said- happy 2008 everyone!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Hey everyone, ...so it's this time of the year again.
I did this one today for my fellow viz-devers at the Studio and I decided to post it up here as well to send you all my regards for the Season.
Enjoy Christmas and have a great 2008!
Marcos.

Things

And by "things" I mean, a sketch that I did at the beginning of summer of this guy at a coffee shop (he was a sort of biker type), and another one I did in what turned to be my last sketchclub session with the Sony guys, the Friday before I started at the new Studio.
Venice Beach was the chosen place that time. Always a cool choice specially when the sun is shinning as it did that day! (tones in the drawing appear a little darker than that, but that was done just to make the thing a hint dramatic. Welcome to my world...)

"Gotta post something up" Post

Well, the title is pretty self explanatory. No time for more.
As you can see it's an 'old' sketch I did as part of an inspirational bunch for a project of mine.

Three Shots

They are all from the second half of the nineties.
-First comes a close view of the Casino in Catalina Island taken during a memorable trip with my friends Uriel, Tanja and Ludo.
Boy that was fun, the peak of it being our onstage karaoke life performance at a Restaurant where we had dinner one night (¨singing in the rain¨was the object of our musical fury).
-The second one I took back home in Spain around 9:00 am on a beautiful summer morning.
-Zabriskie Point is one of the most beautiful spots in Death valley CA which, at the same time is in my opinion, together with Monument Valley, the most impressive natural sight my eyes have ever seen so far.

Heading North

Dreamworks it is now.

It's been really good at Sony in this cycle of over two years now.
As usual in a professional experience of this type one learns a lot from both an artistic and a personal point of view.

The amount of information that one absorbs every day from all the talent around through the eyes is incredible. A true University with capital letters.
Every project that you work on is a new challenge. I find it fascinating since when I develop my own projects I obviously tend to choose the subjects I personally feel more indentified with. When working in a Studio you get to work on things you might have never thought of yourself, and this is the great challenge, the thing that makes you really push your limits everyday. That's the way you evolve beyond expected.

Besides all that, Sketchclub, with Marcelo as the soul of it and 'the usual suspects', regulars or not has been another landmark of these last two years, together with the life drawing sessions Sony set up for us with Karl there to make it a fun and true learning experience.

Working at Dreamworks will mean another great chance for me to keep in this line, a Studio from which I have a great memory and sure keep many good friends at from the early 'epic' times.

Thanks again all of you guys at the vis dev dept. and outside of it at Sony (I'd rather not get started with a list, it would make this post way too long!) and I'll see you soon.

Have I seen this face before...?

Some characters for a Friday morning post.
(Studies from an old project of mine).

Good Ol' Times

Here are two pieces from my "old" online comic book in their purest, rawest, black&whitest form. Gotta say it still brings a good smile back to my face!

"Lines and people..."

...The two main ingredients for sketchclub drawing.
Here are the results of another session, some time ago now.

Pictures.

Just for the sakes of variety, here are a few shots I took about... two years ago?
Anyway, the two first "public transportation" ones are from a trip to San Franthisco (I feel better now).
The other one is L.A.

-THIS- I call scan quality!

Aah well, they are not really scans as you can tell. It's my digital camera doing its best counting on the fact that the originals are really big...(good job 'Gumersindita'!)