Gatz

Foreign excursions

2012-02-06T15:37:00.000-08:00

Full Steam Ahead!

Demo Reel

2012-02-06T12:43:00.000-08:00

Nosso Demo Reel saiu do forno!
Our Demo Reel is finally up!

Convictions Cause Convicts

2012-01-19T14:44:00.000-08:00

"...and, finally, an uprush of "memories" of animal existence. I was an ape-creature, a rodent, a slug, a bug, a fish. I experienced a series of deaths-and-rebirths as animal, human, void, Star; molecular intelligence vibrating through time, and, at the peak, as union of Shiva and Kali, twin gods linked in eternal orgasm"
Robert Anton Wilson - The cosmic trigger vol.1

Back in action

2012-01-18T09:36:00.000-08:00

Hora de re-estabelecer a existencia desse blog na minha vida. Muita coisa aconteceu desde que fechei o jogo 'Edinburgo' e reinstalei o jogo 'Rio de Janeiro'. Fundei, junto com Felipe Duarte, o ESTUDIO PIRA, nosso núcleo de design terrorista, também carinhosamente chamado de 'Palácio de Perversões Criativas'; e desde entao tem sido uma jornada intensa que tem nos trazido oportunidades de conhecer muita gente e de trabalhar em projetos dos mais variados.

Mais a respeito do que estamos tramando no decorrer do tempo.
Por agora, jogo pro mundo essa ilustraçao feita para um Press Kit do Curso Clio, um curso que prepara diplomatas em todo territorio nacional.

Bye Edinburgh

2011-06-26T11:57:00.000-07:00

The end of my stay in Edinburgh has come, july will see me back in Brazil after a short trip to london.
Off i go!

Never Too Late

2011-06-18T08:15:00.000-07:00

Been ages since last post.
June has been a very eventful month, and i think its just preparing me for the chaos of July!

Here`s another piece of motion graphics i did a while back as a motion-tracking exercise.
I`ve showcased it along some other stuff at my degree show, which ends tomorrow so if you`re in Edinburgh and havent checked it out yet i definitely recommend it.

Idiographic

2011-05-16T16:37:00.000-07:00

So here's one of the animations ive been workin on in the past few months. It's a diptych (made for a dual-screen setup) so i recommend putting it on full screen to get a better idea.
Ill post up some of the other animations soon enough.

Almost there

2011-05-10T00:42:00.000-07:00

At last, college is almost over! hooray!

The Dust

2011-05-01T03:18:00.000-07:00

Here goes another one. Been having some great fun on these experiments. Learning a lot

some details:

Sketchbook

2011-04-23T16:25:00.000-07:00

Here`s two sketchbook turds during coffee breaks!

The Uncreated and the Unfathomable

2011-04-22T19:21:00.000-07:00

And yet another trippy experiment using still frames from my animation and collage. Some details below:

The Endless Round of Time

2011-04-14T19:46:00.000-07:00

This eery piece is what came out of a few hours playing on top of a still frame from one of my short animations

Iracema

2011-04-02T14:52:00.000-07:00

Feito corrindinho prum concurso de arte digital na Zupi.

Idiographic

2011-03-30T18:37:00.000-07:00

This is a still-frame from something im working on. Don't ask.

workworkwork

2011-03-28T18:00:00.000-07:00

Workstation...
...with sunlight creeping in after an all-nighter

Art of Nurture

2011-03-17T06:39:00.000-07:00

Great news!
Last Tuesday i had the honour of having my artwork chosen among the Scottish finalists at this years Art of Nurture contest by LloydsTSB Commercial Finance. Very exciting! April will see me in London competing for the national prize, wish me luck!

The switch and the spur

2011-03-05T22:57:00.000-08:00

The occasional leisure time of playing around on photoshop does sometimes yield some interesting results

Spoken Word Poster

2011-02-22T22:31:00.000-08:00

~Arseholes, Bastards, Fucking cunts and pricks! Aerosol, the bricks!~

Quick poster design for a fictitious record store, based on an old Ian Dury and the Blockhead`s classic

Nothing to be afraid of

2011-02-14T12:48:00.000-08:00

Here`s a couple of stills from a little animated typographic experiment i did over the weekend. The quote is from a very short book called The Politics of Experience by R.D.Laing:

We are afraid to approach the fathomless and bottomless groundlessness of everything.
“There's nothing to be afraid of.” The ultimate reassurance, and the ultimate terror.

Good stuff in this book. yeh. good stuff. Here's the video:

Nothing to be afraid from Guilherme Maueler on Vimeo.

Animal Charm

2011-02-05T15:25:00.000-08:00

Another competition entry. Lots of those lately. This one is for the upcoming film Animal Charm by Ben Charles Edwards.

Peacock Ride

2011-02-01T17:08:00.000-08:00

My second entry for this year's Lloyds TSB Art of Nurture contest. Here's a quick process shot of the piece: Sketch > Value Study > Colour Study > Render

Cat Monad

2011-01-30T23:10:00.000-08:00

Here's a spin-off from a piece made for this year's Art of Nurture contest held by Lloyds TSB Commercial finance.

Desenhos sem rascunho

2011-01-14T14:26:00.000-08:00

Desenhos feitos durante uma das aulas do curso "Desenho Sem-rascunho", mestrada pelo meu bom amigo Felipe Duarte la no Rio.

Feliz Natal / Merry Christmas

2010-12-22T21:13:00.000-08:00

A todos desejo um natal repleto de compaixao e leveza.

Daydreaming

2010-12-07T08:03:00.000-08:00

So i managed to squeeze in some free drawing in the gaps and ended up with this illustration. Will make a nice poster. Here's some closeups:

Voodoo Child

2010-12-02T06:13:00.000-08:00

Cause I'm a voodoo child, voodoo child

Lord knows I'm a voodoo child, baby

2010-11-30T11:13:00.000-08:00

Time is running so freaking fast. Gotta run.

Some Sketches

2010-11-22T09:47:00.000-08:00

Not a lot of free time lately. Just dumping some sketches:

And a photo of one of the sketchbooks i've been making (the covers are cutting matts so it's very practical for collaging):

Life drawing

2010-11-11T09:04:00.000-08:00

Here goes some more life drawing stuff, playing with different coloured papers, white markers and brush pens

Tesselation no Dia Internacional da Animaçao

2010-10-27T02:07:00.000-07:00

Para os amigos no brasil, começa hoje o Dia Internacional da Animaçao no Rio de Janeiro, que é uma mostra de curtas-metragens nacionais e internacionais, simultânea e gratuita em mais de 400 cidades brasileiras . Este ano foram inscritos 73 curtas-metragens em animação de vários estados brasileiros. Destes, foram selecionados 11 para o programa oficial, que será exibido em todas as cidades participantes no Brasil e nos 51 países membros da Associação Internacional do Filme de Animação (Asifa, na sigla original francesa).

O meu curta "Tesselation" entrou para a Mostra de Animaçoes Cariocas, que acontecerá hoje no Cineclube Cinerama (Praia Vermelha)

Abaixo as datas do evento:

Dia 27 Mostra de Animações Cariocas

UFRJ - Praia Vermelha, Cineclube Cinerama
Avenida Venceslau Brás 71 - Botafogo.
18h30 - Mostra Universitária Carioca
com filmes do curso de Cinema da UFF, da Infnet, da pós-graduação em Animação da PUC-Rio e dos cursos de graduação e pós da Universidade Veiga de Almeida.

19h30 - Mostra Animadores Cariocas

Dia 28 de outubro - Dia Internacional da Animação (Mostra oficial)

Cinemateca do MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna
Av. Infante Dom Henrique 85, Parque do Flamengo.

18h30 - Mostra Internacional
19h30 - Mostra Nacional
20h30 - Coquetel

Dia 4 de novembro - Mostra Especial Para Deficientes VisuaisInstituto Benjamin Constant
Av. Pasteur 350/368 – Urca.

13h - sessão infantil
14h - sessão adulta

Mostra Infantil
Dia 6 de novembro às 10h

SESC Madureira
Rua Ewbanck da Câmara 90 - Madureira.

Sketchdump

2010-10-19T11:57:00.000-07:00

Some lifedrawings and some sketches from a jam session

For the Buzz

2010-10-07T08:57:00.000-07:00

Not a lot of free time lately, just thought i'd give a quick update.
This was a quick illustration for a short article about the 1st prize winner on the best beard made out of bees contest. More art stuff coming as soon as i get internet in my new place, including more artwork made at the illustration academy. Thats it for now.
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Ando sem tempo livre ultimamente mas dá pra dar um update rápido. Essa ilustra foi prum artigo sobre o sujeito que ganhou primeiro premio numa competiçao de melhor barba feita de abelhas. Assim que eu possuir internet no meu novo apartamento eu postarei mais arte, incluindo mais frutos da Illustration Academy.

The Illustration Academy - Week 1

2010-09-16T06:13:00.000-07:00

Finally managed to fix a scanner and put some stuff together. Allow me to demonstrate some of the step-by-step process shared by the instructors at the Illustration Academy. This was the first project introduced during the first week of the program in Richmond. The brief was to produce an image with the theme "Slice of Richmond" that would depict some aspect of the city, and the technical limitation was to use only shapes and color, no rendering. The idea was to rely only on 1 or 2 values to define each shape, so the main focus was Composition and Value Structure. Excellent exercise.

During the ideation process, my main thoughts were to explore the lifestyle of a certain area of Richmond called The Fan. The Fan was a very chilled student neighborhood where me and my friend Felipe (who also went to the Academy) stayed for a week prior to the program. There we felt like home and met amazing people. One of them was Chris, a fellow couchsurfer who hosted us during this period. The scene i wanted to depict in my image was one that actually happened: Chris and Emma, his girlfriend, sitting on a couch on a back of a truck heading back home after a chilled afternoon yard sale. Having that as a starting point, i started sketching some thumbnails. Below are some images showing the process from thumbnailing to the final image.

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Finalmente consegui escanear desenhos e montar uma demonstraçao do método ensinado pelos professores da Illustration Academy. Este foi o primeiro projeto introduzido durante a primeira semana do curso em Richmond. O desafio era produzir uma imagem cujo tema era "Pedaço de Richmond", ilustrando algum aspecto da cidade na qual estávamos. A limitaçao técnica para este projeto era usar somente formas e cor, sem renderizar. A idéia era depender apenas de 1 ou 2 Valores para definir cada forma, portanto o foco foi treinar Composiçao e Estrutura de Valor. Excelente Exercicio.

Durante o processo de obtenção de idéias, meus pensamentos voltavam-se ao estilo de vida de uma certa area de Richmond chamada The Fan (O Leque, ou Ventilador). The Fan é uma área estudantil bem tranquila onde eu e meu amigo Felipe ficamos na semana anterior. Lá nos fizeram sentir em casa e fizemos grandes amizades. Uma delas foi Chris, um couchsurfer camarada que nos hospedou em sua casa. A cena que eu pretendia ilustrar neste projeto foi uma que realmente vi acontecer: Chris e Emma, sua namorada, sentados em um sofá colocado na parte de trás de uma caminhonete voltando para casa após uma tarde de yard sale (uma espécie de brechó caseiro, muito tipico na sociedade americana). Tendo esta imagem mental como ponto inicial, começei a esboçar. Segue a sequencia de imagens desde os thumbnails até a imagem final.

quick thumbnails - searching for shapes and composition / procurando formas e composiçao

Value study - making objects read well by juxtaposing different values

Estudo de Valor - Dando leitura a objetos atraves da justaposiçao de diferentes valores

Color study - searching for a harmonious color pallete

Estudo de Cor - procurando uma paleta de cor harmoniosa

Final Linework - Defining each shape and transfer it to illustration board

Definindo cada forma exata para transferir ao illustration board

Final Image with acrylics on illustration board 16x16'

Imagem final em acrílica sobre illustration board 40x40cm

The final image, inspite of not being exactly my most beautiful piece of work, was a very important step forward for me in terms of shifting my attention to fundamental elements of image-making. Value structures and composition are at the core of every illustration and should always be considered. Another great step for me was learning some things about how to mix paint and use colors effectively, something that i've always lacked as a digital painter. Hope this little demontration was useful. Soon i'll be posting some more stuff i've learned during my time there.

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Esta imagem final, apesar de nao ser meu trabalho mais bonito, foi um passo essencial para meu progresso em termos de priorizar minha atençao à elementos fundamentais da contruçao de imagem. Estrutura de Valor e Composiçao estao no cerne de toda ilustraçao e devem sempre ser levadas em consideração. Outro grande passo para mim foi aprender a misturar tinta e usar cores de forma eficiente, algo que, como artista digital, sempre me faltou. Espero que esta pequena demonstraçao tenha sido util. Em breve estarei postando mais coisas que aprendi no meu tempo por lá.

Back and Upgraded

2010-09-03T20:48:00.000-07:00

There and back again!
Time to put everything i learned into practice, starting with a fresh website. Soon i'll be posting some of the artwork i've been doing this past 3 months.

Off i go!

2010-05-21T12:40:00.000-07:00

Time for some intense art-making over summer at The Illustration Academy! Monday i'm off to Richmond-USA for a whole month of illustration frenzy with awesome artists like Sterling Hundley, Doug Chayka and Josh George!! It's gonna be epic!

RAW

2010-05-09T11:00:00.000-07:00

“Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.”

Little tribute to good ol' wilson. Try to get a hold of his "Prometheus Rising", its one of those books

Sketchbook cover

2010-05-06T23:14:00.000-07:00

Exploring with collage and mixed media on the front and back cover of my sketchbook.
Fun times.

Here's the whole thing:

And here's some details:

Television is a drug

2010-05-06T12:51:00.000-07:00

"The nearest analogy to the addictive power of television and the transformation of values that is wrought in the life of the heavy user is probably heroin. Heroin flattens the image; with heroin, things are neither hot nor cold; the junkie looks out at the world certain that whatever it is, it does not matter. The illusion of knowing and of control that heroin engenders is analogous to the unconscious assumption of the television consumer that what is seen is "real" somewhere in the world. In fact, what is seen are the cosmetically enhanced surfaces of products. Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug
Not unlike drugs or alcohol, the television experience allows the participant to blot out the real world and enter into a pleasurable and passive mental state. The worries and anxieties of reality arc as effectively deferred by becoming absorbed in a television program as by going on a "trip" induced by drugs or alcohol. And just as alcoholics are only vaguely aware of their addiction, feeling that they control their drinking more than they really do ... people similarly overestimate their control over television watching. ... Finally it is the adverse effect of television viewing on the lives of so many people that defines it as a serious addiction. The television habit distorts the sense of time. It renders other experiences vague and curiously unreal while taking on a greater reality for itself. It weakens relationships by reducing ; and sometimes eliminating normal opportunities for talking, for communicating."
[Excerpt from Food of the Gods]

And here's how the trip is:

Television is a drug. from Beth Fulton on Vimeo.

Sketch

2010-05-06T06:35:00.000-07:00

Couchsurfer's Lifedrawing

2010-05-03T14:48:00.000-07:00

Just came back from London, had a f** great time! [Alejandro, thanks a billion for letting me crash on your couch man, you rock!] It's amazing how time just flies when you're travelling. There wasnt much time to do all i wanted, but i was lucky enough to be there for a couchsurfers lifedrawing session, which was pure awesomeness. Here's some results:

Birdies

2010-04-26T16:43:00.000-07:00

Speedpainted over Felipe Duarte's sketches.

A fish of surrealists

2010-04-26T10:21:00.000-07:00

One of my submissions for a local gallery's project to illustrate new collective nouns that have been collected by All-Sorts.org, a linguistic experiment that is taking the web by storm.
I couldn't resist adding textures, but the actual version will be simplified (without textures, just 1 color + black).

Street Art

2010-04-22T12:23:00.000-07:00

This last one is a direct reference to Network, a brilliant film that you can find here.
On the topic of street art, there's no better blog than Unurth, there you'll find great street art from all over the world. Truly inspiring.

Couchsurfing

2010-04-19T09:38:00.000-07:00

Couchsurfing all the way! =D

Ernesto, the commie bird

2010-04-17T14:11:00.000-07:00

Ernesto, the commie bird was born when i was fooling around with acrylics in a small canvas.

Sketchdumping

2010-04-08T10:11:00.000-07:00

Just dumping in here some random sketchbook stuff

Śūnyatā

2010-04-03T14:21:00.000-07:00

An emptiness

within an emptiness

after an emptiness

before an emptiness

Sittin Bull

2010-04-01T20:08:00.000-07:00

my chair

Setting off

2010-03-31T15:38:00.000-07:00

"sou minha cara contra o vento, a contravento, e sou o vento que bate em minha cara"
(trecho do Livro dos Abraços, do Eduardo Galeano)

Escher in animation

2010-03-30T21:33:00.000-07:00

After doing a short animation based on some of M. C. Escher's drawings, it's cool to see people besides me that also get inspired by him. I just stumbled upon this awesome studio called Eterea, they've done some incredible cg animations, one of wich inspired by Escher's snakes.

Snakes from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.

Another awe-inspiring one they made is Nature by Numbers :

Nature by Numbers from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.

This one fits like a glove to my current reading about the mathematics of complexity in Capra's Web of Life. It illustrates beautifully his point.

Boxer

2010-03-25T08:35:00.000-07:00

Exercise

Life Drawing

2010-03-23T14:19:00.000-07:00

Today's studies

Indian face and doodle

2010-03-22T15:37:00.000-07:00

Random playing around on photoshop while listening to Douglas Adam's very good-humored talk about lemurs, komodo dragons, human nature, the universe and saving the world. He's cool.

Along with some note-taking at the cafe-bar of Cameo:

Process information

2010-03-21T17:44:00.000-07:00

Inspired by Jill Bolte's stroke of insight

Safe

2010-03-17T06:24:00.000-07:00

Quickie for assignment themed "Something being saved"

Mico Voador

2010-03-08T18:53:00.000-08:00

Made some colaboration work with Fada Mariposa
I came up with the sketch and we bouced it back and forth between each other. Good fun

Here's some process shots of its making:

random sketch

2010-03-03T14:42:00.001-08:00

Life Drawing

2010-03-02T13:17:00.000-08:00

Today's studies. Its good we had a new life model today, was tired of the same old ones.

Crowley

2010-02-28T23:29:00.000-08:00

After a soothing insomnious reading session of some of Crowley's stuff, i decided to pay him a little homage.

“We place no reliance on virgin or pigeon.
Our method is science, our aim is religion.”

sketches

2010-02-28T22:26:00.001-08:00

From the moleskino

old hags

2010-02-26T22:20:00.000-08:00

practice

2010-02-26T21:26:00.000-08:00

BLUAAAHHRGHH

2010-02-22T13:55:00.000-08:00

Brooksby Luncheon Cake

2010-02-22T11:26:00.000-08:00

Quickie for college assignment.Yes, its a cake recipe

Wee Red Bar Entrance wall

2010-02-18T11:45:00.000-08:00

Design proposal for a contest to paint the entrance wall of the Wee Red Bar

Life Drawing

2010-02-16T21:44:00.000-08:00

Waste Reduction and Recycling poster

2010-02-11T16:23:00.000-08:00

Poster for a college contest raising awareness on waste reduction and recycling on campus.
I invoked Miyazaki's forest spirits to convey the message.

Today's Lifedrawing

2010-02-09T11:32:00.000-08:00

Bison

2010-02-08T13:32:00.000-08:00

nother sketch.
and hence, a series of smoking animals emerges...

Its in the water, baby

2010-02-06T13:59:00.000-08:00

Decided to take a break from college work and doodled this sketch on my new moleskine.
Painting it was quite fun. Now back to work

Giraffe

2010-02-03T16:39:00.000-08:00

Optimistic sketch

I suck balls in typography

2010-01-31T10:15:00.000-08:00

Therefore i must practice

Blowing smoke

2010-01-29T11:09:00.000-08:00

This was what came out of a jam session with my good friends Felipe Duarte and Pedro Maia couple of days ago.
They did the amazing pencilwork and i tossed in some colors

Dark Side of the Moon

2009-12-07T11:26:00.000-08:00

This was last college project of the year, wich was, in a nutshell, a "how music translates into image" one. My choice was Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon'. Since the whole album is one big seamless song from first track to last, i decided to translate it as one gigantic panel containing all the songs.

The end result was 5 meters long and 40cm high. Quite epic!

A lot of it i wish i could have had more time to put more dedication into, especially when it comes to typography, but thats what you get when you put too much on your plate and time is short.

Here's some details (they are kind of illustrations in themselves):

And here's a photo of it in the studio:

watercolor sketch

2009-12-01T13:25:00.000-08:00

from life

Fliessgleichgewitch

2009-11-25T15:35:00.000-08:00

[Flux Equilibrium]

"An organism is not a static system closed to the outside and always containing the identical components; it is an open system in a (quasi-) steady state . . . in which material continually enters from, and leaves into, the outside environment." - Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Life drawing

2009-11-24T08:49:00.000-08:00

Few sketches from two different sessions.

Serendipity

2009-11-23T20:23:00.000-08:00

This is the result of an academic 1-week long collaborative exercise themed "vices and virtues". We went for a sort of animated collage of our drawings. I'm rusty on after effects, so this was good practice. (music you may recognize from Amelie Soundtrack)

Serendipity from Guilherme Maueler on Vimeo.

Life drawing

2009-11-23T20:16:00.000-08:00

These were done a while ago, it's those sort of drawings that you kinda like but save it for later and end up forgetting about.

Psychedelic animations

2009-11-21T10:01:00.000-08:00

I've been seeing some amazing animations/motion graphics of psychedelic beauty recently, thought i'd share a few (including a TED talk with the guy that animated the inside of a cell).
Sit down, relax and let the visuals caress your eyeballs

PRESS + from benjamin ducroz on Vimeo.

Yonder from Emilia on Vimeo.

Civilization by Marco Brambilla from CRUSH on Vimeo.

(This is in the film Blueberry)

Doodle

2009-11-14T15:41:00.000-08:00

Decided to paint a pencil doodle done out of boredom few days ago.

(Yesterday i could see people inbetween)

sketchbook spread

2009-11-11T19:07:00.000-08:00

Random spread. Pencil, markers, acrylic and photoshop.

sketches

2009-11-09T16:39:00.000-08:00

Bit of playing around with colors on a sketch made by my good friend Felipe Duarte, and some quick life drawing sketches from the last dr. sketchy:

watercolor doodles

2009-11-04T05:38:00.000-08:00

Two doodles for fun:

Moleskine sketches

2009-11-02T07:00:00.000-08:00

Here's a bunch of random sketches out of my moleskine.

Cheetah process

2009-11-01T17:45:00.000-08:00

few steps of my painting process for the cheetah piece

portrait sketch

2009-10-30T20:24:00.000-07:00

bit of random painted sketch just for fun.

Life drawing

2009-10-27T07:10:00.000-07:00

Some life drawing sketches i forgot to post.

Cheetah!

2009-10-25T22:18:00.000-07:00

Lazyness was the reason i havent been posting. But today is Monday, no better day to start blogging stuff again.
Here's some art i've been working on these days:

Its for a contest being hosted by a canadian hip hop group called Magnolius. The ocasion is the release of their new album Mary Musth, wich you can check here if you're interested.

Collaboration

2009-10-18T15:53:00.000-07:00

Fun collaboration with my friend Cat.
Her fine delicate lines demanded some playing around with colors.

+sketch

2009-10-17T12:59:00.000-07:00

more sketchiness:

at the Grassmarket yesterday

at a coffee place today

Daily sketches

2009-10-15T18:04:00.000-07:00

Today's exercises. Decided to go loco with da markers

Sketches

2009-10-14T12:10:00.000-07:00

Sketch of coffee and some life drawing, poses of 10 - 20 min.

Threyda

2009-10-13T13:26:00.000-07:00

Threyda is a clothing company to which i had the honor of participating in with Cubensis :

(The type is a quote in honor of the late Terence Mckenna -
"..reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.")

Here are some pictures of the T-shirts, which you can buy by accessing Threyda website

Sketches and links

2009-10-12T18:28:00.000-07:00

quick sketches of the day with a bit of digital shading and stuff.
yeh.
cool.

oh, check out this link, full of cool stuff
o/

Daily sketch + photos

2009-10-11T12:36:00.000-07:00

Today was a brilliant of a Sunday, so i decided to go for a walk with both my sketchbook and my camera at hands.

Today's sketches, most of wich were done inside the warmness of the Forest Cafe, a volunteer-based cafe i like to go every now and then.

Sunset at Teviot Place, the building to the left is the Edinburgh University

Walking back home, this was the view of the Links, with the church tower in the landscape (the same one i drew here )

Life Drawing

2009-10-10T14:18:00.000-07:00

Results from life drawing sketches from Dr. Sketchy last saturday and drawing class on wednesday. GOGOGO

Poses de 10-20 minutuos.

Professor andou dizendo que eu to mto "realistazinho" e que eu podia me expressar visualmente com mais atenção à poeticidade do momento presente. Achei psicodelicko da parte dele.

New Sketchbook

2009-10-09T15:40:00.000-07:00

Some photos of a sketchbook i`ve recently made. I had the idea of having a double-double-spread by stitching together two small sketchbooks to form one, having it open in the middle. I`d say this experiment was somewhat successful, with minor screw-ups along the way. But over all quite happy with the result. The cover is made of pieces of leather i had lying around from an old 2005 diary, they close in the middle with a magnet. Now its time to explore the possibilities of a 2-in-1 sketchbook

Editorial Layout

2009-10-09T11:22:00.000-07:00

This is what i came up with for a short assignment on designing a hypothetical newspaper double spread. Briefing asked for lots of boldness and mainstream avoidance. Two articles used, the first one extracted from the Ultraculture Journal introduction by Jasoun Louv, which i highly recommend reading. The other one is about an application of Biomimicry (discipline that studies nature’s best ideas
and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems.) on inkless color-printing. Quite mind-bogling stuff.
I should give the propper credits for my good friend Felipe Duarte for letting me use his sketch for the devil illustration.

Moleskine sketches

2009-10-09T02:55:00.000-07:00

Finally! after quite a few hours struggling in an epic and tiresome battle with CSS through the night, the morning brings forth a brand new portfolio website for me to play with. I even managed to include this blog in it, task i thought to be impossible, turned out was the easiest part of it all. It's still full of flaws and things to be tweaked though, and i'm still on the long process of filling up the galleries with my works, but here's some city sketches from my moleskine just to inaugurate (and test) the new space.