Setting off

 
"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

 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

Exercise

Life Drawing

Today's studies

 

Indian face and doodle

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

Inspired by Jill Bolte's stroke of insight

Safe

Quickie for assignment themed "Something being saved"

Mico Voador

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

Life Drawing

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