A girl with her pet cat-lope

The first of a series of watercolor and ink illustrations featuring different girls hanging out with their magical pets. In this case, a Cat-Lope, like in a Jackalope, which is a creature some people believe exists, based on a hoax, a mix of a jack rabbit and an antelope. The Cat-Lope is legit, tho 😉

Illustration of a girl with her magical pet, a cat-lope

At first this was an illustration for Inktober 2018, but I liked the idea of making a series of different girls, with very different magical creatures as their pets, and having the constrain of using only “grayscale” to render them. So, I’ll be using only black, white and different shades of gray, and thanks to Payne’s Gray watercolor blue undertones, a blue tint in some details.

For this piece, as for the others on this series, I did the rough drawing on Photoshop, and the final art on paper.

picture of a watercolor painting of a girl and her magical pet

The final illustration was done with ink on paper, and the list of materials is as follows:

  • Strathmore Cold Press Watercolor Paper 140 lb.
  • Dr. Ph. Martin’s Black Star Matte Ink
  • Kuretake brush
  • Winsor & Newton Cotman watercolor in Payne’s Gray and Lamp Black
  • Col Erase light blue pencil
  • Prismacolor black pencil

Bellow is the final digital sketch, which I printed and used to trace on watercolor paper, to finally ink and paint it.

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Three Tenors caricatures

I haven’t done many caricatures in my career, but these were some that I really enjoyed doing, since I’m a great admirer of the Three Tenors, and I really like vector illustration.

Eu não fiz muitas caricaturas ao longo da minha carreira, mas eu adorei ter feito estas, já que eu sou fã dos Três Tenores e gosto muito de ilustração vetorial.Caricature of Spanish tenorJosé CarrerasCaricature of Spanish tenor Luciano PavarottiCaricature of Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo

Insurance Plan Storyboard

storyboard for a private insurance plan, to be animated with motion graphics

storyboard for a private insurance plan, to be animated with motion graphics

Pages of a storyboard I did for a Brazilian Insurance Plan. Due to the nature of animation, which will have a link here in the near future and was done in motion graphics, by David Hoffman, we had to keep it relatively simple and somewhat limited. It was a challenge to keep the action simpler than I’d usually do, and I’m very happy with the results. Check the other pages in the Storyboards section 😉

Páginas de um storyboard que eu fiz para um plano de seguro brasileiro. Devido à natureza da animação, que em breve terá um link aqui, e foi feita em motion graphics por David Hoffman, tivemos que simplificar e de certo modo limitar a animação. Foi um desafio fazer a ação mais simples do que normalmente eu faria, e eu fiquei feliz com o resultado. Veja as outras páginas na seção de Storyboards 😉

 

Chilling Bears

Digital painting of some bears chilling on a tree, drinking coffee and playing chess. I’m trying some new approaches, like using saturated colors and brushes that reproduce traditional media.

Pintura digital de uns ursos relaxando em cima de uma árvore, tomando café e jogando xadrez. Estou testando abordagens novas, como usar cores saturadas e pincéis que reproduzem o efeito de mídias tradicionais.

Four bears on a tree, two of them playing chess, one of them drinking coffeeDetail of the bears.

Detalhe dos ursos.

Four bears on a tree, two of them playing chess, one of them drinking coffee

I really like seeing the creative process when I see a finalized painting, so, I’m going to share some of mine. Here are the sketches I did for it, while I was still exploring ideas. At first, I was going for a more subtle approach, with the colors, but I wasn’t really happy with it, it didn’t match the playfulness I wanted to depict on this scene.

Eu gosto muito de ver o processo criativo por trás de imagens finalizadas, então, vou compartilhar um pouco do meu. Aqui estão os rascunhos que eu fiz pra esta ilustração, enquanto eu estava explorando ideias diferentes. No início, eu tinha escolhido uma abordagem mais neutra, em relação às cores, mas eu não estava contente com isso, não combinava com a atmosfera divertida que eu queria mostrar nesta cena.

Sketch of four bears on a tree, two of them playing chess, one of them drinking coffee

Sketch of four bears on a tree, two of them playing chess, one of them drinking coffee