A girl with her pet owl

An illustration I did (my first finalized for 2019!) of a series of girls hanging out with their magical pets. In this case, a Jelly-Fish-Tailed Owl, and yes, that doesn’t exist, just in case you’re wondering 😉

Illustration of a girl holding a mythical creature on her hand, a magical owl.

For this piece, as for the others on this series, I did the rough drawing on Photoshop, and the final art on paper. I’m kinda doing the opposite of what I used to do, and sometimes still do for other kinds of drawings, which was to start sketching on paper, and do the final image digitally.

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

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
Rough drawing for a girl with her magical pet owl

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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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Mini illustrations of the National Parks Part 1

Arches and Badlands National Parks vector illustration


I decided to start a new “collection” of small illustrations (“almost” icons) of the National Parks in America. They’re vector drawings, so, they’re very stylized. My intention isn’t to do something realistic, but I don’t want to make something completely “graphic”, either. So, I’m working to find a happy medium.

These are the first two I’ve made, of the Arches and Badlands Natural Parks.

Eu resolvi começar uma nova “coleção” de ilustrações em tamanho pequeno (ícones, talvez?) dos Parques Naturais aqui dos Estados Unidos. São ilustrações vetoriais, então, elas são bem estilizadas. Minha intenção não é fazer algo realista, mas ao mesmo tempo, eu não quero fazer algo totalmente “gráfico”. Então, estou trabalhando pra chegar a um meio termo interessante.

Estas são as duas primeiras que eu fiz, do Arches e do Badlands Natural Parks.

 

Background painting and lay-out

Background painting and lay-out that I did for the short movie O menino que sabia voar, by Douglas Ferreira.

Pintura e desenho de cenário que eu fiz para o curta-metragem O menino que sabia voar, de Douglas Ferreira.

lay-out  and background painting

lay-out city 1