The beginning of an Story.

Hi folks! Hope you're having a good Monday.

You know.. I've been feeling a void in my soul in these days....and I'm not sure why...

maybe it's because I feel I'm growing up, and I have never made any of the things I've always dreamed to do when I was younger. 

For example, when I was younger I always wanted to go to Paris or London to study art and live there for a while, and with luck to meet a French or British boy in college who was a lot like me and who loved me for who I was, and who I could love. Someone who could accompany me to travel around the world, knowing new languages and cultures, who also had this in his list of what to do in life.

I wanted to learn at least 8 languages like Tesla did, specially and mostly English and French. Also to learn to play the ocarina, the ukulele, keyboard, piano, flute, bagpipes, banjo, violin and also the sax. 

I also wanted to improve as an artist and to become a recognized one, and I imagined at this age, in the second half of in my 20's, I was going to have already a comic or book published at least. But no...none of this have happened.

Well....I can't be pessimist though cos that's not my nature. So I must say, that thanks god and to my effort and devotion, a couple of these things have already happened  At least I have been able to improve as an artist and I also learned to play flute really well, and these two things I did them all by myself! Which makes me really happy, and proud ^^

It's funny as a self-taugh learner, I can play any song you would like in a flute if I hear it, and I mean ANYTHING, but I still don't know to read musical notes XD. 

Also I've been successful in learning English, cos I took classes. Well, in my school they gave me a few classes as part of the school program, but the teachers there usually were really bad, so I didn't learn much with them. But who helped me with English for real was my truly amazing and cool teacher Gudrun Clausen. 

She had a vocation to teach, and she always made English fun and cool to learn. I'll always be truly grateful with her! He taught me well and it's thanks to her now I not only write in English like I do here, but also I can understand it and actually speak it! :D It's since a 3 or 4  years ago that I can understand all what people say in English-speaking movies and shows! And I no longer need the subtitles to watch something in English; this have opened me lots of new doors, to amazing and wonderful things to see and to know and to discover, like other cultures and traditions, or the cool voice casting of some of my favorite movies and shows.

And in my work this have been very useful too in important occasions. Like one day when some clients came to the office and they were mad because other people said them our work was bad, I explained them that they had no problem about their taxes in English, and I think I must have done it really well, cos they were very happy at the end, and stayed on keep preferred our service :D

Also, I must say I'm surprised of myself, cos I have a year and a half learning french as a self-taugh learner, and I'm still doing it! :D Even after all the difficulties a self-taught learner has to pass, like the nasty jokes of trolls (mostly foreign people, usually Mexican people who don't want other people learn, I must say) in the web who enjoy to make confused other foreign people who really want to learn. And even so that nobody cares if I learn friends, and even there are people where I live who have told me that I shouldn't try, and I wouldn't do it.

But even so, I'm still devoting great part of my life to make this dream a reality, as well as I did with my other childhood dream, that was learning English and being fluid at it. And I'm doing pretty good  so far ^^ It's funny...I never thought I could do it...but once I started, I couldn't stop *chuckles*

So don't get me wrong, I appreciate a lot the things I've been able to do in my life, and now I'm writing them and thinking of them, I appreciate and value them even more! ^^ And I no longer feel very much like I have a void in my soul :)

Although...now I see back in my life and I discover, that my only one legacy to the world, the only valuable thing I really have given to the humankind, its my artwork, and most recently, this blog. 

And I still think I would really like to do a lot more! Something that it's a bit more...longer lasting. And I've discovered recently, that when you feel like you don't have a direction in your life, it's probably cos you're lacking of a good organization of your ideas, and plans for the future. So, that's why I made a list of the most important resolutions I had done for last year, and that are pretty much the same for this one:

1- Learning french well.

Since it was always my dream to start learning french, but at the end of 2012 was when I took the courage to start doing it. So I'm glad to tell you folks that I keep with this resolution still :D

2- Learning to drive a motorbike.

I just did learn how to drive this year, so this one it's accomplished, and in an amazing way I must say! :D It was truly incredible to learn to drive a motor bike! :3 I'll tell you with more detail later how amazing it was.

3- Finishing my career. 

 I'm still struggling to sing up to a collegue this year, but I know I'll achieve it.

4- Start to write a book with any of the stories I have in mind (that I've created)

5- Publish a webcomic (either a long comic or a series of comic strips) 

See? Some of the things in the list are already done, but some other, I'm still working hard to make them a reality. The 4 and 5 are the ones who I'm taking care of. Well...At least I'm doing my best to it! And I feel much better about my life now, cos I organized my ideas and I made projects, and I'm starting to do something and I'm seeing a couple of good results. ^^

That's precisely why I did these drawings some weeks ago.

They are characters I felt inpsired to draw (see the date in the drawing) because of an story I'm trying to make work. Here is a quote of something I wrote on July 21 but I couldn't post until now:

"In these months, I've been writing and developing an story I invented some time ago when I was a teen, cos a couple of friends of mine had faith in it when I talked about it with them. And I feel like now it's the right time for me to start writing something in form, either for a book or for a comic. What happens first! XD But then when I was writing it I discovered a few issues...the characters are great cos I'm good designing characters, but the plot has a few problems, the concept itself has a lot of things that don't fit all together, and even... I can't decide if making this a sci-fi or a fantasy story XD
Now I understand very well why comics, tv shows and films are work for lots of people. and not just only one! One sometimes feel like you feel stuck when developing an story, and you need another opinion to decide stuff, or just talk about it to have inspiration to continue with itRight now I think my story sucks! XD But the characters I drew and I put so much time to develop and bring to live...are amazing....So I think I'll try to continue  developing this story because of the characters :) And specially and mostly, cos couple of my friends have become fans of them."

That was what I thought when I was writing the beginning of the story I mentioned, but when I was writing that day, my computer got stuck and I lost one page and a half of writing! (and no I wasn't working at Word, but in a wordpad, cos I didn't really thought the story would be much)  And since then, I just...I don't feel very inspired to write again. And I haven't had much luck drawing the characters either.

And it's ironic that I say this now, cos when I was a kid and even in the beginning of my puberty, I could write stories like how I breath, almost in an incredibly, magic way. But now I struggle to write like if I was trying to carry a piano to move or something! I think if my younger self was there, she would say "seriously??! Really?!!" or something like that XD

It is both, ironic, and a bit sad too...I think I've lost lots of self-confidence in my while time passes, due the bad experiences I've had. And sometimes I just wanna...give up on writing....

Although well...my mentor and dear friend, was able to write a book all by herself. So I think if she can do it...maybe I can too....all I know it's that she has faith on me, so I'll keep trying.

Also when I wrote this story, I realized one thing I think it's very important to mention, it was like an epiphany! It was that before I started writing, I had a blank mind and I didn't know what to do XD But I was determined to start this goal so I believed that was going to make me feel better, so I did it. 

And it was until I was writing, that I started imagining lots of cool and new stuff, stuff that haven't been in my mind before! And some of these new stuff I created solved the plot problems!  It was truly amazing to realize this! It was like magic! :D 

I think now I see why my friend, while she was writing her novel she did lots of cool fanart of her own characters. Cos writing inspired her to draw, and by drawing she felt more close to her characters and that inspired and motivated her to write more ^^

Although sadly, I no longer remember what was the thing that solved my plot issues....But seeing how art works now, I guess, I'm going to be brave and start writing again since the beginning , with the hope if I start writing, I'll be able to solve the problems again and I'll draw some more art about the characters, and that will make me feel motivated to write even more :)

About the story

Oh and, about the story? you must wonder. Well, I can tell you much about it, or I risk to spoil it if someday in the future I finish this and release it as a comic or book. But in general, it's an story about a girl and her gecko pet, and a device (totem) that can transform her into animals. I still cant decide if it will be a sci.fi story, or a fantasy one. I'll decided with time I think. XD Let's see what inspiration says.

Laura it's the main character of this story, and here are the secondary characters that are:

Her mom: who is british, still with no name. She is a teacher in the elementary school of her daughter. In the neck she wears this necklace always, it's his husband's gift, and it has the form of a world globe.

Her dad: Also british, and still doesn't have a name. He's an archeologist and biologist, that works for the Natural Story Museum on London. A posibility for a name for him it's "Jake", but if you have another, I'm still accepting suggestions.

The gecko who also has no name yet. I was thinking on a short name like "Bio" or "Io", I don't know why these name got to get in my mind. I'm thinking about other name cos, I worry about if people would make jokes about the name or mistake him with the computer brand "vio" XD

I mostly want a short name for him, that can be cool, practical to pronounce and that you can say when in danger out loud. Like "Hey bio watch out!" or something like that. See what I mean? It's much easier this than to say "Hey rupelstinsking" or another long name XD

For the names of the dad and mom of Laura, I don't want anything in particular, but if you now a British name that you like, it will be really great!

And well at the end I was inspired also to draw Jean Patou's dad. Who, as a friend of mine says, he looks a lot like him. Which it's great because that's what I wanted to do, to make him be alike his son, so people could identify him as Jean's father. There are sometimes this similarity in real people too, for example, my dad and one of my brothers are almost identical. You see my dad's old photos when he was in the college and he looks like my brother *chuckles*

Oh and Jean's dad doesn't have a name, but he's french not british.

And no, I'm not asking for suggestions of names cos I think I suck with names or something like that XD I know while writing I will have some ideas. It's mostly I just would like to make my friends and other people who appreciate my art to participate, to feel part of my life, and make my life an adventure with their fresh ideas! I think it's always interesting to know what you think :D

So, yeah, as the tittle says, this is the beginning of an story, but not only the story I'm working in, but the story of my life I think, cos after many years of not finishing something for fear to failure, I finally feel like my artistic dreams have an structure and a pad.

And with my hard work, love and dedication...and also God's grace, and even a bit of luck, I hope this story comes out amazingly! 

A new hero rises!

Hi there folks, how you're doing?

Now I'm going to post something that I'm really happy and proud of. It's what I think, one of my best pieces of artwork in a long time, and the one who warms me the heart the most so far! ^^ So, it will be an honor to share it with you :D 

It's a fanart of this witty and fun show called "Wander over Yonder". Or as here in mexico was translated as "Galaxia Wander".

A life of an artist it's lonely....I've been feeling a bit like that in these days...and I've realized sometimes the only company you have, it's your artwork. However, art it's a great company I must say, and I've had some good free time to do some great art, the problem it's I have not much time to post it all now, and it was hard to decide. XD

At the end of the day I decided to share with you this piece I started to make it yesterday and finished today, cos I think it's my best painting in years. I was really inspired because of a show, a show I really wanted to give tribute to, cos I think it deserves it. 

Some days ago, in July 23 I watched the show for the first time, cos it was there by chance when I turned on the tv, and I wrote my first impressions about them. also I did today I posted it as usual, here is the quote of that:

-------Today I watched the show on tv, on "Disney XD", and it was question of time to realize it was such and fun show!

It reminds me a lot of Foster's home, it's a show full of good humor, with a retro air, a simple yet cool music intro theme, bizarre yet so cute characters, and for what I watched today, it also has some amazing life lessons! And it express them in a simple and fun, witty way! :D It's like a perfect mix between the best of classic retro cartoons, and the best of modern cartoons. It looks like Wander over Yonder it's all what I've wanted or dreamed on a show since Foster's home was cancelled. And well, I think this is natural, it had to be from Craig MacCracken!:D

The episode I saw was Brainstorm/the lonely planet (In Spanish from mexico of course, that's how I watch it on tv) it was called "The lonely planet", and it's one of the most cute and funny things I've seen a long time. The end was truly heartwarming, and I loved the fact that her moon was french! :meow: I also liked how this episode teach you that we can't force someone to be friends, that if it happens, it happens spontaneously.

Some of you know, that I've been passing for some of the most hard moments in my life, when I felt nothing on it comes out well....some events that I'm still struggling to get over from....so since then, everyday in my life it's...it's like a combat for maintain my spirit up, and keeping my kind, positive and cheerful personality....it feels pretty much like the combat you do with a serious disease....it's just a metaphor of course because that's how it feels. I wouldn't tempt my luck.

My sister suggested me that the cure for these situations was to find a character and show to be fan of. Well she told me "be fan of an anime" :XD: but I know what she meant :) So...I don't want to rush to conclusions....but....

think I found that cure today! :D I really have faith on it at least..

So yeah, love Wander over Yonder!! And specially and mostly, I ADORE WANDER!!!! :D Because he reminds me a bit of myself! The kind of person I would like to keep being. 

He's funny, kind and caring, curious, cheerful and laid-back, and specially love how he's such an optimist, he's like these kind of people who always tries to find the ray of light in every storm, even if there's none! And this usually makes everybody who is near him to be the best they can be!  So that's why, he always struggles to find the good thing in every situation, and so I.

Also I love the contrast between the toughness of Sylvia and the cuteness of wander. It's just so cute and cool how these two are different in many ways, yet they try to help each other and understand each other. And they at the end their good traits complement each other." 

So, I was so happy when I watched that episode, that I started to doodle the characters, and one of my doodles later became this, it's to show my love for the show and characters. 

 And well..since I've already wrote this today, I'll post it as a quote, too. So in the case you have read it in the usual place, don't have to re-read the same here. Also because I really don't like to copy paste, my comments are unique! :)

"And something even more amazing was, that yesterday I watched the episode "The ball/The Bounty", and I must say I felt even more surprised. Cos it's really, really rare for me to watch a new show on random episodes two times....and to like both of episodes!

I watched it I realized with amazement, that this episode was even funnier than the first one I saw! XD 

This is for sure the most amazing ant wonderful thing that have been happened to me in a loong long time! Even, I don't want to go to sleep today and for fear to realize it was just a dream in the morning XD

This show haven't failed to give me a smile and make me laugh, with it's humor and surprisingly fun and endearing characters. I love Wander and Yonder, and even I think I like Lord Hater, and Peppers, because they are so funny and with more than one-side personality, and that makes them cute and endearing in some strange, but cool way. It's something I can't explain XD....but I surely like :D

For example in the episode "the bounty" it was really funny that Hater wanted Wander and Sylvia's screams for his song remix, but at the end he used Pepper's ones because...well, I'm trying so hard to not tell you about the episodes, because, spoilers XD 

You must see this show NOW though! now! And the episodes I recommend are the ones I've seen; "the lonely planet", "the bounty", "the ball" and "brainstorm".  My favorite ones so far are the first ones I mentioned, but the others are worth to see cos they have funny moments. 

It's been a long time since I felt this happy, I think my sister and I were right, and all I needed was some cool show to think of, and to love and have fun with.

So this is a representation of how I felt when I knew the show, as I said in my quote of that that, I felt like I was saved somehow. And I think this painting express this feeling very well ^^

The landscape it's something I got in my mind, cos he reminds me a lot these old west heroes, and I think that's cool. It's really cool he plays the banjo too! :D It's one of the instruments that are in my list to play. Oh, and the pose was inspired on the one I saw on a poster, because I liked how he looked so brave and heroic when he rises his banjo up!

I hope you like my style of drawing them, I just thought there was already lost of artist who tried to mimic the show's stlye, so I wanted to do something different, I think it's refreshing :) 

It's funny when I was doing the first doodles of the characters, I realized that Sylvia looks a lot like a dinosaur *chuckles* I think that was cool, too.

I thank a lot to Disney, and Craig MacCracken for making this show, so this is a little tribute him and also for all the ones who give life to this show!  As well as it is dedicated to the dubbing actors here in mexico, specially to Gabriel Ramos (voice of Wander) who it's so stupendous as Wander. He makes the character sound a lot younger, a lot cheerful and a lot cuter too! <3

Also if there's fans of the show here, this is for you too of course :)

Made in "sketchbook express".

PS: someone from Mexico knows, could you tell me what's the schedule of the show here? I know it is aired on "disney XD" but I don't know when, and today for example, I lost an episode, I saw only the end =P Also if my memory doesn't fail me, Gabriel Ramos was also Ash from Pokemon right? Although I'll always have him in my heart as Wander ^^

oh, and here are the first sketches I made of the characters. I wasn't able to post them before, but I do now :D All them have their dates. And who knows, maybe one or these sketches become new paintings in the future.

 

Poses with Ukulele - doodles.

Have ever happened to you that you can't draw anything what it is on your mind?
Well, this happens to me in these days, specially since last well, and this week too.
..I've been trying to draw stuff but none of what I have in my mind....I feel nostalgic and melancholic for moments...and I just realized why...
It's because I still miss a person...A person I met back in the end of November last year. And who well, later in December, gone away....and I haven't seen him again since then.
And I don't know why  I write this if it's too personal...
I just...Write it here I think, cos...it's too much pain for me and it's tearing me out...and I'm not sure of how to get rid of it....to make it go away...

And I know very well that if I tell about this to my family or friends how I feel, they would  just say that the best for me it's to forget that and continue with my life, or that "he was a jerk" or stuff like that...
And I don't know...maybe the "best for me" it's to forget....Maybe it is better for me to think this was just a dream I had...But...even so...EVEN SO! I feel like there's something MORE about this...Something great...I know it was real!....what I felt, what I read, what I heard :D...what happened!...And I feel in my heart it is important to remember him!

Sometimes I wonder...why such heartbreaking thing happened to me if I'm not a bad person..I refer to the fact  he's gone at the end of course...and most important, I wonder how the hell people do this of "forget and continue".. how to forget a person who has given you too much??!!...who has marked you deep inside your soul and mind in a good way...Someone who you felt an important part of yourself since the first time you met them, how....How people do this, how they can live after that?!!....

I wonder!...Because I see the days pass and pass and pass and I stil remember him, as much as I did 6 months ago. I miss how fun it was to laugh and giggle with him when he said jokes, cos he had a great  and original sense of humor.  I miss to talk about photography and art....I miss reading his notes of him talking about his philosophy of life, I miss how he constructed his phrases and..his methaphors!
He used to love talk in methaphors just like I do! And his methaphors were truly amazing, and clear and wonderful! And accurate to what he wanted to say!!

For example, when we met and I gave him my friendship, he said...he said he felt like a kid to whom someone just gave a box of chocolates...Heheh, and it was really amazing! You know why?...Cos I felt like that too....
I would love to post a quote, so you could see how deep his comments where...but I'm not sure of what he would think about it *shy giggles* since that was something he personally said to me....

But yes, as I was saying. I felt like that exactly when I met him...but his phrase was impressive for me, not only cos I was feeling the same thing he felt...but also cos he was able to explain it better! :D Probably better than I would ever do.
And I never had the opportunity to tell him....that I loved his metaphors, that I actually have a soft spot for metaphors, like him, and that when I use them they are usually accurate and help people to understand what I want to express, like his metaphors do...I hope someday I can have the chance to tell him this.....

But you know....I'm starting to feel I shouldn't keep talking about this, In part cos I know I might make some people I love feel a bit bad. And in part just because...this is quite a personal thing...
I'm not sure if I need to leave the past things, in the past where they belong, so I can continue with my life, and find the reason why I've been born in this place...For some reason I feel that I don't need to forget....I feel I rather need to remember him for the good moments...so I'll try! Writting here about the good moments helps a lot to feel better :)

So, yeah as I was saying, of all what I wanted to draw yesterday, and today, I couldn't do nothing.
I only made these rough doodles you can see here XD Because one of my characters loves music, and it's going to like to play the ukulele. So I did these doodles cos I wanted  to see more or less what kind of poses people would do when playing an ukulele, For this I took reference on photos of people playing, and also a video where Naveen from disney's movie plays it, too.

Why the ukulele?....that will be another story I think. Cos now I'm too tired and I need to work tomorrow, so I'm going to sleep XD

Today I worked a lot and the day went out fast. I feel better now though,  writting this has given me a bit or solace in my heart...cos I no longer have  headache like the other day. Also cos I made a couple of comments to a couple of friends on my favorite art community, and talked with one of my my best friends about her artwork. Doing stuff like this always makes me feel happy :)

Estelle figure drawing - For contest.

Hiya folks!
This is a drawing I made of Estelle, one of my original characters. I made this to enter a contest where the main theme was the figure drawing. I chose her because she has become very popular among the artist who admire my work. And I imagined that in case of not being accepted for the contest, it would be cool to to share the drawing for her fans. That are well, only one or two, but they are here and this makes me really happy! Also yes, a friend was right, she said I could add this to my portfolio, and it's true, I can have this as a sample of my artwork :)

And you know what? It looks like I'm a guesser, because I was right...it wasn't selected! And neither the other piece I submitted for the contest. As I told to a dear friend of mine when I realized it wasn't selected:

"I'm a bit disappointed right now, though....I put all my heart in this piece, and also a lot of my time, I ended up with my wrist hurt for the use of the tablet, but even so, two days have passed since I sent this and it hasn't been selected...I think by now it was discarded *sigh*.....
And it would be ok that  if they other who have selected can be dignified competitors, but no! Some of the pieces that have been selected have a poor quality, they look like they were painted by 5 years old kid, and the figure and anatomy it's really poor too. 

I took much care on the digital painting cos to one person the one in charge of the contest said that his digital work was like vomit, and also I took care of doing a good quality anatomy cos their moto it's "excellence in figure drawing"....but all that for what? If they accept drawings of figure drawing (where the pose and good anatomy was the only requirement! It was free theme ) that are cartoony where the anatomy it's atrocious! 

I thought I could win, or at least be selected! cos my art skills have improved, and also my anatomy, and seeing the other works being poorly drawing and lazily painted.....but now I think it's true some of artists from here who participated said some time ago, that maybe this contest it's rigged :( 
You know, I didn't believe that before, but then I haven't seen the contest in a close distance or participated before, this what happens to me now, makes me think a bit that this is true....
It was good I read before participate though, cos their rules said by participating I didn't renounce of my rights to do with my art what I would like, or any rights, so I can at least publish it here and give a bit of joy to people"

Althought as I told her...I don't regret of participating :D
Cos thanks to this I've been able to practice figure drawing, and I've discovered I'm getting better in it.
These are the first sketches I did for this particular project, but I didn't liked the sitting one very much. I liked the other (the blue one) more, so as you can see that was the one I used for the contest at the end. I just added a bit more in the chest part because the character has this body complexion.

And now this is the final result.
Frankly...I didn't like this drawing very much, because as I was in a rush cos I worried the time for submitting getting over, I rushed this honestly. I tried to paint as quickly as I could and the result...well...it was that I painted too much and ruined the sketch itself. For example, his left arm it's fat in the finished painting but not in the sketch. And in the final result the skin looks like a cut piece of paper I know! XD

Even so I liked the hair and the eyes, and also I'm pleased with the sofa, for that I used lots of reference photos I found on the web, and I found one form that convinced me, and one color that convinced me, not in the same photo, so I combined both of good traits I liked from these two photos and I made this :D

In this case I was able to use Photoshop by moments, cos it doesn't work well since last year; I start to paint and after 20  minutes or some it freezes up, and I have to reboot my computer, which it's really really frustrating cos I lose my process sometimes! But at least had luck to use it for background scene (the wallpaper it's from a Photoshop free pattern) and also for the little details like the flowers. 

The rest of it was made with Sketchbook express, who came with my tablet, cos that really makes the tablet feel soft, and even if it doesn't have pressure sensitivity like SAI for example ( I can't use SAI in this computer cos I have windows 8, it doesn't work :( ) for me it's the best I can get for the moment! Cos it works really well and doesn't get stuck when I'm working :D

Sidera Final.

Hi there folks! 

Today I would like to post a drawing that it's the finished result of a drawing I talked on Sidera l'aventuriere Galactique. It was originally posted on July 8th of this year, so the earthquake was at that day.

Oh and for those who wonder, no this is not a photomanip, it's a painting! It was all made by hand in photoshop, and for the glasses I used as reference many glasses photos. The suit was my own design, I imagined it that way, it was part of my rendition to the character :) The Original Link
Hope you like the drawing! 

"Yesterday there was an earthquake here in Chiapas, but don't worry, I'm ok as well as my family in this city where I live there was only a small one, the bigger one was in another part of Chiapas. We just got scared a bit and woke up at early morning, and that was all. Thanks a lot to these good friends who worried about me and toolan68 was the only one who sent me a message to know if I was ok, and I would like him to know I appreciate it!

Some days ago my brother brought another kitty he found in the street, but it's weird this time my brother haven't had much interest on taking care of it,  so me, my sister and my mom are taking care of it, cos nobody had wanted to adopt him yet.
Although we haven't bathe to take the fleas away of him yet, cos it's sick (because my brother left him out there in the rain) and my mom says it's not convenient to bathe him.  So it's inside of the house.

Oh and other thing that happened recently, it was that we went to the "anime and entertainment" expo that was last Sunday. There "entertainment" means videogames and cartoons too, so I went to see if there was a good videogame to buy or some cool stuff from Reboot or other cartoon shows I like.

I know reboot isn't popular, as well as lots of cartoons I like, but well as we say in mexico "hope dies at last".  Although it happened there wasn't much stuff to see, also it was too hot in there because of the crowd of people, and my sister and mom didn't liked the heat, so we only stayed a while and then went back home. 

  I wanted to go dressed in a steampunk style when I found out that about the convention, but I lacked of lots of stuff, like the googles, the hat, and boots, and other stuff I needed. I only had a vest that my sister was going to borrow me, and a white blouse,  and shoes, so I decided to go as a pirate (although without the boots)  but nobody payed attention to me. XD So I was like any other people.

Next time I hope I can prepare to go as Dot Matrix, for the ones who doesn't know reboot so they know, and then I'll post photos I think.
The funniest thing about this thought, I had no interest on cosplay for almost a lifetime XD Also because I'm shyyyyyyyyyyyy * CHUCKLES* But I see my sister and other people (for example my friends or friends of my siblings) go so proud and happy with their cosplays to events like that one, and I think I like it now *chuckles*

So here is this drawing of "Sidera the space wanderer" I made for him to thank him for the amazing giftart he haven drawn for me! ^^ And also for his birthday, even if a bit late heheh.

I wanted to give my take to the character of Julien Neel from the series/comic Lou, cos nobody has made Lou's mom as Sidera, even here on dA,  (other than tolan and I of course) and added my own style to it  I added a couple of detais to her outift to give the pic a retro look, cos I was thinking of one of those black and white retro pinups, I like a lot this kind of portraits!

The first day I was painting this on photoshop at first, but then my photoshop started to freeze and it stayed like that for all the afternoon. Then I tried it again, and my photoshop got stuck again, probably it was cos my computer has Windows 8 (before I had a computer with windows XP and it worked well on it. So I stopped using it.  And instead finished the drawing with "Sketch book Express" as the other drawings I've been doing since I had to change of computer.

The drawing was oirignally in color, but as my photoshop crashed and didn't left me paint more (and ruined the colors because of the slow painting! ) at the end I made it in black an white, and it happened it was better, cos this looks more retro, and more elegant."

To sleep a bit more it's worth!

Hi there folks! Hope you're having a good day :)

It was 7:00 am. when  I heard the alarm clock of my brother, and then I wanted to wake up to have more time to do the stuff I do everyday, but I was sleepy cos I hadn't been able to sleep much yesterday, that I went back to the bed again.  Then when I woke up at 10 pm. I knew the extra time I didn't planned to stay sleeping was awesome, cos I dreamed about a new story today!

As some of you know (cos I have mentioned it some time ago) sometimes I dream about stories that only exist in my imagination, usually it's as me watching something on the TV, like if it was a movie, but these are original things. Some time ago when I was younger, I didn't really pay much attention to these because I thought they were vague and "unfinished", and thus not very useful. But since some time ago, I discovered that these kind of dreams are in episodes or parts, so yeah they have a beginning, and end of course, it's just I haven't seen it yet cos I haven't reached to it.

And I must say, that some of these dreams are really cool and amazing! So much that sometimes I've been found myself waking up in early morning to draw some of these things! XD It's all very intense when it happens!
That's precisely why I've been taking note of these dreams since like....3 or 4 years ago, cos as I've realized, there is a reason why I have these dreams...now I'm sure God wants me to do something with my talent, and turn these dreams in stories! I hope I can dream more of these stories, so I can get more inspiration to turn them into a comic or book someday, but meanwhile I'm going to talk a bit about this, cos it was cool!

The 19 century kids

 It was a dream about 4 kids, and their grandfather. They lived in a house made of wood, that was near to a farm, that a bit later in the dream I realized it was theirs, I suppose the parents were off or something like that,cos I didn't see them.....or probably death?...I'm not sure.

How I know they were from 1910? Well because of all the stuff from that age (buildings, clothes, the lamps!) since I'm fan of making stories with this time in particular as the setting, cos I think it was very interesting and enigmatic. All this age in general, it's amazing, it was the beginning of the industrial revolution, and lots and lots of interesting things have happened! 

So the dream started with the house and the farm, and near to the house there was a .... and the grandfather was yelling at them cos they were playing with ballons filled of painting, and left all the walls of the ..... full of that painting! XD Then the older of the kids was in the ceiling and said, referring to their siblings "I told them to not do that, but they didn't listened". 

I don't think they were bad kids though. You could see how they were playing, and probably all that "bad behavior" was just because they missed their parents (if they were death) and they wanted them to spend more time to them (if they were alive) and their older sister struggled to be mature, but wasn't old enough to know what to do in all the situations.

The characters of my dream...mmhhh they were an old but kindhearted man, a girl in her 12-13 years old, a boy of 10, a girl of  5 and the last one boy was like 3 years old or something I think. 

I think the older kid was an inventor, because she always used to carry a belt with tools, and her clothes were dirty like if she used to try to fix things or to build something.

They talked in English, although not British English, but american with a kind of southern accent....and it was funny to notice they dressed like if they were poor (I guess cos the parents were a middle-class family before, and they had debts?...) but they had a farm that was pretty big and house that looked very nice...and why the parents of the kids let the Grandpa taking care of them? I am not sure, but poor guy! They seemed the kind of kids who liked adventures  *chuckles*

Well, anyways, in the dream, when the grandpa called them and yelled at them a bit, they went back home to change clothes (cos they were full of painting XD) and to take dinner. And meanwhile, when night was comming, we could see that in the ..... something fell down from the sky.....and that was when I woke up, sadly. So I couldn't see what was going to happen next!! XD

So, what I did when I woke up was to draw this:

Just rough sketches of the characters I dreamed. And as I said up there, I hope I can dream more about this one story!

It's funny now I notice it, when I dream, I often dream with characters that are geeky, who are inventors..now I know why, I think it's because I myself was inventor when I was a kid! I just left it after some years, specially when my father said "being an inventor isn't a career, you cannot make a career out of it!". 

I admit he was right in part...although now I regret leaving that passion I had for building things I had,  I would have liked to not pay attention to that, or at least no completely but partially pay attention, and keep doing it. Because now I feel I have no longer this skill since a pretty good time :(

Well....at least I'm very glad I didn't left the art, and also to notice I keep having dreams about original stories and characters! ^^

Oh almost forget it! One curious thing about this dream, it's that one of the characters said "Pixeles" too! XD

I said "too" cos some days ago I had a dream of completely different story/characters, where one character said that as an exclamation expression. 

Mmmhhh....I guess someone wanted me to use this as a "catchphrase" or expression *chuckles*