A friend who always makes me feel reborn!

There's been a time since I haven't had much motivation for drawing, and I was trying to figure out why. I realized it was in part cos I've been having one of those people call "artist block",  or something like that, cos I've been having trouble drawing facial expression all this past year, and now, I feel a bit sad that it's 2015, and it still happens I can't draw my expressions and poses as I imagine them.

But I think in great part it's because I'm not longer motivated to post art on the usual place people see me, before I created this blog. Because there's someone in that comunity who I consider a friend,  has been telling me only negative stuff about my characters, since a year ago or a bit more...

So I was feeling down the other day because, it looked like he didn't like my character (this one) and what he represents, what he means for me....and thus this is why I no longer feel free post my artwork there and express what I think or what I feel in the artists comments, on the usual site I used to post my art. Cos everytime I post something, this person comes to argue about nonesense stuff.
So I feel if I post art this person might argue with me....and I have never liked to argue or fight with people. But when I was sad and unmotivated to do art anymore, a dear friend of mine sent me this wonderful giftart!

See he original link to this Art piece

My friend's drawing of faikel with a bird, she said she got the idea cos she knows I like birds. 

And I felt so loved, admired and appreciated, I felt like a great and worthy person!
I felt so happy to know she has thought on me and took some of her time to draw something for me on Christmas, that this made me feel inspired to do something for her! To draw again! :D In part cos of that reason, and in part cos I had a feeling that she might need something to encourage her, since some time ago she mentioned she was feeling down, as I explained in my other post.

I felt a bit shy when I showed her the drawing, cos it was my first drawing with Illustrator (I posted it here )  and it took me a lot more time than what I would have expected.

But when I shared with her the art and I heard how happy it have made her I felt like my heart was brand new, there was no frustration or worry or sadness in it!

And I re-discovered something very importart: That, no matter the place where I post my art or if there are crazy people saying mean stuff about it, and even doesn't matter much if I can't do art as frequelty as I have for lack of time "or art blocking".

I realized the only imporant thing is that my art can transmit positive and good feelings to people!

It can fill people's heart with joy and hope, it can turn someone's bad day into an amazing one, it can make people dream, and make them imagine great things, or just have fun seeing it. And give them an smile.

And there will be always people who will feel amazed to see it, who will feel happy and warm in their hearts with my art, as well as they do with my friend's one too, of course :D

So I was very happy to realize can and should keep making art, because it's a worthy thing!

But things doesn't end in this, you couldn't imagine how great was my suprise when I discover later, that she had made an article on her site to share my drawing!!! :3 It was one of the most amazing things that have happened to me in this or the other year, and it was such a great honor, I felt so amazed and happy when I saw that she talked about my drawing on her facebook and on her  official page, and even more I read the title "A gift from a friend can raise a wilting spirit"  ^_^ That was something that just went right to my heart!

Cat and Peter Christmas Drawing

Hiya folks!
I'm preparing for traveling back to Chiapas tomorrow, cos I will have to go back to school, but before going (and now I have a change) I would like to share this drawing of Cat and Peter from the graphic novel of a dear friend of mine.

I started it a few days before Christmas, but I hardly had time for drawing, and plus, the illustrator wasn't as easy as I thought! XD In fact, with this software it takes me hours what with photoshop or sketchbook express I'd do in 5 minutes. But it's probably because Illustrator it's a relatively new program for me.

I've started to use it since this past September when I signed up to College, and I have to practice with it cos it's part of my career, and I'll need it in the future to desing logos and other stuff.
 So I saw an opportunity to practice with this drawing, that I would like to present proudly, cos I liked very much the result! It looks like I'm starting to get used to it, and it came out a lot better than my very first try with it, even I did find out how to make degradding of colors!

I feel a bit ashamed cos it's late, and not only late for Christmas time, but also late because this idea  came to my mind some months ago, when my friend was feeling a bit nervious when sending his story to publishers; so I wanted to do a giftart to make her feel better, and to show her that there are much people who loves threadcaster ^^
So, "Late but sure" as we say in mexico, hope it still can make her feel good if she feels down, and also hope you've had a fantastic time in these holidays, and have a prosperous and happy new year!

A bit of his artwork!

Hi there everybody!
This is an entry I started to write a Friday, 9 May of this year, but I just wasn't able to finish it, until now. So I would like to post it today I have a bit of a time. Obviously, it's not a quote cos it's an article that it's been just in process to be written. But just so you know the date of start :)

Also I come here to talk about him because the few friends I have are already tired of listening to me to talk about him and how cool he and his artwork were! XD I've realized it, how some of them say "Oh I'm going to go to a meeting I gotta go!" but they don't, they actually are just running off from me because they are tired to hear me talking about him XD
One can feels when someone says something for truth or when they're jus cutting you off because they aren't interested on what you're talking about...but in this case...well, I understand them.
They didn't know him, it's normal they are not interested...but now I realize how I've made them tired, I feel a bit bad! *SHY GIGGLES* So I no longer do it XD I better come here ;)
Although not all people friends were like this! I thank a lot to my dear friend Jame cos she was really nice with me all this time! She understands me and she is always willing to listen what I'd like to say! And for me that it's priceless! ^^

Well, some time ago, I was searching the web some photos for doing some drawings, after having finished some art I was doing of a character of mine. And don't imagine what I found, a few of the Photo-manipulations that my friend did! 

So Imagine my surprise! I was so happy because now I can share this with you, now you can see finally some of his work!!! It's such a great honor and joy to have found this and share. Specially because it's interesting not only to see his artwork, but specially his phrases that are always so elegant, and his great great humor! ^-^

Hehe, probably you have no idea of what I'm talking about, sorry! *chuckles*
I'm talking about an amazing artist and person, a really dear friend I had and I haven't seen in a pretty good time, and I really would like to see again.  The same I've talked about a bit HERE.
And I know probably some people who comes to read this blog (if someone ever does XD ) is going to think "Again with that?" "is not worth to remember if a person doesn't make efforts to contact you", or "if it's been to much time you haven't seen this person, why not just forget all?" etc etc etc ...well, because it's my life!!! :)
 Plus I'm not who to judge. And think other people should not do it either.

I know nobody is going undersand this, because nobody knew him as much as I got to know him...

Our bonding was special...but it is also a very personal thing, which if I talk of, I know it would be like ...bringing lots of tourists to a inmaculated water spring or a virgin beach. 

And what they are going to do? They will go and pollute it throwing trash all over the place, step on the coral's reef destroying it (in the case of beach's methaphor) they're going to cut down the trees and make animals go extint. 
With or without intention, but they will do it. And then the place would be ruined and will no longer be meaningful.

So I don't expect you to understand, and thus I'm going to bother to say what happened or why I keep reminding him either.... plus nobody reads this blog XD 

Actually, this is  mostly just a public-private journal I do for myself *chuckles*
I call it this way because, even if it seems to be "public" actually I know that who would come here doesn't really know who I am.  And the ones who do, who have got to know me for real, to know more where I live or what I do in the mornings, are only a couple of friends of mine. And I know if they decide to visit me and I can met them in person, they will not make mention of this site to the people of my town. They know that what they read in this blog stays in this blog, and in their minds and hearts too of course :)

I just would like to talk you about this dear friend of mine, but no with sadness, but with joy.
Cos as I said it at my dA (that now I don't use it very much but well...) I would really like to honor one of the traits he saw in me and nobody saw, and that he loved and admired. It's that I always try to see the positive side of things, and be strong no matter what. So I struggle to do this, and I'll try to be in peace with the hope one day he will come back, and we will hang out together again...and I will be able to  tell him what I haven't been able to tell him.

   A bit of his great artwork!

There's something I've always wanted to tell him and I never had the opportunity to; that I always liked this joy the vivid colors gave to his work. I was gladly surprised to read this, cos like him, I also like a lot to use vivid colors in my work!
I loved how he described why when he said "Car j'aime ce côté magie colorée et explosive" , cos it was very well explained!

As a comment, for what I've seen, it seems to be a very cool forum, maybe I might join someday...I don't know, I usually don't have time for forums XD
Well, Here I post this beautiful intro that he himself wrote when he showed his artwork in this forum called "graphistes world". The topic was Gale-riz de galoubet , it makes me giggle this tittle, I think it was clever and funny at the same time.
It brings me nostalgia and a bit of melancholy....to remember how all his other art dissapeared....But these are the last vestiges I've seen from this extraordinary person and artist, so it means a lot for me to tell you about this!

I kept the format of the text when quoiting it, so you can see that how it's very neat, very well organized, that's one of the things that I loved a lot of him.

Also, notice he only posted his images there on that topic, cos he cared of posting it only in one place so to not spread his stuff through all the forum. This makes me happy too, cos I am organized like that too, if I would go to a forum to posting my stuff, that's exactly what I would have done too! 

Bonjour à tous.

I* Intro :
Alors premièrement j'utiliserais uniquement ce poste pour publier mes images pour éviter de poster abusivement et ne pas étaler les images dans toute la section.

Je suis sous DA c'est eux qui me servent d'hébergement et j'espère que ça ne pose aucuns problèmes.

II* Qui suis-je :
A mon sujet, je suis dans la photo-manipulations depuis 8 mois activement ce qui veut dire que je suis en contacte avec PS depuis un bon nombre d'années mais que je m'en servais uniquement pour jouer et rien de concret et d'ici peu je me suis mis à 3D avec Blender x64 ver2.62.

III* Mon travail :

Mon style graphique va chercher dans plusieurs types facilement notables qui pour les décors en nature sont des couleurs très accentués. Car j'aime ce côté magie colorée et explosive.

Pour ce qui est des mis en scène avec un personnage ou autre, c'est la dérision que je cherche, donner un autre sens.
Et donc outre l'aspect visuel j’essaie de faire passer une pensé à travers mes images .

Puis le projet libre, ça c'est quand j'ai la flemme d'avancer mon travaille et tout ce que je souhaite c'est une image qui fasse jolie pour me rappeler que je sais encore faire quelque chose des mes dix doigts 

Et dernier point qui m'amuse beaucoup, mettre sur image des phénomènes qui ne peuvent exister dans la vie réelle, comme le dit mon frangin.. "Je vends du rêve" Comme quoi il avait tout faux..Personnes ne m'a jamais payés..Pff.. 
(Oh le jolie copié/collé !)

IV* Point de vue : 

Cette galerie sera édité au fil du temps de manière à ce que vous puissiez y jeter un coup d’œil.

Je n'ai pas la prétention de me considérer comme une personne très doué et je sais que j'ai ÉNORMÉMENT de connaissances à acquérir et que mon travail reste par mon expérience assez brouillon.

J'ai toujours avancé en autodidacte et c'est pourquoi j'aimerais vos avis pour savoir quelles mauvaises habitudes j'ai pris pour apprendre à les rectifier avec le temps .

Ma plus grande tare est sûrement de n'avoir aucuns vrai stock quand je monte une création c'est toujours avec la pioche et la pelle..

Les images sont des plus récentes au plus anciennes par chaque catégorie.

Merci de prendre de votre temps pour venir ici et soyez indulgents, s'il vous plaît !

My comments 

Well, first of all I must say, I was very surprised when I read this intro, cos I found out that the way I do my art it's pretty much like he describes it here, heheh.
For example, I also have this kind of artwork that he calls project libre.
You know, when you're uninspired for continuing with a work, to finish it the way you wanted, and then you "loose" a bit and do other thing that is just for fun, to remember yourself that you can do something good with "your ten fingers" as he said, ehehh. I really liked that expression ^^

It always amazes me how these kind of projects, the ones when you relax more, are the ones that come out better, and people usually like them a lot more than the ones that you stress to realize in a more "formal way" so to speak.
I think it's because you usually have fun the most with the "sketchy" works, and that is transmitted to people :D Also, I loved the fact he is very modest, and always tries to improve himself in the art, and also as a person in every day life, in general.

Also I loved this expression of "Je vends du rêve" and what he meant with it. Since I do to, love to create things that you don't normally find in real life. New worlds...new adventures!...Things that could make people dream! :3

And even if people say in these comments that he wrote "a wall", I know why they say this. It's just that people don't like to read...and later they wonder why they don't have a cool vocabulary and why they aren't elegant when talking XD 

But I do like to read though. Specially what he likes to say! Cos he's got an amazing way of writting that it's just so fun and cool, and also warm! It makes you feel you're not behind a computer when reading. But you're talking with him in person :) Also his comments are always very well thought.

About the art, well I think these two people who replied him have given him good advices. It's evident that some of the photomanip pieces needed a bit of more work on how they are merged together, and in a couple of them the colors are a bit "too bright"....But he was a "newbie" at that time. He was just trying to find his own style.
So at that time the important thing wasn't the "technic" in my opinion. But the most important thing, and what called my attention met most, was that at the time when he posted this, he already han an idea of what he wanted to do; he wanted to create fantastic and new worlds, worlds nobody had seen before! And that, it's priceless! ^^ It's something I look for when I make art too.

Probably some years later (for example now or the next year) he himself will see some of his old works and will say to himself "Wuut?....What the hell I was thinking when I did this?!" *chuckles* Because that's a normal thing to say for an artist that evolves. Even...I myself think this of many of my works when I was a "newbie" in drawing! XD

But even so, I cherish my old works a lot, as well as the new ones, cos they bring me good memories from when I made them!

I hope one day he comes back with lots of new pieces of artwork...I really do!!...
And I know for a fact, that when he comes back, if he does, these pieces will look so small compared to the glory of the new ones.
But I show these to you cos I think it's cute and cool to see how an artist evolves. I've always loved to see the words of artists since the first ones to the most recent ones. It's just so interesting to know how an artist find their own style, how they make it come out of their hearts and shine!

One friend I have for example, always says as a joke "don't comment on my old work cos its horrible!!" but it isn't an horrible work. It's a part of the artist and it has a meaning!

Oh and also I really liked when he said that being a self-taught learner, he needed advice to know what were the "bad habits" so he could rectify on time. Cos I know how I feels, I also am a self-taught learner in art, and a lot of other things. So I appreciate the advice cos I don't want to get "bad habits" on stuff I learn, specialy about learning languages.

Here are the links that talk about his artwork, in the case you can see his other topics, it's very interesting see his work and his evolution as an artist..and specially reading what he has to say! ^^ I've always loved the way he constructs his phases, his use of the words is amazing!

Creations de Galoubet 
In this one page, obviously you can see that he's the one with the name of "invitè".

 Galeriz de Galoubet
While in this one (the one where the quote is from) he has his usual nickname.

I know one day he will come back, and we will share lots of cool stuff and hang out together! And he will always be...my best friend ever!....
Go check it out! In both of the pages his comments are fun and cool to read!
 

Rest in peace Toby.

Well, it happened that I came back where I always used to post...but just to post Toby's tribute, I thought it was important.

This is a drawing I made for my brother's birthday of Toby, and I post it cos I think it was the perfect tribute to him. Hope you like it, and there's a quote of what I said on that respect this Friday. Toby died this last Thursday.

"Me and my family are sad, cos Toby died yesterday...
He was passing for hard times since November last year's, first cos he was suffering a lot of pain due kidney problems, and later for problem his stomach and intestines. We took him to the vet and he was in treatment....he was injected several times with medicine, and some days it seemed he was recovering, but there were days when he tried to eat, but he felt sick and he vomited...and since he couldn't take the nutrients of what he was eating, even if there were days when he felt good to eat, he lost a huge part of his weight.

And yesterday...yesterday he didn't wanted to eat anything. So I accompanied my brother to take him to the vet, and the vet put Toby a serum injection, 2 times, the vet said it was normal cos ferrets suffer of that when they get old, and there was not much to do, but that maybe with what he gave him he might feel better. But when we came back home, he looked too weak and he didn't eat...and in the night he died. 

Poor Toby....I cannot imagine how much he has been passing for...if just for us was really hard to see him suffering...But now he is in peace now. And I know we are going to miss him a lot...the house isn't the same without him...
But...even if it sounds weird..lI feel great relief knowing he's going to be alright now. No more pain and suffer for him, he now is happy in heaven....he will be better than here. So, this is a little tribute for Toby that I would like to share with you today, I hope you like it.

Toby was a warrior, bold and brave! The vet said he was so strong, that other ferrets would have died long time ago. But he didn't he was there to give us love for 7 years, even when he was old! And he was very healthy actually, he didn't had any poblem, until a year ago. Rest in Peace toby, your soul it's in heaven now!

Today we went to the super market, and also to a vivarium, we bought a lemon tree and we are going to plant the tree and put toby near to it.
Why the tree?...it's just an symbolic thing, you know. Usually people leave flowers, my mom and dad had the idea of planting a tree. I think it's very solemn and warm way to show him that we loved him. "

Joe the crab

Hi there folks!
Today it was a very bussy day, I worked in the morning and at 1 pm I went out with my family cos my sister was going to go to her hula classes and my brother to English class, and I needed to go with them  cos I needed to buy my new glasses because the ones I had broke down  a couple of months ago. And I need to use glasses everyday for a problem I have to see things that are too far away. In these last months I've been using my mom's ones, but these aren't as good as ones that had cos weren't made for my eye's problem.

Going to the center of the city here is usually an oddisey! XD Although, not much that it is in Mexico D.F. or Mexico city, but going there and wait for my glasses and then for my siblings, took all the rest of the day.
Now I got a headache because of the traffic and smog. But well at least I think I can come "like a lighting" (I mean quickly, it's an expression we say in mexico "como de rayo") and share a nice piece of art :)
And I chose this one, in part cos there's not much to explain about it *chuckles*, but in great part cos I would like to make a little tribute to the friend of my friend Tim Hill, and specially to my dearest friend and mentor Jennifer Stolzer ^^

This is an painting of Joe the crab from the series of books of the same name. I did it for fun a month ago cos at that day (see the date in the piece) I was trying to draw a few sketches of marine animals for my new story's script (for a comic I'm planning, I hope I can release it next year) that I talked a bit of here, to see how cartoon animals would look in my style.
I was looking for some equilibrium between cartoon and a realistic style; since this story isn't meant to be only for entertainment, but also it was imagined since the beginning to be a cartoon-documentary show (originally was created to be a cartoon show, although in nowadays I settle with making it a comic or book/graphic novel, you know, because that's how most of tv shows started..) but none of the scribbles I did pleased me. I think "I was trying too hard" like they say in america, so I tried to relax and remember I do art in the first place; cos I love art, cos it's fun and warms up my soul, and the I started reminding the illustration that my friend did, so that's why I ended up drawing this! *chuckles*
And later I felt excited to share it, I guess cos I feel this is the more iconic piece of her work, the one people know her more for. And of course I wanted people to know her a lot more! :D

By the way, it's just this year when I first removed a background, yes as silly as it sounds but it's true! XD  I discovered this by accident (like most of scientific discovering) when I got tired of JPG in other programs that aren't photoshop (as I said in other entry my photoshop doesn't work) cos it was so tired of my stuff loosing quality when being saved. So I tried PNG one day by chance, I never had tried it before to save stuff, but I did, and I discovered something with so much amazement; this is the only one format that doesn't lose quality no matter with what software you paint it. EVEN with MS paint! Oh my!

I wish I knew this waaaaaay earlier!! XD There are lots of old old pieces from when I started painting digitally that look awful in quality because of that!

And obviously, I had heard and seen from other artists that in this format you can remove the background, I just  haven't tried it myself cos I was kinda afraid of ruinning my stuff XD

I know what most of people are going to say "this is something too ambitious" or "it's impossible, you'll never do it", and I know cos I've seen people commenting that when I shared my very first sketches of a couple of the characters, that were not as good as the ones I've recently made I must say *chuckles*.
And yes, also I myself know this is in it's nature an "very ambitious" idea, to combine a cartoon whose goal it's "to entertain" with a documentary show, that it's supposed to "teach and be boring".  And specially for the way I would like to combine them.

But in my experience in this life-time journey as an artist, I've discovered an obvious truth: If the artist has fear of failing, if the artist doesn't believe in their own stories, ideas and dreams: nobody else will. And you will never try and thus your will never know if your artwork would have been loved and admired or not.

That's something I discovered some time ago, due lots of events that happened in my life, I only wish I discovered this way years before...I wish it was as obvious to me when I was a kid or a teen, as it is now...But well, I didn't, but now I do! I think it's better later than never. So from now on, I'll have faith in my stuff, as well as my mentor and friend Jen showed me!
Thanks a lot Jamie!!

And that's the best advice I can give to my fellow artists; believe in your stuff and love it, have faith in it and be willing to nurture and develop it, even with the fear of failing that it's always there, cos your ideas and artwork are like your children.
Other people could dislike your ideas and stuff, but you must love them cos they are part of you, they come from you, if you love them you love yourself too.