Two funny things

Just some funny events of the last week I would like to share.

One day when I was coming back home from school one guy arrived to the combi (in Mexico we call like this to the public trasport that it's a van) with two chickens in a wood cage!
I must say that I'm surprised by the Mexican way XD Specially on this city; as long as it isn't illegal, you can carry anything on the public transport!
I wasn't able to take the behind of this cage cos the guy didn't spent much time at the combi and left very quickly. But the funniest thing about this is that the front part of the cage was all covered like you can see...while the behind was all open and you could see all the chicken's tails!! XD
I found that fact to be hilarious and a bit ood, cos the poor chickens were obviously having a bad time with the heat the poors, while their booties were all fresh and feeling the breeze.

Also the same week I found a death butterfly in the street.
The first thing thought was "It would have been amazing to take a photo of it alive" and I was a bit sad cos it wasn't alive.

I took a photo of it anyways cos it's weird to find these near to the city. Usually you dont se butterflies in this city, and much less this beauful! So it was a cool chance to take a photo even if it was death.

First Angry birds drawing. Stickers!

Hi there folks! 

Just some Angry Birds stamps/stickers I did for my younger brother's birthday, since he's super fan of Angry Birds.

I painted them by hand with my markers, on a piece of paper for stickers I had left. I used that special paper to make a poster for my graphic desing career project, and some of the paper was left blank, so I had this idea of using it for this!

I wasn't able to scan them, but I took a photo.

And funny thing...yes, as you were guessing, is the first time I ever draw these guys! Heheh! How do you think they are? 

I was happy when I finished them cos I thought the came out very good for my first time. Amazingly good...I must say, hehe. It was very uplifting! But I was a lot happier when my bro said he liked them a lot and he was

Pepito Grillo

I remember when I was little I really liked Jiminy cricket *chuckles*
It's been a long time since I've seen Pinoccio, so I didn't remember why all these years....
But today I was looking for The Lion King pictures as reference to do an infographic about The Lion King for my class, and I found by chance a pic of this character. Then I wanted to watch how he would sound like in english, out of curiosity. Since in mexico I have only heard him with mexican dubbing as "pepe grillo" or "Pepito grillo". And I found this video clip that made me remind why I used to like this cricket! XD



Because he is a very modest, corteous, kindhearted, and caring character, also he's smart! And made a great Job as as Pinoccio's  conscience! 
I think its really cute when he blushes with the blue fairy asks him to he his conscience. And his voice in English it's very cute. It's great to notice that his voice looks very similar to the one I heard in Mexian dubbing when I was little, cos it makes the character in English feel very familiar. ^^

Oh I remember other thing! When I was little and watched that movie, I  wanted to have the elegance and glamour the blue fairy as a grown up, hehe...
I've read some time ago that Walt Disney wanted to give her the glamour of the 40's, and I think if that's true it was successful, because she does have it, I think I like a lot that vibe, how she looks like a lady from that age :)

I wasn't able to find the mexican countepart of this scene, but I think with this one it's ok since the voices doesn't chance very much. 

First Stop Motion.

Bonjour les mecs!

Here "reportandome" so you can see I'm still alive! Hehe!
These weeks have been very heavy at school, since we have had lots of big projects, that appart of being big are very complex and take a lot of time!

One of the projects that absorbed my time a lot was an stop-motion animation I started to make since 5 weeks ago for our professor Mau (Mauricio he gives the class of "design of webpages") and I still cant finish it.

  Earth & Coca Cola

It's cos stop-motion animation it's one of the most complex (and complicated) animation techniques. For the ones who doesn't know what is is: You have to take several photos of an object while moving it some millimeters, and then attach the photos in sequence to give the illusion of movement!In the case of our team (I worked with two of my classmates) we chose the brand Coca Cola, one of my favorite brands, and surprisingly, our prof  Mau's favorite too :D

 And I think that's partly why we have devoted too much of my time to this project, as prof Mau is one of my favorite teachers (I hope soon a little more of it, and you'll see why I admire him!) And Coca Cola is one of his favorite brands, so I would love a real great job, one that, if at least doesn't leave him impressed, cannot be a disappointment to him either, and he at least like it.I think I mentioned it before, but not talked about at great detail. So now is the chance to do it! 

The idea was to make a rotating earth and taking the drink, and as it is an original idea, I will not be able to show the finished work anywhere until we publish on the website that we did. But what I can show you now is the "behind the scenes" so to speak:

 The first 2 photos are original ones (the ones I took with my Canon, which I used for the animation ) the others were taken with my smartphone.

The earth and the bottle of coke. It is assumed that earth was going to have one arm appearing at some point of the animation secuence and was going to grab coke, but eventually the arm fell off the clay figure (FAIL I know!! XD) so I had to take them in separate photos and stick them with photoshop.

Also those days were cloudy and there was not much light inside my house to take the photos.  But the good thing was that at the end everything went well, and I finished taking the pictures. Now what it's taking me time is putting them together with Flash because my computer freezes up when I'm working, and it's quite a NIGHTMARE! My brother says it's probably because my lap has an small memory ram, so I changed from windows 8 to windows 7, I thought it was going to get better, but still has trouble working.
I haven't sleep well in these 3 weeks! So I hope I can finish soon!
But despite the problems with my computer, I'm having fun making this stop motion, because I've always wanted to do one in form, and now it's my chance!  
When I was a kid, I made a bit of a stop-motion work with my siblings, but that was just a video of like...3 seconds I think, and it was just us moving a clay sculpture of a girl with a fluffy dress I did XD 
So this is my first "formal stop motion work" so to speak, so it's very exciting! 
well, hope you liked this post and see you soon. :)

Photo Re-coloring.

Hi there folks!

Here's a photo I re colored on photoshop for a class the second cycle of my career. For this work we needed to give a realisticcolor to a black and white photo on photoshop.

It was finished on January 14 of  this year. But I Poster it just now because I had not time to do it before.

This is the original photo in black and white my teacher gave to my classmates and I.

This is the image after I edited it in photoshop and gave it color. For this homework I used Photoshop cs4. What do you think? It looks like a real color?

Two songs to celebrate!!!

Bonjour les mecs!! Ça va?

I hope you're doing good! Because in my case I'm feeling supeer goooood!! WHAY BETTER THAN I'VE EVER BEEN!!! Much better than in jupiter!!!! :D As a mexican expression I like would say.

....Zut! Je crois que je suis trop loin de notre système solaire et je suis maintenant dans une galaxie lointaine! XD...Oh boy!...see I'm so happy I've been started to use french again! :D 
...why?.... Because something fantastic, amazing and wonderful has happened recently!! Guest what?
Well, it happened that a few days ago I recovered a very dear and close friend of mine!!! ^^

The history?...Sorry I'll have to dissapoint you this time.
In part cos the story it's long and at this moment I'm doing "heavy"  and "light" fonts, and have to be 24 different fonts. Also I have to finish a stage for a stop-motion animation that will start making Monday, which we should have done already a few weeks ago, but my classmates left me all the work so. And stop motion it's always a hard work.
But then I'll do the best I can, I am documenting in the field of animation and hope it goes well in the end. XD

But specially and mostly, cos this is a very personal thing. Because it's not just about  me, but the friend I mention ...he is very reserved about his personal life. As well as me, so I would like to honor that, and the fact he have let me to be his friend and be part of his life :)

But don't worry, you're not losing anything *chuckles* 

Also, there's something can tell you, to express how happy I am! I have to say my folks, with much amazement, that this is the first time I feel fulfilled in every sense of the word.

 I finally feel my spirit feels free and happy and full of inner peace; I feel my life is complete! ^^
Right now I feel I'm in a point of my life where, everthing it's just going right as it should be.

I have a hard but a good job (one that pays my school at least XD) I'm starting an exciting journey studying an art-related career as I always wanted, and most important, I have him in my life again!
And now I realize all I needed to fill my spirit and feel my life was complete...it was him! :D
He always meant a lot for me....I can tell you he was, and is, a part of myself!

That is why today I feel like celebrating *chuckles*
So I would love to share with you this song, which although in Swahili (and the letter has nothing to do with what I'm talking about, but speaks of Simba) is a song that perfectly conveys all that there in my being from about 2 weeks ago and a few days more. Especially, I remember feeling very calmly and joy in my heart when I received the message that he was sure that if he wanted to be my friend! And I cried, but with excitement!

 The Music

You know I usually share the music I love with you, just for the pleasure of sharing it, because I think that's a great thing to do! And very often, I hear music that reflects how I feel at the moment, and I hear the same music for a good while, hehe.

I also think that sometimes music can say much more than words. That is why in these three weeks, I've been listening cheerful and warm, energizing, ones that make you feel all warm, hopeful and cozy inside.

These are two songs who have accompained me recently, because they transmit very well how I've felt since this wonderful miracle happened.

Snow in August.

The first, is a song it's called "Snow in August" from the  "Nanny McPhee" soundtrack. I had the pleasure to find it some months ago, and now I've been feeling like listening it again. Because besides being a happy song, it's also a song of "triumph", so to speak. In my opinion I think that comes in handy for the occasion, as it talks about something someone has been longing for a long time and now is finally possible.

In the case of the film where it belongs, the song represents what the girl yearned on the movie. In my case, to find my friend was what I longed with all my heart for about two years and a bit more.

Talking about Nanny McPhee's movie mmhh...well I think it's a good movie, but not like "an epic movie" or a too impressive movie. So if you don't see it I don't think you would be lossing much heheh. The movie it's very predictable and at some parts, too silly for most of adults. XD So I've seen the movie but what I liked the most about it, it's just this song! :)

Personally, this song amazed me. I think cos in my life have been rare to find a song that convey joy, hope and faith as much as this one does! And well as many of you know, I always use songs to inspire me to do art, so this was an amazing discovery!
And in fact I usually cannot work or study or do art or anything without music, for me music is like food for the soul, the fuel to do art, what helps to create! So I rarely have done art without music, I think just as one or two times.

 Busa

 And this one is called "Busa". From the soundtrack of The Lion King.

I discovered it some of months ago when I was doing some work in Corel Draw vector, a restaurant menu one of my teacherd asked. I was doing the work at school computer classroom one day, and I was looking for music to inspire me, so I found this one by chance. I thought that I would love to share it with my friends. And now I can! :D

And right now it comes in handy to share this because it is very appropriate for the occasion.

Cos although the letters are in Swahili and talk about Simba, the melody is more than adequate, cos is relaxing, but also conveys a lot of energy and joy, good vibes. So is a song that perfectly conveys all what I've been feeling on the deeps of my being since about 2 weeks ago and a few days more. ^^

Specially, it makes me remember very well the amazing feeling of joy, relief and tranquility I felt in my heart when I received his message saying he was sure he would love to hang with me again! I remember I cried...like a fountaine ;)

I cried from joy! A joy I barely could contain in my heart heheh...

Oh and no I'm not going to talk about the Lion King right now XD That's another story and I have lot of homework to do! XD

Estelle studying for Le Bac

Hi there folks!
This is the last drawing I've posted on dA this month, just out of nostalgia, and because a dear frend of mine wanted to see it....but after this, my dA page will be in hiatus. The why it's not important, let's say I'm lacking of time and I just can take care of one place, and I've chose this one :)
Oh ok ok...the why it's HERE....but don't worry, I'm not going to talk about that again. I just said that once, and I don't think it's worthy to repeat the same thing. Also because talking about that it's bad for my spirit, it makes me feel exhausted.
Leaving my dA in hiatus, it's one of the hardest things I've ever done...because that comunity always was my home...but don't worry, it will not be forever I think. I think I will come back there in one or two years more of course, when the crazy people have been gone XD

What I do would like to do, it's to post the traditional "drawing + quote". And luckily after this one I'll not post more quotes because all my artwork will be here :D So I hope you like! 
This is the ORIGINAL LINK

Estelle studying for Le Bac

"Today I've struggled to give myself a little time for drawing or coming here to post fun stuff. Even, I was planning to make a journal to comment about my first 2 weeks of school after the holiday vacations I had (2 weeks before these 2 weeks XD) but ah...I have no motivation to write about that  XD

 It's because, in total honesty....I was feeling really lonely a while ago!  Maybe it's because since I've started to collegue people no longer visits this gallery or send me messages here, or in any other place either.

For example today I came here a while ago to see what was new, to the only place I consider home, hoping to have a fun moment. And you know I was expecting to find messages from my friends, at least one! but all what I found was that most of my friends had done collabs and art trades with other friends of them, and have been having fun giving commenting on each other's art and making giftart to each other, and meanwhile nobody messaged me to even said "hi how you're doing?" and my gallery looks like a desert! o_O It looked like nobody cared even if I was alive or if I already have been crushed by a truck XD

Even some days ago I posted a journal here sharing I worried I might have been lack my skills to draw facial expressions/gesture language, but no artist took a moment to talk about their experiences or if that ever happened to them as I would have wished to...

And that's I felt really bad for a moment, cos I started to wonder if I was doing something wrong...or if there is something I should be doing but I didn't...and maybe that was why I couldn't make my friends feel appreciated and loved and that was why they didn't care about me, even if I always care and think about them...

Anyways, that was some hours ago though, cos recently I received a message of a dear friend of mine and changed it all! :D

Now I feel very happy and amazed cos she visited me to say hi! Specially taking in count I'm usually the one who send her messages first, and this time she did it first! That was such a nice surprise and it really warms up my heart and makes me feel like a vaulable person!!! ^__^ NAKOU MERCIII!!

Ah by the way, she's the only and one Nakou! Please don't use her name. Saying this cos I just saw a drawing on her gallery saying this. *chuckles* I love looking at her gallery because her drawings are fun and make me happy ^^ specially when I'm feeling a bit sad.

You know, I've missed her a lot! As well as a few of other friends I have here, of course. And sometimes I feel bad when school absorbs too much of my time and I cannot come to drop my friends a message as often as I would like! But well...I struggle to have free time to come like now for example, and I feel happy knowing that she and other dear friend of mine who sent me a message, still think about me, that's priceless I think! Also I know my Mentor and dear friend Jame always thinks of me even if she's busy and can't leave a message sometimes.  So I think I'm in a better mood to post something, I have lots of drawings I haven't posted yet, I think today I'll pick up one of my favorites

This one it's of my character Estelle (Mom of my character Jean, or "J" for friends *chuckles*) when she was in the age of High school (Lycée). Here she's supposed to be studying for "Le bac". I say "supposed" cos now I notice...Not sure if it's very clear here that she's studying

 

"Le baccalauréat" (most commonly called "Le bac") it's a test students take at the end of their High school so they can then continue studying and enter to College/university. And as far as I've read, all the students must take it.

Since I'm planning to make a comic with these characters and both of them are french, and I was planning to make school scenes/flashbacks of both characters, and them talking about school, I wanted to know more about french education system and school programs and that stuff. And that's how I discovered this about "Le bac".

I also heard a friend of mine commenting something about that, and in my search, I watched a clip from a movie about that too. It wasn't very useful, althought it was fun to watch most of the time  And I've read (back when I made this drawing not now) some interesting articles about parenting on France, and discovered it's not the same than here in mexico or in America Let's say it was very interesting to find out how french parenting was since I think talking about what I've read might strart a discussion about if french parenting is "superior" or not to other countries ones, like it did on the articles I read

 I looked for info about parenting in France too,  because Estelle it's a mom character.

I would like to mention I felt very good and had much fun searching about this stuff. I really like to search about lots of stuff when I write or make comics or characters that are not from Mexico but from other countries, cos I want my characters feel genuinely from that country!

I would hate it (and I WOULD NEVER forgive myself!) if my characters fall in the "cliché" of being like most of foreigner characters in american movies/shows, who are just stereotyped characters that are rather silly, or offensive, or both .

Because a character from a country that isn't yours also has their own culture folklore and traditions, a different system to study and lifestyle, and very often, even a different perspective of life! Another perspective of mind! So I think having a character that genuinely feels from that country, not only makes people feel attached to the characters and feel identified with them, and makes your character a well developed character;  also it's a show of respect and appretiation for that country, and I think all this a is priceless! ^^ 
Because searching for info shows that you care about creating a well-structured character and also about the country you're talking about! And that's something you the viewer from that country always appreciate and thank deep inside the heart! Believe me, I've seen a couple of rare times, people taking care of making a good foreing characters, it's so cool when people does this! That makes you feel warm inside the heart! Sadly, from other countries not from mexico

In my case for example, I have never seen a single "mexican character" on tv or films who can be actually called "mexican" by me with pride, or even feel a tiiiny biiiit, genunely mexican. So I know very well how sad and dissapointing it is to see people making characters from other countries without searching even bit about them. Just because he or she talks spanish and says their favorite food it's "taco", it doesn't mean they are mexican.  There are lots of things to do to be a genuine mexican, that I've never seen portrayed on tv/films, sadly.

And of course, I would never want people feel insulted and/or sad if I ever create a bad foreing character, that's why I I always read and search the most I can before even thinking of making a character that isn't from Mexico

Even when making a character that it's form U.S., sometimes I search info about some stuff. Because even if people from the U.S. are a lot like mexicans (and I mean a lot! ) and I know them very well cos almost all my friends are from there, it's always the wisest thing to look for info about stuff you don't know or you aren't very sure about.

By the way, as my character was in the school at 70's era, I tried to give her clothes this air, and the style of painting for this piece was inspired on the super incredible artist Hollybell. I'm huge fan of her work since a long time before I signed up dA hehe!