Portfolio class

I'm working on a "my version" for the characters of the new prince of persia game, by Ubisoft. This would be the prince, or almost that, I might add some more work to him if I get the time.

* Added a 'sorta' finished version of the princess, Elika.

- Yes, I know. -

Haight Ashbury street fair

So for illustration 3 we got a cool assignment which will be submitted by our teacher Gordon Silveria to the Haigh Ashbury street fair poster competition. It will be finalized in Illustrator (or I'll try to). Some craziness, some hippieness, some whateverness. I think it's got a point. Or not, but still having the point of not having one, maybe.

Games, fun, drawings

Besides making up bad jokes and drawings, I also really enjoy playing video-games. That might be one of the few things that I'm not that bad at =], like shooting three pointers maybe, or slam dunking in the good old days heh (that was fun)...
Anyways, I'm trying to get my pieces to kind of focus in a portfolio for the gaming industry, so from now on, I'll be trying hard to bring the class concepts/assignments to be something that could be appealing to those companies.

Blizzard's World of Warcraft is a big hit and there's about a dozen million of players around the globe, including me, who enjoy pretending we're badasses with cool powers, or badass shields good enough to keep us from being completely crushed by a giant dragon's bite. Well, here is the drawing for this assignment, I had a lot of fun putting up details and trying to make the characters very different from each other. I made it into a "WoW" theme, trying to bring up that challenge and see if I could match up with the beautiful art standards of that game.
I should have the painting of it done before next tuesday, so I'll post it here, as well as some turnarounds and stuff.

Cheers! Have a beer!

**edited**

I've added a couple colored images, one with some color and a very rough background, and the other a little more finished with the background worked into something with a little more shape and story to it. I'm liking it. Tomorrow I'll put some more hours in it to really finish that one and move on to the next challenge =P.

ILL2 final

Yep a bit late on this one. Anyways, i was going trough some stuff and I felt good about this project. I hope I can move from that to something a lot further this semester, which is my last official semester, so I gotta come out somehow with some good stuff.. Anyways. This was a project that kinda lasted for 3 weeks, counting character creation, concept and all, and one week to make that cd cover in watercolor (the cover is actually a photo of the watercolor with some leveling of values in photoshop). Oh, and forgive me for some bad english mistakes like "deers" as the plural of deer, live and learn I guess!

In ILL3 I'll be working mainly with computer and that does make me quite happy. Hope to see some familiar faces around! Later =]

winter break!

YAY!!! Right now I'm writing from a classy United Airlines lounge waiting for my filght to Brazil on business class!!! I got the upgrade for free as an excuse from them, I guess, since they made me lose my connection to Sao Paulo yesterday... I really wish I was already there over all this free drinks and internet stuff... maybe the seats will be really nice on the plane and I'll change my mind, but w/e, I feel a bit special..

Anyways, the semester was awesome and there's so much to upload here, and most of it I just left at home in SF, and will only put it when spring semester starts. Right now I managed to treat up my final painting for figure painting class. It was a very fun 3 class assignment and I felt overwhelmed with the work since it was my first time painting on that size, which is 30x40 inches. There's still a lot of openings for work on that to make it look better, but I am pleased with the overall look of it and the color palette. I also really loved the models and their poses, it's just really nice and added a lot to the storytelling aspect of it.

Enjoy!

Change

I changed the colors of the blog cuz I was tired of the other colors. I hope it doesn't look too much like poop now. I like it. It feels like western/cowboy/leather/traditional to me, which makes no sense cause i'm not western, not a cowboy, don't wear leather and I'm definitely not traditional. I do like horses tho, a lot... Who cares? The pope? I don't know, maybe I care and so forth I changed. The title is also new and it was really hard to come up with, believe me. So many paintings to put in here, and such laziness to do so... I wonder which will win...

I should be doing homework so I guess I'll get to it... DALE GREMIO!!!

Angelina Jolie

This was an assignment where I both had fun throughout the thinking process as well as I learned a lot about rendering with watercolors. There are so many mistakes showing through the piece, but still it reads, and I think that's the beauty of watercolor, making those mistakes look nice and not try to overwork them.

Anyways, the assignment was supposed to tell a story with a few elements, so I have a poster that tries to summarize the important things in the Angelina's life right now.