I'ts My Buuuurthday!!

The cat says biRRRRRthday because you know, it's a cat.

I'm sorry I think I got a little bit too exited about it, but I don't know, everyone has made me so happy about it these last two days, my friends, my family, and everyone, really, they just brightened the days, and it was not that easy, 'cause yesterday it rained all day and today was still a little cloudy.

 

I just love everyone that's been there so, so much. I really don't know how they do it, but with nothing special, but at the same time, the most wonderful thing of the whole world, they make me happy. They make me forget about my troubles, abut everything, so my world just brightens every now and then I'm with them. And I think I couldn't be more lucky. I love them. I really love them, and I think I'm not capable of expressing how much I do love them. And even if sometimes I get mad or sad because of them, then, somehow, they do something else, and everything is more brighter than before.

I love them to the bones, and much more. I don't know where I would be now if I didn't have them, because they are such incredible people and I can't be more grateful for that. 

They bring joy to my world. They really do.

They make everything sparkle and be like fireworks and I feel like this when I'm with them.

(I don't know why I wrote buuurthday, I was pretty exited when I wrote this and I did not know what I was doing till it was all done, so.. haha The emotions took my hand and wrote it that way, but I like it. IT'S MY BUUUURTHDAY! :))

The Other Self

..is always there, waiting to arise

I don't know, but I have this feeling that you only show what you want the others to see, and that there's always an other self of yourself (better or worse) hiding there. 

This was just a quick, quick doodle. At first I wanted to play just with brown and yellow, but...

Always Alone

Messing around with brushes and feelings. Because it feels so sad right now. I'm tired. Why are, the ones you want to care, the only ones that will never do?

Aside

Hey now, don't be sad, 

Just hold my hand, I won't let go

It's a new day, another chance to 

dry your eyes, we'll be alright 

So clear your mind and brush it all aside.

Sometimes things are sad 

and life just seems so out of hand.

You can find me, I'll be right here to

understand, we'll give it time

to heal our wounds and brush it all aside.

Travelogue – Aside

(from the album Fireworks, released by Holiday Records)

You should.. you must listen to that song, not only because it's completely wonderful, and stunning and incredible, (and has real fireworks in it!) but because I did the drawing while listening to that song (and the rest of the album, but mostly this one) and I think that now, the drawing needs the song to be completed. Maybe that's just me.

Well, this was done to thank Holiday Records their existence, for being them, and for releasing such wonderful music. 

I first had the idea of doing something (a drawing, mainly because that's the only way I know) when their web was all new and the "golen age" started, and everything seemed to be so sparkling and things, that I couldn't resist its power of attraction and try and do smth too. (I don't know if this sentence has sense at all, it does in my mind, though)

The thing is I had already in mind that I wanted somone looking through a window (a big one) late at night, while listening to the albums they have released, but I completely failed in doing anything I could actually accept if only as a sketch. So I kind of left the idea behind (don't you think I leave so many ideas on the make? yeah, I do too).

Then, they released the album Fireworks, by Travelogue, and the idea became something I could actually try to do, with the fireworks on the backround and everything.. at least I could try, so I tried. And after so many hours/days of struggle I did it.

And now, a fun fact, I spent like 4 hours with the fireworks. I found it really difficult, almost impossible, but then someone said "Painting starts with pain, so you'll have to suffer to get things done" and I kept fighting 'till I had fireworks the way I wanted them.

I don't know why I'm telling you all of this drawing struggle, I think that it's a way to reafirm to myself how difficult this one was for me (with the fireworks, the light, the album, the vinyl player, etc.) but that in the end, I made it. So please, feel free to not care at all of what I'm telling you, 'cause maybe it's just selfish and mean.

Getting back to the main point, thank you so much Holiday Records. I wanna keep drawing things inspired by the music you release.

Autumn Sketches

I've been on a kick for autumn recently, and when I googled "Maple Tree" today, I couldn't help but start drawing trees and leaves and autumn stuff with autumn colours and things. And I ended it all drawing this cute girl down here (who I'm certainly sure is enjoying the very first days of autumn! haha)

This is a close up of the girl..

And the lyrics you see there written are for the Jens Lekman's song "Maple Leaves", pretty obvious I guess but I just love it, and everything seems so autumn and I can't wait for leaves to change colour and start falling and for the air to bring those soft senses of wet earth, cold and wood fire.

But also, as I live in Girona, we're having the city's celebration aka "Fires" (I don't really know how to translate that) so there are gonna be lots of millions of good smells in the air: the once I said before plus the smell of roasted chestnuts, sweet potatos, candied almods.. (and I mean it like that 'cause you can find small stalls all over the city center which sell such things).

I just love it, and I love autumn.



(this is smth I did to get a break of smth bigger I'm working on)

Beneath The Cover Of Autumn Skies

"Sometimes I feel like only a cold still life that fell down here to lay beside you"

I started drawing this yesterday as I remembered something I read (*) and it suddently got stucked in my head. I had had the idea before, but I could not think of a way it could become true as a drawing, so I left it behind, but then yesterday it came back to me as something knew, so I started this, and I've just ended it today.

I love the autumn colours, its smell, the cool weather, etc. There are so many good, good things in autumn. I love to go walking everywhere  and just get lost in its senses.

So as I said, some days ago I read something wonderful about listening to an album that suited perfectly the autumn waether and inmediately the image came to my mind. Those first days of autumn when the leaves are in a great palette of red/yellow/brown colours and they fall from the trees, and you can lay in the grass, which is of a deep green colour, and look at a blue or grey sky while you see the leaves falling down helped by a breeze of cold wind that blows through the trees.

I say a word in hopes that it will multiply
to form a sentence that stirs the thoughts inside your mind
You look at me but I'm looking back at you
with both my eyes closed in hopes that it will make you cry

When your words fall down

I drop to my knees with my head in my hands

When my words fall down

It's hard for me to hold my ground

When Words Fall - House of Wires 

In a few days it's gonna be officialy autumn..

(*) #2 House of Wires - You Are Obsolete (Mild Slopes)

Tea lover

A little warm up. I wanted to make something cute and I saw this photo of a girl wearing such cute dress that I couldn't resist drawing it. So, with this and thinking of how much, really much, I love tea, I made this.

Hope you like it and that, wherever you are, you're having a cup of hot tea. Better with a book on your hands or listening to your fabourite music. Maybe it's raining outside and you can hear raindrops falling on the roof. And there is a soft scent of wet earth. There's no need of going outside and there's no need of doing much so you can stay there and enjoy the moment.

Little things are what matters.

You won't walk alone tonight..

..even if I can only give you my company, I hope that will be enough to help you stop feeling so alone.

I was just trying a little backround here. Done it all with the same brush and playing with colours, texture and lights. I just wanted to make something a little bit different. I wish I could do this so much better, I've still got a lot to learn.

On the backround there was this song by Heidi Berry, Firefly and Waiting To Fall by Virginia Astley. Actually, thanks to Virginia's music but also Tomita's, I've got so many images like the one up here on my mind lately (I've always had them, but I guess that thanks to that lovely music they are more vivid than ever) but I have not been able to draw them the way I'd like. And then, today something made that "click" and I was inspired again after a few days that I really seemed not to know how to hold a pencil.

Maybe one of this days, when I've improved in backrounds, I'll try to draw my dreamed place once again. (I did so when I was circa 12). Anyway, I believe this little path would be around it somewhere.

I love these places that seem to be filled with magic. I'd love to be there right now.

(pd: better open full image for higher resolution)

Some years ago

This is what I looked like some years ago. All in colours! hahah, I'm sorry, I was just having a little bit of fun remembering things. Now this was maybe long time ago, but it feels like yesterday. Though I don't think you really can change that much, so I'm probably much of the same now, maybe I'm kind of better at hiding it. Though I'm still such a weirdo. :)

Sorry, told ya I was just having some fun, and this was, indeed, fun to do. :) Even more when this song started playing:

I didn't like this one at first, but as I went on listening to it, I just started enjoying it. At least I do from time to time, and now might be one of those times. 

And this song was the one that started this all. This was the one that played with the DisneyLand (Paris) parade when I went there for the second time in my life (I've been there 3 times). It's just that this one has become part of my memories, and always will have a special place in my heart. I remember hearing the first beats of the song and getting nervous because of how much I wanted it to start. And reaching my head up (though I've always been tall, I was still a child so I could not see much) to try and see something. Idk, memories.

Come Closer..

.. if you want me to smooch you.

Sketching a little bit. I love doing so. And this time, the idea of a couple in a cute moment came to my mind after listening to some cheesy songs. I coulnd't help it.

The thing is that I totally failed the girl, she was supposed to be brunette, but it ended up in a kind of Brown-Blonde. And she was supposed to have a much more pixie cut, but well, this was how it turned out.

The other day I was talking about knowing that something is going to end while you're still living it, and this making you feel sad, well, this time is about those moments, even though you know they'll probably end someday, you must enjoy them as much as you can. Even if it's just for some seconds, then for those second make it big! Live it!

The last night

I did a little piece of illustration.. I was playing with new brushes and I made up this text after doing the illustration (though I added more details after the text was written) Hope you like this little thing, I don't think it needs much more words, really.

I wanted to make a moment in which you're seeing/living something that's so beautiful but you know that soon it is gonna end, and though you're enjoying that moment the most, you can help but thinking about its ending.

It makes me think of this song by The Field Mice called When You Sleep

The Drums Study

So as I told you some days before, I needed to practice, and so I did. I was searching through photos when I come across this, and I decided that this was the one, so I started, and drawed and drawed, and I know this is just a rough sketch, but I'm proud of myself, after so many time, I still remember how to draw using references, and that felt alright. I want to keep practicing!

Just to tell you, things like this really help me, not at first, but as "days go by" (oh, yeah, I'm just so clever, jk) I realise the practice gave its fruits.

Today has been, actually, the very best day to post this 'cause something so nice just happened to me. I was walking into the kitchen when in the radio I heard "The Drums show in Primavera Sound" and then their music started playing, the live version, you know, with everything in it, and it was so fantastic! It felt like being there once again, seeing the Drums live (though I could not be in Primavera this year). I know I could go into the internet and just go through the live shows, but it's much more magic when it's a surprise!

Well, hope you like this little drawing, I'll keep on trying my best to improve.


Here's another little sketch I did, some Virginia Astley for you too