My Heart Goes With The Wind

And then the earth and the sky they all fit together

And carry me away as light as a feather

Chase the clouds from the ground In the big blue sky

Don't wanna watch it all go by

So I'm gonna fly

I'm Gonna Fly - Sydney Forest

Sometimes I wonder if my heart functions alright, at least I feel it doesn't go the normal way about things. The things or people I fall in love with and how I love those, I could not put that into words, but I guess it's a bit like the wind. A soft breeze of fresh air is always needed, like love, but then again there are days when wind seems to be a bit too much..

I'm not quite sure of many things, not really, but give me the cold winds of spring or the fresh breeze that a summer day can bring, and I'll follow them wherever they go.

Started this painting on Feburary last year, finished it just today, when I was going through my old fields and thought I needed a bit of fresh air too.. been working a lot on other projects lately and haven't been having much time to spend on things like this. And on grey days like today, they are needed!

Those first days of spring, with cold winds and blue skies.. oh how I love them!

The wind heals a heart

I can't help but being in love with spring winds.. and they always seem to be there to heal your heart when it feels bruised.

Another doodle today, I liked this one, I remembered some old times, and thought I would share. I know we just began winter time, but I can't help myself. I always seem to dream too early of the next season. And Spring has always been my favourite.

Lost Tapes

Some time ago I was asked to do the art for the upcoming album by Lost Tapes released by Cloudberry Records and now here it is! Their music is really wonderful, so feel free to give it a listen, on their web, or on their bandcamp page!

I was inspired by the idea of simple sensible things happening on a quiet image, and in a way, I believe there's no better place to be than in a special spot in the forest where magic seems to happen, at the right time of the day. But a little secret is that any moment can feel like magic if we allow ouserlves to feel the magic of the moment.

I also did the art for the labels, inside the 7" album. Which are meant to be a prolongation of the main illustration, as well as the back cover. Added the river path as well as the beard scratches on the trees! (you know, the beard from the main illustration).

And here you have the back cover art, as you can see the meaning of it was as if the magic moment was fading as the night was getting darker, and so the lights are now off and there's no bear, just the scratches on the tree it has left behind.

Hope you like the illustrations and hope that you like Lost Tapes' music! You'll be able to order their new album from Cloudberry Records page soon enough!

You can  find Lost Tapes on:

• The web
• Facebook

And Cloudberry Records on:

• The web
• Facebook

Have a great week!

Fishes, cat and penguin ID

I did this a while ago, meant to be used as an ID, but I never did it. It's one of the many old drawings that I'll be finishing from now on.

As today I told myself that I would stop doodling stuf and just concentrate on my work you'll probably be hearing little of me, but I'll keep posting this unposted drawings and paintings, and maybe posting 5 minutes doodles on tumblr if I take breaks from work.

By work I mean big projects I wanna/have to do, and I'm so exited about working on them but can't really go much further if I keep taking time of the day in drawing other stuff.

So here is the first of the old drawings, hope you like it.

A Vampire's Amusement

So pull me closer and kiss me hard

I'm gonna pop your bubblegum heart

- Marina and the Diamonds

Because I couldn't help myself when I listened to Bubblegum bitch, and pretty much, 'cause I saw a lovely, lovely drawing done based on that song, too. So yep, PB and Marceline. They're so sweet! (silly joke)

This was meant to be a warm up doodle, and indeed it is, it's just that it took too much time? Well, now's time to go back to work.

ps. ....can you see the heart??

La Porta del Cel

La llum dels estius que semblaven allargar-se per sempre

La tímida espelma que balla amb la brisa del vespre

La olor de la fusta de pi i la sal a la pell

L'escuma del mar enredant-se entre els teus cabells

La porta del Cèl - Els Catarres 

"The light of the summers that seemed to last forever; The shy candle that dances with the evening breeze; The smell of pinewood and the salt on the skin; The sea scum tangling among your hair" tried to translate it.

Some weeks ago I went to see Els Catarres, and could love all their songs but the most beautiful, as we had to leave the show just before it ended, and this was the finale song. Today I was listening to it and couldn't help myself. Also, it was a promise I made, to make a drawing based on their songs. Lately all I do is draw cute couples.

The idea of a summer love is really sweet and heartbreaking when autumn comes, but with autumn maybe the relationship grows on and on. And those dreamy nights of summer might turn into hot chocolate afternoons. Hope you're having a great September. 

New Summer '13 ID

Well hello! I made a new ID 'cause I was feeling like I needed a new one for various reasons. I actually did the last one so quickly, that it was full of mistakes and wushed lines which I disliked ever since the first moment. But here we are now, times goes on and so does life.

Hope that, in a way or another, you're enjoying your summer. I'm gonna be heading to Berlin tomorrow, and I'm really exited! First time ever! Everyone says I'll love it, so we'll see what I find out there.

Have a wonderful summer and hope you get to see some wonderful things and places, and that could be just around the corner, no need to travel to other countries for it. At least summer is perfect to rest under the shade of a tree and read a good book.

The Hidden Well

If you look closer you might find the path to other worlds, there, through the waters of the old well.

'And there you'll find wondrous new and old sounds. Otherworldly.'

This surely took a lot to post, (I think I've been here for two hours now, and I got it finished Friday, but only decided to post it today, still got it too close to the heart to let it go) but it mostly took long to finish.

I got the idea for this drawing after reading a Mild Slopes post talking about Delia Derbyshire being of the right age and historical moment to find a door/way to Narnia (or other worlds). I must admit I loved the thought, so I sketched it, but then I got attached to the idea, and I started developing it, and that's how, 3 months ago I started the drawing.

The main sketch was just of Delia looking into the well 'cause I thought that would be another wonderful way to get to other worlds. (and also it made me think of the ponds through which Digory and Polly got to them).
When the path would be open, you'd see on the reflection of the calm waters, another sky, other trees, another light.. and that's what would catch your attention to look closer. But if you're not someone who likes exploring, you might never go to that part of the garden, where no one does now, where the old well still stands.

I loved exploring as a child, I have such great memories of it. I found little treasures and I hope you did too. Maybe a door to another world, maybe just something much more little, but yet, priceless for you. (I still love exploring).

Hope you like this one, and I'm sorry it took so long. Exams and work weren't helpful and I wanted to try hard on this one but also I had to deal with some art blocks in the way. Now, after so long, it's done, and I'm kinda worried of letting it go, but it must be done, and as I write this, I'm willing to finally post it.

On a Clear Day

- And every day I waited for you..

Just been remembering the days in Spring when the sky was of a deep blue and clouds as big as mountains. I don't know, I've always like those kind of clouds that seem to hide a forgotten building on their top. hahaha I keep rambling.

I started doing it 'cause I had kind of a block and nothing looked right, so I tried a new way (just the same but changing a bit) and it seemed to work out!

The thing is that right now my mind is singing The Drums so I can't really concentrate on what I'm writing. I don't know how it happened, I was watching interviews and stuff (not from the drums) and they were just mentioned as favourite music so, even though I was listening to some soundtracks and Ghibli and stuff, I couldn't help myself, and here I am,  trying to write while my mind is singing 'I tought my life would get easier, instead is getting harder, instead is getting harder...'.

Hope you like it, it's just a quick thing I think I needed to do. Now I'm gonna go read a bit.

They say so but..

..It's a game I don't wanna play.

I'm 50% done with my final exams, so I could do some quick sketches today, which I posted on Tumblr, but I'm kinda liking this one, so I'm posting it here too. Like the way it turned out to be, and the tetures, and colours! (I know you're not supposed to say so about your own piece)

Anyway, I'm 50% more happy today as I'm almost done with it, still a week to go, but we'll get there alright, I'm sure! And I've never been really exited about summer, but somehow this year I am, not about beach and not about the sun, but surely about finally being able to have time to start new projects (I wanna play with watercolours, yep!) and so many other things, but also, I'll have time to get to see my friends and stuff, and I trully miss them.

Oh! also, wanna wear nice t-shirts. I guess that's a big reason too.

Hope you're having an alright mid-week. Best wishes for the rest of it.

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)

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 Secrets I'll Keep for Myself

".. those are the things I wanna keep for myself. The secrets I'm not going to tell you."

This was mainly thought for tumblr, but I did like it enough to post it here. I don't know why, but so many times I feel some thoughts or some self secrets can't be trusted to anyone. At least not at first. Maybe in a way I feel that if I do, they become something real. Something that's there, and reality has always been so cruel, so I try my best to keep reality away from my secrets. Some of them.

I just hope you don't think that by "secrets" I mean something bad. Some times they are, not always. Secrets can be really good things, and a mix of good and bad might be the very best combination.

Morning Chocolate

So going back to digital for a little bit. I was just having some fun but also trying new stuff on the way like a new way to go with the shadows, colours, trying new brushes, you know, those things you get to know so later you'll say, <oh, I could use that here!>.

I had some fun, but I realised that I've got a huge need to work with hands, and I wanna improve a lot with faces.. I don't know if I'll achieve what I want, but at least I'm gonna try. By the way, I've got a drawing in mind, but don't know how to start it at all.. hope it will come out soon!

Untill that moment, enjoy some good hot chocolate at morning time. 

pd. Maybe some Allo Darlin' to sweet the moment?