Lost on a frozen forest

"And the road's still long but you come along and you hold my hand and you understand.."

I was trying around things and doing sketches for a project and somehow I did this in half an hour?? quite proud of this sketch. Had so much fun drawing the fox.

Now back to more work.

Be Brave

I will hear their every story,

Take hold of my own dream,
Be as strong as the seas are stormy,
And proud as an eagle's scream.

I will ride, I will fly,

Chase the wind and touch the sky,
I will fly,
Chase the wind and touch the sky.

Touch the Sky - Julie Fowlis (Brave's Soundtrack)

Last Sunday my friends came to me saying that they wanted to see Brave, and almost one week later, guess what we're going to see this afternoon??? Friends, movie and sofa!!! :)

It also needs saying, that I've been pretending to draw Merida for a long time now. I love, love, love her hair. It's all wild and free and it goes here and there. And also, the ginger is precious, bright colours that shine through the darkness of the deep enchanted forests.

I don't even know what I'm saying, I just love this tales a lot, and Celtic soundtrack is wonderful, and that song above couldn't feel better right now. You know I love the wind, so mix it with amazing landscapes, freedom and celtic melodies and that's it. I do not need anythig else.

Going back to the point. I've got to finish two drawings, I know, and I wanna do some projects too, and I don't even know when or how. I just wish I had more time to spend on my drawings..

Hope you'll hear from those drawings soon. (It's been a busy week) But till that day, hope you enjoy this Merida's sketch.

ps. It snowed!! only for a few minutes and not much at all, it didn't even got white, but oh! how I love snow, and those were the first snowflakes I've seen this winter, and the last ones I'll probably see. So understand me when I get overexited about the fact that some snowflakes felt from the sky.

Don't Cry All Alone

"I'm here, you won't have to cry alone anymore. I'll be here whenever you need me. I'm here. Please, don't cry all alone. I'll always be here for you..."


Maybe one day I'll feel needed like this. I want someone to really need me.


I was about to tell you what I was listening to, but I thought it would be better to keep it as a secret and then, everyone could think of their own melody to sweet this.

Hiding Under The Golden Leaves

My yard is full of leaves today

Brown and yellow and gold

I think I'll rake them in a pile

Higher than my head

Then I'll pretend it is my bed

I'll jump in very quick

And pile their leaves up over me

For covers soft and thick

I'll just lie there so nice and warm

And look up in the sky

And watch more leaves float down for me

To rake up by and by.

By Marian Kennedy

Sometimes I feel like this, just running away from the world and hiding somewhere in the forest, waiting for some magic to happen and take you far away.

Somewhere there is this place where autumn leaves cover the earth and the sky, and as sun is setting down you can see them glimmering as if they were made of gold.

Been listening to Jens Lekman all the time, I think it has took part in the way it has turned out to be.

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...

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.

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)