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!

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)

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

Little summer lights

Been thinking about how much can somebody love. I guess you can never really tell for sure..

I've been on vacations for two long weeks and unable to draw (at least something that where not small sketches in a very, very, very small notebook) and I really wanted too, I had that need of drawing and almost everyday I had a new idea for a drawing.. tryied to sketch down as many as possible and this days that I'm finally able to draw again, I'll try and make those drawings..

Anyway, I've seen so many wonderful things, and I guess that if it was not for this vacations I could have never ended up with those ideas.. oh! and lately I've been really amazed with the effect of electrical lights on a drawing at night, so maybe there'll be a little bit of that.. I don't know.. I think they are really nice and that these lights can make a scene or a moment magical somehow.

Oh, and maybe you've already noticed this, but I tryed and changed the guy's hairstyle..maybe it's not that different, but I like it..

Hope you're having a nice summer with cool nights and little coloured lights shining through the dark of the night..

(there's a sweet melody to go with it, at least in my head, but you can use whichever you think will fit the moment. You never know what wonderful things can be on somebody's head!)