The Pact

This is for an article about humans and animals. The text (by Gustavo, of course) was quite inspiring, but I was not able to come with an image until a couple of days ago.  I'm pretty happy with the final result.

Watercolor on Canson Basik + Digital

The Pact - Final work

 

The Pact - Watercolor

The Pact - Pencils

Serious People

Illustration for an article about humor.

Watercolor on grey BFK Rives + Digital

Broken World

Illustration for an article by Gustavo Martín Garzo about golems.

Watercolor and gouache on BFK Rives + digital

The Bird on the Tree

Illustration for an article by Gustavo about fairytales. I love his articles about fairytales. This one is about Grimm's Cinderella where there's not fairy Godmother, but a tree and a bird.

Mechanical pencil, gouache, white pastel and watercolor + digital

Blinding Beauty

Illustration for an article by Gustavo about classic fairytales and hurt children.
This image is reminiscent of a self-portrait I did years ago. I'm kind of obsessive with the subjects of my drawings.
Technique has been madness in this one. Gouache, pencils, charcoal pencil, powder pastel.
I want to keep using gouache. It's been a medium I've never been quite fond of, but it's growing on me.

Blinding Beauty - Final Work

Blinding Beauty - Pencil and Gouache

Blinding Beauty - Pencils

Eve

Illustration for an article by Gustavo Martín Garzo about women and femininity. The part I liked the most was a funny paragraph in which the author thanks Eve for eating the apple,  thus freeing us all from eternal boredom in Paradise.

Watercolor and pencil on White BFK Rives + digital

Eve- Final work

Eve- Watercolor

Too much love

Illustration for an article by Gustavo about the nymph Echo.
She felt in love with Narcissus but she wasn't able to talk to him because she had been cursed by Hera. She only could repeat Narcissus's words. As expected all this ended tragically. She died of sadness with her heart broken.

Pencil, watercolor and gouache on grey BFK Rives + digital

Too much love - Final art

Too much love - original work

The Guardian

Illustration for a little story by Gustavo Martín Garzo.
It's about a sleeping little girl.
We need someone to protect our dreams.

Mechanical pencil on White BFK Rives + digital color

Final Work

Graphite

The Forest

This the cover for "Peonza", a great spanish magazine devoted to children's literature and illustration.
I feel honored they've asked me for an interview and the cover of the next number.

Watercolor, gouache and pencil on grey BFK Rives and digital.

I love to use computer to emphasize the color of watercolors. If you want intense shades, you have a big risk of overwork them and ruin the illustration, because colors go easily muddy. So once I have a good range of shades, I like to finish the image in the computer, making colors more intense.

Final Work

Watercolors

Mechanical Pencil

Little Red - 1,3 and 8

These are three illustrations from the first sequence of Little Red.
Acrylic on grey BFK Rives. Click to see them larger.

Little Red - 1

Little Red - 3

Little Red - 8