Since the last update I’ve been trying to finish some artwork for submissions, a cold slowed me down for a bit, but I’m back in track with my personal projects.
I mentioned last time about my theme this year, the ‘Pastry Society’ and I just finished my second piece on that series, this one, I will use also for submissions, is pretty much a companion of my first piece, I’m using a more Comic like composition on these, I want them to look like taken out of a page of a graphic novel. Still very surrealistic, and I always make sure to keep in mind the decoration aspect of artwork and make sure to make it fun to the viewers and specially to whomever ends up adopting them.
While I was looking for ideas for these pieces I end up sketching a character I really liked it, and thus I’m also making a series of it, small originals in salvaged or cutouts of paper and also on trading cards, all for sale, I call this new character ‘Skullbot’, inspired on vacuum tubes mix with glass pastry domes, same that becomes part of the head of robots or the hat of a steampunk witch, I will explore more these compositions, thus besides the mini originals series I’m planing on doing full bigger pieces of the same, I’m enjoying doing them next to my new ‘Pastry Society’ artwork.
Besides leftover paper cutouts, I also end up with some supplies that either are not interesting to do my main artwork with or I don’t have enough to use it for a full piece, many of these are handouts from my own kids school supplies. Also, mistakes happens and once in a while I end up with a no so great canvas, in order to save them, I sometimes experiment with these, test paints, inks, techniques, styles, compositions, etc. And try to do a full finished piece. I keep some of these, but those that look good, I have them up for sale. This month I will have a couple of these very affordable pieces on my online store along the original trading cards. And as a thank you for reading this long, you can use my coupon ‘CHANGUITO’ for a discount, valid till April 15!
And that’s all the updates for now, things are a bit slow still, for my part I keep focusing on improving my skills and finding new opportunities. Thank you for reading, till the next one!
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