Dear friends this is going to be a really short post.
I just want to tell you that i still active and sketching, but lately i have been a little bit busy with school and social life :) But i have started a project that i called "Love Animals", i don't know how i am going to use them or if i even gonna use them, maybe is going to be a kids shirt collection or a Valentines postcard series, maybe nothing at all. But the 2 first are done so i wanted to show them to you, so here they are "The Love Birds".
Peace!
Why do people hide behind masks? Why do StreetArtists hide behind masks??
When i was a kid, there where two kind of people that used to hide behind masks, criminals and superheroes. Well street artists ain't no superhero, but are they criminals??
I keep seeing graffiti everywhere saying that "Graffiti is Art, not Crime" well i could not agree more, but then let me tell you something, artists dont hide behind masks, hoodies and scarfs. No one loves street art more than i do, but i don't see the point on hiding, i dont see the point on hiding behind a tag or a mask. And now all of you graffiti lovers will point the finger and say, "that is what graffiti is about, it has always been like that. They think we are criminals and therefore we need to hide." You know what? You might just be right, but i also see it like this: "You hide and so they think you are criminals." Vendettas masks will never change the world, that is just a bunch of kids playing revolution, the real revolutionaries are the ones that show their faces and stand by what they believe, no shame, no fear...
I you do it cause you think you look cool, then let me break it to you, there is only one and only one that can wear a mask and look cool at the same time, his name is Vader.
So i finally got it right!!
After a lot of sketching, some headaches and a lot of HTML language, that to be honest is like space language to me, the blog has now got a new look :D
The idea came some days ago, one of those nights where your thoughts are too loud and make it impossible to sleep, i decided to get up, away from the warmth of my bed and start sketching a new template for MendesSketchbook. I wanted it to be more dynamic, like something is happening around the posts, so i drew myself, a litte bit thiner than i actually am (well if you are going to draw yourself, you might as well make it look good :) ), a space monkey, a tree and some birds. Yes! -i was really happy with the result, but then came the difficult part, making it work as a background on blogger, everything went wrong and i could not come back to the old style, OOOOOHHHH MY GOD HELP! This is what happens when people think they can do everything themselves, the same people i complain about all the time, cause they think they can do my work (Graphic Design) using paint or microsoft word. So i had to get some advice from my dear friend Mathias who is a professional geek, and that way we got a happy ending.
Well this time i have no need to post a picture, cause the sketch is all over the template, so i hope you enjoy the sketch and the new look, and i promisse not to be like Facebook that changes every damn week :D
Peace!
