Golden Boy

It's been over a month since i have had time to sit down and create some blog material. This graphic Design education is killing me, so tonight i decided to put boring school projekt aside (it is actually not that boring) and draw something WITHOUT thinking about, wich method or theory i am actually using. A illustration without report or a design manual, illustrating simply for the fun of it. So i grab my Wacom pen and i started sketching something, and after three and a half hours of pure fun i am done. I really hope you guys enjoy it, i definitely did. And now i better go to sleep, cause tomorrow i ha to get up early and enjoy my Typography class :DPeace!

Sketching a Story... or History??

Once upon a time, a city.
A city with high buildings painted in many different colours, a city with a tree that was as high as the skyscrapers. In that city there were no cars, everyone arrived or left by air balloon, the sky was always blue, even when it snowed or rained, and the night never came. 
 On the top of the tree lived a whole village of small people, they never came down, they toke care of the tree,  the tree gave the Skyscraper People air, and the Skyscraper People gave the little people food. This was a city in harmonie.
 One day a strange fat man arrived by balloon. He had a high hat, a big moustache and with him e brought two really big leather cases. He called upon the people of the city and told them a sweet story about the capitalist world where he came from, a world where everyone was rich and living the dream, and that he wanted to bring this world to them. Then he told them to open the two leather cases, and inside them was paper - many little pieces of paper that the fat man called money. "With enough of this you can get whatever you want!" he said. But the Skyscraper people and the Little people didn't understand and told him that they were not interested, but that he was welcome to stay as long as he wished, that he could eat their food and refresh himself under the big tree, and then they left. And so did the fat man.

Not many days had passed, when the little people saw in the sky something that was not an air balloon. Hundreds of machines came by air and ground, making the city tremble. On the top of one of those machines was the fat man. He said that he knew about the weapons hidden under the big tree, and that he would not allow terrorism in the world. So he took the Skyscraper People that opposed his as his slaves and with his machines he felled the big tree and killed the little people. Then right away he started digging. Deep he went but no weapons were found. He kept digging for days and then something happened, a jitter of black thick liquid flew into the sky. The fat man and the capitalists all started laughing and for the first time night fell over the city.

Behind the masks!!

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.

More Art!

I know the world needs a lot of things.
More Love, less War. 
More Green, less Pollution.
More Humanity, less Capitalism.
More Respect, less Arrogance.
More Forests, less Cities.
More Bikes, less Cars.
More Farms, less Industry.
More Confidence, less Religion.
More Zombie Movies, less Soap Operas.
More Real People, less Reality Shows.
More Music, less Politicians.
And so on... But the world also needs MORE ART!

Peace!  

Sketching a Child!

Today june 1st, is international children's day, and therefore i decided to sketch something allusive to the date.
 When i was a kid this day was a day of joy, we used to play all day, making paintings, games and other funny things to celebrate children rights. When i was just a kid, i didn't know, or didn't understand that while we were there celebrating, other kids were crying, starving, dying around the world. Back then  i didn't know, or thought about that maybe one of the kids playing with me, would be beaten later that day by a drunken father, i didn't know or didn't get that there were kids with no houses, kids with no parents, Kids that play soldiers for real, with real guns and real blood, back then i didn't know that there were children that were not children!


Help is still needed!

Sketching Kira!

Kira was  Lara's marionette doll.
 They used to play together all day, they even slept together at night, they were like best friends, like sisters.  The problem is that girls they grow up but dolls they don't, so with time Lara grew into a young woman, and the doll was forgotten, she became a simple piece of furniture, a nonliving being, a ornament, and after some years not even that. 
She is now a forgotten toy living in the darkness of a box, waiting, whispering... 

Sketching "Senhora das Pazes

I normally do not get myself into religion business, i am not religious and usually i see religion as a negative kind of thing.But i do respect the ones that  are religious, is not that i am atheist, i simply find it hard to believe in a book or religion created by a Human mind. But is not to discuss believing or not that i am posting this today, there is something that i love about religion, the fact that it creates traditions, and i LOVE tradition. Christmas, Easter, Carnival, Halloween, you name it. And today starts in the town that i come from in Portugal the festivities in honour of the towns protector "Senhora das Pazes", a holy virgin that  represents peace. There is a old story about how she appeared in a war time between Portugal and Spain and made peace between the two neighbour land. The thing is that today, most of the natives from my town "Ficalho" that do not live there anymore, will comeback for the weekend, to party, pray and see old friend and family. The ones that can not come,( it's my case) are there in heart and soul. This festivities, bring people together, put a smile in their faces, everyone puts on their best clothes and forget the crisis,the war... the negative things in the world.


For that and for the respect i have for the ones that believe in something bigger, for the Love in all the world, and the ones trying to make peace in the world or with themselves, for all the friendship, for the ones that believe in the Human race as one, but specially for my town's people "Ficalheiros" i made this sketch.


PEACE! 

Sketching Chuck Norris

I have been trying to sketch Chuck Norris for almost two pencils now... but every time i try to make a line my pencil breaks ... Well i just learn something new today; 


"There is no pencil hard enough to sketch Chuck Norris!!!


Happy Sunday to you all!!

Winnie The Pooh!!

There is not much story here, i simply thought it could be funny to sketch the Pooh, just in a different way than we normally see him!!
 So i created Strong Pooh, Zombie Pooh and Fat Pooh!! What a strange name to give to a child movie character, Pooh! Doen't that means something like Shit?? 


Oh well... i hope you enjoy the sketch.
Peace!