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!

Bic pen action again :)

So... yesterday i was at my friends house and they need a big poster for their wall, so i decided to make a owl for them. The thing is i get carried away and made a stag to, an decided that i want to fill my wall with little hand draws. So the owl is going to be big size at Jannie's place and original at mines, by the owls side it will be the stag, and i am planing on having some skulls,  a crow, a tree, a mad hatter maybe a fox. But if you guys have some ideas let me know.

 Peace!!

Sketching a taste!

While the snow falls outside, i close my eyes and think about my homeland.
 I see a warm winter day, sun is shining and i am siting among good friends, we are having a really good conversation, while we share a good bottle of wine, "Pôpa Doce". 
I am not a wine expert, but this wine is something special, it has been like a month ago since i tasted this "nectar", but i still can recall the amazing taste.This is the first sweet red wine produced in the Douro region, to all of you that are thinking about visiting Portugal, maybe you should start to plan a visit to the magic Douro region and maybe a visit to the place where they created this magic taste. I am going there for sure soon, cause i know that there are other magic nectars to be tasted :)
 For now i will keep my eyes closed, and i will dream of sunshine and great wine.

Sketching Bora Bora

Dear friends,
it has been a while since my last blog post, but unfortunately i have been away for some really bad reasons.
 But i don't want to talk about that right now, the thing is, i have been a month in Portugal and while i was there, my good friend Quim asked me to paint a wall on his bar "Bora Bora". It wasn't easy to get some montana, but after a lot of internet searching we ordered some spray-cans and the result was this one, the pics are not the best ones but it is what i have :)
Hope you like it!

Sketching KarpeDiem

1st December, the snow falls slowly outside, the first snow of this winter, marking the start of another  christmas,what a fantastic day!
 In Portugal is Restoration of Independence's day, so another reason to make this day a special day.
But there is something else... something that makes this 1st of December different from all the others 1st of Decembers that we have know and that we will come to know. 

Today KarpeDiem is coming out with their new album  "Suspenso no Ar". KarpeDiem is a Portuguese rock band, one of the few rock bands that keep, i will not say the old Rock, but the real Rock alive. Rock melodies and poetic texts, that leave us speakers of the "Camões language" suspended in the air. I had the privilege to be a little part of this adventure, when i was asked by them  to illustrate something for the new CD. 
 I made 4 different sketches, and i know they decided to use the "birds", but i don't know how and where, i am waiting anxious for the exemplar they sended to me. 
 But the how and where they used my art is not the point, the point is that i would love to be there today, for their "premiere" concert, and i cant. But from here, from the cold north i send you guys a really warm hug, and the wishes of a fantastic night.
 Please Keep on Rocking! 

Sketching Fenrir!

A couple of days ago a friend asked me if i could sketch a tattoo design for him. "Of course!" I said, "And what would that be?"
 "A Fenrir." he told me, i have to be honest i had no idea what a Fenrir was, the only Fenrir i knew was Fenrir Greyback, a werwolf character from the Harry Potter series. Well as it is, i was not that far away from the truth, a Fenrir is a Wolf.
 

From the Norse mithology, Fenrir is a big bad wolf, "the monster of the river Ván",due to the gods' knowledge of prophecies foretelling great trouble from Fenrir and his rapid growth, the gods bound him, and as a result Fenrir bit off the right hand of the god Tyr.

How could i not know about this fantastic creature?? Thanks to my friend Palle i now am a fan of Fenrir, and so i made two sketches of the beast, one more realistic and one more cartoonish, now i just hope that Palle gets one of them as a inked sketch :)

Support Breasts!

Today, the 19th October is the international breast cancer day. People all around the world are supporting the fight against this terrible sickness, and so am I. Unfortunately i know some people that suffered from this disease, some survived some didn't, my thoughts go to all of them. If you can please help against the fight against breast cancer, well not just breast cancer, the fight against cancer is really important. There were an estimated 12.7 million cancer cases worldwide in 2008, the number is expected to rise to 21 million by 2030, we can not let this happen, so go and find out how you can help, and do it!! 


"Support breasts, because in a way or

another we all love them."

Love Birds!!

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!

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.

When i was a Kid!!

Tell me my friend, do you remember when you were an artist?
 Do you remember when it was so easy to draw? When we were kids we could draw all that it came to our mind, distant planets, aliens, monsters, cars, happy families, there were no boundaries, no limits, and we all loved to draw in walls back then!  
 Then something happened with our eyes, we stop seeing the world with no boundaries and start watching it like everyone else did. Things had one color and only one, no more the cows would be green nor the sky would be purple, now we would call pink people as "no sense", and  we were artists no more. We stop seeing the fun in creating, and are yelling at our kids "DO NOT PAINT ON THE WALL!"
 It's a wall for folk's sake, a white wall screaming for some art on it!
When i was a kid i loved to paint on walls... I still do!

When did you stop dreaming?

When did you stop dreaming??
When did you stop to go to your magic place? When did you stop crossing the bridge to the floating island, with the little white and bended houses? When was the last time that you had a boat trip, in your little floating boat? When did your world stopped to be illuminated by glowing insects trapped in old lamps that hung from the sky? When did you stop flying? When did your magic blanket stopped to protect you? Why are you not invisible any more when you close your eyes? Why does that rock in your hand look like a rock and not a space ship? When did your world get so grey, so grown up and serious? when did you stop asking yourself all that?  

The Dark Knight Rises!

2012 has been a really kind year for movie lovers!
I have some in my list like: The woman in Black, Chronicle, The Hunger Games, The Avengers, Wrath of The Titans, Prometheus, Snow White and The Huntsman (extremely positive surprise) and finally The Amazing Spiderman. Stil to come for vampire lovers the last of The Twilight Saga, and the 2 most expected of all, The Dark night Rises and The Hobbit. 
 But right now everything turns around the last movie of Nolan's trilogy. Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are im my opinion the best Batman movies ever made, and i know that many of you would like to discuss that with me, but lets just agree on not agree :D The Dark Knight specially blowed my brains away, and it is one of the few movies that i saw 2 times on theaters, Bale, Freeman, Oldman, Caine and of course Ledger in my opinion (and i say it with all respect to Jack Nicholson), the best joker ever. 
 So i have been waiting for the enclosing for a long time, and now finally next weekend is The Dark Knight Rises premiere, i am excited, happy and at the same time nervous for a desillusion... it is not the first time that i hype a movie so much, and get my expectations so high that it ends with a big disillusion. But i really doubt it this time, this is going to be big and i can't hardly wait!! 
 Here is a little 2Batman FanArt" from MendesSketchbook, hope you guys like it!! 


Peace!

Solitude!

What are you afraid of?
Tell me are you afraid of not succeeding with your career?
Are you afraid of not making money enough? Not getting the house you dream of? The car? The society's acknowledgment  of you being successful, a good citizen? 
 You know what i am afraid of? 
To end alone!!
Solitude is my biggest fear...
 Do you remember that rubber duck that you once loved, but that you forgot on the beach one day and never saw again?? That is what i am afraid of, of becoming the rubber duck! I don't want to focus on the wrong things, i don't want to focus on money, success and all the rest, i want to to focus on being happy with what i got, with myself as i am and not a society wants me to be, but is not easy!
 I want to keep the people i love close to me, and in that i am failing already, i've got them all spread around the world, making the objective of being with everyone impossible. But i am doing my best to keep them close, they are the most important, the antidote to my fear, friends and family are all. In the end we all come to this conclusion. In the end we all come to the hard truth that money, car, house, career... they are all empty concepts that we invented, the are not essential, but love is.  
I don't want to wake up one day, old and lonely!  I want to have people laughing around me all the time, i want to share the little i have with them, and die with no regrets, probably poor and unknown, but happy!!

You and Your Tattoos!

You are looking at me and my Tattoos, and a lot of things are going through your brain. "Dangerous, Psycho, Criminal, Bad, Ugly, Should be locked away..." Relax mate it's just ink!
 Seriously i am getting pretty tired of your "Pointing Finger", why dont you take a look instead to the skinny anoretic bitch, on Prozac since she was 16, cause that's the only way she can keep herself together, she is fucked up in the head!! Or take a look at the guys that you so respectfully call "Sir" and make little bows to. The ones in black suits making millions on children work, animal abuse and modern slavery, they are the real Criminals. Take a look at the man and women that you choose to sit on the power, look at them preaching for peace but calling for war, making enemies so that they have someone to sell their weapons to, they are really Dangerous. Look at the rich lady beside you wearing real fur, in a century where we are able to produce clothing as warm and good looking with no need to kill any animal, she is so Ugly! Look at you, scared and alarmed because the media washed your brain to make you react like that if you see someone that does not fit in their little box, you should be Locked Away!
 You see, i dont believe this shit about "Being born this way", no way... people change, and that is a lot of things that make people change  for the good and the bad, but Ink ain't one of them!


Ps: Chicks with Tattoos are Hot!!

Red Pill? Blue Pill?

Hello!
My name is Morpheus... do not follow the white rabbit, he has rabies :)
But i am here to tell you about this 2 pills i got for you.
Take the blue pill and: 


Welcome to the perfect world.
In this world, there is only good people, everyone haves hundreds of friends, in this world we all love each other! Welcome to the world where everyone is ready to change, the world where everyone is green and thinks about the environment, here everyone helps people in need, and is against classes diference. Welcome to the world, where everyone haves a farm, love animals, fight against cancer and all other kind of deceases, everyone is a designer, a comedian, a artist, a critic, and most important of all everyone knows better than any politician, here are the answers to all the problems, there is no pollution, no suffering, no hunger, welcome to Facebookland!


Now, take the red pill and:


Welcome to the world full of reality!
The world where no one is entirely good, friends are not more than a hand full and that is if you are lucky, here love is more and more an illusion, and everyone would like to change but is to complicated, so we keep on with our miserable life. We think about the environment but that is kind of it, cause we love to much  our confort and luxury to give it up, we would like to save trees and animals, but we need our computers, our iPhones, our paper bags, we need to eat more than necessary, you see and because of all this we have no time to help the ones in need. Now we all would like to stop cancer and all other deceases, but in this world to share a picture or a status is not necessary, and so we still have a lot of people dying of it, Artists, Designers and Comedians are talented people that have been working for long time to earn their titles, so we dont have that many, we suffer, there is pollution and people die of hunger all around the world. Politicians suck like in any world, but still they are necessary and many of them more intelligent than any of us. This is our world, but is the real world.


Now you decide.


-Hello Morpheus.
Fuck off, red pill sucks!  

Josh and "The Bride"

The past year i have been thinking a lot about what my next tattoo should be. I have been sketching here and there, all kind of different motives, but one thing i was sure, it had to be Burton inspired. 
 So some months ago i got some burton elements on a USB. and gave them to Josh, i almost didn't have to explain to him what i wanted, he must have some kind of "Mind Reading Powers" or something like that, cause he knew exactly what i was looking for in this Tattoo.
 A lot of people asked me this question and a lot of you are going to ask yourself the same "Why didn't i draw it myself.?" First of all i normally get tired of my own drawings after a while, and a tattoo lasts longer than that :) and second i wanted Joshua to draw it, my idea... but his piece!


Joshua Bojer Mikkelsen is a young artist, but in my eyes already showing a immense talent and getting ready for kicking some ass on the "Ink Art World". It is almost impossible to understand how can someone tattoo like this only after 3 short years of "Ink Career", great lines, amazing understanding of color use, perfect for Cartoon/Comic Tattoo lovers like myself. And talent is not the only thing Josh is filled with, in the many and painful hours we spend together, we had like the most crazy, stupid, but also most deep conversations, nothing better to forget the painful needle than a good "Pocket Philosophy Discussion" :)


I was going to say that i hope to see a lot of his work in the future, but i am going to rephrase myself, "I know i am going to see a lot of Josh work in the future, hopefully some of it on me. This kid is going for the top i know it, and i am happy to have a "Joshua Mikkelsen's Oeuvre d'Art " on my arm, it's like having a Picasso before Picasso was Picasso. ;)
To him i would like to give my thanks for the amazing tattoo, and the many cozy hours of "painful conversation", and to you i want to show a pic of this work of art, and to tell you "GET SOME INK".
PEACE!!


Oh by the way you can find Josh at Black Cat Ink in Aalborg, and soon in his own webpage Inkzombie.dk

The Rhino and the Bird!

Once upon a time, a rhino called Bruce that was best friends with  a little bird called Boyle. Bruce and Boyle knew each other for ages, Boyle use to eat all the ticks on Bruce's back, and so that way the rhino was free of the little bloodsuckers and the bird had a meal everyday. One day while in the heat of the savanna Bruce said:
 (Please imagine a really  deep and kind of dumb voice :D )
" Hey Boyle, you are a bird right?"
" Ahhh... Yeah, what kind of question is that?"
"Well you know i was thinking, birds are pretty good at singing, aren't you??"
"Well, almost all of us. There is the crows and ravens with their Heavy Metal bullshit, and the chickens with their hip hop, and the peacocks with their "Pop shit look at me i look good, i don't need to be a good singer"... but in general yes, we are pretty good at singing." - said the little bird.
"Well..."- said the rhino,  "I would like to show you something. You see i always had the dream of becoming a singer, and my mother always said that i was an amazing singer, but i would like to hear your opinion."
Not knowing what to say, Boyle just said, "Ok! Go ahead!"
And so the rhino start to sing, if you can call that singing! It sounded like... wel there is no description. All the bird's feathers were up, he felt like his ears were going to explode, but still he faked a little smile, like he was hearing something incredible pleasant. He did not know why he was doing it, why he was lying, Bruce was his best friend, it should be possible for him to be honest and tell him that he sucked at singing! But he didn't, he lied, and when bruce was done the bird just said... "Wow, that was incredible! Man you are amazing!" it was a lie, but it was a lie so not to hurt hes friends feelings. 
And then everything happens to fast, the rhino was running towards the t.v. show "Jungle Idols" and before the bird could say something, Bruce was standing there, in front of a thousand animals and the Jury. The Jury was a Lion a Elephant and a Panther...a black one... in this shows there is alway political correct to have a female as jury, and black if possible. 
 And when Bruce started to sing for them everyone was laughing and buh him, and the judges were like "Dude you suck!" and "You should try the Cirkus!" and he could not take it any more, and he was crying, and running, running like a train trough the jungle, and then he saw a cliff, and then he jumped, and then... and then he was falling.
Falling.
Falling into the dark!
Falling into nothingness!
Falling!


Moral of the story: Rhinos can't fly.


Note: This story is totally fiction, there is no t.v. show like "Jungle Idols" watched by thousands of animals, and of course there is no bad friends as the bird, that would lie to his best friend and let him expose himself like that. This is totally FICTION!

Metallica!

We are almost there! 
 The day after tomorrow, it is going to happen. We are going to step in a time machine and travel back in time, or at least some of us are. Me and my good friends, Ronni, Jesper and Eduardo are going to Metallica concert, so it is time to take that to small old black grayish t-shirt out of the closet, and play a 20 years old metal fan again.  Jeez we are getting old!! But Metallica guys are getting even older, i just saw a picture of Lars in Rock in Rio and i swear he looks like Phil Collins :D The only thing  that does not get old is their music, it still's good as it was back in the days, i am sure i am going to see Metallica fans much older than me, and other much younger, that is the beauty of music, or real music at least, never gets old, never dies. 
 I wonder if in 20 years from now people will still listen to Bieber?... ok back to the topic and the real music, i just wanted to share this anxiety and happiness with you guys. I know that are many out there that do not like metal, i know that are many as well that like metal and think that Metallica is not real metal anymore, well i am going to tell you again, stop labeling everything. When i was a kid i thought that only heavy metal was music, today i listen as much to hip hop, rock, pop, dub, electronic ... and the list goes on and on... there is nothing like the "only music", that is only good and bad music (and Bieber music :/ ), thats it!
 And wether you want it or not Metallica is good music.


I hope you all are doing well, i am going to party hard and head-bang so much that probably 2 day after the concert i still will not be able to move my neck, see you around!

 And by the way, this illustration was totally inspired in a amazing artist Denis Zilber, i hope one day i got to be as good as he is!! 

Peace!!

Sketching Jason!

It is not Friday, not even the 13th, but Jason is coming home anyways!
 Ana a friend of mine, suggested to me that i made a "Jason illustration", maybe something like: "The man behind the mask" I found the idea really interesting and started to work on it right away, the problem was that i could not see the man behind the mask.
 I don't think that it is a man behind the mask. Jason is the mask. Or the mask is Jason? I think that sometimes the mask is the real you. But then is that a mask? 
OMG i better stop with this cheap philosophy and show you the sketch i made.


Jason is coming home, on a Sunday :D


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!