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 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 Funcenter!

For some months now i have been working on Funcenter's new location.
 Funcenter is the perfect place to have a birthday party, a bachelor party, a Firm Party... well you get the idea. With all kind of funny and crazy activities like zebra riding, sumo wrestling, human football, water balls and much more, Funcenter is a place filled with smiles and good humor and i am really happy for geting the chance to make this place even more funny and happy with all kind of characters and a lot of colors. soon the Paintball Arena is going o open to public, and that is what we are working on right now, a lot of montana gold and 94 and we are trashing every little corner that we can get our hands on :D 
Here are some of the already finished sketches on walls and other spots, soon i will come with the rest.
 Have fun!! 

I am still here!!

Do not think me gone my friends, i am still here, just been a little bit busy :D


I got a suitcase filles with gold and i am playing at "Pimp Funcenter new Home", i am posting some teaser pics today, but i hope that next week i'll be able to come with a blog entry about Funcenter and what Mendes Sketchbook is doing out there!! 
 Have fun everyone, and enjoy the summer, the ones that have a summer!!

One more Canvas!

Hey There!!
So the week starts with a new sketch on a canvas, it is called "All About Attitude" and is made with montana spray, size is 1m x 1m. I think it came out pretty good, i hope you guys like it.


Peace!! 

Sketching Pank!

I have decided for a longtime to not have Idols, my last idol blowed his own head with a shotgun!
 So i don't have idols but i still have some people that i admire very much. Some time ago i came across a piece of art on Platform 4's wall, it was from this danish artist called Lars Pank and it was really good, really really good. There was something special on his work, something that i love in art, i knew that from that day on i would recognize any piece of art that was Pank's work, not because he keeps making the same character or recreating it, like some artists love to do.No! Pank he creates new lines and forms in every work he does, but still his style is unmistakable, it's PANK STYLE!
 I started to follow his work pretty close, and sometimes even drove some km, just to take some pics of some piece i knew he did somewhere, later on i had the pleasure to meet Lars in person, and if i admire is work before, now i admire him also as a person! We had some healthy discussions about art and feelings around it, about street art, what it means? why to do it? why not? He has really interesting points of view, and can inspire with a simply conversation, that man his a real Artist.



That is why i had to sketch him, cause he deserves all the attention from art lovers, and Mendes Sketchbook is going to give him and his art a sketch and a blog entry :) My sketch is poor compared to what Pank is capable of, but this is more like a Thanks!
 Thanks Lars for making Aalborg and the world more colorful, for showing people that street art is not just about tags and criminals, and for bringing that same art a level up in our little big city Aalborg.


Peace!

Graffiti Time Lapse

Hello there!!
Remember my old post " A Sketch on a Wall" ?
 Well if you remember, i had a lot of fun playing with the Montana spray, and i promised that it would not be the last time, and it wasn't. Today when i woke up, or better when my girlfriend woke up cause i was awake all night (again) i asked her if i could do a graffiti in our living room,  well she said yes but made me promise that i would not make all the apartment dirty. So i got a lot of plastic to cover everything and tried to do my best...

 I hope you like it!

A sketch on a wall!!

Well my friends, the sketch that i will show you today, is not really a sketch... well we can call it a sketch on a wall! 
 This is how it happened, twelve years after i held a Montana spray in my hands, and to be honest i never held it that good :), Celina called me. Celina is ten years old and would like to paint a wall in her room, and she asked if i felt like doing it. She had some ideas from the internet, and we put together a sketch and today it was time to put it on the wall. It was a lot of fun to try making graffiti. Well i still have a long way to go in that area, but i am definitively going to try it again. The best part of it was to see the look of happiness on a ten year olds face!