Bordallo Pinheiro Sardine from Lisbon’s Festivities

A little bit of an introduction to this post.
So, each year my home town Lisbon celebrates it's local festivities in June and, like in every country of southern Europe, we celebrate with lots of food (and drinks) :D
The delicacy of this particular festival is the overly abundant in our seas – Sardine.

In the spirit of these celebrations, our city hall launches a big annual international art contest, in which the participants are challenge to create art within the outlines of a sardine shape and 6 out of thousand of submissions are selected by a jury to be the winners.

So, in 2016 I entered the contest and made up to the top 20. Although I didn't win, this led to my sardine being selected to be part of the new batch of the exclusive Bordallo Pinheiro Sardine Collection (which are clay shaped sardines with our art printed on it) to be sold to the general public.
This invitation came in 2018, and by the start of 2019 my 3D sardine was already for sale in all Vista Alegre stores as well as online.

I had to adjust the 2D drawing submission to be wrapped around a 3D piece, and so I had to also design the back piece for it.

Here are pictures of my Sardine titled "Household Festivity"
Hope you like it!

On the left, my contest submission and the 3D piece on the right.

 Front and back view of the piece

Vista Alegre shop window in Largo do Chiado – Lisbon

        

Six Fanarts Challenge

My entry for the #sixfanarts challenge. 

I had to be quick so I only did B&W portraits. 
I asked my wife and sister to choose one each and then I realized all my picks have scars... O_O''

Rock Study and the Return of the Missing Artist

After a long hiatus, this blog is coming back to life! O_O
I'm back with a quick rock study, made to practice my rock skills. I love rocks. When I was a kid, I collected rocks and gave them crazy names, made an exhibition that was a success – all my 2 parents and my grandma attended :D

The process was quite organic, and was almost as I was sculpting a big block of rock myself. The water was an afterthought that I found worked quite well.

Under maintenance

This blog had some abandonment issues, so it is currently under maintenance and great care.
I hope to come back soon enough and give it a proper use.
Meanwhile, you can check out my Portfolio :)

Thank you for your patience.

Concept Satã - Zakarella

Shame on me, it has been almost a year since I last updated this blog. O_O
A lot has happened on a personal level that got me on a sort of hiatus (well, not for a whole year, though e_e), but now I'm back to work!

As I posted before, I've been working on a project for a comic book - Zakarella. This is Satã, one of the princes of Infernus! Yes he is a bad guy and he has kept Zakarella as his personal slave. As I have to draw him a lot, I felt like I needed to explore his features in a more three dimensional way and also the textures since he's a reptile. It was fun since I started to sculpting the shapes through painting instead of starting off with a line sketch.. I like sculpting :}

Will be posting more concepts here!

The Visionaries

The Visionaries HD Trailer from Jump Willy on Vimeo.

Hi there!

It was with most joy that I came across this trailer for a TV series that is still in production called "The Visionaries"! And Jump Willy is the studio behind it - 3D modeling, animation, sound and music... They contacted me to make the concepts for the 6 characters in the series so they could build them in 3D and animate them. This was my second version, which they ended up using as a model for the 3D characters.

It was a great experience to have work with someone as professional as João Seabra and they made a brilliant job on the animation! It was also an unique feeling to see the characters that I imagined and created becoming alive!
Now waiting for the series to go on air!
"Good bike"!

Djobi *clap clap* djobá

Made this sometime ago, I have been working in projects that I can't reveal for now that are taking all my time, so I'll save the news for when I can actually show something.
I particularly love the outcome of this one, and having not posted this yet it's a crime. Isn't she so dangerously cute? :} (another version of this Gipsy)
♥

Old one (WIP)

I was hoping to post this once I finished it... but I guess this is it for now, I've come to the conclusion i will not work on it so soon...
I made this about a year ago, I wanted to give it to my best friend because she likes cute guys like this one (I'm sorry for never give it to you! ;__;)
I remember I tried some diferent brushes with skin texture and forced myself to go further and do some more bold shadows that I was used to (allways so afraid...). It's one of those cases where I'd say "Oh, now I could do better!..." Well... maybe afterall I will finish this sometime soon! :P
Good boo!

Move On!

Para alguns alunos de 7º ano de Inglês o novo manual "Move On" da Texto Editores (Leya) já está pronto a ser rabiscado (bigodes, barbichas e laçarotes)! Saíu fresquinho para este novo ano lectivo e contou com a minha participação e da Rá nas ilustrações dos vários livros que compõem este manual escolar.
O livro é das mesmas autoras do manual "New Cool Kids" - 6º Ano no qual ambos trabalhámos no ano passado, mas procurou-se seguir um estilo diferente de ilustração (mais adequado à idade) e a fugir para o "Anime", cada vez mais influente em Portugal (Yay!)
A Rá (cuja rapidez e precisão de execução muito admiro) mais uma vez se encarregou das cores e das ilustrações com elementos arquitectónicos (casas, mapas de cidades, etc...). Tenho orgulho e a sorte de ter podido contar com ela mais uma vez nestas aventuras dos manuais escolares! =D Come and get us, we can take you all!
Outra boa experiência que se repetiu foi a de ter trabalhado novamente com a Andreia Vieira que coordenou também este projecto e mais uma vez apostou no nosso trabalho! Obrigado! Pena tive de não ter tido a oportunidade de contribuir para a capa deste manual, no entanto adoro esta capa! (e não é só por causa dos sapatos :P)

Zakarella! (ella...ella)

Olá!

Este post vai em português (I'm sorry, this post will be in Portuguese only).

Já de alguns meses para cá que me vejo envolvido num mega-projecto de BD (até tenho medo) que tem como heroína esta personagem bem portuguesa (quem se lembra das revistas Zakarella? eu não conhecia, não são do meu tempo) que foi imortalizada pelo grande Carlos Alberto, um artista daqueles de se tirar o chapéu! Deixo-vos um apanhado de várias capas da revista para o comprovarem!

Ora, o muito amável convite para participar neste projecto veio, claro, do Nuno Amado e da Diabba, os novos "donos" desta moça (se é que ela se deixa ter donos...) pois trata-se de uma personagem muito querida para eles (novamente o termo "querida" não será o melhor termo para a Zakarella...) e foi fruto do Desafio Zakarella e da ilustração para o qual participei (já publicada neste blog). 
O projecto é muito ambicioso (gosto desses projectos!) e envolve um grande trabalho a todos os níveis, por isso a "equipa" também não é pequena, mas é a MELHOR que eu podia pedir! Tem sido mesmo muito gratificante poder trabalhar com todas as pessoas envolvidas, ainda há muito trabalho pela frente e devo confessar que é um pouco intimidante para mim pois o esforço para estar à altura deste desafio é megalómano (espero consegui-lo), mas não tenho dúvidas que um projecto que conta com tantos e brilhantes talentos (falando das restantes pessoas) e com tanto prazer envolvido tem tudo para resultar numa bela obra! Tenho realmente pena de não haver possibilidades de me dedicar a ele a 100% e que tenha que ser um projecto paralelo, mas acredito mesmo nele e estou muito grato e orgulhoso por poder contribuír com os meus desenhos! 

Deixo-vos então o blog da Zakarella onde poderão seguir o projecto e todas as suas novidades e saber um pouco mais sobre esta fantástica heroína! 

Aqui fica o meu último esboço da Zakarella!