Vampiress Fanart – Talisman

In our house we are major board game players, and Talisman is definitely a favorite!
So it was only right that I made a fanart of Vampiress, one of the most posh characters in the game :)

Dwarf – The Beginning of a Journey

So, for a long time now I've been a fan of Fantasy themed lore and art.
It probably began with the King Arthur's legend – first in the Disney movie The Sword in the Stone and then the movie Excalibur (1981) – and later on with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves movie back in 1991. But it reeeeaally kicked in when Lord of the Rings came out!

In spite of my love for this incredible realm, my career as an artist led me to different paths and never got to really dedicate myself to create fantasy art. So, as I'm finally taking a step towards my goal of being a Fantasy Artist, I made this tryout of a Dwarf without going crazy with the time spent on it or creating a background for the character. My goal was to explore visually where I stand as an artist and having some fun with it.

This was really fun to make and I got to experiment a lot. I think it turned out OK for the first tryout and I’ll be making a few more of these soon. ;)

Here is the process:

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!