Toto y el secreto

¿Qué pasa cuando se te escapa el secreto de tu mejor amig@?

"TOTO Y EL SECRETO" 

escrito por Toni Moreno e ilustrado por mí ya se puede encontrar en El Péndulo Cafebrería

GRACIAS POR LA VISITA

Ni un pelo de tonto, por editorial FACS

Muy contenta de anunciar que ya está publicado  

NI UN PELO DE TONTO, 

mi primer cuento ilustrado, con texto de Catalina Kuhne. 

Agradecimiento a la Editorial: 

Fundación Cultural Armella Spitalier 

por la oportunidad y la libertad creativa.

http://armellafoundation.org/

My first published children's book! =)

EL PROCESO

the process

 

GRACIAS POR LA VISITA

thanx for the visit

Inca Stars : The Llama's Constellation

From the Peruvian folk tale: 

Urcuchillay – the Llama:

Perhaps the most important of the constellations to the Inca.
Llamas were of great importance to the Inca: they were food, beasts of burden and sacrifices to the gods. These sacrifices often took place at certain times with astronomical significance such as equinoxes and solstices. Llama herders were particularly attentive to the movements of the celestial llama and offered it sacrifices.

more info here

Yacana brings luck...

La suerte que la Yacana confiere...

Work in progress...

Yacana's Constellation

A couple of weeks ago I took a Picture Book Illustration workshop 

with artist Yuyi Morales.

We created from scratch a storyboard for a Children's Book, 

we picked two thumbnails, refined the sketches 

and turned 'em into finished pieces... 

The story I picked:

YACANA'S CONSTELLATION 

The llama is one of the most important animals for the Incas. 

Its silhouette appears in the dark areas between the stars. 

For this reason, llamas with black fur were very important in the Incan religion.

 Two very bright stars in the constellation of Centauri (alphaand beta) represent the black llama's eyes.

 

Incan legend tells us that Yacana (the llama) was wandering with her 

baby along a river that crossed the entire sky (the Milky Way). 

The more she walked, the blacker she became. Her baby accompanied her throughout the sky. When the baby became hungry, Yacana fed him. 

When Yacana woke up, it became daytime. It is said that the man who 

finds himself in a place where Yacana has fed her baby will have good luck 

for the rest of his days.

Yacana was just and treated everyone equally. She would not make 

only one man or one woman happy. At night, when nobody was

looking, she used to go and drink water from the oceans. She drank

the water of pain, the water of sadness and the water of thirst and

hunger. She drank the water of the tragedy of humankind and

prevented the seas from overflowing and flooding the earth.

The process:

Storyboard

Sketches
 

 
The workshop was really fun and I got to meet emerging illustrators from México (lots of talented people everywhere...)

Some interesting links:
http://tantanstudio.com/
http://ashleynada.com/
http://zeudichang.blogspot.mx/

TNX 4 DA VISIT!

A tribute to the city

Here is the process of a mural I was commissioned to do inside a building on 2nd street and Market.

Before leaving San Francisco I had to pay tribute to the city of cable cars, where I learned openness and to embrace the bizarre.

In San Fran I met great friends, mentors and was taught to see beauty in the little details... I am proud to say I got the chance to draw the secret corners of the city, the ones that not many people pays attention to (thanx to Bill Sanchez).

If you are around 2nd street stop by the number 28 and lemme know what you think!

"The City of Cable Cars"

With special thanxs to José, my friend who helped me along the way and puts up with my craze. 

http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-city-by-the-Bay-Mural/7573185

Thanx for stopping by!

San Pancho, Califaz