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18th October 200816th October 2008
: Yo gabba gabba
I learned about Yo Gabba Gabba in the Ottawa animation festival. Their animations are cute and simple, and for some reason, make all amounts of happy every time I see them. I can't find all the animations that I saw in Ottawa, but I did see this cutey right here. Chechk it out: Current Mood: in love
27th August 200815th May 2008
: more 3D
ok, now Im getting a better grasp of blender. I dont know how to paint things yet, but I finally learned how to move things around and stuff. Here is a face I sculpted yesterday. Enjoy Evil! 
14th May 200813th May 2008
: my first night with bleder
So I got blender under recommendation of people like tresch :) The softwere is not very intuitive in the layout, but looks awfully powerful. I tried some UV modeling and is SOOOOOO MUUUUUUUCH EASIEEEEEEER than formz that I wanna die. I know all of these are poor man's verions of things like Maya and 3D max, but I am a poor man so it fits. These are some sketches made with the sculpting option. I am pretty excited about the possibilities, even if they didn't come up very good. Once I figure how to select something, it will be awesome! (Honestly, what kind of image making softwere dosent have a little black arrow or SOMETHING set up as a tool to g=select one thing instead of the other?? I still dont know how to choose something to work with when there is more than one object at the time!) http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Ab http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Ab http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Ab 12th May 2008
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Oh yeah, Im also trying some 3D. The bad thing is that I am working with a very Geometric, completely inorganic piece of software: FormZ!
Here :1 http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Ab 11th May 2008
: Artzorz
This semester I had to do 6 illustrations based on Shakespeare plays. My teacher (surprisingly) liked the furry thingy, and recommended me to do them all with anthro characters. Fun, huh? http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Abec This is for Julius Cesar. Is a clay sculpture that I took a picture ff with a couple of colored lights :) http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Abec This is scratchboard http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Abec This is for Romeo and Juliet. Is a pencil drawing with transparent oil glaze for colors. http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Abec King Lear. This is an Acrylic painting. http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Abec This is for Macbeth. PEn and ink (black and white) over yellow drawing paper. http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Abec And this one for Othello. This is a digital ink with watercolor. The background I did with a 3D modeling software and then I drew over. 12th March 2008
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I will start by saying that it has been a long time sincee I write something. For some reason, Ive lost all the patience I had with blogs and chats and stuff. Nothing bad happened at any level, but my life is so busy and full of wonderful things, that i have no mental time to talk aobut it online. This is not a bad thing, excet that I miss the handful of people who used to read what I had to say in chats, blogs and emails :1
At the moment I am taking a break after lunch. I am in Venice, and Im here in a class with Massart that I was able to go with because a small scholarship. Needless to say, I am a lucky bastard. The place is beautiful beyond description and Ive learned a lot. Today is my last day, and I will be traveling back to Boston toorrow early in the morniing. I could probably fill up many pages talking aout what I saw, did and tasted, but Im afraid that I just cant remember all. Lets see what I can recall... So the art is wonderful. It was a complete revelation to see the masterworks of Titian and Bellini in person. The surface of these paintings have the key to the effects. Once you see the many layers of transparent oil paintng and the years of preparation and care they paid to their work, it dosent sound THAT impossible. I was also very impressed with Tiepolo's frescoes (well, duh). I never expected to see such strong values and contrasts in frescoes, specially because the humid air of Venice tends to corrode it all! Crazy drawing tho. I wont get anywere if I don't keep drawing like a madman. I also was very impressed with the buildings by Carlo Scarpa. Architecture is superior to paintng in not being aboul illusion at all. When the building is beautiful and you are in it, beauty is hapening right there with you. I know that art dealers and painters would be horrified by hearing me saying that "the purest of all arts" is inferior to anything else, but I am concerned with function in arts more than anything else, and for me, painting's superiority went out of the window when fotography, movies and now the internet became standard. What happened in painting for the last 150 years is beautiful and important but by no means as important it was, lets say, painting in the 15th century. Anyway, enought fucking aesthetics. Now the food people, the food... WTF the food here is amazing. I cant even begin to describe the things I ate here. I will tell you to about this experience I had in an Osteria. So Im walking by myself on the streets of the Jewis Gettho and Imahungry. I see this little place that had a small black board with shit written on it in Italian, and Im like OH Shamish yum! . Yeah right... It was this supper fancy place were people looked at me like if I was adisgusting turist. I feel offended and challenged adn so I decided that I will stay. The waiter comes and the first thing he says is " Ciao. We have a meniu that itz for the workers and is 12 euros. Do you want 12 euros meniu for the workers? yes?" And I said no. Bitches dunno about my euros I want a la carte. And so everythhing was fish and I dont eat fish (there was even a scorpion fish soup, honest). I see beef and I ask for beef and the waiter gets all excited because I asked for something worth 22 freaking euros ( I know, I know... so expensive.. but there is no option, even breathing is expensive in Europe now). He says that is bonissimo and brings me in 20 minutes a little peace of stake covered, I shit you not, in a shiny deep purple sauce that has flowers arund it. It also has a crazy giant mushroom with the sme saue and flowers and shit, served inside of a crusty crepe that instead of being made out of flour, is made out of DEEP FRIED CHEEESE. Recapitulating, stake with purple sauce with flowers with crazy mushrooms in a crepe made out of deep fried Cheese. Trippy. And so I ate it and it was great. VERY VERY VERY GOOD. A party in my mouth and eveyone is invited. Ill dream with that purple sauce forever. Deep purlpe sauce with flowers covering a world of magic and beauty, floating down the stream of passion in a deep fried cheese freaking creppe. The shizzle. The company was very nice too in this trip. As leaders we had Ellen Shappiro and David Nolta, mythical scholars, experts in cool topics like architecture during the Nazi regime and Caravaggio (and if you don't know what is cool about to be an expert in Caravaggio, you need some wikipedia). And then 16 other students that all turned out to be ladies. I know what you are tihnking now, and no, no romantic interest in anyone because IM MARRIED U SICK bastards. The beauty about it tho (lol) is that because I was the only guy, I had my room for myself. At the beggining I tought this was kinda bad because everyone had always somene to do smoething with except me, but as soon as the unavoidable drama started to happend I was so happy to don't have to deal with anyone's sht. I made good friends in this trip, but some of the best moments in Venice were by myself. And now my attention span is not allwoing me to recall why was I writing this entry. Im terribly dislexic right now. Well. anyway. I got a cool book that is like the making of Blacksad, the french comic (google it, is worth it). I also got a nice graphic novel by hugo pratt. For my beautiful wife I got some jewerly made in Murano, the glass island, and Im about to get some tasty biscottis or sometihng like that in Santa margarita. :) Send me an email if you want something from Venice kids! Im leaving tomorrow *hugs* 14th February 2008
: San Valentin
I think the master says it best. We all need love, no matter woman or a man Happy valentine! 29th November 200728th November 2007
: will not be televized
wow, old pic 12th October 2007
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So now I turn 26 years old and things seem fine :) Other than stress related to school and economy, I have what I want and I do what I love.
From time to time I get a bit sad about things like being far from my family, or like this morning, when I got sad after looking at some war photos for this homework I have. I sure this means that things are fine because at least, the things that turn me blue are not things that are necessarily the result of own questionable actions or lack of the basic social - human skills needed to live in harmony. I am not emo about irrelevant crap, I have it together with my sentimental life since I am completely in love of my wife (and there is not foreseeable future when this wont be anymore), arts get more and more interesting every day, I don't crave any particular possession at the time (tho a PS3 would be nice :) and in general, things just seem following their cause without major pains. Yeah, is stressful to be my age and being on school without having a single idea of how my carrier will go after school (and student loans piling on, thank you very much), but since are both into the effort (my wife and I), there is always a back up of some sort. If not economically, at least emotionally :) And yet, my birthday caught me a bit nostalgic. Is it perhaps that I have accumulated enough years to actually start having remembrances of (all?) things past, Mr. Proust? 26 is not a particularly relevant age, but enough things have happened in my life that I start to miss people and places. That volatile memory that made so easy for me to forget and "move on" the next group of people is getting steady. All of the sudden I feel the need to reconnect, even if just in my mind, with all this great people I’ve meet and that I so roughly sent "their way" and never went back to. I now regret this behavior, as is need to lose what you have to appreciate it. For all the great people who was my friend and now rarely I interact with, I have nothing but gratitude :) Since no one actually reads this and when I talk to you I am mostly talking to myself, I will do a little exercise that would be boring for a reader, but is interesting and tasty for me :) I will write a bit about friends and places (as the Beatles' song says) that I remember and that I miss. This is not to say that I don't remember or miss other places not numbered in the list, but is just that my mind is just capable of so much. I my life, I love them all :) Castro and Aguayo, from my first year in Middle school in Guadalajara. A fat little guy and a tall skinny weirdo. They were my dearest friends while I was in that first school I attended after leaving my hometown of 11 years:) They were dorky and fun, and shared me with me that weird year in the life of a man when you start talking about girls, but you still play with your toys after homework :P Yeah, we weren't very "cool", but we weren't faking or trying desperately to be it either. I kind of miss that... when do we all get so worried about how cool we are? I dunno :) Nacho, Josue (AKA Piol) and Arnold, from the rest of Middle school. Golden kids from humble houses, like mine is. Nacho was my first "cool" friend, very smart and funny and a magnet for girls (that I would awkwardly repeal with unfunny jokes). Josue was a smart, tremendously funny and very self confident short guy. Arnold was heavy and cute, and I guess that’s why we became such good friends , since I was fat and cute too :) The tree of them lived in very poor conditions and struggled along their families for money in Mexico. I don't know what happened to them, but I know that remember them dearly. In High School I met Alex and Polo, the two school bullies that made me a bully for a good while :P Not to blame them at all! I was a bully due my own stupidity (and fear for girls, and social awkwardness, and self image problems, and hunger for POWER!!!!). We all were actually pretty good buys. We never got in fights, we were always getting good grades and we used to defend the little ones at school! (it helps if you are already 6 feet tall by the first year in high school =o_-=). They were sweet, cute metalheads that got me into the horrors of black metal and devil worshiping (hell yea!). I miss them A LOT! Last year of high school I hanged out with Nikis! Nikis is a wicked good graffiti artist and a very sweet man. I regret we didn’t continue our friendship during college. I guess is because I moved to another apartment, we had different interests and just went different ways. Still, I would have a beer with him any day. Great great Guy. In College... hmmm college... So many many great people! But overall, Oh how much I wish I could go back to those times with the things I know now. I was to young at age 16 to start living alone and take on College. To much crap in my head, and anorexia was the result. I wish I had more confidence in myself back then. I would had been way happier with all the great people I met. I remember very fondly Neto, Gretell, Gaby, Gamba, Rocio, Cristina, El Rulas, El Robert, Oz and so many more. I specially remember Pepe and Chris, the two guys I lived with. Awesome people! I miss Fede , Pepe's friend, and the great times I've always had with Malka (still somewhat in touch, one of my best friends). I miss Jazz. that first girlfriend that makes us go nuts for the first time :) (so nuts that you go dangerously anorexic and go trough a lot of shit WAY before you dare to say I love ya lol) I wish I knew then what I know now about me. When I worked in Teletech I made fantastic friends. I miss Panda, Jessica, Yaguno, Pepe, Varela, Jorge, El Master Chief Cesar and many more. I miss Horacio a lot. Somehow I know that if he were here, we would have way to much fun. Sick fun. I miss Maggie, who became like my sister :) I miss Ena, she would love it here in art school, and I miss Briones, funny and nice to the extreme! I miss my furfriends, those that I met in Mexico and online. I miss Ndugu and Aker and Kyos and Kenshi everyone else. Some of us met a couple of times and it was just to much fun :) I miss all this great people I’ve met online. I know that if we don't keep in touch is because of my fault. I don’t use online as a social thing anymore. Not because I think is bad at any level, but just because there is way to many tings to do in RL nowadays to sit if only for a minute! I think often of Ebony Tigress, Lisa N, Jill, Treschy, Kidd, Nat, NeoG, and so many more. I don’t talk a lot to many of them, but I check the LJs of the ones that I am connected to :) And specially, my mom and bros. They are my best friends. One day, I don't know how, I will bring them here to Boston from Mexico, and we will be a family again, I promise! Current Music: Fuel for Hatred - Satyricon
25th September 2007
: omg
I just realized that I never posted these http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Ab http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Ab http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Ab http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Ab http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Ab http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Ab Spooky! 27th August 200723rd May 2007
: FURBID!
Ill do the Pr0ns for you people! :) look into this url: http://www.furbid.ws/cgi-bin/auction/ite =o_-= That is right! I will draw whatever you want me to draw! 
14th May 2007
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So I had my end of the semester review last Friday and it went pretty good. They told me that my drawing and my conceptual elements are very good. hey also said that I seem to have 2 styles; one where I am tight about realism and the other one where I am more care free. This resonates to what other teacher had told me. One teacher even went as far as to say that I am more interesting when I am more "loose" and expressionistic. I think this might be true, but I am in a moment where I am trying things to see if they are really good or not. Many times, my "loose" stuff is in the threshold of awesome and bad, and there is no way to get a precise feedback about what way to go other than reviews and comments from people.
In things that I could improve, they said that My colors are still limited, and that my compositions are to centered. Both are true, and none really worry me to much. I think that color in art is something that comes with time an patience. and that changes often in a lifetime of art making. I need to look at more art, paint more, try different tools. That is the only way to go about it. I could stick to color theory only (and actually that is mainly what I do, but that is pretty limiting. If we were to stay just with the gestalt of colors, we would never be able to get of 6 or 7 overall configurations of colors. Yes, maybe reality is made out of this configurations... but do we want to just paint and draw reality? I don't, that is for sure. The compositions are easy to fix. Is just a matter of putting attention to it. I was kind of aware of it, but by th end of the semester, the idea of changing pictures from scratch was a little bit to much. Composition should be there from sketching. As log as I can keep it in mind when I draw, it will go fine. And so the summer is here and seems pretty interesting. I will be attending summer school for a class in character design for animations (yay!), and hopefully this will ease my next semester that otherwise looks to heavy for me. I also will be teaching Spanish and being the monitor for the studios in Massart. This is good because it means that I will get to hang out in the downtown area and have a nice, quiet place to paint during the summer. I just wish I could make more money :3 I should do commissions. Furry porn for everyone!!! (honest) Current Mood: starting to relax
Current Music: Carcass - Edge of Darkness
29th April 2007
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPNhqOT2
OMFG hillarious violence!!!!!!!!!!111oneeleven!!! NSFW (violent) 25th April 200716th April 2007
: About the VA shootings
The horror or suburbad spoiled media saturated brats with acces to guns... What the fuck is happening to this country? I never felt so unsafe in my life. I know Boston is not VA but that is not the point.. according to Columbine and this new shootings, any useless pice of shit brat teenager can flip out about "how unfair" life is to them, grab a gun and blow your brains out. When I say I never felt so unsafe is not only for the undeniable risk of falling victim of this scum of people, but is the whole thing of the terrible american fundametalism in politics and the every day life. Is driving me crazy. I feel like I want to cry. Current Mood: Devastated
15th April 2007
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http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Ab
A lil spot illustration for a story of a little dog saved from being drawned 5th April 2007
: BEST 80's Video
This has to be the best 80's video after A-ha's "take on me"... enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Hs2AQw 2nd April 200731st March 200713th March 2007
: graphic novels
Lately I've been trying to read as many graphic novels as I can. I didn't have these available at Mexico, mostly because of price. The library at my school has a small but good selection of graphic novels and, since they are 80% images, I've been able to read 3 or 4 per week. I read them in the train on the way home and they get my brains full of ideas and deep thoughts. I actually borrowed a couple of very good ones from Chris too. But, overall, the 2 most amazing graphic novels I've red recently are, by far, Epileptic by David B, and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. They both are similar in style: they are memoirs, they are black and white, they have very simple drawing style, they have very simple panels (almost all the same size) and they both talk about the hardship of growing up and child trauma. Epileptic ( http://trashotron.com/agony/images/2 Epileptic amazed me in the outside because is extremely well crafted both as a visual art and story. It also amazed me on the inside because as Jean_lucke, I am sick since I am a little boy, and my parents tried everything they could to cure me. Obviously, my sickness is "less" scary (asthma), but is true that my parents where desperate and my brothers always felt a bit left out of the whole dynamic. Somehow, whenever I would have an asthma attack, everybody in the house would have it with me. From the cost of the medicine affecting the home's finances, to the many times I was sent to the hospital and my family coming along with me, I always felt that my asthma affected more people than just me. I just never understood how. This graphic novel allowed me to see deeper into the other elements of my family while trying to cope with the sickness. I have to say it: they probably had it as hard or harder than me when I was little. Persepolis ( http://home.earthlink.net/~copaceti Persepolis, in its more humble style, takes on a bigger topic than war or sickness: the difference between humans, and particularly, between the western and middle eastern world. I know that is silly to think that such a complex topic could be inferred from a memoir comic, but a few ideas in the book really enlighten me. The first and most important is the idea of how in both sides, every day people take on their backs the responsibility of their every day surroundings. In our republic democracy, we used to don't have a big impact on the decisions that are taken by our leaders, in the issues that concern us the most. The republican democracy we live in just allow us to make a vote from time to time and hope that the people that we vote for will win, and will do something that would affect positively in our life. The middle east, in the other hand, have thousands of years of experience dealing with people who want to steal their freedom. The middle east went through an Islamic revolution that placed the power in populist leaders that where smart enough to use religion and morality (those things beyond laws in the human hearth) to sustain their power. They are used to fight when something is not of their like, and for that they pay with blood. Is Madison's worst nightmare! We are used to be enraged but just take it how it comes from leaders, and for that we have peace. :) It feels so good when you read stuff like this. I am getting more and more interested in doing graphic novels. Current Mood:
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