Little sneak peak of my new sketchbook 🌱✍🏻

 

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Cartoon Network!

I'm having a blast creating some character designs and visual development art for Cartoon Network as a freelancer! Thanks SO much to the whole team for giving me so much creative freedom, you rock! 

Plants

Some plants sketches from these past few weeks :3 

The first one is some hazelnuts still attached to their leaves at my parent's garden, the second one is some seaweed from when we visited Ireland's Eye (a tiny island next to Howth, Dublin), and the last ones are some plants from my friend Toni in Kilkenny n.n

Monfragüe

Some sketches from our visit to the beautiful natural park of Monfragüe. We were SO lucky to see wild deers and vultures so close ❤

Old treasures

Hanging out at my parents' village and my aunt's and uncle's old houses I found the most beautiful old treasures to sketch.

Spoiler alert: I drew the coffee grinder so many times that my dad ended up gifting it to me hehehe uwu

Calcetines

 My parents adopted the most beautiful and loving kitty and I needed to draw him 🐾

NonStop Barcelona

So excited to be part of the 6th edition of the visual development seminar Non Stop Barcelona! Check out their website to purchase the tickets for the weekend of the 28th, 29th and 30th of October. I will be giving a talk and reviewing portfolios alongside some incredible artists like Nathan Fowkes, Finnian MacManus, Pablo Domínguez and Ayran Roberto. Can't wait to meet you all there! :D 

Kilkenny sketches

Trying to savour the city as much as I can before leaving next week :..) Kilkenny has such a special charm in its streets and pubs, these sketches make it no justice.

Last life drawing sketches at LH Studios!

Some sketches from my last week at the Lighthouse Studios life drawing sessions! This week is all about packing and finishing the last details for our moving so send us virtual strength pls xD

PS: If anybody knows about life drawing sessions in Salamanca please send me a message, I would love to continue drawing models from life while we're there! (Otherwise online sessions and good old people watching at coffee places it is haha).

Saw a beautiful hound the other day at Cakeface and I had to sketch him ❤

Some sketches from last week's life drawing session ✍️

 

Online character design workshop at La Galería Roja!

 

Hi everyone! I will be doing an online character design workshop at La Galería Roja during the weekend of the 20, 21 and 22 of January! We will be tackling concepts in the theory classes from the early pre-production designs to the more technical aspects of the model sheets for the animation industry (there will also be homework after each class and in-class exercises, including one on one and groupal critiques). You can check all the info and sign up here: Character Design Workshop 🌱

The sunflower's advice

 

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Goodbye Ireland :.. )

After 5 years in Kilkenny, my Irish adventure is coming to an end in a few weeks and I couldn't be more thankful for this experience!

*Giving you a brief moment here to either take a big breath or STOP reading because, oh boy, is the CHEESINESS coming...* 

I believe that when you have been living in different places during your life, you get an extra layer of invisible skin (we're thinking metaphorically here ok?, nothing gross XD): you get to expand it, people around you transform it, you get to feel way more intensely than the average human just because you have more surface to take everything in... but you also get the biggest of pains when you have to disconnect it from your body and say goodbye...

Kilkenny and the people in Cartoon Saloon and Lighthouse Studios made me grow so much as an artist and, more importantly, as a human being. It placed in my life the most incredible people as best friends, showed me its breathtaking Irish nature ( and seals!!? Wth? Heaven.) and gave me the best partner in crime one could ask for to continue our adventures in Spain.

Big hugs to all the people that made me feel at home, I'm sure we'll cross paths in the future! 

Live trad music at Cleere's + sketching with friends

 I can't think of a better evening plan than this ♥