Umbral
2010
Description
Umbral consists of a series of illustrations created using pencils and cigarette ashes on strathmore paper. It stands as a personal attempt at visually codifying my closest relationships and reflecting upon their build-ups and aftermaths.
Fields
Drawing, Illustration
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Portraits of people important to me, created using pencils, sanguines, gouaches and cigarette ashes.Drawing2010 -
When I was 19 years old I met a girl and fell madly in love with her, as 19 year olds are wont to do. Every time I saw her she would tell me about the dreams she had the previous night, and I would illustrate them when I got home. These are some of the results.Drawing, Illustration2011 -
Scans from old sketchbooks.Drawing2011 -
Valentina is a model I've been working with for the past few months, who has a wonderful habit of playing with her hands near her face whenever she strikes a pose. These are some of the results from her sitting sessions.Drawing2012 -
A couple of digital montages created by compositing photographs with patterns painted using gouaches and inks.Photography, Painting, Photo Manipulation2010 -
The girl in the picture is a dear friend of mine with a soft spot for the little mermaid story. I made this illustration as a gift for her after she kindly agreed to pose for a number of figure studies.Drawing, Illustration, Digital Imaging2011 -
In October 2005 a good friend of mine took me on a trip to a ghost town in the Mexican Bajio called Mineral de Pozos. We went to take some pictures and found a dry riverbed. I'd taken the precaution of bringing with me some brushes and a lot of red pigment. When I sprinkled the pigment on a puddle, the minerals in the water reacted to the pigment and bubbled up in the most beautiful red and gold patterns. We must have taken about five hundred snapshots in the river that day. Later on I reworked some of them in Photoshop, mixing them with some brushwork done with black india ink and gouaches. These are the results.Photography, Photo Manipulation2011 -
Two self portraits.Drawing, Illustration2011 -
Valentina is a model I've been working with for the past few months, these are some of the results from her sitting sessions.Painting2012 -
Two small drawings, created a long time ago as illustrations to the poems a good friend.Drawing, Illustration2011 -
Single illustration created using several pencil drawings digitaly composited into a unified image. It was a fun way to try out different possible composition arrangements that I keep meaning to try out again but haven't yet repeated.Drawing, Illustration, Digital Imaging2010 -
A composite built from several different source images produced through drawing, painting and photography into a single digital illustration.Drawing, Illustration, Digital Imaging2011
