#YoSoy132 / #iam132

Last June 10th I went out to the street with my friends and other 90,000 students as a way to protest against the presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto and the television network "Televisa" that wants to impose him as our new president with a huge amount of lies, misinformation and media manipulation. 

You may not know but the political party he belongs to is famous of enrich themselves with public founds, of making partnership with drug cartels and to use force power to silent critic voices as they did in 1968 with the Tlatelolco students massacre, the 1995 Aguas blancas slaughter and in 2006 with the Atenco repression where dozens of peasants where beaten up and all the women where raped.

We made a long walk across the Mexico city downtown that seemed more like a cultural party where you could see art manifestations everywhere.

For this special event I made a large artwork of Peña Nieto standing in a big pile of dirt, intestines and blood. Also he's wearing a ripped Mexican flag and in top of his head there is the Televisa logo as a halo. I wanted to illustrate him as a sort of twisted fucked up saint.

If you are interested in gather more information about the #YoSoy132 movement, I leave you a link to an article of the UK The Guardian that explains very well the very essence of the situation in our country.

LINK!

Peace!

Vinyl paint/ fabric

"People of the end of the world" / "THE JELLY SELLER"

Damn! It's been a while since the last time I posted something...If someone really cares about it and feels offended, I offer my sincere apologies, ha ha.

Today I want to share with you this illustration. With some luck you will see it published soon in the "XXII Catálogo de Ilustradores de Publicaciones Infantiles y Juveniles", It's sort of an illustration contest organized by the National Culture & Arts Council at México.

This piece will be a part of a series that I'll be calling "People of the end of the world" or in spanish, "Personajes del fin del mundo". 

The basic concept was born of many mental scenes I've been collecting in my day to day while walking across the Mexico City.

As you know, our country is a place of great economic and cultural contrasts. The battle against poverty have pushed the low-income people to go out to the streets to find new ways to make a living. As a result, many characters have emerged offering all kinds of services and products, creating interesting visual situations that together with the urban chaos finally inspired me to make this series of illustrations.

I'm adding a few steps explaining the sketching process and also some shots of detailed work. Hope you like!

And sorry again for the shitty English... -_-

 

 

De andanzas zombies y el fin del mundo

A finales de 2011 en México se vivía un gran ambiente de extásis y alegría por el supuesto fin del mundo según los Mayas. Cosa que los historiadores por supuesto desmintieron prácticamente desde que surgieron los primeros predicadores apocalípticos.

Por esas fechas también se organizó un evento llamado Zombie Walk en el centro de la ciudad de México donde varias personas iban disfrazadas de no-muertos y hacían cosas propias de zombies.

Inspirado por estos dos eventos y también debido a los rumores crecientes del regreso al poder del partido político más corrupto en nuestra historia y en vísperas de las elecciones presidenciales del año 2012, decidí hacer una pieza ilustrada como conmemoración de estos hechos para dar la bienvenida al nuevo año y al holocausto que ya se dejaba ver a la vuelta de la esquina.

La técnica que ocupé para este bonito retrato intenta acercarse a la denominada speed painting. Esta técnica es utilizada mayormente por los artistas de concept art y lo que se busca es generar tal cual un concepto gráfico que puede ir desde ambientes, fondos, vehiculos, personajes, props y lograrla en el menor tiempo posible. Se usa mayormente para la industria del cine y los videojuegos.

Esta materia es un campo enorme de estudio como para abarcarla en unos cuantos párrafos, pero si les interesa, les dejo un video de Fheng Zhu, fundador y director en la escuela que lleva su nombre en Singapur. Este tío decidió hacer una serie amplia de video-tutoriales donde abarca las bases de esta profesión y aporta años de experiencia y técnicas. Todo como labor social para los jodidos que no podemos pagar su escuela de primer mundo.