"IlustrAndo" / UAM Xochimilco university illustrators showcase

The managing office of graphic design career at my university, UAM Xochimilco, Mexico city, developed for first time in history a cool compendium of graduate students now living as pro illustrators. The project took shape in a beautiful publication made by students as well and to celebrate it, an exhibition took life inside the noble institution halls.

It was awesome to share pages with close friends, some of my teachers and other interesting illustrators.

I leave you some pics of the catalog and some of the exhibition opening.

Hope yo like them!

 My works >_>

 

 Many pics stolen from my friend Jorge Contreras

 

Me, Roberto Padilla, Haziel Colina, Cristina Adame, Jorge Contreras, Ramón Villegas, 

Sergio Gaytan, Jair Meza, Humberto Castillo

I also visited the wall painted by my pal Sergio

"NUX" Mad Max: Fury Road fan art

So "Mad Max: Fury Road" was a hell of a movie, I can't remember if I even blink once ha ha.

Something cool that is still happening in social networks is the vast number of illustrators and artists uploading a piece of fan art trying to make it their own.

It's understandable I think, the movie it's impressing and visually outstanding so I decided to make my own contribution a few weeks ago. 

My favorite character was Nux. I think all the cosmogony of this apocalyptic world with all its originality and complexity it's perfectly resumed in this one character.

I didn't try to made a portrait of the actor (Nicholas Hoult), but rather work with the impression that the character leave in me.

So here it is the final sketch, some process, details and the final product, it was a fun thing to do and the perfect excuse to draw more >_>.

Witness me!!

Mi valedor / Zero year

"Mi valedor" magazine is a freakin' cool project developed by a group of girls living in Mexico city and it has recently came out to light with the help of "fondeadora" page (latin version of "kickstarter"). 

The whole thing works around the idea of making a partnership with homeless people to distribute the mag in streets generating an economic income for them. The main topics of the mag as you'll see are city life, street culture and art.

For the first issue called "año cero" (zero year), my friend María (Mi valedor ceo) asked me if I could help them making an infographic illustration trying to explain how the mag works. I accepted gladly.

I highly recommend you to go take and a look to this awesome project, it's a real window of our cool, monstrous and colorful city. Also you will be able to enjoy the beautiful photos of my friend Delphine Tomes, and illustrations by my pal Humberto Castillo.

If you want to gather more info about it go check its home here.

I leave you some photos of my process creating the spread and the final result. 

Peace bros...

 Final sketch

Photo by Alfonso Flores

ZOMBIES...!!

I've always been a big fan of zombie stuff. I don't know, I guess it's because I enjoy how the authors imagine those apocalyptic scenarios where people face their extinction, most of times inflicted by themselves. In fact, sometimes I think that a zombie crisis could be a good way to fix this sick world. If you discern, try reading "World War Z", it's enlightening ha ha.

The things is, one day I went to my job and I got the news that we will be working in a zombie related show. AWESOME...!

Our client this time was HYUNDAI, sponsor of walking dead series as you know, and the experience was planned to be inside a car show.

When we got the idea, it was time to make some concepts for characters, spaces and environments, and it was my time to shine. >_>

We began to work in a concept that later mutated a bit so you will see some changes in the first approach and then the final product.

Our work was divided in three main spaces. Two exhibition stands and one live action experience related with one of 'em. The first stand was built with the official HYUNDAI brand and the second one with zombie stuff. Later on, when checking the cars at the infected one, you could get an invitation to participate in a mission to retrieve the zombie virus cure from an an old military facility in the quarantine zone with the help of a car stunt.

I think it went quite cool at the end, and most important, it was super-fun to made.

Obviously the project was bigger and there was much more people involved, creatives, industrial & graphic designers, production teams, planners, account and marketing teams, and a lot more. This is only a part of the project explained trough my working process.

The following are different phases of the project where I participated. At the end I leave you some pics and a video of how the show went.


I hope you enjoy it as we did!!

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In the beginning, the place for the experience was planned to be a huge parking lot. 

That changed... >_>

   
I did a storyboard of the experience for the people at HYUNDAI. 
These are some frames.

I also made concepts for the outfits that the people at the stand should be wearing.

And finally, I did a little survival guide that we gave as a gift
 to the people who enlisted to live the experience.
Here are some pages.

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So this is it, I leave you with some cool pics, they were taken by my friend and workmate Fidel Gutierrez (he is one of the creatives that worked on the project). There is also a video of a guy well known in Mexico who went to the car show and lived the experience.

The survival guide and the storyboard books.

The studio in charge of the zombies makeup was Go fx, they did an amazing job.

My mate Fidel with some survivors and the SOS manual.

 Exhibition stand

From left to right: Fidel, me, zombie-dude, Manu and Chido. 

Time Machine #1 (Oldies gallery)

On weekend  I bought two new little book shelves at Home Depot (free ad) and after 2 years 1 month of living alone, I was finally able to unpack all my stuff forgotten in the deepest and darkest corner of my closet.

It was an epic adventure very similar to the ones lived by great legends like Bilbo Baggins & such. But don't worry, I'll keep the details for later...

It took me like six hours to reorganize a big amount of awesome books, comics, dvd's, and some action figures from the past. I had a great time, but the best part came when I found a large stack of old semi-dusty drawings :O

I say "old" not because I was very young at the moment I made them, but to the fact that some of them have 10 years of existence at least...By that time I used any tool could scribble and every paper I found to vomit all my concerns into it. Ps or Painter didn't figured out yet as you can guess.

In the end I chose a few that bring me cool memories and I'm sharing them with you. I really don't know when exactly I lost the path because I can see a powerful creativity feeling imprinted on them. Jeez! feeling old, being a grown up sucks >_> 

Hope you enjoy them as I do.

 The first one came out of a poem I read in school, I think the second one tries to be one itself.

 I had a crush with an unreachable girl in high school

 and this is how I felt about it xP

A girl I knew had an accident and fell into a coma for a very long time, 

at the end she never woke up, sad story.

<--Apprehensive girlfriend and lizard-->

Badass corsair

Chaos in the city

There was a time I fell in the claws of Ragnarok Online MMORPG.

It ruined my real life for a season but it was very very funny. 

These characters are from the game.

Pin-up