Comunión

Trabajos hechos para una empresa de imprenta que entre otros temas hace también comuniones.
Drawings about a spanish tradition done to 8 year old kids:

In the attack. The First Contact

 From my version of The War of the Worlds. The first time a Fighting Machine appears.

A place to dream

I love caves. Yes! I should have been speleologist. Caves are awesome!

  ...Specially when they have surrealistic phosphorescent waters inside.

More Warhammer40k theme!

When someone likes something a lot...
A picture showing a battle between two factions of the famous role game Warhammer 40000: Eldars (they are space elves, everyone has the idea of what an elf is I think) and Necrons:

I´m having an existential crisis with the level options of Photoshop so I upload the original scan (down) and the one touched in Photoshop (up). Again.

Mother Portrait

This time the portrait is from a close person: My mother. Because she fights a lot:

Too many black vultures

One day with the radio turned on (in a supermarket) I heard one of the very few songs of the group Amaral that is respectably good (only 3 good while the rest are horrible, for my taste)...well, in the song there is a part that says (in spanish) "Forgive me, if it hurts you what I see. Too many black vultures. You are too good for them".
Well, that paragraph gave me an illustrated idea:

Original (up) and "too much Photoshoped!" (down):

When two spaces clash in one time

I needed to make this, as a catharsis. Sick of this and all the fails. But sick of the indifference, sick of such things I just don´t deserve from others anymore! And anyway, that bonehead will not see this so I don´t care.

When two times clash in one space

After a long wait, good is to upload more pics:

Cause Mojave Desert has been the story of many american icons.

Self-portrait 3

Because summer is coming and I´m begining to feel it:

Portrait 3

Looks like a psycho but...bah! that was my slight intention.

Portrait 2

Watercolours. Except for the coat which is actually made with gouache.

Portrait 1

Watercolours.

The Chess Game

Full view of a chess match in an extremely exaggerated epic and dramatic way. From when the armies and nations rise, following the moments of the battle until the complete defeat of one of the sides. It´s a lithography series, by the way.

Castle of Gray

Two lithographies I felt like I should save them from their more than forseeable oblivion. At least here, in the blog, they will have a last permanent space on the memory.

Cat stamps. EXTRA

I forgot this one. Which is, by the way, I consider it even one of the best! Sometimes the stare can be very emotional despite the first coldness you can get at first...

Cat Stamps. Bonus

These are the stamps that were discarded before the final delivery.

These ones are about the good faces that people put mostly often.

Latvia doesn´t have a very good appartment quality, and if a spanish says this (because Spain average houses are not precisely the best of the best) something goes fairly bad.

We have some harassment here!

This is a joke about the cats themselves: they are all around the streets, they are the main fauna (it´s much better than having rats).

More stalking and antipathy around!

Annexation (basic history, current society)

Let´s scratch the sensible parts...Don´t take it very seriously. Although I wouldn´t say this is (or was) completely untrue.

Latvian Society stamps (Part 2)

Yes! Let´s carry on with this funny series mocking about latvian behaviour and society. Here come the next ones!

The first one is, probably, the stamp which has the deepest meaning of all them. The cat´s sentence has latvian and russian words referencing the mixing society (and persons) of latvian and russian population (remind that almost half of the population is russian origin). And another thing the stamp is referencing is the not very good service that Riga´s public transport offers which is...it can be sometimes very slow and unpredictable. Also, and most important, express the rudeness of a lot of people.

The next one is a mock about the main (and only) car trademark in the soviet ages whose cars where being marketed. So, in previous years you only saw Lada cars running on latvian roads. Similar as you only saw SEAT 600 in like most of the francoist years in Spain during Franco Regiment. The same, and with the same I mean that you could see some Renaults or Citroën aswell, so in Latvia you could see SAABs too.

Ok...the left image is very serious, just like most of the faces you see when you are walking around. Worst of all, this cat makes you jinx just with its staring.

The right image it´s a bit random, but not for that is less real...you can perceive some filtring occasionally.

The upper stamp talks about some persons (usually old ladies) who are watching the street from her window like if there was something wrong in there. Oh yeah, this happens everywhere...but here (I mean, in...in this country) is usual in young population too, oddly.

And the last one is about an old friend seen before. Remember the cat from "Such a lonely day" stamp? He´s back! and he has had another lonely day! So, damnit! Let´s forget the time and pities and let´s drink some typical alcoholic drinks! Here, it´s very popular the balsam, a drink which has an average alcohol level.

Latvian society Stamps (Part 1)

As the main tag is from another country is much better to write in some more "international" language. This is a series coming from my experience in another country (you will guess what country is as you are checking the work) about its society´s behaviour and one very interesting note I noted (I love redundancies)  in the urban lands from there: there were A LOT OF feral cats roaming in the streets. So I decided to make a serie relating the alley cats theme with some mocking society things.

Note: this has been made with only humorous prupourse, not to offend anyone. Don´t take it bad; and by the way, if I would make something similar about my country I could make TONS of quirky things that people usually do there.

So, let´s begin:

The first stamp, the one about the sad cat ("kaķis" is "cat" in latvian) is a pun about how Latvia has a sadly report for being a country with a high suicide rate, thus meaning that there are not precisely very few people in depressions or very unhappy with their lifes.

The second one it´s about how some (I mean, enough to attract the attention to me) persons are not very social (even antisocial) and prefer to hide in their own loneliness rather to...phew, rather to just show a nicer face!

These two stamps takes the same meaning: the shyness. There is shyness out there. And in big doses. Or selfishness, probably (then, we could find a reason why so much depression)!

The next pair are about other things. The first one is about how some neighbors are not very happy with strangers...and about the faces they make, you are not sure if they are angry with you or just they are acting normal, as they usually are. I have to say, however, that the meaning of the stamp I´m talking about ("You are in the wrong neighborhood Motherfu**r") fits MUCH more in Spain: all Latvia is rather safer than most of the cities of Spain; just an example: if you stay in the gipsy neighborhood(s) of Murcia (and that´s a city of only 400k inhabitants) for long time you will get surely some guys with the same faces as we see in the cats and saying basicaly the same (and you doing nothing, just staying there). And, yeah, it´s not racism because it´s a gipsy neighborhood (means that most of its population it´s gipsy, not all) but it´s the truth that you cannot go there safely.

The lower one it´s again about the depressions and sadness, holding hands with the loneliness.

There is another part coming. Tomorrow surely.

And more "El Miserere" thingies

This turn goes for the cover parts:

More "El Miserere" artworks

This time in black and white tones

More "El Miserere" project art

The following illustrations are small size paintings made for inner pages: