Illustrations for the article "Cartas cruzadas" (Crossing letters) of the magazine El Malpensante edition 119. The article by Santiago Gallego Franco, tells the story of the strange correspondence between the writer John Kennedy Toole and his editor Robert Gottlieb.
Around 7 years ago, I made my very first animation short: Sincera, a music video for the song with the same name by the colombian hip-hop group 90Grados. The quality is pretty naive and the animation is not even close to be decent, but still, I spend 6 months and over 2.000 drawings doing it. It was kept in the bottom of an old cd tower.
Curiously, it got the chance to be showed again and Sincera will be screening this Thursday 12 (4pm) taking part in the Colombian Animated Music Videos Showcase. So, if you have the time to take a look of Sincera, it's going to be screening at the "Jorge Tadeo Lozano" University (7th building, 7th floor, video room) Bogotá, Colombia. Also, the Wednesday 18 (6pm) at the "Javeriana" University (Luis Carlos Galán Auditorium) Bogotá, Colombia.
Going around and around with the O-ink project, I decided get it deeper and draw straight to real human skin.
Soon, the documentary video (by my friend Nazly López) and full illustrations.
Above, just a little sketch that I did in my own arm just to feel the tools.
I got two nominations to the Lápiz de Acero Awards, probably the most importants colombian design awards. The "XII Festival Iberoaméricano de Teatro de Bogotá" logo (Visual Identity Category) and "The Bet" (Digital Concept: Animation) are running for a place in the top of the design projects of 2010. More info here!
I just wanted to share this cool site from my good friend Carlos Riaño, a terrific colombian illustrator that I found again in my path a couple of weeks ago. Carlos was my first illustration teacher at the university and now we are working together in some cool projects (http://portfolio.miguelotalora.com/#1258982/The-creativity-boomer).
His site here: http://www.carlosrilustra.com/
