Sérgio Martins Interview

My friend and colleague Sergio Martins gave an interview to AnimSchool yesterday. :)
I talked about him in a post earlier; he's an amazing animator and I'm honored to be working with him (and his twin brother) right now.
It's a great interview, especially if you're into animation 2D or 3D. Check it out here: Sergio Martins Interview

Rita Spider

Hello :)
I'm here today to present you my dance muse: Rita Spider.
She's an amazing dancer from Portugal. :) If you love hip hop, dubstep, house and stuff alike, you may have heard of her, because she's been dancing around the world for quite a while, including in Michael Jackson's "The Immortal" tour of Cirque du Soleil!

I absolutely adore her style and the way she moves, it's so inspiring to me. I admire her energy, passion and sense of rythm so much. And also many of her choices of music. Those rythms really make me wanna dance. :)
I am lucky and honored to have her as my hip hop teacher, she really makes us work and I love that! Rita has so much joy and energy when she dances that we get to feel the same. We go crazy dancing, yeah!!! :D

I used to think contemporary dance was my favorite style, but now I see clearly that it's the large range of street dance styles instead. What I love about street dance is that you can incorporate an inifite number of dance types, creating many different fusions. It's complete freedom. That's my favorite thing about it all. When you fuse hip hop with contemporary dance, for instance, the result is beautiful. :)

I'm leaving you today with a dubstep solo Rita created some years ago. It's quite fast, and you'll see how amazing she is. ;)
If you like that video, watch the next. It's not so energetic as the first, but still very much hipnotic. Part two of that show is very poetic and in the whole you'll see various styles mixed in one. :) She's a queen of fusion!

Hope you enjoy this wonderful dancer! ;)

Absense

Hey you guys!
I'm sorry for my absence, a lot has been going on, professionally wise. It's exciting and I hope to be able to give you more news sometime soon. I can tell that one of the exciting things is I'm honored to be working on a new project with the creative team of animators behind the band's Angels and Airwaves short film "Dream Walker". :D They're my friends and also my favorite animators from Portugal, so it's really awesome! *dances around happily*

In the meanwhile, I will keep postng drawings whenever I can.
Thank you for your patience and for being there, still. *heart*

Elements

Hello! Here's my latest work :)
It's been hard to keep up with uploading every week in the past two months, due to extra work and being sick in the middle of it all...
It's all more calm now, but I doubt it'll last long though, ahah... ;)

One more, today

Lots of wings in... "Fly".

Doorway

At the reach of a heartbeat...

Pencil on paper, A4 grained

Lovers

"Love endures not for a time or season; true love simply loves and knows not the reason".


:)

Pencil on paper (A5 size).

Dancer

Dance is L.O.V.E.! ;)

No Distance

Love is beyond space and time... *heart*

Tangled

New piece! :)
Pencil on paper.

Vulnerability

"A warrior of love wears no armor... for she or he knows the power of vulnerability."

Inner Worlds

Following the heart into deep and misterious realms...

Lady of the Gift

"Everything you give is yours forever".

:)

I feel it's true, somehow...

True Love: An instant in Time

"It is only an instant it time, when you look into their eyes and everything finally makes sense..."

Such a precious gift in life, to be able to love someone like that. *heart*

Love is the answer

"True Love is what Humanity needs to keep hope alive and to make life worth living" 

:)

Pencil on paper. 

The Reason

Love this song from Hoobastank, "The Reason". *heart* I guess the rests speaks for itself... I wasn't thinking about the song when I drew this, but in the end, as I looked at them, the song kept coming into mind. :)

This was done with pencil on paper, painted digitally with open sourse software Krita. I've been experimenting with it and I really like it! :) Much more sensitive and responsive with the wacom than photoshop.

New Year, New Look, New Stuff

It felt like a little change after many years with the same layout... I also changed the name of the blog for a more suitable one, considering the stuff I've been doing lately.
To a fresh new start in the new year!!! :D

Today I'm sharing one of the first drawings of 2016; I've been drawing a lot of this kind of drawings and I will be sharing them. Expect at least two or more per week, because I really love drawing couples in love (besides dance) and it has been an effective soul therapy for me. I can't stop doing them now, so bear with me. ;) Expect a lot of love coming up this year!! *heart*

See you soon. :)

Happy year 2016!!

Another year, another chance to begin anew, to become a better person and to be better at living this beautiful life...
Thank you for visiting my page and for all your support.
May the new year bring joy, love and peace into your life. *heart*

(This is an old drawing made for a friend. It kind of suits the "birth" of a new year. ;))

Merry Christmas!

I wish you all visitors a very Merry Christmas, full of love, joy and laughter amongst those you love! *heart*

Comic Con PT 2015

This year I've had the honor of being invited to Comic Con again. :) This time by Casa da Animação in Porto (translated is like saying "house of animation"). I was there one day, 6th December, and it was really great spending the whole day drawing and making connections.

Here are some pictures of me drawing and the scan of an original I made that day. It was my favorite and somebody bought it. Then he offered to scan it for me. I really appreciate the gesture! :)

I hope to be back to CC Portugal next year! *heart*