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*

Deep Within

This is a little color test I've made with TVPaint. The animation needs more work on its fluidity, but this time I chose to focus more on coloring a quick and loose animation. I kinda like the result and the experience of doing it! :)
If you're wondering what's the purpose of the movement... don't ask. :P I just kind of "went with the flow".

Windy/Rainy days...

Me today. :P

"Just Follow Your Dreams"

I'm sharing with you my first dance painting on a wall! :)
This was commissioned for two teen sisters' room. They both dance and one of them inspires me in a special way. She's a gorgeous and talented 13 y.o. girl who dances beautifully, from the soul. And she has this rare type of hepatitis that debilitates her system. You won't say by looking at those vibrant shinning eyes and by the way she dances passionately. Dance is actually what is helping her a lot with her condition and I have a feeling that someday we will hear about her in the "dance world". :)

I was an honor for me to paint this for her - it was her idea, I just made it visible. ;)

Dance, dance dance art!

As you may already know, Glen Keane is my animation idol ever since I remember having one.
As you may also know, I love drawing dance poses and animating dance since 2012 (which I'm still personally exploring and see where it goes).
So, I feel amazed and inspired that my idol is also getting into dance animation! :)
Feels a little bit like we're in tune or something... it's good. *heart*

Btw, I've been working in that dance animation I presented in a little teaser last December.
It got a little more complicated than I expected and almost re-done it entirely. :P But I'm happy with the result so far, even though there's still more work to do.
I hope to post it sometime soon, before the end of the year preferably. I've been working on it much more often lately. ;)

"Dragon Age" meme

Ahahah, I was going through my art stuff and found this, back from 2011.
I had finished playing the famous RPG "Dragon Age" - the last game I really got hooked in and actually the last game played since. I enjoyed playing so much and felt like colaborating in a famous meme at Deviant Art.
So here is my personal input of the game in a series of drawings! :) The meme is a unique long/vertical image, so I have cut it into several images for better view.
I really really had fun doing this! :) Enjoy the drawings and the humor, if you know in context of the game. ;)

Smoky Train

Sometimes we may look at things and see things... ahahah! ;)
(happens to me a lot! and you?)

Welcoming Fall

Season greetings!! You've gotta love autumn! :)
These really cute leaves came to life with colored pencils on paper.

Fire Dress?

Remember my elemental costumes? :D
I said at the time that I was working on "fire" dress, and that was true... But the result wasn't what I had in mind so I left it for while. Then I started this painting... I didn't mean to turn it into a fire elemental sort of paintng, but it turned out that way. So... here is Fire Dress after quite some time! ;)

Edit:
In case you're curious, here is the older version of Fire dress... unfinished. I felt it needed more work and more thinking. :D I love the colors, though!
Which one you prefer?

Flora - Iconic

This is Flora, the character of ICONIC Network, a congress of animation & concept art from Brazil. :) Great artists there!
They challenged us to re-draw their character just for fun and I felt like participating; I liked the character already, she's really cute! I had fun drawing and painting her and here is the result. ;)