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Hi there,
Nothing new recently to show. Although I'd like to share this image I did some time ago.
I always have been fascinated by early morning light so I was trying to catch this effect here.
Everything Photoshop except from a base sky I rendered in Vue Esprit. ]]> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:33:13 +0000 http://kaparo.cgsociety.org/gallery/727272

Hi There,
This is my entry for the Steampunk Myth and Legend Challenge. It was great to be part of the competition. I´m totally connected with the Steampunk aesthetics now and want to go back to it in future illustrations maybe retelling classic tales or myths again. It was done in Photoshop, for more information and making of, please follow my challenge thread:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?threadid=695532]]> Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:50:30 +0000 http://kaparo.cgsociety.org/gallery/688190

This illustration started with a little face, a small sketch of a fairy I roughly draw in my sketchbook. Then I started to think about it over and over. It took a better shape, a background, a purpose. At the end it was an essay of textures and contrast between the smooth luminous body of the fairy and the rust textured abandoned metal skull below her. She lives among those places, spreading the rust over dead artifacts, slowly dissolving them in the ground. I hope you like it! ]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:20:37 +0000 http://kaparo.cgsociety.org/gallery/668431

This image is based on an old sketch I had somewhere lost among my things. I guess I was inspired by those good old classic Sci Fi films and novels, hard to tell now that so many years has passed since I sketched it. Hope you like it! ]]> Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:00:22 +0000 http://kaparo.cgsociety.org/gallery/633802

I started this image a few years ago, while on travel in Cuba. I always made lots of face sketches from people around. Then I added more elements and other faces automatically. At the end it came to my mind those tropical soup operas so popular in Latin America full of traumatic and complicated love triangles -sometimes more than triangles. I hope you like it!
Cheers!]]> Tue, 20 May 2008 21:55:26 +0000 http://kaparo.cgsociety.org/gallery/625142

This image was originally made around one year ago in black ink on board. Looking at it again I decided to explore color, lights and shadow a little further so I scan it, took most of the ink strokes apart and started from there to work color in Photoshop.
I don´t remember where the inspiration came from or what was my idea when I made it for the first time. But it´s ok, feel free to made your own interpretation of it. I hope you all like it! Cheers!]]> Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:08:24 +0000 http://kaparo.cgsociety.org/gallery/598063

What is there beyond our reality, beyond our understanding, beyond our present and even beyond our future? There is a limit for our feet but our mind and soul can look through this window and skip the mechanism of our everyday routine to see beyond.
Enjoy!]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:12:40 +0000 http://kaparo.cgsociety.org/gallery/509056

In the early 90s I discovered Jean Michel Jarre´s "Oxygene" disc. It´s sounds of fresh breath, clean technology and hope brought lots of visual ideas to my mind which were translated in sketches. Here is the final result 15 years later. I still love that disc.
Made in Photoshop plus a basic Bryce render for the glass helmet.
Comments are welcome!]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:11:51 +0000 http://kaparo.cgsociety.org/gallery/506298

I made this illustration for the 48 issue of Proyecto Diseńo, a Colombian magazine devoted to design. In this case the issue was dedicated to the Tenth Edition of the Steel Pencil Design Prize. They want a free conceptual approach to design and the presence of the steel pencil trophy in the cover. This crazy aliens on the final illustration are receiving a courier from earth which contains the floating trophy inside it.
Big fun doing it!]]> Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:49:14 +0000 http://kaparo.cgsociety.org/gallery/438037

ORISHAS is the word used by some afro-american religions to refer to their deities. They are represented in many ways: through catholic icons, single geometric signs, objects, colors. For me they are two birds, one over each shoulder looking back and forth while you are right there, in the middle, in the volatile present.
I hope you enjoy this image.

Pencil line, color and texture collage in photoshop

Comments are most welcome. ]]> Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:14:59 +0000 http://kaparo.cgsociety.org/gallery/459751

1492 was the year of the discovery of Mesoamerica by the spanish empire. This year marked the begining of the end of those ancient and magnificent indigenous cultures by the devastating power of the spanish conquerors, a turn on history for humankind.

I used bryce to made a single render of water waves. The sky and the ocean foam are collages of photos. The totem and the sword were made in photoshop. I have been amazed by some excellent matte paintings we all can see in CGforums. Althoungh this is not exactly a mattepaintig is my first attempt to try something similar.

I hope you like it]]> Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:28:36 +0000 http://kaparo.cgsociety.org/gallery/203582

“The vagabond” was inspired in a song with the same name of a cuban singer, Silvio Rodríguez. The intention was to make something evocative that catch the poetry of that song. I was not trying to made some hyperrealistic image, that’s why the bird or the human has their proportions a little altered: bigger bird eyes or human hands, short bird tail, etc...
It was made with photoshop, with the help of Corel Draw for the flat background scheme, Infini-D for modeling the helmet and Bryce to render it (I know it is primitive but is everything I needed for it). The textures in the astronaut clothes where made combining real distorted photographic textures with photoshop painting tools.

This image was published in "D'artiste Concept Art" book:
http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/dartiste/concept_art/]]> Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:59:10 +0000 http://kaparo.cgsociety.org/gallery/401049

Made for the simple pleasure of depict the misterious act of creation through the human hands. Ink outline and all the rest (color, textures, etc) was made in photoshop. Coments are very welcome. ]]> Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:41:52 +0000 http://kaparo.cgsociety.org/gallery/372844

I love stones. Their textures and shapes, their age, their rhythm. When they became part of ancient cultures they turn into faces of what it was once, faces that deserves our respect and admiration, strong images of past times. That’s what I was trying to picture here. I went back to the falling leaves of “The vagabond”. I like those elements too, so I decided to work over them again, this time with a little more realistic approach to it.
All done in photoshop, with the help of Bryce for a reference render of the leaves shadows over the wall and head, and lots of photographic textures for the stones.
Comments are welcome!
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Image created for the Master and Servant Challenge.

The queen is bored of TV…
So she assigns the captain of her guard the task to read a new chapter every evening for her. Night after night the officer has become a devoted fan of the printed letters and read for his master one book after other. It is also a convenient point for him: she is entertained while he is reading, so she will not be thinking in a new war with some neighbor kingdom, where he surely would have to go. The little lizards around them didn’t think the same…

This was a fun exercise on playing with the common and accepted roles of the rude brute warrior and the fragile queen. In this case things happened I a different way.
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