Gabriel J. Matesanz

Illustration/Animation Student in Providence, Rhode Island. This is all things I make. Open to commissions and requests. More organized work at portfolios.risd.edu/gabrielmatesanz

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Death objects to life on purely aesthetic grounds

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some fruit studies! I always come back to fruit whenever I’m feeling uninspired. Fruit is prettier than you or me usually. These are more experiments with the pencil/digital combo.\n.\n.\n.\n#sketchbook #illustration #drawing #fruitstudy #healthyeating

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thinking about pokemon some more, I remembered this weird detail that I think I’ve told to a few of you: for all of my childhood I only ever caught pokemon marked male, with the “ ♂️” symbol next to their names. And I was the catch’em all style player, which means I was making a space of thousands of rowdy boys across multiple generations. This is especially odd given that later on and through the present I do the exact opposite, and always feel more comfortable in feminized spaces.

In hindsight, I’m not sure what it means that I intentionally cut out any signs of femininity–I’m reading about digital avatars and thinking, If the pokemon team as a whole was a receptacle for my consciousness, then as a child moving thru the space of gender formation I was practicing masculinity in a very small symbolic form, reinscribing what is a kind of rejection of anything arbitrarily marked “ ♀️” . This might be obvious but it’s funny to think of it happening at this small scale. IDK more thoughts on digital avatars later, for now here’s 3 confused starters while I’m beginning to think about it

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thinking about dunsparce today, the ugliest creature, worst pokemon, frustrating to find....I see much in them that I see in myself........

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It’s my best friend, the old faithful, peegachu

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hope it’s not too late to post my Metsona! I studied and put together influence from several different major religious works to create this look.

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matesanz_gabriel_WEB_Reexport_1 from Gabriel Matesanz on Vimeo.

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DemoReel_Spring2018 from Gabriel Matesanz on Vimeo.

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LeftyRighto_Presentation_GabrielMatesanz from Gabriel Matesanz on Vimeo.

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2.1.18 from Gabriel Matesanz on Vimeo.

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I..... I’ve seen this place before... in a dream I think....yyeus...... so familiar........

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Magnus Burnsides sits up all night with his wooden duck, re-oiling and polishing and staring at it for hours

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tired of your old bones? Upgrade your structure completely today!!

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Lord grant me the strength to stop doodling and finish this final final project\n.\n.\n#drawing #illustration #sketchbook #longneck #neck #necklaces #lotsofroom #motorcycles #motors #motorsport #borntobewild #racing

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some vicious and scared creatures

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A couple inktobers from this week! In order: Divided, Sword, Poison, Long. I try to do something new with each one, but all involve Speedball Superblack ink at some point in the process

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a bunch of people, and the tiger that they are all somehow related to.