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I'm from a village in the region of A Coruña (Galicia), but I've been based in Valencia for almost 15 years now.
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Where in Spain are you based/from?
I'm from a village in the region of A Coruña (Galicia), but I've been based in Valencia for almost 15 years now.
Digital zines on my store 🌱✨
I'm putting some of these up for sale in pdf format for the first time. I think it’s especially interesting now that shipping costs are dramatic for some destinations.
Please check them out!
Clair de Lune 🎹🌙
A music school story where two teens, a clarinet player and a pianist that don’t exactly get along, will try to play a duet in order to summon a mysterious creature together.
Digital zine in English. (Edición física en castellano en pensamiento, pero tardará)
Sketchbooks zine 🎨✏️
A double zine that contains a selection of drawings from two different sketchbooks: one of vertical format and kraft paper, the other square format, white paper. Drawings range from 2015 to 2020.
Digital zine, occasional scribbles in English, Spanish and Galician.
Elisa & Marcela 🌈👩❤️💋👩
“Messy matter: A marriage without a man” Elisa & Marcela is a true story that reached our days through the headlines on forgotten tabloids. Unearthed and reconstructed, it’s a story of love and freedom.
In English, both digital and physical.
Insectarium🪲🦋
A zine that collects 4 short stories made between 2014 and 2019. All of them revolve around insects and bugs in one way or another, and they range from horror to sapphic romance with sci-fi bits.
Digital zine in English and Spanish. Physical zine in English.
Got a bunch of originals up in the store 🖋✨
✨Website & Online store opening✨
Been working for a while on putting together an online portfolio and shop, and I can finally announce them!
Huuuge thanks to Javigaar who isn’t only an amazing web developer and the builder of this project, but also a fantastic illustrator and kindest friend. 100% recommended!
You’ll also find open services such as commissions and comic project revisions. These are new things I’m going to try out and see how they go!
Please check it out!
Yet another pair for LOOP magazine! This issue's theme is Religion, and I got to illustrate a fantastic article about the Wuxia genre in videogames, written by Mariela González.
Design and art direction by Ezek.
Merienda y gazpacho 🍅☁️
Gundam: The Witch from Mercury fanart, plus a process video I had to record, and thought I might as well share, in case anyone was curious.
The Death of the Digital Ecosystem: Why Decoupling Notes Destroys Tumblr
@changes (Edit: I already sent this to Tumblr Support under the feedback option. I encourage everyone to send feedback on how bad this feature actually is).
For years, the total note count on a post served as a universal metric of a piece of content's impact. Whether a user liked the original post or a reblog fifteen branches deep, that engagement flowed back to the source. This ensured that the original artist, writer, or editor received the full credit for the viral success of their work.
Under this new system, engagement is trapped within the specific reblog a user happens to see on their dashboard. If a massive, high-traffic blog reblogs a piece of art from a small creator, every like and reblog that occurs through that larger account stays with them. The original creator is left with a stagnant note count on their own dashboard while their work generates thousands of interactions for someone else.
Erasure of Creator Visibility
Instead of seeing one post with 10,000 notes, a creator may now have to hunt through dozens of different reblog chains to find where the conversation is actually happening.
If the notes no longer flow back to the original post, the creator loses the ability to see who is enjoying their work, what the tags say, and how the community is responding.
On a platform where engagement often dictates visibility, splitting that engagement into tiny, unlinked fractions makes it significantly harder for original works to gain momentum compared to the high-reach blogs that reblog them.
Incentivizing the "Big Blog" Monopoly
This system rewards accounts that have already established a large following at the direct expense of the smaller accounts that actually produce the content. It transforms reblogging from a method of sharing into a method of acquisition.
When a reblog functions as its own independent post with its own note count, the incentive to click through to the original source disappears. The platform is transitioning from a collaborative ecosystem into a standard social media feed where the person who posts the content last—not the person who made it—reaps the rewards.
Impact on Collaborative Conversations
Tumblr’s unique culture is built on the reblog chain: a chronological, evolving conversation. By allowing users to like or reblog "any part" of the chain as an independent entity, the platform is breaking the narrative thread.
If engagement is siloed into specific branches, the incentive to add to a conversation is replaced by an incentive to simply own a piece of the engagement. This change doesn't encourage conversation. It encourages the commodification of individual posts within a chain, making it harder for the original voice to ever be heard over the noise of the rebloggers.
The Disincentive to Create
Perhaps the most damaging aspect of this update is the psychological toll on the creative community. When the platform actively diverts credit and engagement away from the source, it destroys the motivation to share original work at all.
For many, the reward for posting is seeing how far their work travels. If that travel is now invisible or attributed to others, the labor of creating becomes thankless.
This system makes creators want to share nothing. If the platform is built to harvest a creator's effort for the benefit of curator blogs, the logical response is to stop providing the raw material. I am one leaning into this category. Without us creators, the curator blogs have nothing to curate.
By making it harder to protect and track one's own work, the platform is effectively telling creators that their presence is secondary to the conversations happening around their work: conversations they may no longer even be able to find.
I drew these pages as part of the EU-CONEXUS - Comic Strip in Sciencie initiative, which aims to inform non-expert audiences about the findings of promoted research projects.
In my case, I had the pleasure to work with Alonso Sanchez, a researcher from my city, on the topic of walkability of our towns and how it affects our environment and health.
Check out the full project and magazine here!
The Music Wizard, the Witch of the Stars and the Wise Botanist wish you the best for this season of giving and beginning ✨
Yet another piece of whom is probably my all-time favourite Miyazaki heroine, Nausicaä. This one was a watercolour commissioned by one of the kindest clients I’ve had the pleasure to work with. Been a while without painting traditionally! 🌻
🐬The Era of Aquario✨is the pazzzest @pazpazpaz comic to ever pazzz, and I love it for that. Paz told me to go full out with my kinks in my work, and she stands by that with hers 🫵 Pick this up for dolphins, romantic science fiction and funny robot s*x!
Last few days to grab it through @shortboxcomicsfair!
🌚Moon Junction🌝 is @ufotomorrow‘s comic for this year’s @shortboxcomicsfair and I’m telling you, if you like whimsical royal courts, knight affairs and pinning sapphics, don’t miss out on this one! Up there of my favs by Anabel 🌸 Pick it up until October 31st!
Alphys's history books made me think humans were cool...
Happy 10th Anniversary, Undertale! 💚 💛 🧡 ❤️ 💜 💙
Hello, I wanted to say that I really like your art style, there aren't many cartoons that are as lively as yours anymore, but from a (barely) artist to another what do you use to scan your drawings? I'm slightly better at traditional art than at digital art and I can't find any good scanning methods.
Hope it's not a bother
Hi! Thank you so much for your kind words, it's very flattering to be told that my drawings feel lively like that x,)
About my scanning method, I don't do anything too special. My scanner is a CanoScan LiDE, I've had both a 210 and a 300 and they feel pretty similar to me? (I'm really not much of a nerd about image quality). They are quite basic, and both were under 100€.
The key relies in editing the scanned image. This process might be very different depending on what you're looking for and what your scan is giving you. With watercolour pieces like the ones I last posted, what I was trying to do was show the paper texture for that warm, traditional art feel, and the colours are just slightly tweaked to a warm palette as well, which I think added to this particular piece. So my process on PS was:
Copied my drawing layer twice, used one in Multiply and the other in Soft light, tweaked the opacity of both until I get more or less the intensity of the original colours of the piece.
Add a Levels adjustment layer to further help me with this goal. If you were trying to remove the texture of the watercolour paper from the white parts, this would probably be the step you can get it, but I'd advise against this unless you need to, because it can look a bit weird to see the texture on the coloured parts (this is pretty much unavoidable), but not on the white zones. Looks more natural when you leave it in all the piece, even if you can maybe soften it a little.
Apply image on a new layer and fix mistakes or weird areas here if you need to. I used the Clone stamp a lot on these pieces since I didn't leave enough white area around them, so I had to mask a lot by cloning the white texture area. This is also useful to make it look more unified.
Tweaked colours a bit with a Selective Colour Correction layer. This step might not be neccessary, but it's useful if you find that maybe just a certain blue is looking a bit off.
This could honestly be done in maaany different ways, mine's probably not the best at all, but it's where I've ended up for now hahah... Like I said, no magic, just playing with editing tools and knowing more or less what I'm looking for. Hope it's somehow useful?
Any chance your Clair de Lune comic will be available again in the future? It looks so charming. I wish I could travel time to get a copy
I'll make it available digitally again through my shop when I open it in September, yes!
But so far, I don't have plans for a physical release, sorry about that. Trying to cook something else first, we'll see!
Tahnks for your interest!
Would you sell bike and motorbike as prints?
Oh, I wasn't thinking about it at first? The originals are quite small, so I'm not sure how good the quality could be. Maybe they could work as 21x21cm prints. Would this be something you'd be interested in?
I guess it's good timing to also mention that I'll be publishing my website and shop around september, after the summer. Maybe I could add bike and motorbike as prints to the goods by then?
Ride by the river 🦋🌾
These were for my summer playlists btw!
Bike | Motorbike