tio .faso

Doll maker, illustrator, novelist, goofy and the man with cotton candy touch (like Midas without gold, but with a lot of cuteness).

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My goal was to draw without outlines, but my sweet little brown cyclops appeared kick some piñata asses. Was fun to do that! X)

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This draw started as warm up, but after a few lines I decided to remove the cuteness of my style and try to create something you don't wanna to hug and squeeze, but maintaining the cartoon look and feel.

So I got this: the offspring between Jabba and Clayface (from Batman animated series). :P

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Hello everyone!

Has been a while I wrote here. In this year I started a illustration course offered by Hiro Kawahara, the brazilian illustrator behind Mcdonald's tray liners. His classes are focused in develop and improve our capacity to draw more and better.

In the gestual drawing class, we had to create mermaids. I never drew this before and my mermaid become a merman. After draw almost forty sketches, I decided to finish one at home.

In flickr you can see it bigger and better.

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In the last days I've been working a lot! It was like Geppetto's hell to a doll maker (but I like it! <3 ). I did twelve dolls in the last three days and more two a week before, so there's no much free time to draw in this month . This is a sketch that I did last week. I'll ink and color when I have more free time, but I still have thirty eight dolls to make... so this is ain't gonna be that soon... :P

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Yesterday I published my first attempt of comic strip. Was cool, but something was bothering me. Above there are two panels: the original (white background) and the new one (green background). At the first I was confused with the colorization (low contrast, light colors etc.), so I decided to do it once again, but in this time I tried to follow my style (solid colors, newsprint effects and defined line art). So here you can se the final piece (the old one you can found here).

Now I'm starting to find my personal style to do those backgrounds (I hope... : P ) ...

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A two days ago I started another part of my creative studies: a comic strip. Now you can see it finished! Was a interesting process, but a took a lot of time to finish it. I hope improve my time in others tests. You can see it in higher resolution here.

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Continuing my creative studies, the challenge of this time is make a comic strip. Since I started to drawing (a 19 year ago), one of the my personal flops was build a comic. I never accomplished one and I decided to make one for my toy company (yes, I'm f***'in crazy or stupid -or both- ...). Before to get there, I have to start simple. This is a snack pic from my first comic. Will be only three panels, but I liked the finished sketches... :)

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Just a half hour sketch. Is just a beardo little fellow.  I don't know how he will be colorized, but I'm ok with his look. (actually, I LOVED! <3 ).

Maybe he will be a friend for the furry cyclops ( -maybe- someday I will need to draw a interaction scene...)

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Today I decided to draw a "technical scheme" for a possible articulated doll. I don't know this is right, but since I started to make toys (2007) the only material I used was rag and plush. Will I accomplish to do that? I really don't know, but I'll try! :)

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In the last post I tried a different technique to ink the background. The final result was great, but the classic cartoon look was missed. So I decide to make it more "handmade".

The drawn isn't perfect, but that is it! : )

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Back to my background illustration studies. In this time I tried a different approach: all draws were made in the same technique, but I'm not certain about that. I'd liked the "look and feel" of the last attempt...

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In the beginning of 2014 I participated in a collab to homage Hanna-Barbera cartoons. I took the "Captain Cavenan" ("Capitão Caverna" in Portuguese) - this was the very first time I drew a background. I liked the final result.

You can see some sketches and process here. For the entirely collab, click here.

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Hohoho! I took a brief moment in my background illustration studies to make a Iphone case.

See the entire process in my Behance!

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This is my second attempt to make a background. I'm still trying to find out a final art technique.

I love 2D animation, so I decided to emule the visual - like a still. This isn't good yet, even though I spent 7 hours to do that (and is kinda boring for a character designer -me- to draw a lot of fruits and other elements of grocery... : P )

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The finished version of last sketch. This is the first step for me to make backgrounds (ok! Is just a sky with four clouds, but a man have to start from somewhere. :P )

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Sketch for a personal project. I'm trying to avoid create many characters - how I use to do - and starting to focus in my deficiencies (like background scenes).