Vanity press can not only ruin your publishing dream but also can leave you broke in the process. And to top that, vanity press can make you hostage to their company when it comes to you not… Read More
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Fantasy, Sci-fi and Childrens Book art; audio book reviews, movies, illustration and plenty of other stuff. Food for imagination.
Although it´s mainly an illustration blog to complement my professional work, the idea is also to post reviews about stuff that I like, comment on things that inspire me to create my artwork and answer the old question every illustrator gets all the time: - "Where do You get your inspiration ?!"
I take it that you already read part one of this rambling of mine on my other initial post… right ?
So… self publishing your book, is it worth it or not ?
Well, the short answ… Read More
Well… short post this one. Just to mention that as you might have guessed this website has now a new look. I´ve been trying for ages to organize my illustration content and you… Read More
The most professional, best looking amateur ever ignored !
Self publishing, is it worth it ? Well, if you search the internet about this topic there´s a million different opinions out… Read More
How to self publish a book. My two cents.
Hi everyone !
Of course all this stuff is really subjective and everybody has it´s own experience or opinion but I´m writing this post n… Read More
IcreateWorlds Art – My NEW ETSY STORE!
Are you an artist ? Have you ever thought of making some money with your drawings ? Have you tried selling your images online ?
If the answer is… Read More
Just another of my “test pics” to play around with the new Surface Pro 6 I got some days ago. See my other post below for more details on this device.
This one is also part of m… Read More
Although I thought I was never going to own a Windows device ever again as I trully love the way Mac fits all my illustration needs, recently I got a new SURFACE PRO 6 and so I installed my… Read More
Another one from my “speed painting” current trend. Although “speed” is not even the right description for this process because although it didn´t took me 12 h… Read More
More of a book cover than anything else but I just did this for a video tutorial so I decided to post it here anyway.
This is a good example of what I mean when I say everyone can learn t… Read More
I´ll post the link once the book gets to be available but in the meantime here are some of the pages I´ve illustrated for the project sometime ago.
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This is another making of video from “THE HIDDEN SPACESHIP” book. Actually this is not exactly complete because my computer crashed the screen recording process when I was about… Read More
So, here´s the making of, for this particularly scene in the book “THE HIDDEN SPACESHIP”.
Most of the painting work was done as usual in Clip Studio Paint because it´… Read More
Many people ask me how to start illustrating for a children book, so this is an example of how I start to illustrate a book. I´m not actually one of those illustrators who do a lot of… Read More
Created for book 1 of a new series written by Jay Miletsky.
This one is called “The Masterpiece – One Big Canvas” and you can find it on AMAZON.
Join a spunky collection of… Read More
New book about kids and dinosaurs written by Julia Miles Inserro, available soon at amazon too.
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Recently completed map for an upcoming board game. Here´s some of the images and a sneak peek at the making of too because I know there´s a lot of people out there who enjoy to… Read More
What you´re looking at is one of my new books which is about to be released in the United States, written by Jay Miletsky and it´s part of a more extensive children´s books… Read More
Here´s an old pic I had around for ages and which I decided to finish because I´m currently filling my portfolio with movie poster illustrations as a base for an online illustrat… Read More
All my work is very influenced by Cinema.
Currently my favorite low budget space opera saga is centered around the work of director Neil Johnson which has made one of my favorite space adven… Read More
As I´ve been getting a lot of requests from people who want to buy my tutorials on how I create this sort of landscapes, this new image ended up being like a test of mine for several t… Read More
Here´s an example of the type of pics I don´t do very often as they require a lot of human character figures which is something I have not much interest in creating (or talent fo… Read More
For those who enjoy taking a look at how some books are illustrated here´s an example of one from some years ago.
Usually I don´t storyboard much but sometimes when a narrative i… Read More
This is the Area-51 pic created for the new ATTACK ALL HUMANS – Board Game Expansion.
Here are three slightly different tonal variations I came up with.
The game is still being test… Read More
Here´s one of the first Mars surface images I did for the upcoming Generation Mars book series. This first one in particular won´t be the one used in the book as the second versi… Read More
Just one of the initial ideas for the new expansion for the Attack All Humans board game.
The expansions will be the center of a new Kickstarter campaign soon and there´s plans for a… Read More
Here´s some initial work I´ve been doing for the new expansions of the upcoming board game “ATTACK ALL HUMANS”.
This first expansion is all about Ancient Aliens theme… Read More
This is my first 2019 pic and it was just done for fun and for portfolio. Inspired by the classic John Wayne western “The Searchers” this is my scifi take on it and the idea was… Read More
This is version 2 of my original SPACEPORT CITY illustration. I´ve created this new one to add it to my Jigsaw Puzzle product offers at my brand new PUZZLE STORE.
Go get your Puzzle to… Read More
Finally I managed to start my online PUZZLE SHOP.
If you love puzzles, why not consider getting one of mine original illustrations ?
For now I just have a few 1000 pieces puzzles in there b… Read More
Who doesn´t love some good old alien cow abduction ?
Yet another painting I did many months ago for the “ATTACK ALL HUMANS” board game, now in its test phase. These are a… Read More
My transition from traditional acrylics, watercolor and ink illustration into digital was realy difficult. A nightmare actually. For years I thought I was never going to be able to do it an… Read More
Well, continuing with my posts about the “ATTACK ALL HUMANS” board game, here are a few more pics with plenty of color and tonal variations I did some months ago for this project… Read More
Yet another one of the digital paintings I did many months ago for the “ATTACK ALL HUMANS” board game, now in its test phase. These are a few of the tonal variations I played wit… Read More
One of the books I´ve illustrated some months ago is now available at AMAZON.com ; ”
Beware of the Nose-Biting Monster!: A Cautionary Tale for Petrified Parents
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Written… Read More
Another one of the digital paintings I did many months ago for the “ATTACK ALL HUMANS” board game, now in its test phase. These are a few of the tonal variations I played with to… Read More
Yet another painting I did many months ago for the “ATTACK ALL HUMANS” board game, now in its test phase. These are a few of the tonal variations I did to play with color for thi… Read More
This is one of the digital paintings I did many months ago for the “ATTACK ALL HUMANS” board game, now in its test phase. These are a few of the tonal variations I played with to… Read More
And about this one, “untitled animation project” is all that I am allowed to say due to a confidentiality agreement.
This is a set of 6 color concept art small sketches/painting… Read More
Not exactly my usually theme (I hate chickens) , but here´s a chicken pic I illustrated for a marketing studio sometime ago. This is the current campaign for an egg farm company here i… Read More
Here´s a breakdown of the creative process for this one.
This was inspired by one of my favorite scifi movies “NATURAL CITY“. I love oriental cinema and… Read More
” SPACE PORT – ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES”
This was inspired by one of my favorite scifi movies “NATURAL CITY“. I love oriental cinema and this movie in particu… Read More
I´m not sure if this can be considered a matte-painting or not because I actually never know exctaly where the boundaries are on those things. Although it´s based on scenery exte… Read More
These are some of the illustrations I did for a brand new board game project of which I cannot talk about it yet. I did this last year but only now I have the authorization to post this on m… Read More
ESFS NOMINATIONS 2018Hall of Fame Awards – Best Artist Nomination
Wow, I just got informed that I was nominated by the ” European Science Fiction Society” for the 2018 Awa… Read More
Here´s a breakdown of most steps I took to do this “WEST OF OZ 9 : PINK BUNNY MECH BORDER PATROL” pic.
As usual I don´t do any sketches or plan a thing and I just pa… Read More
“WEST OF OZ 9 : PINK BUNNY MECH BORDER PATROL”
My HUION GT221 PRO has just arrived. So this is my first test pic with it. It´s a lot different from my old GT220 in the sens… Read More
“WEST OF OZ 8 : ROCKET TOWN”
And here it goes another brand new one. All painted with Clip Studio Paint as usual as I totally left Photoshop behind for good.
Click on the imag… Read More
So here´s the complete step by step making of for this brand new one. This is actually a good example of one of my ideas change overtime during the making of an image and why I don&acu… Read More
Just another pic for myself I´m working on. I´m in the middle of another complex children book commission, of which as it tends to be, I cannot show anything on my pages yet … Read More