Mind Poisoned with Time, Escaping into the Abyss - Acrylic on paper 30x48 cm

Super Mario Bros 2 Collection: Mario, Toad, Princess Toadstool & Luigi fanart nintendo

The 4 main characters from the NES game Super Mario Bros 2 reinterpreted. The idea that started this was my fascination of the weird nature of this game.

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Void Kirby Art Nintendo NES Illustration

I've been thinking about Kirby for a while now, about what it is. It has a male name but the character is androgynous. It absorbs thing endlessly because it doesn't have any bottom, so why is that? It's just a silly video game character like any other, but even tough... Mario for me makes more sense, or any other character from that time, but this? this pink blob. When I try to make sense of it (doesn't make any sense anyway) Kirby is this extraterrestrial, spawned from a black hole that feeds from light... it feeds from light! isn't that crazy and scary? it eats a thing that you can't touch!
That's why i think of it as of Void Kirby.

Void Kirby - first sketch

Void Kirby - final

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Kid Icarus: Pit vs Medusa - Illustration Print Nintendo Fanart

This is the final battle of this great Nintendo game from 1986. The original painting is 40x32 cm (15.7x 12.6 inches) made with acrylic on paper.

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Kid Icarus: Pit vs Medusa

Detail of Pit

Metroid Samus Aran Fan Art - Acrylic on paper 40x29 cm

The original Metroid game was inspired from the 1979 film Alien. It had a female protagonist, one of the main bosses was called Ridley (the directors last name) and the levels, together with the whole game had a HR Giger feeling to them.

There are too many Samus representations out there showing her doing cool stuff in "WOW!" like angles. My idea here was to take her back to the NES side scrolling era, and instead of making here "cool" again, I would concentrate on the mood and the atmosphere.

I tried to recreate this mechanical and organical feeling of the levels, which is again, very HR Giger inspired. So I looked back to the original Alien movie and took Samus and put her in this dark, Prometheus-like environment.

I gave the suit a sligtly femenine form to mark the fact that there is a women inside. She also looks a little extraterrestial, kind of Xenomorphic.

The blue light in the background was made because i liked the tought that there were Ovomorphs (Alien eggs) laying there ready to hatch.

Final work

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Obscurecido por las Nubes - Comic por R4FU 2000

Yet another old comic book which I dusted of and decided to upload.

This one is from 1999-2000 when I was a teenager in high school. It kinda tells the story of my first love, my platonic love for this girl who went in the same class as I.

This comic book began to grow under my hands because of the struggle I had being shy, and not telling this girl how I felt about her.

At the same time I started to study art in high school which helped me improve my technique.

This comic is in spanish only.

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Succubus - Comic por R4FU 2004

Weeks before I left my homeland to move to Sweden, I gave a friend of mine a copy of this comic. The writing doesn't make any sense, it was later incorporated just because I felt the pages needed to have something written on it... they didn't. It's all about the visual aspect of it and my emotional state at the time. I was young and also in love when I drew this, so of course everything had to be overly dramatic.

The comic is only in spanish but you won't be missing anything if you don't speak the language.

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Megaman / Rockman Fan Art - Acrylic on Paper 40x29 cm

In this Megaman I decided to give the background a bigger role. While I was looking at some screenshots to make another Megaman illustration, I found this one from a GameBoy version and it got me thinking. I liked it from the beginning because a saw all the stuff that could be reworked in a 3D environment, the deep atmosphere and the effects that I could experiment with here got me working on it immediately.

 
The environment here received a huge attention. I spent many days slowly working on it, this couldn't be rushed because I wanted this detailed, mechanical and dirty background.

After building up the background I continued on the electric bolt. Here I started to make electric noises while painting and humming a Megaman boss fight song.
Some times in the middle of the painting, I would stop for a moment and play the classic Megaman games to try to relive the feelings the game gave me as a child, this would always help me to bring something new to the work.















So after adding some lightning effects and having the background practically finished, I started then to work on the actual character. In contrast to the other Megaman I made, this one felt more "sparkly" and "techy", this gave me the headpoint to make another Megaman in a similar style.
 

The Final Work

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9 Illustrations of Ents - Lord of the Rings

These sketches made with graphite pencil on paper took me 1 hour each to draw. That was the main goal, only 1 hour to come up with an idea and draw it down fast. It was undoubtedly very hard. Ideas that work great in your head don't always make a good transition to reality.

There where originally 13 sketches but I left 4 out because of their low quality.

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The Legend of Zelda - Majora's Mask Collection Fanart

This is a collection of the main characters from Majora's Mask that I decided to reinterpret, the final work will compose of 7 illustration made with graphite pencil on A4 size paper. The illustrations are:

- Link
- The Skull Kid
- Deku Link
- Goron Link
- Zora Link
- Happy Mask Salesman
- The Fountain Fairy

When finished, all original illustrations will be available to purchase from my Etsy shop.

More details about the process of each illustration will be added soon.

Zelda Link in a Dungeon Fan Art - Acrylic on Paper 29x40cm

I was trying out some experimental techniques these past months, because that's how one fucks up and starts to learn. But in this one I decided to just go with the traditional Academic technique that an old master told me, and follow the rule of "shadows are thin, light is thick" as he said. This rule together with the temperature juxtaposition of colours gives the illustration a three dimensional effect, meaning that you can feel the depth and the space the elements are occupying. It's really hard to appreciate it on this photograph, mainly because colours and tones change a lot with any picture taken from the original, and secondly, Blogger decided to reduce the tones and quality from my original photograph.

Link's face is based of a picture from my little niece. It's certainly not her at all, but her expression in that photo just got stuck in my head for months. She has a very mischievous smile for a 2 year old child, it reminded me a lot of Junior from the 1990 movie Problem Child.

The painting had to have an 8-bit element to it as a reminder of it's NES roots. I went through various items from the game and the one who became the most meaningful whas the key. It oppens new paths to new and unknown places and was also to give a sense of continuation.

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Super Mario Fan Art - Graphite Pencil on Paper 29x40 cm

Super Mario and the exploding turtle shell. I love his right nervous eye. It took me about an hour to draw this down.

 

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Super Mario Satire Super Pedro - Acrylic on Paper 29x40 cm

Super Pedro is heavily inspired from an illustration from Cristian Pérez Bolton. In his illustration there is this crazy kid yelling to a decapitated Santa, angy at him because he got a Polistation instead of an Xbox 360. The Polistation was a popular video game console in the 90', a cheap alternative to the NES but that looked like the Sony Playstation.
In the illustration he drew a Super Mario look-alike on the Polistation box that he named Super Pedro. I laughed so hard when i saw it, just because it looked so bad and cheap.
So one day I started to sketch different Marios until it got more and more R-rated.

One of the first things that I had in mind was that this would be a pirated version of the original, so instead of having racoon ears and tail, it would be from a rat. The penis nose and face came from a combination from a Ren & Stimpy episode and the movie Nothing but Trouble with Dan Aykroyd, where in both of them a very disgusting character had a penis for a nose.

The original sketch represented a horny Mario, very perverted, with an erection under his pants. It was not include in the final work because it felt too unnecessary and bloated, although it looked funny.

Final Work

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Megaman / Rockman Fan Art - Acrylic on Paper 29x42 cm

Probably my favorite video game character from my childhood. As a kid I used to spend hours in my bedroom drawing Megaman bosses and stages, making explosion sounds and filling the paper with lines that represented laser battles until the paper was a mess.

This design was only intended to be a sketch, but it started to escalate when i decided to add some colour just to see how it would look like, I then continued on the lights and shadows until i ended up deciding that I would have to give this the treatment it deserved.

Not two days ago I disassembled a computer that I was planing to fix. The motherboard was exposed so looking at it gave me the idea for the background. The planets where added later to give the background a feel of depth. There are also some space backgrounds in some stages, but I can't remember which
ones.

Background, background! I spend a week looking at it and occasionally retouching it, being very meticulous. Another week was dedicated just to the helmet repeating the same process, looking at it, making small changes, leaving the room, coming back and so on.
This is the first painting I worked with using a mirror. So what's the deal with that? when reversing a drawing or painting it exposes all the flaws, I don't know why this is but it helps to anticipate and correct the errors.

Final Result

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The Man at the Moon Painting - Acrylic on Canvas 81x65 cm

Not untill I got to the half part of the painting, I notices that I had borowed greatly from Caspar Friedrich's The Wanderer above the Fog.
In high school, after learning about the different art tendencies of the eras, technically the Renaissance was my favourite, but the Romanticism struck me emotionally. There has always been a Romantic influence in all of my works.

The way I started with this painting was a different as usual. I use to begin monochrome with a very watered down Ultramarine Blue. This technique is very slow, so I decided to try out another one that is faster but as effective as the old technique. This one consisted in directly defining the colours the painting would have from the beginning, in the old one the colour was one of the last things to define.




After a couple of days I hung the painting on the wall but not satisfied that it was really finished. So I just decided to continue working on other paintings until I could figure out what was missing in this one.
After a week had past I went back to the painting and started to accentuate elements from the background and the foreground, and worked the contrasts which made a huge difference. It's subtle, but but it gave it a personality.

The final result

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