First, merry belated christmas and new years to everyone. Hope you all had a good time in the end of 2009 (:
To get things started this year, I’ve just finished a color study and I plan on painting and studying more frequently. But Team Fortress 2 really gets in the way, hahaha.
André.
Last week my hard drive decided to die. Same as Veronika, he decided he wasn’t very please with his current situation and the first few blocks of data are corrupted. I’ve sent it to someone who can resurrect fallen HDs so I can save all my precious data. Lots and lots of drawings and paintings in there, including the secret santa one |: Oh well.
On the bright side, today is the deadline to Jason Seiler’s caricature. He’s going to be interviewed by Bobby Chiu, on Chiustream. The best work gets the caricature of the autor by Mr. Seiler himself. Which is awesome.
Here’s mine. Had lot of fun doing it.
It seems to be a wonderful time to help people in need and to play boring games that will melt your brain.
The Desert Bus for Hope just finished, gathering a bit more than US$ 130k. The deal is simple: people give donations to Child’s Play, a charitable organization founded by the good people at Penny Arcade, and the folks from LoadingReadyRun play Desert Bus. What is desert bus you ask? Well, it’s a game where you drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time. The thing is: the maximum speed is 45 mph so the trip takes around 8 hours.
You can’t pause the game and the bus veers slightly to the right, so you can’t tape the controller and go do something more adequate for a human being. Anyways, the guys play Desert Bus while they are still getting donations, the more donations, the more mind numbing trips to Nevada. These guys also an art auction, and a friend of mine and painter I admire, Chelsea Conlin, colaborated with 3 pieces of artwork. The paintings managed to raise US$ 920! That’s some great contribution, really. Chelsea, you are awesome.
On a related note, Daarken, concept artist at Mythic Entertainment, and Lief Jeffers, animator at Dreamworks, are organizing an art auction fundraiser, Beautiful Grim. Earlier this year, Daarken’s girlfriend, Cat, was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 25. As you all know, cancer is a fucking bitch and this has been very hard for her, not only mentally and physically, but also financially.
So, Lief and Daarken decided to throw an art auction to help her with medical bills. After her bills have been paid, the money left will be donated to a breast cancer related charity organization, to be determined by the artists in a few weeks. There are people from all areas of the industry: concept art, animation, photography, illustrations, fine art and much more. The theme of the pieces is “Beautiful Grim”, and the interpretation is up to the artists. They are still researching venues to hold the event, but will probably be in either San Francisco or New York. Check their FAQ and contribute (:
And about contests, there are a few going around on the interwebs. First, Jon Schindehette from ArtOrder is putting together a 2010 calender, so he’s asking for some good art to illustrate it. Go ahead and send the man some goodness, the deadline is this wednesday, December 2nd.
Another one going on is being organized by DeviantArt and Wacom. It’s the second coming of the Bring your Visions to Life contest, and this time the theme is Dreams and what do you aspire for the future. It’s open to all artists that have an account at DeviantArt, so that makes pretty much everyone ellegible. So, what are your dreams?
As an ending note, loveandasandwich organized a neat Secret Santa at ConceptArt. I’m hoping this will become another tradition in the community. I already started mine, yeah!
That’s it folks. I think I wrote a bit too much but bear with me as I get used to blogging and stuff. Here’s a few study pics, just to show I’m not slacking around, hahaha. Oh and I also configured my portfolio, so please, check it out on the menu up there (:
Cya.
André.
I’m André and I like to draw. I’m in college, studying Computer Science, though what I really want is to work with illustration and concept art. I started taking art seriously last August and since then I’ve been studying art around 2~3 hours per day.
I’m going to write about illustration and concept art in general, with some bits of graphic and web design. I’m also going to dump my sketches, drawings and paintings here. But mainly I’m using this blog so I can watch my progress and, well, get on with the walking down the road of art.
Feel free to leave comments in the comment section. If you want to contact me, feel free to do so andrecastelo [at] gmail [dot] com. I’m rather relaxed and can answer stuff in a reasonable amount of time (:
So, here are my latest works, hope you enjoy it.
Tasty orange. Done in Photoshop.
Olivia Wilde. Beautiful girl.
More painting from life. Though not much life.