Emily

Based on the short story “A rose for Emily” By W. Faulkner

Graphite on BFK, Digital

13 x 20”

MARTE 2012

Next Saturday (oct 27th) my piece Space Frog will be exhibited at the art Show MARTE 2012 (Medellin, Colombia) Thanks so much to Furiamag for the invite!

Para todos aquellos que andan en Medellín, el próximo sábado (oct 27), mi ilustración Space frog será expuesta en el festival MARTE 2012. Gracias mil a Furiamag por la invitación.

The Scad crew at ABV gallery and the final pieces!

Caleb Morris, Goni Montes (& wife), Duncan Smith and Mike Lowery (& wife). Too much talent for one place.

AVB Gallery, Drink & Doodle night, More pics later!

And new drawing for upcoming piece!

New illustration, coming up soon!

Official Website

Hey everyone!  Today I’m finally and officially launching my website! so make sure to check it out.

Do check my FB artist page too! And like it please!

http://diegoillustration.com/

http://www.facebook.com/diegoillustration

Hola a todos!  Por fin, después de tanta espera hoy hago el lanzamiento oficial de mi website! Échense una pasada!   Visiten también mi FB artist page, y denle “me gusta”!

Also on Tumblr
http://diegoillustrationdays.tumblr.com/

Assets International proposal II

One more proposal for Assets International. This time the topic is Hot off the Press. Thumbs, process and final.

19x6¨, Digital

©diegopenuela2012

Assets International proposal

Proposal for Assets International. They give a lot of freedom when it comes to the concept. This one's for the section Tools of the trade. Some thumbs, process and final.

20x14¨, Digital

©diegopenuela2012

Playing with Painter

After a good deal of tutorials and several “WHAT THE F…!!!!?” moments I am finally starting to have fun with Painter. This is my first try with this program, celebrating that today I finally found out how to save brushes, geezz!!. I was obviously influenced by Android Jones work, but come on, I needed a starting point and it actually helped me to get familiar with some interesting Painter tools and tricks.

Now, considering that it was actually easy to do this I have to admit that Painter is a good tool and I’d like to get serious about it. Hopefully I’ll be able to make better use of this program from now on!
(BTW fthe reason why I’m learning Painter is because I am supposed to teach it in a couple of weeks!!!!! Holy cow…)

AJC

Last weekend (July 29) one of my illustrations was published in AJC (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) a major local newspaper. This was actually a class project and it was really nice to see it published since this is also my first piece published in the US. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get a copy so thanks to professor Rick for the pic and the chance to do this.  The topic for this illustration was T-SPLOST...and I don't feel like explaining it so go do some research.

Comic Con memoirs 2 (Geek Invasion)

Just a couple of pics from the convention center and its surroundings. Hundreds...thousands  of happy geeks taking over San Diego (including me of course; this is geeks' paradise!)

Comic Con memoirs! (But first...)

Finally back from Comic Con! And now it’s time for some pics and words about my San Diego experience but first, MEXICO!!!!!  Being so close to the border and not going to Mexico would have been a crime. In some way I wanted to pay homage to one of my favorite bands and so I did.  So WELCOME TO TIJUANA!!!!!!

Speech Sounds

Babel, Digital, 15 x 20"

Untitled, Digital, 11 x 17"

 

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On the other side, This series of illustrations is based on Speech Sounds, a short story by Octavia Butler. They were supposed to be kind of narrative illustrations but in the end I was able to work on a more conceptual design.

Wizards and Lizards!

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This collaborative project was really fun to work on. We decided to do an activity book named Wizards and Lizards…. and I don’t need to go into any further details. Here, a couple of my pieces on the book. And also a picture of the final book, You can go into the Scad Atlanta Illustration blog and check everything related to this amazing project! Thanks to everyone who helped making this possible!

Cupcake Ninja!!!

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As always, it’s been a while since the last time I uploaded stuff but finally I’m free and ready to update this blog. I’ve realized that I tend to work in two different directions, one is more lighthearted, colorful and playful than the other one, but I love both sides of my work and I guess, if I don’t get to mix them together, I’ll have to build two different portfolios. I’m really not sure of what to do yet but for now let’s begin with the lighthearted part. This is concept design project I did for a fictional iPhone game called Cupcake Ninja.  If you’ve seen a lot of iphone games and applications you’d realize that there is a lot of nonsense and crazy stuff around and I wanted to follow that direction. The purpose of the game, to serve cupcakes ninja style!.

SCADDY and ADDY® WINNER!!!!

At some point during spring break I received a mail with a gold award that I won at the SCADDY awards show, back in January. I was totally surprised ‘cause, though I knew I got into the show with my Frank Zappa piece, no one ever told me I had actually won an award! I was also happy ‘cause the winning pieces from that show would go straight into the ADDY® awards which is a national advertising competition here in the US. Today I’m uploading a pic of the award and I am also taking the chance to celebrate that today I got an email saying that I won a National student ADDY - award, which is GREAT!!!! Now I’m gonna have to go to Texas to pick up my prize!!!  (if I get the money for the plane tickets or something…Hahahaha)  Cheers!

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Hace más de un mes recibí un correo con un premio que gané en los SCADDY awards, en Enero de este año. Fue sorpendente porque aunque sabia que había entrado en la exposición con mi ilustración de Frank Zappa,  no sabia que había ganado premio! Lo bueno es que las piezas ganadoras de ese show tenían entrada directa a los ADDY® awards que son una competencia nacional de publicidad aquí en US. Hoy subo una foto del premio y aprovecho para contarles que también hoy recibí un email, diciendo que gané un National Stundet Addy Award!!!! Lo cual me hace muy feliz!! Ahora me toca ir a Texas a recoger mi premio si es que consigo dinero para el viaje jejejeje!

Out to Launch!

As usual, lots of things happening these days, which is fun but at the same time it can be overwhelming. One of them was Out to Launch, the signature career event of SCAD Atlanta where really talented senior and grad students exhibit their work to clients from the art industry. I was invited to participate, which was a real honor and surprise but at the same time I wasn’t sure of what to expect since I’m just starting to develop my portfolio and some of the participants have been at SCAD for more than one year. At some point I was scared but in the end, I humbly tried to do my best and I guess it worked out well.  It definitely was an eye-opening experience because it can actually give you and idea of what it means to go pro with your stuff.  Sometimes you wish you could stay in the studio working on your pieces and forget about the rest but is not that simple. However, it is fun (needless to say it is extremely important) to start thinking about promotion, clients, employers and all those things happening out there in the professional world while you figure out how are you gonna get there.  Here some pics of my booth with some new pieces that I’ll upload soon!

Morning light study

I was checking out Dice Tsutsumi’s site and I saw some really beautiful studies that inspired me to start doing some studies myself. Sometimes I feel like time goes by so quick and I just can’t seem to do everything I want to. For that reason I’ve been trying to push myself to take some time and do stuff beside school. I guess these studies could be a great chance to do that and to improve some coloring skills.  I’m pretty sure I’ll get stressed out and frustrated but eventually I’ll learn to work fast.  It’s always fun to do this type of things, though.