Mexican Sunflower : Coloring an Illustration on Procreate

I can’t believe it’s the last day of September! I’m getting ready to start working on Inktober. I will reveal my theme in my next post. But for today, I wanted to share this new video I just uploaded on my YouTube channel.

Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia) - a quick recap of my coloring process on Procreate.

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Bee the Universe - Motion Graphics and Illustrations

This is a very special video and I will briefly tell you the story. There was a call for art for Time Square last year and I became obsessed with the notion of having my work displayed in the screens for millions of people to see. I called my good friends at INFOCUS, an amazing audiovisual production company, and we agreed to embark on this journey together. We created a collection of little illustrated universes and brought them to life with the power of After Effects. The premise behind the story is to show the importance of bees in our ecosystem, and how fragile our lives are because we depend on them so much. If we wipe them out that means our human race will not last for too long. It's a beautiful reminder to protect and take care of these little creatures. We did not make the final cut for the Time Square Arts project but are very happy to have this gorgeous video as a result. We hope you love it too!

Experiments in typography

So busy working on MATS Editorial Week! Time flies by! Type isn't my forte, so I traced some of my favorite fonts and mixed them up with flowers and an unusual color combination for me. Here's where I live right now. An intensely complex city, still shaking off a violent past that keeps on being portrayed in the media as a current thing. It's such an enchanting place, the weather is great (spring year round), fresh fruit everywhere, the people are so friendly it's kind of ridiculous, a truly cosmopolitan city with amazing natural wonders all around it.