Sketching expressions

Night sketches. I’m designing a few characters for @karukaru.studio, and drawing real people helps me to understand better how to make emotions visible. I’m feeling grateful because there’s always something to learn and re-learn, and so many lovely people out there to get inspired by! 😄🌿

A small gift from Carlos / Un regalo de Carlitos

©2011. Carlitos

Este es Carlitos trabajando en el documental para Nexus...
Y esto me encontré en en mi computador hace un ratico:

Cheshire Cat - Frame: Alice in Wonderland (Disney 1951)

`Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
`That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
`I don't much care where--' said Alice.
`Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.

Doco... Documental

Carlos and I are now working on a documentary! We've been developing the project together with Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre, and it's going to be shot during this year and the first half of 2012. It's been such an amazing and rewarding experience! Thanks to the project we've been able to get closer to and learn from Muslim women coming from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Srilanka! I'll be letting you know about this wonderful opportunity later on -I'd love to keep a record of this creative process in this blog as well... There's so much to learn :)

©2011. En Tren
Carlos and I going in train to the community centre where the first part of the doco is shot.
Carlitos y yo en tren rumbo al centro comunitario en donde grabamos la primera parte del documental.

Ahora estamos trabajando con Carlitos en un documental! Lo estamos realizando en conjunto con Nexus, Multicultural Arts Centre, y se estará grabando hasta mitades del 2012. Es súper interesante porque gracias al proyecto hemos podido acercarnos y conocer las historias de mujeres musulmanas provenientes de Irán, Irak, Afganistán, Bangladesh and Srilanka! Luego les estaré adelantando sobre esta oportunidad increíble, porque me encantaría registrar este proceso también en este blog... mucho aprendizaje :)

NEXUS Multicultural Arts Centre :)

A Skippy for Otto

©2011. Skippy 1-5

Bocetos de nuestro vecino de cuatro patas amarillas. Tiene personalidad de Dingo así que es muy independiente. Le ladra al que no conoce y deja pasar calladamente al que sí, mientras observa desde las sombras. Me acuerda de Tony, un perrito que tuvieron mis abuelos durante mi infancia en Siberia. Y me acuerda de Luna, mi perrita... aunque ella sólo le ladra a los uniformados! jajaja. También me acuerda de los zorros de Otto Chin, un artista que acabo de conocer y al que admiro mucho. Aquí les comparto un poco sobre él :)

There is a little dog across the road, it's yellow and soft, has pointy ears -very much like Otto Chin's foxes, and has a free spirit. She's often outside, waiting in the shadows for people to pass, and then she jumps! and barks!... or comes slowly if you talk to her softly. Her father was a Dingo, which might explain her personality. I met her officially last Wednesday evening, her name is Skippy, like the kangaroo tv show, or the cornflakes that my husband and I eat every morning in Adelaide. Here I share with you a little bit about this wonderful artist that I mentioned before... I really admire his work :)

Otto Chin's work
An interview with Otto Chin

Que disfruten!!!
Enjoy!!!
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Some other random studies :)

©2011. Esfinge, Viento, Agujeros en pelo.

Random sketches :)

©2011. Pajaritos fuente, Ballena sonriente.

Almas Santas Almas Pacientes

©2006. VacaReja, TumbaTortuga, CruzLibélula, AlmasCementerio, AlmasBosque
These sketches and frames were done as part of a background design back in 2006 for Cecilia Traslaviña's whimsical and outstanding experimental animation: Almas Santas Almas Pacientes. I worked on transforming the graveyard into a forest, digitally, frame by frame on photoshop. It was hard work but I really enjoyed the process, learned a lot and felt blessed with the opportunity :)

Estos bocetos y cuadros son parte del desarrollo conceptual para un diseño de fondos en el 2006, como parte de la animación experimental Almas Santas Almas Pacientes de Cecilia Traslaviña. Mi trabajo consistió en transformar digitalmente, cuadro a cuadro en photoshop, el cementerio en un bosque. Disfruté muchísimo el proceso, aprendí cantidades y me siento muy afortunada por haber tenido esta experiencia :)

Here I share with you these very interesting links:
Aquí les comparto estos links fantásticos:
Almas Santas Almas Pacientes (2007)
Colombian Avant-Garde Animation
Moebius Animación

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Tadi, de Etiopia

©2011. Tadi de Etiopia, Señora.
A drawing of a very nice guy I met on the bus; and another one of a lady that wants to be animated.
Un dibujo de Tadi, que conocí en el bus; y otro de una señora que tiene ganas de ser animada.

Niños esperando como yo...

©2011. Monita, Bebé, Niño mirando.
And so... there were many children waiting for a plane, just like me.

Entendiendo animación... Understanding animation

©2010. Personajes de Basil, Niña y viejita, y Ranita saltando.
Studies from "The story of Frog Belly Rat Bone" by Timothy Basil Ering, and "How to make animated films" by Tony Whites.

Otros de antes... Some more from before...

©2010. Niña aborigen, Pájaros, Bike y La familia de Robbie.