Showing posts with label illustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illustration. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

[380] Notas de la Sabatica a Medios Sociales

Si parezco perdido es porque lo estoy.  Ya ni tengo tiempo de contestar los comentarios que me remiten.  Si leo los articulos que me refieren pero no los sigo reportando por el tiempo.  Tengo un almacen de links interesantes que luego ire incorporando aqui.  Por ahora les dejo par de notas discutiendo algunos temas recientes.
[1] El Ridiculo Boicot a Univision
Previamente habia mencionado de la pagina de lindsey olivares y sus gallos y gallinas.  Recuerdo esto recordando el estupido boicot que le tienen a Univision.  Estupido porque se pasan quejando de como estos medios no representan a los boricuas pero ni se pierden las novelas, ni los chismes, ni los regionalismos mejicanos.  En vez de apagar el televisor o hacer otra cosa, los siguen auspiciando.  Mentes de colonizados definitivamente...
[2] Entre Nutrientes y Cañerias
En otros asuntos he estado sumamente atareado estos dias por ende no he podido actualizar mi pagina y apenas puedo accesar los medios sociales.  Entre otras cosas tengo par de asuntos relacionados con permisos de pretratamiento de la AAA, he estado finalizando detalles de nuestro diseño de la regional de Dorado y ahora le sumamos las mejoras tecnicas que proponemos en Aibonito.  He estado mirando sumideros y viendo aguaceros en el norte y a su vez estudiando cañerias en el sur...
 
En mi reunion mas reciente resucito este tema:
Parcharesa planta en Aibonito para cumplir con el estandar viejo esta costando en terminos de equipo unos $2.3 millones y un gasto de $140K en metanol nada mas.  Nos preguntaron por los nuevos estandares y dijimos que habia que demoler todo lo viejo para poner un sistema mucho mas complejo para llegar a las trazas de nitrogeno y fosforo que piden en el nuevo reglamento.

[3] Perdido en el Ciberespacio
Claro esta, sigo rogando poder llegar a un estado de normalidad.  Si no fuese por el cambia cambia de las prioridades estaria mas tranquilo.  No todo ha sido trabajo tambien me he puesto al dia con las series.  En algunas series ya he salido de lo que presentan Hulu y Netflix y he tenido que buscar alternas.  Tambien he seguido alguna que otra serie pero trato de no seguir todas a la vez porque toma tiempo.  Por ejemplo siempre me gustan ver peliculas extranjeras asi que me alegre que el Hulu incluya Crtierion Collection en su set.  Tambien tiene unas cuantas series viejas.

 
[4] Wings of Desire Redux
En otros temas finalmente logre ver Wings of Desire, la pelicula que habia mencionado aqui:
La pelicula es magistral desde el uso del color y el ingenio que usaron para representar como los angeles oian todas las comunicaciones de los humanos sin poder intervenir directamente.  Sin embargo aun no he visto su segunda parte Faraway So Close, que fue la que me llamo la atencion originalmente por las canciones de nick cave y de U2.  Esa la reseñaron mal, pero aun asi tengo interes en verla despues.
 
[5] Rene de Cramer
Tambien quiero seguir dibujando pero el tiempo realmente no me da.  Lo ultimo que hice, en medio de una clase de confirmacion de mi hijo y mi sobrina, fue hacer este 18x26 de San Pedro y San Pablo.  La imagen de referencia esta debajo.  No era con la idea que fuese exacto, fue para no perder la practica y aprovechar el uso de una pluma de brocha que compre hace par de meses atras.



Sobre la ficha de referencia.  Me gustan mucho las composiciones que he encontrado en viejos misales europeos.  Este en particular esta acreditado a un tal Rene de Cramer, un sacerdote belga que ilustraba a principios del siglo pasado.  Lastima que casi no aparezca nada sobre su vida en linea.  Inclui algunos links de lo que he encontrado hasta ahora.
 
Bueno el deber llama, solo queria poner una nota demostrando mi existencia...

Saturday, January 28, 2012

[235] Mock Turtle Story

I just finished this nice drawing and wanted to share the creation process.  I had never done a watercolor wash so large.  It is now nicely mounted in my living room.  First the scene:
http://rackham.artpassions.net/alice9.html

The Mock Turtle's Story

You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing! said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's, and they walked off together.
Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so savage when they met in the kitchen.
When I'M a Duchess, she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though), I won't have any pepper in my kitchen AT ALL. Soup does very well without--Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered, she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, and vinegar that makes them sour--and camomile that makes them bitter--and--and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it, you know--
She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear. You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.
Perhaps it hasn't one, Alice ventured to remark.
Tut, tut, child! said the Duchess. Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as she spoke.
Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, because the Duchess was VERY ugly; and secondly, because she was exactly the right height to rest her chin upon Alice's shoulder, and it was an uncomfortably sharp chin. However, she did not like to be rude, so she bore it as well as she could.
The game's going on rather better now, she said, by way of keeping up the conversation a little.
'Tis so, said the Duchess: and the moral of that is--"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!"
Somebody said, Alice whispered, that it's done by everybody minding their own business!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rackham
http://www.escapeintolife.com/showcase/arthur-rackhams-alice-in-wonderland-illustrations/

Using that image as a reference I then did the following:






Bono: Whatever happened to Calico Electronico? Les dejo un capitulo aqui:

Monday, July 18, 2011

[193] It's My Birthday and I'll Draw If I Want To




Este es un post ilustrado.  Quise presentar dibujos que he hecho entre reuniones y en mis gestiones de cumplea/nos.  El primero es continuacion de los que postee en dos articulos previos.  Aqui el Ingeniero Zinn presenta su charla de inspecciones de bomberos.  Definitivamente uno de los highlights del seminario de Profesional Autorizado donde yours truly revalidara como Inspector de Bomberos y de Salud Ambiental para la nueva division creada de la Oficina de Gerencia de Permisos (antiguo ARPE).

Disculpen el orden.  Por alguna razon el blogger esta fastidiado y hoy tengo urgencia en acabar el post.  Entre mis paradas...Ver el juego entre Argentina y Uruguay en el Cafe del Tren, la barra que colinda con mi apartment y que abre cuando esta de ganas.  Queria que ganara Argentina, pero gano Uruguay.  Que importa, si no sigo la serie...pero el juego estuvo bueno.  Pisado con cervezas...

Previo a la consabida peregrinacion a San Patricio Plaza a ver HP 7.2 comimos unos ricos helados de Lemonade Swirl (o algo asi) de Ben and Jerrys.  Bonus points for playing most of Gorillaz Demon Days while we had our ice cream.  Yo hubiese ido byrds o rolling stones, but who's complaining.  Me levanto la moral.



Entonces este dibujito viejito es de una de las visitas a la seccion de libros infantiles de Borders.  Siempre voy y compro demasiados libros discos y libros.  En este caso dos cds de los B52.
Si a eso le sumamos dos novelas graficas y la comida fuera...que ce chave, era mi cumplea/nos.
y dije que iba a ser breve.
hasta luego...

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Visual Design



I wanted to post something in English today. And go light. Have been very busy since my return from the States. Between translations and tabulating data my days are going fast. So I checked some recent posts of the excellent Codex 99 page and found some interesting finds relating to childred illustration. You just have to love the illustrations made for the Golden Book of Biology


Like the composition made for the Gregor Mendel's image above...



or my microscopic friends...

Here more:

The Golden Book of Biology
Charley Harper as Illustrator: the 1960s, part I
By the 1960s Charley was one busy commercial artist; he was doing ad campaigns for Libbys Pineapple1 and Morton Salt, continuing his work for the various Ford publications, and began a major commission for Western Publishing – the Giant Golden Book of Biology.
http://codex99.com/illustration/38.html

Then, it is also incredible that these color blindness tests are still being used today, after more than 100 years since they were printed in Japan. The use of color blots was truly innovative, even by today's standards:

http://codex99.com/design/72.html


Shinobu Ishihara 石原 忍 (25 Sep 1879 – 3 Jan 1963) graduated on a military scholarship from the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1905. In 1908 he began postgraduate studies in ophthalmology, first in Tokyo and, during 1913–14, in Germany. He received his Igaku Hakushi from the Imperial University in Tokyo in May 1916 and became a chief physician general in the Imperial Army. One of his first military assignments was to design a color-blindness for new recruits.


His first two sets of plates were hand painted watercolors that included “hidden” hiragana characters and were tested with a color-blind colleague. A third version, done in 1917, replaced the hirahanga with arabic numerals.

Well. I close for now. Hoping that the Santillana editorial that sells most of my sons' textbooks catch a glimpse of 1 or 2 pages of great visual design instead of the crappy mess of crammed knowledge and biased environmentalism they teach.

[smoke + chimney = industrial pollution]

[soiled beach = PRASA's fault, not the pampers I left on the beach on my last visit to Dorado's Sardinera Beach]

Although I really dig the illustrations made by Laura Michell on some of the stories of Santillana. I like the water colors and visual elements she uses...

http://lauramichell.blogspot.com/2010/08/aqui-va-otra-imagen-para-el-proyecto-de.html


Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Recap from Biloxi

Just wanted to share some sketches I made on my Molly while I worked on the special project down at Biloxi. Long time since I could actually sketch anything...The site was near an old shipyard and had an abandoned storage building nextdoor. That is the first image...

I mentioned on the previous post I was very anxious to get to PR. I got to the Gulfport airport two hours before hand. I forgot this was not PR. Things move when there is not much people. The second image is my view from Gate 7 of the airport.Biloxi is oyster and shrimp industry as I posted earlier. Now add the oil skimmers that are deployed all over the transects of the Gulf of Mexico. This is a sketch of a crew receiving oil contaminated boom material for decontamination. Note that direct contact is using tyvek suits while the crane operator uses standard PPE (helmet, gloves, floater device and high visibility jackets).
It is not news that BP is contracting local ships to deploy the boom. They are also involving the local communities for the cleanup activities. As for me, I am adjusting my schedule to Puerto Rico again. Old projects are screaming up in vengeance.




Wednesday, September 23, 2009

High Resolution Dore's Bible Prints


Dore was a master illustrator that was commisioned many projects in his lifetime, including the illustrations of the Old and New Testament (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9). High resolution version of his prints have been stored by http://catholic-resources.org/.
Here is a direct link to the directories for the old and new testament illustrations.

His illustrations have always been awe inspiring.
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