PORTRAITS

Hey Y'all! Whassup everybody? hope you are all doing great! Here are some portraits that I have recently done.

1 - Fernando Pessoa (1888- 1935) was one of the greatest Portuguese poets/writers ever.

2 - Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999) was a Portuguese singer and actress. She was known as the "Queen of Fado" and was most influential in popularizing the fado worldwide. Fado is a portuguese music genre characterized by mournful tunes and lyrics. The word Fado means fate.

3 - Chico Buarque is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet. He is best known for his music, which often includes social, economic and cultural commentary on Brazil and Rio de Janeiro in particular.

I can't decide which version of Amalia's portrait I like better, so I'm posting both :) These where all painted in photoshop... this time I wanted something different, so I painted them in a different style, using brushes and overlayed textures to emulate traditional materials and techniques.

Hope you like them... Have a great week!!

Olá a todos, como estão?

Deixo aqui alguns retratos que pintei recentemente.

1 - Fernando Pessoa 2 - Amália Rodrigues 3 - Chico Buarque

Não consigo decidir qual das duas versões cromáticas do retrato da Amália me agrada mais, por isso estou a postar ambas. Estes retratos foram pintados em Adobe Photoshop, fazendo recurso de brushes e texturas sobrepostas em overlay para simular materiais e técnicas de expressão plástica tradicionais. Espero que gostem... boa semana!

WHAT ARE YOU?

Aloha blogger friends and loyal followers! yeah, yeah... I'm alive :P

My life's been kinda crazy lately and I haven't found the time to blog. Lotsss of work - I'm in way over my head here... besides, my beautiful PC has seen better days and has been acting a little weird, causing my nerves to collapse cause it's impossible to work like that. Sooo I snapped at it and went to by myself a brand new Imac :D

I have a few new illustrations to post, but for editorial reasons, I'm gonna have to wait 'till they get published before I can post them here. Meanwhile, I leave you this collage that I did for a local graphic design studio (Creative Family). I hope all is well with y'all!

Olá amigos e seguidores leais! Perdoem a minha ausência da blogosfera, mas a minha vida tem estado de pernas para o ar com imenso trabalho - mais do que aquele que consigo dar conta - juntando a isso o facto de que o meu amigo PC resolveu dar o berro, atrasando ainda mais a minha vida e obrigando-me a comprar um Imac novinho em folha :D

Tenho trabalhos novos para postar, mas por razões editoriais, terei de esperar que sejam publicados primeiro. Nos entretantos, deixo-vos esta ilustração que desenvolvi para uma agência de design gráfico local (Creative Family). Espero que estejam todos bem! ;)