Set of illustrations for “Ilustrando en Bola” collective, a colab with other artists from Mexico. Once the topic was defined we were free to choose what to illustrate and the technique. These are my contributions for this inniciative.
Check all the illustrations in the following links.
Typical Mexican Trades
El Trío
Digital painting in Photoshop.
The musical trio is a classic group of performers who play traditional music, especially Bolero style. They play and sing intricate harmonies displaying a great skill and talent.
Mexican Prehispanic Gods
Tamatzi Kauyumari
3D render and digital painting in Maya and Photoshop.
Deer 3D model bought online; rigged, textured and posed by me.
Tamatzi Kauyumari means Big Brother Blue Deer. It is one of the main gods in Wixárika culture, believed to be a guide in the search for the sacred food Peyote through the mountain Wirikuta.
Mexican “Lotería” Game Cards Redesign
La Chalupa
Digital painting over 3D render in Maya and Photoshop.
VP Gerbera flowers 3D model by VIZPARK. Mathilda 3D rig by Savannah College of Art and Design students.
“Lotería” is a Bingo-like game with 54 cards displaying different characters and objects. The cards are drawn and “shouted” with a rhyme or joke said before the name of the card, related to it.
“La Chalupa” is a traditional mexican boat used since Aztec times for commerce, merchandise transfer, transport and trading. Even though its use is scarse today, they can still be seen at Xochimilco lake selling both traditional and modern products.
The original card portraits a young indigenous woman rowing on the Chalupa packed with fruits and flowers. This version plays with another meaning of the word “Chalupa”, a tasty dish from central Mexico maid of a thick corn tortilla topped with mashed beans, chicken, cream, cheese and spicy sauce. In my version of “La Chalupa” the girl is not only riding a Chalupa but also eating a Chalupa.
For this art I modeled the background, boat and fruits, posed the rig, flowers and the rest of the elements, then digital painted in Photoshop over the gray render from Maya.
Traditional Mexican Song Book
“Mátalas” by Manuel Eduardo Toscano
Digital vector illustration in Illustrator.
Using some vector illustrations bought online.
Instructions on how to “kill” (of love) a woman out of lovely details, using the lyrics from the song as the basis for the instruction pannel.
Mexico City’s Metro Stations (Subway)
Metro Normal
Digital vector illustration in Illustrator and background collage in Photoshop.
Mexico City’s subway stations are identified by icons related to their name or the landmarks surrounding them. For this collab we reinterpreted the Metro icons.
“Normal” is the station close to the capital’s Normal School (college for teacher training focused on “norms” or model teaching methods). In this reinterpretation I used the two other meanings of the word: something usual or common, and the normal line in geometry ––the perpendicular line to a curve or surface.
The LGBT flag waves to the wind while its surface normal is indicated with an arrow, symbolizing the normality of being part of the LGBT+ community.