Warming up

With so many travels these days I barely find time to make nice posts with scanned sketches. This is a warm up piece from today. I never learned how to use watercolor properly even though an old friend gave me some good lessons. Thanks Jenny, I am sorry I did not pay more attention.
So whenever I feel in a dead end, I just know I can go over with other media. In this case I used nupastel. And I gave it a photoshop last touch to clean up.
Hopefully I can go back to posting sketches regularly soon.
Thanks for looking


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Some more dirty quick sketches

The dirty refers only to the quality of the photos. I will scan an review both posts
when I get some time.
I wish I could show some of the work I am doing but not just yet...

Thanks for looking!



















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Censored sketches from Twitter

This is a provisional Post since Twitter won't let me show any of these sketches. today was my second day working from life at CBA in Madrid. I am having a blast!
Please beware these are drawings depicting nude people.
Do I really need to make this blog for mature readers for this reason?

First 2 min poses working with Pentel brush.














2 min ballpoint pen






2 minutes Nupastel sketches








And some 10 min







Thanks for looking.

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After Mexico

The trip to Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico was great, we had a lot of fun hanging out with old and new friends alike. Now its time to go back to the studio and bring some movement to the blog with pictures from Guadalajara, some process work and more sketches so don't go too far. It is coming really soon.
This is another image from Cuentos y Leyendas de la geografía española, Ed, Juventud. A really nice present for these Holidays...(Spanish only...)

El viaje a la Feria Internacional del libro de Guadalajara, Mexico ha sido increíble, disfrutamos de la compañía de viejos y nuevos amigos de aquí y allí. Ya es hora de volver al estudio y resucitar el blog con fotos de Guadalajara, bocetos y imágenes del proceso de los últimos libros. Todo esto muy pronto.
La imagen que abre el texto es del libro Cuentos y Leyendas de la geografía española, Ed, Juventud. Es un bonito regalo para estas fiestas...

Wrapping up

This week on Interviú

Interviú is a Spanish magazine with ample views. They always like to see more.
I lllustrated one of the short stories by Lorenzo Silva. A dark piece of genre violence with a twist.
Since it was fiction they gave me a lot of freedom which is always nice. I created the opener spread and three spots.

Ilustraciones para la revista Interviú para el texto de Lorenzo Silva.
Un historia de ficción sobre la voilencia de género con un toque inesperado.
Me dejaron mucha libertad creativa y eso siempre se agradece. Realicé la imagen de apertura a doble página y tres spots.

Loosen up but don't loose it

A few quick sketches pasted together. I had prepared another round of this but the light went off and some company owes me $20,000 for the crappy collage I could not save. Too bad the extra power supply did not work but I am glad it failed on me doing this instead of actually working on a big work in progress file. Yes, the kind of files that make your computer hate you even if you got him extra ram for Christmas this year.

I had my old website with Netfirms and it used to work fine, it was built by the awesome Tom at paperscissorsandglue.com/ but these days it just won't let me update no more without reseting the whole thing. So I called it quit and got a less confusing domain raulallen.com
The new site there is temporary while we work on a new version but it is easy to update and actually works, at least for me. So if you are so kind let me know if it does for you.
Thanks a lot.