A TRIP_THROUGH DE/INDUSTRIALIZATION

A series from The De-industrialization of America.

The first illustration is titled: The seduction of America, illustrating how America (the character) got interested in, and tempted by the Industrialization. She is eventually trapped in an endless circle of massive production without knowing the repercussions.

     

The second is the piece that was presented before: The De-industrialization of America, that shows how America and Industry (the male character) realize their mistake, and how our society has reproduced massively not only products, but even culture and minds, these represented by multiple bunnies.

The third is: The De-industrialization of the Product, which presents Product, a representation of our mind and culture, trying to get rid of those elements, part of its body, that have been imposed by Industrialization. This process of liberation requires that Product explores its interior before re-define itself..

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This is the illustration made for the cover of UA Presents, as part of an assignment in class. The proposal was selected as finalist in the process. The proposal tries to represent the different spectrum of shows and presentations in their program. Different audiences, countries, shows, types of music, fields of art, instruments, presenters, actors, actresses, dancers, clowns, sounds, lights, colors...come together to create an unfinished coat of arms for UA Presents.
The musical notes on the ribbon at the bottom of the coat represent (or at least they try to represent) the beginning of The Symphony No. 9 form Beethoven.

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TRAVELING_FROM THE SKY TO EARTH

Falling from the sky, descending carefully.

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TRAVELING_& SHOCKING

Traveling might be a shock.  This is yet stronger when you had a different idea of what you found. Other times the shock is cultural, of language, costumes, personalities, even the weather can be shocking. Although the shock might be strong, there is always something that can put us together, it is us tu us to find that something.
This pieces have as beginning remnants of my pants, worn by walking.

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ATRIP_ TO THE ZOO_WITH BRASALINA

This is the illustration assignment for a short story named Brasalina, by Poe Ballantine.
For the illustration I chose the part of the story in which the main character's new grandmother helps him roast a rhino at the zoo. This is what happened, at least in his mid.

Read the story here:
http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/361/brasalina

The black line is made in block printing, and the rest is digital (Photoshop.)

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A TRIP_BETWEEN NATURE AND INDUSTRY

This is the illustration assignment under the topic of De-industrialization of America.
America is wearing a bunny costume trying to be nature without being it; her lover, man-kind, is ashamed for the massive production they generated.

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CECI_TRAVELING TO THE 80'S (WITH/AS MADONNA)

This is the illustration for my sister in law, Ceci, and her bachelorette party. She wanted to be laike madonna in the 80's, so there you have her!!!

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NATHAN_TRIPPING

This is the illustration of Nathan, a classmate at my Digital Illustration course with Dr. Jackson Boelts.
Nathan gave three elements to do his portrait: a lighter in form of a pig, aglow stick, and a card from a boxing gym. So, this is Nathan having a trip (stoned), wearing a t-shirt from a gym, riding a nose-spitting pig, after a party!!!

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TRAVELING FOR A WEDDING

This is the invitation for my brother's wedding! I traveled back to my country for that celebration!
Congrats Fer & Ceci!!! Love you!

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TRAVELING WITH LGBTQArtists

A video response to the first part of my research on how to teach art as self-expression to LGBTQA people. It represents three of the classifications of the LGBTQArtists: The gender builder, the social reformer, and the expression searcher.

A TRIP TO THE APOCALYPSE!!!

Open publication - Free publishing - More deck

The final cards for the Apocalypse card project.
These are just the Aces!!! Wait for the rest of the deck.
These also introduce the different suits.

A LGBTQA TRIP

Open publication - Free publishing - More lgbtq

This is the classification of LGBTQA artists I did for my research.

AN UGLY TRIP!!!

Open publication - Free publishing - More ugly

Ugly is a children's book about being LGBT. Full of new and modern symbolism, Ugly is based on Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling. 

LGBTQArtists

Open publication - Free publishing - More presentation

This was the presentation I did about my research on LGBTQA artists and Art Education.

A POSTCARD FROM_ETHIOPIA

This is a project about friendship!!! I gave my new friends in Fort Collins, Colorado, a postcard illustrated by me, they had to send me that postcard from wherever they were.

This is the first one I have received!!! It's from Lisa Trull, my former English teacher in the IEP (Intensive English Program).

Thank you Lisa for being the first one!!!. Hopefully you're note the last one!! jajajaja

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