Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Hope you have a wonderful day :)

Christmas Advent 24

Hurray! We're finally on the last day of the advent so tomorrow will be CHRISTMAS DAY! Thank you so much for joining me on this Christmas Advent countdown/ adventure. I hope you enjoyed as much as I did. 

Here's the complete advent! Which one is your favourite?

Christmas Advent 23

Another cute animal for today's advent... well, for me all animals are cute (even if they sometimes have rabies) specially if they're fluffy and have little tiny human-like hands :)

Christmas Advent 22

Only two more days to go!

Christmas Advent 21

Foxes are so adorable! I've heard about foxes eating rubbish in London, but I'm yet to see one. 

Christmas Advent 20

I love seeing the ginger bread houses they display on bakeries and shopping centres. I don't think I could eat such beautiful decorations ;)

Christmas Advent 19

We need more of these things for the upcoming year (and all the time for that matter) :)

Christmas Advent 18

Santa is on it's way! He's riding a little flowery donkey... let me know if you spot him ;)

Christmas Advent 17

Birds in their house. I'd love to have one of these when I have a garden.

Christmas Advent 16

A snowball for today's advent :)

Christmas Advent 15

More flowers and birds for today's advent. I never feel tired of drawing them because in nature there're so many different kinds of them that it's easy to feel very inspired. I dream of having a garden in my house but that's not likely to happen in HK - not with our tiny flats and super hot weather. I'm glad that we have so many small public gardens in the city that are well cared for all year round. 

.... and because it's Thursday, I have a new video in my channel, unboxing a subscription box I got for my birthday. I hope you enjoy watching it and don't forget to subscribe to my channel :)

Christmas Advent 14

Do you know what alpacas and I have in common? That we're both from the Andes, so I think we're like cousins :)

Christmas Advent 13

A couple of geese for today's advent :)

Christmas Advent 12

Today is my birthday! I wished for rabbits but real rabbits poop a lot so I drew this 2 who are poop free :) Hope you're having a nice start of the week

Christmas Advent 11

Lots of flowers for today's Advent :)

Christmas Advent 10

I've always wanted to draw a little village in the snow, like a fairy tale. So here it's my version of it :)

Christmas Advent 9

This red horse is galloping towards the weekend! I hope you're having a great Friday :)

Christmas Advent 8

It's Thursday so that means that I have a new video on my YouTube channel. Today's topic is Suggested books for creatives. Here's also my Advent for today :)

You can watch the video below. I added english subtitles because I realised that in some parts of the video I mumble a little bit - Sorry about that guys, but making this videos is out of my comfort zone and I get a little nervous every time I start shooting. I'd love to hear what are your favourite creative books! Please tell me in the comments here or in YouTube.

Christmas Advent 7

I'm so excited to share with you my shiny and sparkly re-vamped website and blog! I've been working on this for quite a while and I must confess that I shed a few tears during the process but I'm  so pleased with the final design. I hope you like it as much as I do.

In other news today, the 7th of December is the day of the "little candles" or in Spanish Día de las Velitas, in my home country, Colombia. People will light up colourful candles in front of their houses and the neighbourhoods will look very atmospheric. That's something I really miss so, it's my tradition to illustrate a candle on this day. If you want to see pictures of the celebration, click on the Bear. 

Hope you're having a great day!

Christmas Advent 6

This is today's advent, I must dash to a Networking event. Wish me luck because that's soooo out of my comfort zone....

Christmas Advent 5

It's Monday but I'm already tired :( I think it's because it's almost the end of the year and because the days are getting shorter and shorter. I'm really looking forward to the Christmas Holidays.

Christmas Advent 4

Today I spent 3 hours making tiny little hats for babies in Nepal. I think that's a nice way to put to use some random skill my mum taught me when I was little. Here're some birds for today's advent :)

Christmas Advent 3

Today has been very grey in HK. I wish I could curl up like this little fox. 

Christmas Advent 2

Little squirrels for today's advent

Christmas Advent 1 - New video

It's this time of the year again! Counting towards Christmas with an illustrated advent calendar is my favourite project of the year. I'm going to be posting an image everyday until Christmas Day. 

I also have a new video talking about my creative process and some tips to design the Christmas Advent. As always, I hope you feel inspired to create your own designs. Please subscribe to my channel and if you have any questions about illustration or Christmas advents or anything creative just let me know in the comments below or through any social media channel. Happy start of the holidays!!!

Lettering for Christmas cards - new video

Hi everyone - like every Thursday, today I have a new video on my YouTube channel. In this video I'm going to show you how I created the lettering for the Christmas cards I designed this year to send to my friends and family. 

Until a few years ago, I'd never even considered buying Christmas cards because that's not traditional in my home country. When I was little I'd help my mum to make birthday cards using white ink on tracing paper, but we never had Christmas cards.

Christmas has always been my favourite holiday of the year, so now that I'm a designer I enjoy the process of creating cards for my loved ones. I've also grown to love going to the post office and I think that in this era of virtual things, it's very personal to handwrite a note or a message on a card that I designed.

I hope you enjoy the video! And please subscribe to my channel :)

These are the cards I designed!

Long pins for Pinterest - tips

For a long time I've heard about the popularity of long pins for Pinterest so I decided to group in long pins some illustrations I've done over the last months. Here're the first 2 pins with the fairy tale illustrations I've been doing. In case you're interested, the measurement that you have to take into account when creating the pin is 328 PX wide and it can be as long as you want. I wrote the topic of the illustrations at the top together with my website so people can find my designs.
Let me know if you're on Pinterest because I'm looking for new boards to follow. Happy pinning!

Creating a Christmas Illustration

Hi guys, I have a new video about creating a Christmas illustration, from getting inspiration to brainstorming concepts and designing. I really hope you watch it and that you subscribe to my channel. I'll be uploading a new video every THURSDAY from now on.

Here's a peek of the design I created :)

Prince frog

Who wouldn't want to kiss this charming prince? Besides his good looks he owns his own palace, he has a formidable sized swamp where you can take luxury baths and where there's plenty of flies to eat all year round.

Elves

I'm loving working on this round of Animal Alphabets (an illustration challenge on twitter #animalaphabets). Fairy tales are such a fun topic to illustrate and I also like reading the stories again and again. My favourite stories happen in the forest and have an element of kindness to them.  What are your favourite fairy tales?

Cat and Parrot

It's Friday and it means it's colour collective time. This week's colour is May Green. I must admit I had a little bit of a mental block before doing this illustration but I kept on sketching and doodling until an idea came to my mind. Have a great weekend everyone!

Bye bye October

This is what I was up to in October. Happy to add a few new pieces to my portfolio :) 

Now on Youtube too...

I've decided to open a Youtube channel where I hope to share a little bit of my life as a freelance illustrator, what it's like living in HK, travelling and speed-painting videos, maybe tutorials?... I don't know, I'm not sure about the content yet because I had the idea while having insomnia + migraine + jetlag so I'm trying to figure things out. Many people have asked me about my painting process so my first video is of speed-painting the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz for Animal Alphabets. Hope you like it and I'll try share another video soon!

PS. Let me know your suggestions for videos.

Here's the video....

Prince bear

I can't stop thinking about bears so here's another one for colour collective :) ... and I just discovered that some horses have spots, like cows! 

New painting challenge

I've decided to start my own painting challenge with the hashtag #10daysofacrylics. I know there're lots of challenges out there but I'm not strong enough to do something for more than 10 days, let alone 365! I'm dusting off my acrylic paints and experimenting with colours and textures. So far the end results have been a little unexpected but in a fun way. Feel free to join me in this mini challenge using the hashtag #10daysofacrylics (on instagram, facebook and twitter) :)

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Day 6

Snow forest

Here's my design for this week's colour collective. I'm trying to use different colour palettes in my illustrations but it's difficult to break old habits! I'll try to keep on working on that. Have a nice weekend :)

Hot air balloons

Happy Friday everyone! It's colour collective time and this week's colour is Orange and it inspired me to create this colourful piece :)  

Rabbit in the snow

White rabbits everyone (that's what you say at the beginning of the month in England, I've been told)! It's funny that in many countries with seasons September marks the start of autumn but here in HK, we only have 2 seasons: extremely hot and a little bit chilly. Even though many shops are selling coats, scarfs,  boots, etc the temperature here will be around 30 degrees until December. I miss having snow, even if only for a little while (2 weeks of white thick snow would be perfect and then sunshine please). So that's my inspiration for this month's Pinch Punch Post. 

Here're some bunny sketches 

O is for Orca

Continuing with my animal alphabet, here's O for Orca. Did you know that orcas aren't whales but dolphins?  

Colour collective - Thistle

Hello! I'm back from my summer holidays. I had a great time travelling around the world but I was really missing illustrating cute things. Here's my colour collective for this week :)

Menudos cuadros

Hello everyone, I have great news to share with you all. Now you can find my designs on menudoscuadros.com. I hope you like the designs available - I added a link to each picture that will direct you to the shop :)
I did a little interview but it's only in spanish/ Me hicieron una pequeña entrevista para el blog que pueden leer aquí http://bit.ly/29sxSSA