Self Portrait

Hello! I wanted to have some time to start illustrating again because I miss it. I wanted to make something that I thought that was challenging, so I did this. Why my freaking face? Well its not easy at all to be self aware of your face and painting a face is not easy too. Besides I tend to mess up the grey shades, and then need to correct them, then I get bored.

In other news, I've been making polls and questions for you to vote and help me to make a Soft Kriture based on your voting. So jump to facebook and vote there :)

Rockart Festival & outras notícias

Today's post is just for Portugal ;D

Holá pessoas! Bem vindos a este awesome post.
A Kriture foi convidada para ir ao seu primeiro festival de música Portuguesa, onde também haverá espaço para aqueles que têm a veia artística não musical. Vão lá um monte de bandas conhecidas e bowas :)
Por isso, vão lá, vejam uns concertos, bebam umas cervejas (ou não) e venham fazer-me companhia que nenhum dos meus bichos te vai morder ;)

Site do Festival

Entretanto, no mesmo dia 11, no Mercado Quebra Costas, vão estar presentes a banda Paus!! Começa às 20.00h e eu quero ver, sendo assim, vou ver o concerto e correr para a Curia para ver mais concertos (yeah). Se tudo correr bem estarei também no Mercado Quebra Costas com a Kriture.

Outras notícias extremamente importantes (lol) 
- O site onde coloco os bichos à venda mudou o layout, o que é no mínimo fofinho gosto mais assim.
- Uma menina dos states pediu-me permissão para usar um wallpaper da Kriture para um jogo que ela está a desenvolver para crianças com dificuldades auditivas.

- Sobre a Kriture goes Plastic, tenho o primeira réplica com cor feita. Mas ainda estou a fazer experiências, porque gostava de as ter menos pesadas.

- O site da Kriture ainda está em construção, mas vai ser acabado este ano :)

- Peço imensas desculpas pelo corte da continuidade da história aqui no blog, o projecto é actualmente só desenvolvido por mim, de modo que não tenho tempo para fazer tudo. Faz parte do processo criativo e eu também estou a aprender :)

Activity for children

Do you know a child who aspire to be an artist? No? It's okay because they can also enter this activity :)
I'm currently accepting drawings from children that are 7 years old or less.
The drawing that I will choose will be a canvas for an illustration that I will do based on the outlines created by them.

Antithesis is one of the keywords on Kriture project. The final illustration will be an antithesis between the abstract line art made by a child, and the concise and logic decisions of an adult colorizing it.

The result will be close to something very surreal and unique!
This is an idea that I saw once by Sam Nielson, a suberb illustrator btw, and that I totally felt in love with. Below there is an example:

Okay, rules! :D

1- The drawing should have only one color with outlines use fill only if he thinks it needs :)

2- The theme is obviously the world of kriture. Tell him to think about jungle, plants, mountains,animals etc. OR If you know the history of Kriture, why not spend a little time telling them? Inspiration :D

3- The representation of creatures can be original or can be inspired on the kritupedia.

4- Don't worry if it looks to weird, its suppose to be surreal :)
5- I do prefere environment drawings instead of the exemple above.
6- Send your submissions to saveus@kriture.com with the subject  "My Drawing". The body should have the description by the artist, please use the exact phrases :D

You can send them until 17th July, the owner of the chosen picture will receive a print with the final illustration signed by me :). The illustration will also be credited with the name of the little artist everywhere. So he can be immortalized ;D

Kriture in Coimbra plus fanart!

Yooooosh!

Kriture is going to be on Mercado Quebra Costas tomorrow in Coimbra, April's 10. Go there and make some friends :D

http://www.mercadoquebracostas.com/

If it makes no sense to you because you are not living in Portugal, well, I got another news. Kriture received his first fan work.
Relderson picked up Hector and made him a 3d character. You can see the art here. Thank you so much! You can visit his website here

António Pratas made a 3D animation with Glanell, I hope he would like to share it with us some day :)
If you pretend to make any artwork with kriture, please, let me know, because I find it really awesome :D

The Triquimoches - Vega Lyrae

I just stumbled upon this store, because she stumbled up on kriture first :)
So yes, hearting other people stores on etsy is a good thing, because you make yourself more visible, and hearting stores that are similar to your store is also a good thing, since both can love each other works, that is what just happened here.

 I love to see silly dumb animals that are colorful and make me laugh, I can wash away my negative toughs for seconds.



Vega Lyrae is from Spain, and has this really recent project named The Triquimoches. And she does a lovely job doing the plushies, she uses really nice fabrics, and they seem to be soft and warm almost like flannel! I looove that because you can stick them against your face and it's comforting and fluffy, I always sleep with these kind of sheets, pajamas and socks.

She has now on sale on her etsy store two kind of Triquimoches, Furry colored man dressed in colorful fabrics, and ... animal monster alike silly cuties :D

I love the way she nailed it, I used to sew furniture for my dolls, and I think she did a good job capturing volumetric forms on her monsters, principally the Carcolitos that are fluffy colorful snail monsters. They are perfect for decorating a room, they have a nice size, and are available on different colors.

Artmind - 99feelings

Mistry Sleurs, from Belgium, Europe, has catched my attention. She has a unique project named 99feelings. The project is about 99 separate sculptures that reflect different emotions, they are 8cm or 3,15 inches in hight. 

Mitsy used the shape of a babushka doll as the blank canvas for her imagination. Then added adorns that reflect emotions, what is very cool is the fact that even bad emotions seem to be nice, and their simplicity speaks beauty. When I first saw these pieces I thought they might be nice for blind people, because they have more accurate sense of touch then us, maybe they whould have a different experience then us.

You can see all of them at her flickr

JENNIFER HUGON

Kriture was featured on a post from JENNIFER HUGON HERE

She is from Ohio and is a painter, drawer, do felt stuff, graphic designer and illustrator, etc.

Check her out at www.jenniferhayesart.com

She also have several stores at etsy, my personal favourite:

Filter Pac-Man Ghosts!! Why? well you can't needle a ghost ;)