Click the image to go there! Yes, Kriture has it's own headquarters now this blog on blogger migrated to wordpress. The decision to use blogger was always temporary just until the new website was up. At www.kriture.com you will find all the old posts that were here, plus new content like comics and history about Kriture, work in progress, designing kriture and concept.

All characters are listed in there, you can browse around and see that this was only a change for the best :)

See you there, and you can always follow kriture at:

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Youtube

Flickr

My professional portfolio can be found here:

www.marciagaudencio.com

Hope to hear from you soon!

3 Halloween Soft Kritures

Hi again!
I've made 3 exclusive soft Kritures for this Halloween. Tomorrow I will put the third one on the etsy store Yay!




Website's almost up!

Workshops

Hello there!

Portuguese only! :)
Vou dar dois workshops na casa da esquina, um de ilustração com IllustratorCS4 e Photoshop CS4, e outro com ToonBoom Studio 5

A informação detalhada com o programa dos workshops, exemplos e preço está disponível no site da Casa da Esquina, que podem aceder aqui e aqui.
Estes workshops podem não ocorrer se o número mínimo de participantes não for atingido.

Se participarem posso garantir que vão com uns truques novos na manga para os vossos projectos :D

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 :)

Giveaway Contest

We have finally went over 700 likes on facebook, so as I told you, I'm going to throw a contest and the winner will receive a pack of stickers signed by me. You can see how they will come to you in here

Remember you need to like kriture on facebook first. Click here =)

1- The contest will be officially  open when I change the status on kriture facebook page to "Contest open! - If a living Kriture pet lived with you, what habits would distinguish him from an usual domestic pet " with a link directing to this page to show the rules to the ones that didn't read them yet. 

2- To enter the contest you need to leave a creative response in the facebook topic and instead of a sentence you can also make an illustration if you prefer :)

3- It will be open in 3 hours or so, and the contest will be closed on 17-April-2011 around 13p.m Lisbon Time. Any entry after this time will not be valid. All people around the world can participate, as long as you are a fan of Kriture in the facebook page.

4 - A little tip: Read the about area in this blog so you can inspire yourself with the concept of a Kriture and make people laugh.


5 - When the contest ends, I will tell you who the winner is, contact him, and hope the winner sends me an email to saveus@kriture.com with an address and a name.


Good luck!

Testing and upgrades 2

Yellow!

I know this hasn't been updated that often, but I've been making quick posts on facebook, so people know what's going on.
I've been fixing the silicone molds because of bad vent engineering. I was learning while testing, so I had made some mistakes.
But I'm very happy, instead of frustrated every time I got a bad cast, because I've checked in some very important points of production.
Because I know the shipping is very expensive, I've been trying to make them even lighter, each one had at least 100gr, wich is a lot for a toy. And It also had a porcelain look that I didn't like that much, and the colors were very pastel for my taste. Kriture is a reflect of my passion for surrealism, but I don't want them to look so dreamy I wanted them more vibrant, like the polymer clay colors.

The resin was too hard to cut to fix imperfections, and I had contact with toxic materials at least 30m for every cast It was dangerous and the smell was in the whole house. There is a person with cancer living with me and a close friend with my age passed out recently due to an heart attack. This made me really think about what I was doing, and trying to find a new way to do it.

I've find an answer to all this points, and the result will be posted soon, since I need to make a whole new photoshoot of the figures to launch them on the website that will be opening soon too.

The weight of each figure has reduced at least 20%, the colors will be more vibrant. I actually can fix imperfections, and now I only spend about 5 minutes in contact with toxic materials per cast.
I've also noticed this new resin must have some "elastic" proprieties because when the figure fall, it does not break, it jumps!

I've already painted some of them and I've been very proud when I look at them ^^
So for now, I will be fixing all the bad moulds and think about a way of making a good packaging for them. At the same time I've been working in the website, so I'm trying my best to make a good use of my "spare" time wich I dont have, but I make it happen somehow. For now please follow Kriture on facebook, since It is way to faster for me to communicate news right now :)
Kriture on Facebook

"Loop" Artwork

New artwork! :)
This represents Kriture's world in a stylized way. You can read Hello World, things are fueled by a weird mechanism that keeps this world running. You can find a sky that has always ideas coming down, setting down, fauna, flora, bubbles coming out of the second layer of Kriture's world, that result from the heat of a weird liquid called imagination. You can see that this liquid is flamed by a baby bottle which switch is currently set to ON.

This happens because Kriture's concept is all around ideas coming from a girl, and are stored in a box, where life are created out of those ideas. The day this girl grows up, there will be no one fueling this world, and the baby bottle will be set to OFF.

This is a giclee A3 gloss print, get it from:

Second Wave of Soft Kritures

Second Wave of Soft Kritures will be launched two days ago! I've made a video so you can see better what is a Soft Kriture :)

I will be listing a new one everyday on etsy for 14 days around 6 p.m US time.
Why 14 days? Because of February 14th, Valentine's day. Its a good gift for your valentine. Get one before they get away!

The soft kritures will featuring:
- Cusom packaging
- Glow in the dark eyes
- A tag
- A hanger
- Some of them have piercings!
- Free fridge Magnet

Each one is one of a kind to preserve their singularity.

Youtube Channel

Hello there!

Kriture has now a youtube account and there will be uploaded stuff like process videos about illustration, craft, resin casting and others.
I will make videos with some regularity since the official website is almost up :)

Here it is! Feel free to subscribe
Kriture on Youtube

Resin Update

Hello there :)

As has been asked, here's some eye candy of the new resin Kritures. When my stock of clay kritures is over, it's official, all collection will be made of resin :).

For those who have the possibility to see Kriture at Mercado Quebra Costas (Coimbra) this Saturday (9 Oct) they will can purchase them there.

I need some time to finish the whole collection and take new pics so they can always be accurate to the original figure. Until then, my online store will have only the Kritures that I still have on clay, so if you require one of them already in resin, contact me at saveus@kriture.com (mailto:saveus@kriture.com), but please note that they are not as good as I want them yet.

Kriture reached 600 fans on Facebook!

Hello! :)
I've been busy doing the little creatures in resin. Its been troublesome sometimes for some of them, so i've been neglecting the blog a bit to get me some extra time, sorry ^^;

So Kriture reached 600 fans on facebook, so as I promised there will be a giveaway!
Remember you need to be a fan on facebook first. Click here =)

You can choose between these three lovely kritures (click on the link to get more info and images)

      

RULES

1- The contest will be open when I change the status on kriture fanpage to "Win a Kriture NOW - Contest opened!" with a link directing to this page to show the rules to the ones that didn't read them yet.

2- To enter the contest you need to find an awesome animal from Earth, extinct or not, genetically modified or not, and post the name of the animal with a link to find out more about him in the facebook topic. You can also write down an awesome feature from the animal that you find that will benefict you.

3- You have until the end of the week to participate, the entries will be closed on 1-Feb-2010, 11 pm, any entry after this will not be valid. All people around the world can participate, as long as you are a fan of Kriture in the facebook page.

4 - Doesn't matter if you are the fastest, what matters is whether or not I find your Animal really awesome. It can be visually or depending on his ways of living.

5 - When the contest ends, I will tell you who the winner is, contact him, and hope the winner sends me an email to saveus@kriture.com with his address and the name of the kriture he would like to get :)


I'm really into all kinds of living things on Earth, I get at least 40% of my inpiration from them :) Surprise me!

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 :)

Random Illustration

I realized I never uploaded doodles, I confess I do not have much time to draw, usually the draws I do are part of final projects. But here you go watercolor meets ink making a explosion of joy I guess.

By the way do you know I also have a life at deviantart? Join me there! :) www.darkween.deviantart.com

There is no much time to get votes, but here is a link where I uploaded an entry to Magnética Magazine of my evolution wallpaper. So if you have a facebook goooooooo "LIKE" it :)

Test #1 Mould Casting

Just posting a quick update :)
Theese are the first casting experiments on a Wittz. They didn't turned out that much bad, considering that the original was a bad and quick sample.
Still need to work on the weight, the smell and color, takes time to find out all these kind of stuff that in the end, you really can't see the effort.

I've started making some prototypes, its very hard to achieve symmetry, and make some parts without showing that it once was made by hand. Yeah a 3D printer could be awesome, if the price for a single Kriture weren't an absurd, and you still need to sandpaper it in the end.
I'm still on testing, so I can't really tell yet what material will I use in the future, depending on the material, I still need to think if a rotocast machine would help, and build one.
There is so much work behind the scenes, you don't have idea! <3

Upgrades

I am currently working to upgrade Kriture figures. I want them to become unbreakable, and give me the possibility to make perfect replicas. So your money will be worthing more, and we all can be happy :)

I'm very frustrated from the fact that I get children buying Kritures and then they break them :( and 1hour to 1.30hours of work goes doomed, and we all become sad. And Kriture is NOT about sadness at all! 

I'm already on it, so I did a form that enables you to vote for your favorite Kriture, so I can start the process! It's very important for me as this is a hard working and slow process. Sooner or later they will all be made in the same material, but I need to know on wich ones to start :)

So visit the Form and let me know your choice ^^

Roteiro B

"O Roteiro B pretende dar a conhecer o lado B de Coimbra: os locais que "fogem" à faceta mais tradicional da cidade mas que se destacam pela originalidade. "


Há uma série de videos que o Rotrieo B realiza sobre as pérolas existentes na Cidade. Um dos vídeos é sobre o Mercado Quebra Costas realizado aqui em Coimbra, o qual tenho a sorte de pertencer ao restrito número de participantes. 


Como tal, sinto-me muito contente e lisonjeada por participar neste mercado, o mundo precisa de originalidade e cor, se os dois combinados fazem alguém sorrir, então a Kriture está a cumprir o seu primeiro objectivo.
Neste mercado tenho oportunidade de ver sorrisos escondidos ou descarados entre olhares para a minha banca, que mesmo quando longínquos fazem-me sentir bem.


A Kriture foi apanhada em acção no vídeo seguinte:

Evolution Wallpaper

Hello!

I've uploaded the new wallpaper. It's called Evolution, for those who don't know, the making of this wallpaper is in this blog from scratch :)

The poster version is also available, you can see it here is an A2 poster.If you are interested, please contact me.

You can compare your Kriture with this scheme, the more complex the kriture, the more intelligent/useful he is.
I've tried to do something that transmits tranquility, serenity, solitude and makes us feel calm. I've been using the wallpaper on the computer and the poster in the wall and I feel like I was successful at the job :)
Try it out for yourself! :D download it from the downloads section

Evolution Poster

Hello!!
I know you miss Merilok, but since I'm his creator I think he won't mind if I write some posts here before him :)

Here is the latest poster! It shares some of the features of Kritures during their evolution. This work looks really great on my wall because it has a wide subtle background, it almost looks like the wall has been painted. I have it also as a wallpaper for my desktop and is awesome, makes me feel serene and it looks that all my folders are organized.

Do you think it has potential?

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

I need your vote! :)

Hello!  

Is my pleasure to announce that Formit has made into http://musthavecute.com/vote/page/2/

Cheez Burguer is the owner of the site, and owner of such webstes like lolcats,  FAILblog or EpicWinFTW. It also owns a couple of websites for cuteness.

Go there and vote for him, so he can become an awesome icon of cuteness! :D