Fan-Art of one of my favorite movies from when I was a child. Since I was little it always fascinated me the design of this character, specially at the end of the movie in which she becomes a butterfly. Cute and colorful movie for children's, but with amazing songs and designs. Vectorial with some effects, as always, made in Affinity Designer .
My first commission for a poster for a play. I must admit it was challenging to try a completely different style than what I have commonly used, but I also love a challenge and this one helped me experiment with new techniques and ways of working.
"The play is set in the ancient roman town of Pompeii just before Vesuvius is about to erupt. All the characters have been given latinised names suggestive of their character. Lurcio, is the head slave to the bumbling Senator Ludicrus Sextus, his wife Ammonia, their promiscuous daughter Erotica and virginal son Nausius. At the beginning of the play Lurcio tries to deliver the prologue, but is constantly interrupted by the demands of the household and the other various characters in the play..."
Children's book in which I have been in charge of both the cover and the interior illustrations, with a simple but imaginative premise. I enjoyed creating the characters and backgrounds for this cute story, specially the fluffy and adorable main character.
"In the first book of the I Wonder series, Join Ben on an adventure to find out what it’s really like above the clouds... Especially when you’re kind to the new people you meet!..."
Despite being an illustration inspired by the "Flowers" Clip Studio Paint contest, in the end I really liked the result. I also wanted to use the Time-lapse of the application for watching step by step of how I made this illustration. My idea was making something and with a lot of pink.
Designs created for an online clothing brand. These are some samples of the commissioned designs. Some chibi ones and cute pet designs.
"The brand that serves the brave. No rules applied!"
My husband has been a fan of this manga since it first came out in Spain. Berserk has been a worldwide phenomenon in the genre of shonen setting in a Medieval Europe with a dark fantasy world. Manga was written by Kentaro Miura, who unfortunately passed away a few days ago and that made my husband very sad, since he has followed his work since the begining. So I offered him to do a fanart to honor one of his favorite authors, and he asked me to recreate this mythical scene in the manga, which is the first kiss between Casca and Guts, one of his favorite couples in the anime world.
Illustration made for this Facebook fanpage. Based on the portrait of a person with a specific outfit, traced in a vector way to be used as a logo at the end.
My husband sometimes has crazy ideas based on his favorite videogames and sagas. And sometimes he comes to me with unorthodox requests. And this time he wanted an illustration of a Warhammer 40k Salamanders Chapter Space Marines hosting a barbecue for young children. According to him, in the videogame these rather warlike marines are basically a piece of cake.
My sister asked me to create her Facebook FanPage for her massage business in Colima, Mexico. I wanted a simple landscape for her brochures and a logo for her business cards.
New image for facebook and bussiness card.
Shining Love Time-lapse Drawing. Illustration for the new contest of Clip Studio Paint "My Time to Shine!". I have to admit that I really enjoy making this illustration, I decided to use a more traditional anime style for this one, Anime styleI've always found it great and fun to draw.
My husband and I decided to create this project last year, but now I took it and decided to start it. The script by him and and illustrations by me, a story that tries to explain what is depression feel like. Hoping you like it and follow it through Webtoons.
"We all have an inner abyss, in which our internal demons try to sink us as much as possible ... Can she be able to get out from the abyss, or will she fall even deeper?" Story by Gabriel B.G. and Drawings by CutyDina."
Lately I have started with this great game made by MiHoYo. And the truth is that I have loved the character designs and their beautiful landscapes. So I decided to participate at a contest they did for the game event called "A sea of lights", which consists of the Japanese tradition of launching lanterns into the sky with wishes on them. . Hope you like it .
Comic Strips I decided to create. The first one was made as a personal relief, and then I decided to make strips just for fun. My strips are been uploaded via Webtoons, if you want to follow me and read more of them.
"Just a bunch of doodles of things that happen in my life every day."
Hello! A long time since my last tutorial. I have been very busy lately with much work and projects. Anyway, I wanted to write this tutorial a time ago, so here it is. I really enjoyed learning Adobe After Effects, and it took more time to get used to use it, specially when I came from Adobe Animate, but at the end it's nothing more that to get use to a new tool, and final result is a lot better.
The first step for this is preparing your drawing/character/logo etc... for animation. In this case I will use this illustration so you can see the structure you need it, if you are using another drawing program instead of Adobe Photoshop, you have to export it to PSD, so After Effects can read all the layers. Also, if parts are in individual folders, is better to save as a new PSD version with all layers rasterized, there are many ways to import to After Effects, but I will show here the easier one for me.
Also, If you don´t want to use a PSD file, you can also export each part separately in PNG and arrange them manually, but its a little more tedious.
Now you can close your character in PSD and open After Effects, and when its open, just create a new project. Then we go to File Import and select our PSD File. For this Tutorial we are gonna select Composition → Preserve layers size, also select Editable Layers.
When the file is imported correctly, you will see that After Effects created one folder with all layers and a new composition. If you double click on it you will see our composition open (don't pay attention at the fact that my software is in Spanish, tools are the same).
Now is time to link our body parts. At the right of the Spiral icon, we just select the body part where each layer will be attached to. So when you move or rotate, elements will move with it. If you have rigged a character in the past, this will see you very familiar, in this character we are gonna use the hip as main layer. You can also link layers with the spiral icon, just dragging the spiral to the attached body part, its your choice.
You can test if all links work well selecting the main layer (in this case the hip) and trying to move or rotate it. If it works well, all character will be moving with it, if this is ok, you can continue to fix pivot points and add puppets points.
Ok, now we are gonna fix our layers one by one so they will be ready for animation. This is the last step for rigging our character. For selecting each one of the layers we just have to double click on the layer name we want to modify.
For default we have a black background for our file, and in some cases (as the one in this tutorial) our characters contains a lot of black and we need another color for background. That's very easy to change, you just need to enter in Composition → Composition settings, and at the bottom you just select background color to one is better for you.
Now we have to select the pan tool so when we moved our pivot points our character don't move from their original position. In this case, the wing come from the back so the point it stick the wing to the body is the perfect point for our pivot. This wing will not have puppet points because we just need to rotate them, so we just fix the pivot point in this layer.
If we want to make a loop animation, we just need to make one time loop. After I will tell you how to maintain the looping as long as you want. But for now, we are just gonna make our butterfly flapping her wings. So we are gonna set our time for this movement. Now we go back to timeline settings and decide the duration for this loop, in my case I want one second duration.
If you have animated before, you will just know that animation came first from outside movements and then we make inside movements. In my case, we are gonna animate the wings and body and then we will add all the details, such as head, hair, and legs.
For wings and body we are just gonna use Rotation and Position movements. Keyboard Shortcuts are P for position, and R for rotation. So now we select our main layer (hip layer) and just press P with the keyboard so we can change the position of our character.
In my case as it will be a loop we will need that the animation begin and end in same position, so before animating we settle first position and then select the keyframe and press Ctrl+C and go to the last frame position and paste your frame with Ctrl+V. Now we make the movements we want in the middle of them, in my case, I will just add one more keyframe in the middle.
Now for wings, we just need to press R in keyboard so we can just rotate them. Also select rotation tool in the tool panel. I will do the movement in the same keyframe so our boucle works fine with wings movement, but you can animate your loop as you wish. You can continue with all simple movements with this tools.
Now we are gonna detail our animation. You will see that your timeline will be a little messy in the next steps. But no worries, you can use the shy tool to clean up a little. When shy tool is activated all layers selected as shy layers will be hidden in our timeline, so its just switch on an off for having control in our timeline.
Now we are gonna animate the hair, so we need to animate all the puppet points we have. For this we will select the layer we want to modify and then we are gonna press U in keyboard, that will open all puppet layers. I recommend animate layer one by one, so it won't be too messy.
Now is time to set up all details for our loop animation. And when we finished we can make it longer as we need need and also add some effects.
Ok, now we are gonna make a new composition so we can manage our animation better. So just click on Composition → New Composition. This new composition will have same configuration as last one, but now I want that the composition will be ready for YouTube, so I will select the HDV 1080 25 Preset and give it a duration of 10 seconds, but if you want another settings feel free to test them.
Now I will add a background to my animation. In this case I will use a solid background. So I right click in my timeline and select New Solid. That will add a solid color to our background. I want to be a gradient background so I add an effect for that. I will add it by selecting Effect Generate Ramp (Spanish will be Gradación de Degradado), there we select our colors and can play with the effect options.
Now we delete our last keyframe. Now we are gonna select the Time remapping layer and open in main menu Animation → Add Expression. You will see that can add expressions now. Click on the menu Expression language and open and select Property → LoopOut(Type="Cycle", numKeyframes = 0), and now it will be shown in the text box. Now is ready, you just have to make your layer longer, in this case, as long as the composition.
Now its all settle here. You can now take a look to your loop and see if you want to add more compositions, details or effects to it. You can always enter to the other compositions and modify them, and all this changes will be shown in your final composition. You cad add as many sub compositions you want. In this case, we are just gonna add some effects and then export the animation.
For adding extra effects we are just gonna right click on our composition and then select New Settings Layer. And now as easy to test and select the effect that work better in our animation. In my case I'm gonna select Noise and Grain → Add Grain, so animation has some texture on it.
Now that our animation is ready is time to export for our Social media. That's an easy step, just click on File → Export → Add to render queue. In this case everything is correct, but you can modify the extension and folder options in the Exit Mode.
And that all for this tutorial, hoping this help you to start animating your illustrations. If you want to support me for making more tutorials and stuff, you can became my Patreon.
If you want to get an estimate or talk about your project, you can write me to my email or contact me in any of my social networks.
