Character Design

Character Design. Mixed media.

Turns on my original character Piggie. Wacom Intuos tablet and Adobe Photoshop.

Five basic expressions of the character Piggie. Adobe Photoshop and Wacom Intuos tablet.

Design for the main character of MiniBat the video game, a PC runner that me and my team di as final project in the vocational Degree Game & Level Design, at the University Paris XIII. I was in charge of the Art Direction and working closely with the Game Designer. Wacom Intuos tablet and Adobe Photoshop

Turns of MiniBat to simplify the animation. Sketch in Adobe Photoshop, Wacom Intuos tablet

First sketches for the character Ramon. Graphite on paper

Preliminary sketches and color tests. Adobe Photoshop, Wacom Intuos tablet

GIF in Adobe Animate showing the three basic emotions of the character Ramon

Preliminary sketches and color tests. Adobe Photoshop, Wacom Intuos tablet

GIF showing the three basic emotions of the character. Adobe Animate

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Dissociative~

A series of three linoprints about the acceptation of the battle in our head: more than resignation, it’s an invitation to meditate to understand our connection with everybody/ everything in the universe. We are our own “God” or “Goddess”, so the responsability of the good and evil we do in this world is ours. It was fun to do these series, as much as imperfect it's lino printing, I love and enjoy it a lot since the sketches to the carving to the hand printing! Enjoy~

Embroidery photography and illustrations

As I question myself what is "to be an artist", my curiosity take my skills into another level to experiment with different media. All this for the sake to express my emotions or ideas in a new way. Embroidery has been a subject I find exciting and beautiful, and since a few years ago, I've been playing with the possibilities of illustration and embroidery. In more or less successful outcomes, this post is dedicated to my favorite try-outs which I separate in three different categories. Coeur, watercolours, inks & thread on paper by Salas, E. (2020) Embroidery illustrations by Salas, E. These illustrations are a few examples of how by incorporating a few strings and patterns of embroidery as part the illustration, can pop out the main idea or feeling. Even if it's just to add a bit of colour, or mere experimentation in my sketchbooks, I enjoy the process and the results. Embroidery photography These photos were taken by me in 2008-2009, in my hometown in Mexic...

Syncretism of European colonization and Pre-Columbian civilizations

The second part of my MA's final project is a series of illustrations about the syncretism of Aztec cults/religions and the Christianism brought by Spanish conquers to the Americas in approx. 1512. The arrival of the Spaniards was a prophecy in the Maya’s cosmology; mistaken as divine beings, their aggressive arrival was not only welcomed by the natives, but also several indigenous peoples like the Totonacs, Otomis and Nahuas made alliance with Hernan Cortes troops to take advances in war against the Empire of the Aztecs. There were many religions amongst the natives, but all of them have common points such as the worship of the nature, the God Sun, the Mother Earth, and the promised saviour (Quetzalcoatl) who was born from Coatlicue, the Virgin mother of Gods. So, there was no bigger coincidence that the Christians have the same triad, and this is how the acceptance of Christianity was understandable amongst the natives, which the majority were the faithful indigeno...

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