Stella Salas' Art

Lilith, (3 different views/zooms), graphite and ink on paper by Salas, E. (2020) On the 8th day of quarantine in Paris I wrote this.  I had been thinking about this previously and since the obnoxious amount of extra time, I decided to put it in words now. I made a drawing about the myth of Lilith, the 1st woman. And I don’t know, if I have a voice, I want to use it to make people think. So… Keep reading for the whole thing or stop here, you might learn about a thing or two.  The distorted mythology surrounding Lilith, represents the ultimate tale of patriarchy painting women’s sexuality as something dark and demonic. In almost all religious texts, Lilith is depicted as a demon rather than a Goddess. Her archetype has become a warning signal to scare women who wished to continue praying to the sacred feminine and honoring their own bodies as holy. The original story is loaded with patriarchal and Machism crap, which is hugely and tragically embedded in our culture t...

    Calaveras and Death in Mexican folklore My representation of "Calaveras" by Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852 - 1913).☠️ Skeletons and death are repeatedly present in the Mexican folklore and art as part of our pre-Hispanic roots and culture. Keep reading for more about this👇🏼 La huesuda, (cropped and original image), ink and graphite on paper by Salas, E. (2020)   Engraving by Jose G. Posadas, 1913   The Death is called in several funny names in the Mexican culture, most of them are euphemisms to hide our fear towards death itself (like in my drawing, I used the name "La huesuda", which means "The bony").  This is, however, not entirely truth; the relationship of the Mexican with the death is about "flirt and seduction", an "ironic intimacy" to remind us that death is for all of us without discrimination, thus there is a certain familiar trust and we celebrate it with irony (poetry, literature, art, music, legends, movies, ...

Animation practice  Walking cycle with 9 key poses. Adobe Animate Background. Adobe Illustrator Squash and stretch. 1st of the 12 principles of animation Anticipation. 2nd of the 12 principles of animation For more animations, please check my demo by clicking HERE

Animal studies on paper, graphite.  I tried to catch their movement, paying attention to the overall movement and of how their bodies work, like the wolf's paws for example. Bears bones structure and proportions, and how different are grizzly bear skulls compared to a panda.

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 Anima...

Human anatomy studies and figure drawing on live seances. Mixed media.  Study of the human's back bones. Red / blue Prima pencil colours Human head anatomy studies. Red / blue Prisma pencil colours Atelier of figure drawing with a model. Red / blue Prisma pencil colours, graphite. Atelier of figure drawing with a model. Red / blue Prisma pencil colours, graphite.  Atelier of figure drawing with a model. Graphite. Da Vinci' sketches studies. Red / blue Prisma pencil colours Portrait heads studies. Graphite and white charcoal on grey paper Observational drawing of my room. Graphite.

I was inspired by Albert Camus' book "Le myth de Sisysphe". He inferred that the irrationality, the human nostalgia and the absurd are the 3 characters of the drama that would finish all logic in the human existence. I represented them as some inner demons / ghosts. Graphite, micron pens, ball point pen and black markers on sketchbook moleskin. "Every horror is an illusion in our minds", trying to represent it by looking into the mirror, I could imagine another dimension and maybe another self. I got inspiration from the ukiyo-e painting's folklore monsters. Faber Castell colors, white charcoal, graphite, Micron pens and paper stump for shadings on grey paper sketchbook. Octopus and Girl had been a subject very common in my drawings. She represents the fearless and proud side that I wish to project.   Micron pens, graphite, white charcoal, black markers and paper stump for shading on grey paper sketchbook Bakemono: Monster cats that are sa...