Dibujando a Masashi

A portrait of Masashi done in Easy Paint Tool Sai

Dibujando a Raziel / Drawing to Raziel

This was a quick practice using the pencil tool in Manga Studio.  In my own experience, i felt this tool can render very well what is to work with graduated pencils. 



I´ve been practicing too with the airbrush tool for sketches too and i like the results ^^

Learning to handle the stress

I´ve not been a lot active in my social networks during the last weeks.  Even when i tried hard, strong headaches, weakness, lack of sleep (my body was slept but my mind kept running like a hamster in the cage during nights) and a blue mood didn´t let me to continue my normal routine and put me in some kind of art block mixed with a need of being retired and alone.

In a point, i could recognize some of this issues that i felt before, once when i suffered of burnout syndrome.

We are living a hard moment in my country and even when the art and music help me a lot to keep my mind busy, I'm not exempt of the same troubles that the majority of us have to handle in the day to day: lack of cash, troubles with transportation, worries about the food and a large list that is not necessary to mention.

So, i had to call myself to keep centered.  To feel anguished, worried and stressed is not going to resolve it and by the opposite, it could lead me to be sick and the troubles would be the double.

First thing i did was stopping to see news for a day.  No news, no Twitter.  Just funny memes in Facebook! I laughed hard every time i saw one very funny.

Second thing i did was meditate.  My head was so confused.  The internal dialogue was so intense and that i could not stay focused in anything.  I searched some guided meditations and did my best effort to follow it the first day.  At the end of that day i was feeling in better mood and the headaches stopped.

Next day, i did my vision board.  I put in a board photos of Japan, my favorite J-Rock bands i want to watch in a live, motivational phrases and things i want to accomplished and put it in my desk, so every time i  sit in my desk to begin to draw, i see them and i feel the happiness to have goals that i want to work for it.

I kept adding other things to my activities as listen positive and motivational podcasts and my favorite music to shift my energy when i begin to feel down.

This week i´ve felt in better mood!  My creativity returned, my passion and love for paint is burning inside of me again and i have a lot ideas i want to work on them!

I learned that if we do not take control of our emotions and the way we respond to external stimulus quickly, those are going to control and destroy us slowly.

I wish all of you that are feeling the same emotions i felt for the same reasons, could find the inner strength and guidance to control them.

Keep positive, keep strong! Have a good day, night, morning!

P.S.1 A sketch i did of one of my favorite characters of Dragon Ball, Trunks, in semi realism will be available in my Secret Blog.  Supporters in Ko-fi will get the link to access it! I wish you like it! :D


P.S.2  I am running late with all the projects so please, be patience!  I will be updating the stories soon! ;)

New goal for my Patreon Page

Since i opened my Patreon page, i´ve had a lot of fun sharing with other artists, seeing their works, sharing with the people that support me, sharing my work, etc.

This have been a very nice experience for me because it helped me to be more open to show my work and exchange opinions with other artists.

But i´ve had always the urge to help other artists.  I love to teach others.  I want to share with them what I´ve learned during my years dedicated to illustrations and manga, what I´ve learned about social media on this time and even some leadership experience i´ve  accumulated from my daily job.

So, i will be sharing with my supporters on Patreon, some of my personal materials for doing manga as brushes, screentones, rulers, and i will be doing tutorials and manga lessons for them.

I want to help and encourage those artists with the desire to do their manga / comics stories and they can´t give the first step yet.

I want to give my little contribution to the art through other artists.

More people expressing their ideas, emotions and inner world through images is what can heal this world!!!

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