Disney sketches vol. 1 - The Little Mermaid

Lately I felt like I need to take a step forward to improve my skills, to create better illustrations with fluid movements and expressive characters, more detailed backgrounds, etc.

So I've decided to face new challenges! And the first one is practicing face expressions. To make it more fun, I practice while watching a Disney movie and I draw many expressions I see. It's not that I want to simply copy the screencap, I want to understand the pose, the movement, learn the details of each character and its personality but drawing it in my own style anyway...

That's a lot of things to achieve but I'm having a lot of fun xD

The first movie I've chosen is "The Little Mermaid", because Ariel is very expressive and charming ♥
...Next one will be "Aladdin"! ;)

UPDATE: I felt guilty for not drawing prince Eric, so here he is ♥
(also I couldn't resist to draw Ariel with that funny face xD

Night Dreamer

I did this piece several months ago for the zine Quaintrelle, that has now been published!

Quaintrelle is a beautiful new project, full of amazing female artists and the main theme for this first edition was "The Night". A beautiful theme that inspired me and made me think about how much I like to dream... though not just at night, I love to dream all the time! :P

Someone told me this girl looked a lot like Wendy from Disney's "Peter Pan"...
and I think they're right xDD I always liked her so maybe, somewhere in my mind
I was thinking about her while I was drawing this :)

Don't forget to take a look at "Quaintrelle" zine nº1, it has some really beautiful artworks ♡
http://issuu.com/lilliline/docs/quaintrelle1?e=0/8277761

Sailor Moon collab!

This is my artwork for the "Sailor Moon 50 Collab" ( #sailormoon50collab) on twitter!

When I was a kid, I was late for school every morning because I stood in front of the tv watching Sailor Moon, I loved it so much...! Then, when I was in high school, I started reading manga comics and that influenced A LOT my drawing style, of course one of my first references was Sailor Moon :)

Sailor Moon and Sailor Venus have always been my favourite characters, I still can't believe I made it on time to get into this collab and choose one of them for my illustration! :D

Thanks a lot to Chelsey Holeman for making this amazing collab possible ♥

"I am Sailor Moon, champion of Justice!"

Happy birthday, Marilyn ♡

Today's the birthday of probably the most adorable and sensual creature that has ever existed,
the woman that always inspires all my artworks... Marilyn Monroe!

I could spend hours talking about how much I admire her, I love her movies since I was a kid and I've been always amazed by her personality, how she could be so sweet, flirty, fragile, femenine and sensual... all at the same time! She's such an inspiration for me, now I always look for that "sweet & sensual" perfect combination; so this little tribute is my way to say thanks to her... for being so wonderful! :)

Happy birthday, sweet Marilyn ♡  !

If you feel curious, this is the scene from "Some Like it Hot" my pin up is inspired on, 

you should watch the entire movie, it's just perfect!

Daisies for my mom

This 19th May was my mom's birthday and I made this illustration as a gift for her ♡

I know everytime I draw lots of flowers I say to myself I'll never do it again xD but... I ended up drawing a lot of daisies here, because it's her favourite flower. I'm so happy she liked it!

❀ Happy birthday, mami! ❀

I miss painting with watercolours, I'll try to use them more often!

"Final Fantasy IX" tribute

I finished Final Fantasy IX for the first time a few days ago ♡

I've always been a huge fan of the Final Fantasy series, FF8 is my favourite game of all time and since I played it for the first time when I was 13 and got a PlayStation, I've been playing all the next releases, except FF7 (yeah, don't hate me for this >_< ) and FF9... until now!

It has been a beautiful game and I liked how cute the character designs were but I couldn't wait to make my own version of the pretty Garnet/Dagger, one of my favourite characters along with Beatrix and Vivi.

...Now I'm playing Final Fantasy X again (HD remastered version) so...
you can expect some drawings of Yuna when I finish it! :P

Feliç Sant Jordi

It's my favourite day of the year again! 23rd April, "Sant Jordi" (St. George's Day)

Here's the story as I've explained it in older posts:

"As most of you may know, the legend of St. Jordi (very briefly) is about a town terrorized by a terrible dragon, and to calm down the beast they decide to offer every day a random citizen to feed the animal.

One day the chosen one for the sacrifice is the princess of the kingdom, but just before the dragon eats her, a knight appears, kills the dragon and saves her.

From the blood that came out of the monster grew up a rosebush, 
from which the knight gave one rose to the princess."

I love this day because in Catalonia it's a big celebration where men give women a rose and women give them a book (now it's even better for us girls because we get both roses and books! xDD)

So today the streets of Barcelona look beautiful, full of stalls selling books and roses...
it's a perfect day to take a walk around the city!

Have a nice St. George's Day! // Feliç Diada de Sant Jordi a tots! :D