Hello 2015!

So, 2014 has been a crazy and hard-working year... until the very last day!
2 weeks before Christmas I decided to print some calendars, which is something I've wanted to do for many years but never got the time... and surprisingly this year I made it right on time!

 
Wrapping all the calendars was fun but it took a lot of work, thanks to my mother in law for helping me!
(Gràcies per tota l'ajuda, Carme!)

At first I was going to print just a few but as the news began to spread, people kept asking for more and more calendars, so I finally printed a lot more than I thought and... they're all sold out! I still can't believe it!

UPDATE: as I'm still getting requests to purchase my calendar, I'm going to print a few more.
Please if you want one this is your last chance! Send me an email to ariartna@gmail.com to preorder yours ;)

So I've been thinking, maybe it's the moment to get serious about opening my own online store (maybe in Etsy, Society6... or both xDD) so I could sell some prints, bookmarks, or my next year's calendar.. ;)

Please feel free to comment which stuff you would like me to sell, all ideas are welcome! ♥

And talking about New Year's resolutions, I've included "daily sketches" on my list again (like every year xD), these are the first daily doodles of 2015! I want to work even harder this year :D 

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!

I wish you all spend a wonderful time with your families and eating lots of yummy meals! xDD

Love at Peggy's

And finally here's the last piece of my new portfolio!
Again, I've challenged myself and left my comfort zone. This time I've worked hard to include a lot of details and more characters than usual, to give a little story to my illustration.

I love the cute retro style, everything looks so pretty!

As you might have guessed, it is inspired on the movie "Grease", one of my favourite movies!

I wanted to represent the fun and cute style of the 50s with a lovely couple in a classic diner and enjoying lots of delicious meals.

All the illustration is based on two colours: blue and pink. Though these kind of restaurants are usually decorated with strong colours - like the popular black & white tiles floor -, I decided to use a soft colours palette instead, to create a more romantic and sweet atmosphere.

I painted the background with softer and more monochromatic tones, to create the ambience,
and the front area with stronger colours to highlight the characters and the food.

Yummy, yummy! You can tell that painting all this food made me very hungry! xD

A detail of the background.

And last, a super early sketch. The girl didn't even have any clothes on yet! xD

I hope you liked this new illustration, I await your comments!

Doodles: Rinoa Heartilly

This time I've been practicing face expressions with my favourite character ever, Rinoa Heartilly!

Final Fantasy VIII has always been my favourite video game, it was one of the first ones I played when I got my first Playstation. I remember the first time I played it, a friend brought it to my home and we started playing it, with NO memory card xD but we were so amused that we played the whole Disc 1 in just one night, non stop! xDD
After that I got my own FFVIII and I played it for more than 100 hours...! I was so fascinated by its beautiful scenarios, amazing music and of course its characters... I fell so much in love with Squall and Rinoa's love story, it makes me feel so romantic... sigh ;____;

I can say Final Fantasy VIII changed my life, I'm a video game obsessed thanks to it! :D

 Rinoa had everything to be my favourite character: she wears blue - my favourite colour-,
she always speaks her mind, she's a rebel, and she was born in March and has a dog! YAY! xD

I also found this fan art I did many years ago (I think 2009), when I was starting to learn
how to paint digitally and, as always, she was a great inspiration ♥

(｡♥‿♥｡) !

"Harry Potter" fan art

These days I'm building my new website and while updating my portfolio, I found some unpublished works!

This is a "Harry Potter" fan art illustration I made for the fantasy fanzine "Lupus in Fabula", I wanted to draw Harry, Hermione and Ron in a funny way, showing how they go through a lot of problems.
Though the article it was meant to appear in was finally cancelled, I'm happy with the result so I included it in my portfolio anyway :)

And here are a few close ups and details, as soon as I have some
free time I'll make a video with all its process :)

The lovely Hedwig ♥

Though Harry goes through a lot of problems, he always finds a solution at the last minute.

I think Hermione would never let her books go :P

And of course Ron wouldn't have any idea to save himself,
he's just falling down helplessly xDD

Happy Halloween!

Have a happy and creepy Halloween everyone! ;)

Featured on "The Pin Up Art" blog

My ladies have been featured on the "Pin Up Art" blog... for the 2nd time!
As I said the first time, I'm honoured to see my girls on this blog as I'm a big fan of it.

Please, take a look and you'll find a lot of my newest illustrations ♡
http://thepinupart.blogspot.com.es/2014/10/pin-up-art-in-beautiful-fresh-and.html

Thanks a lot to the Pin Up Art blog for this awesome post!