FernGully fan art

Let's see, how many of you remember the movie FernGully?

I watched it a thousand times when I was a kid, and it's been years since the last time but a few days ago I found out the spanish version was all dubbed by just ONE actor... and I never realized it!
It piqued my curiosity, so I watched it again inmediately and wow... the actor (Ángel Garó) really did a good job, the voices are so different!

As you can imagine I felt a bit nostalgic, and I couldn't help to make a little fan art of the pretty Crysta :)

Love isn't perfect!

Happy Valentine's Day! ♥
YAY! It's that time of the year when we can eat tons of chocolates without feeling guilty at all! (oh wait, I do that every day xDD)

This year I wanted to make something funnier and the idea of a not-greatly-skilled Lady Cupid came into my mind. People often says "Love is blind" or complaint like Cupid did something wrong, well here's a theory of what happened :P

Oops! ...Well you know, Love isn't perfect after all!

It has also been a good opportunity to practice more face expressions, it's so fun!

Poker Lady

A few weeks ago, my friends taught me to play poker, at first I had NO IDEA of what I was doing and of course I lost quickly! haha but now... gosh, shame on them, I'm completely obsessed with this game! xDD

Next time I'm going to try this move, I'll beat everyone for sure! xDD

So, thanks to this new obsession, I used this theme for one of my daily doodles. And I liked it so much that I painted it but in a sketchy style, like this other daily doodle.
I must confess I feel really comfortable with this style and I'm going to colour some of my daily sketches like this, because I can't live without adding some colour to everything I do...!

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 ♥

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