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Well, it's been a while since I touched this feature they call joo- johr-... jawrnuhls.  To anyone who cares to read this, this is my update on what's going on in my life in general and such. Be warned, Wall of Text ahead:

Firstly, I have enabled most of my decent stuff in my gallery to be bought as prints so check that out please if you're interested. I've also created an account at Redbubble where you can find more printing options to some of my work that is not eligible for printing here at dA. So also check that out. I am also taking commissions now so throw your requests at me so you can give me moneys.

Thirdly, I entered an animation contest with some friends and were pre-selected as finalists, so that's good. Hopefully we can add a new trophy to our collection of three.

Fourthly, the Illustrators Deathmatch was awesome, got to meet Artgerm, DasGnomo, elgrimlock, Brosa, kunkka, zano, sakiroo, and Santiago Hoisel in person, all supreme artists in their fields and wonderful people and tutors; I learned a lot of stuff from their conferences which were truly invaluable. If you don't know them, you are obligated to take a look at their portfolios if you want to make it as an illustrator. Stanley "Artgerm" Lau is an incredible speaker in all art-related things and how to make a career out of your art. It was super inspiring to see all of those heroes take their time to expose their career journeys as well as make live-demonstrations of their techniques and styles. Brosa definitely took the spotlight in that portion of the conferences. I even got the chance to take a workshop with EdgarGomezArt himself, in which I made a digital piece I'll be uploading soon-ish. I did not submit my work for review by the artists since I don't think I have enough digital art content to show but I'll build it up for next year's event.

Fifthly (?), I got an illustration sold for the first time. The client: the Michigan-base band Stepdad. Truly a breakthrough for someone who has worked for free on several non-profit projects his whole life. Their album is coming out this winter so check it out to see my art featured on it. This is the illustration they bought:
  Pareidolia by Bellick

So yeah, internet shameless self-promotion does work! Hurray for me! I was finally able to buy a Premium Account with that money after seven freaking years!

Sixthly(?????), I will be getting my university degree this winter. Yes, I am finally graduating from the Animation and Digital Arts career at the ITESM. What I'll get: a diploma that states I am officially "licensed" to animate and do digital art stuff. For those who don't know, in México we call degrees that do not involve engineering or architecture "licenciados." Lawyers fall into this category too, and also do all social sciences graduate students. The term implies that you are given a license to function professionally in whatever career you studied, which is weird since I've never known of any illustrator, 3D modeller, animator or cinematographer being required to present a license in order to exercise their art. It is just a piece of paper no one will care to take a look at since all that employers want to see is your portfolio which is why I hate the term in Spanish.

But whatever, my rant ends here. Now I'm looking for jobs and any source of income will be welcomed.
I need a 3DS so I can play Pokemon X. And a computer of my own would be nice, all I have is a tablet which I can only use with my gf's computer. So buy my prints! Pretty please?

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Well fuck, I'm back and rolling! And this time... this time I'm serious.

Long story short, I've been feeling pretty mediocre and beaten up by life lately (something I haven't really talked with anyone) but with a museum installation in progress, a promising videogame development side-project, and the motivation of having won a category in a film festival this summer (I'll be posting a link to the short film soon..., probably..., maybe) I decided I had enough of that stupid self-pity and that what I need now is to get up from my sorry ass and do something about myself and my non-personal life as AN ARTIST. GODDAMMIT.

So... my current near-future goal is to purge and re-organize my gallery so that it actually reflects what I'm aiming for artistically and creatively right now and only post my most heavy-metal-quality projects in terms of technique that truly demonstrate what I'm capable of as of this very moment. After all this time of dA inactivity I finally feel like I have the right set of skills and mastery to become a fully competent artist. You will all be proud of my development, I promise. I've been drawing A LOT and I've finally set on to explore the dark realms of After Effects so I hope I can learn that too and deliver to you -my 3 or 4 dear and loyal fans- a collection of outstanding eye-candy kick-ass stuff that combines what I can do with video and true animation. Also, I want to get some serious exposure and I don't feel like anything in my gallery really meets the quality requirements I've set for myself.

So now, what I'll be doing is finish and upload every piece that I've been working on this whole time so that you can all see what has been keeping me busy and receive some sweet-ass devastating critique so as to improve myself and my work throughout your comments and transform into the kind of artist I covet to become and gain the recognition I desire.

I'll be and all-out attention whore now but I'll also make sure I deserve every bit of advice I get, be it good or bad. Maybe strike another daily deviation or two... hopefully

This is of course fairly uncertain just as my life and attention span are fairly uncertain but I can at least promise that's I'll be doing more illustrations and less pitiful photographs starting now.

BTW, yes we fucking won a film festival category.
www.guanajuatofilmfestival.com…
Look for "Padre Nuestro", that's my baby.
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Holy poop on a stick, I got a goddamn DD, for God's fucking sake, crappers, sweet lord Jebus, mothafuckincredible!!!!11!1!!oneone *explodes*

I never thought I'd ever get one while still alive. I'm speechless, really, and even more amazing is the fact that it happened like two weeks ago hahaha.

While I had been animating crappy experimental stuff and uploading it to vimeo, someone decided a piece from my gallery was good enough to be granted a fucking Daily Deviation, mothafuckers!!!

Pardon my ego, but it's a relief that FINALLY something I make meets the standards of this site's admins to be highlighted for whatever reason they might have liked it, I've never gotten this much attention. I'm ultra-happy right now. And very sleepy too. I should be modeling a piñata, not writing a journal entry that nobody's gonna read anyways.

Well, I think that's enough of me screaming like a fag over this, I just needed to get that out of myself. Thanks to all who supported EYE ITCH and to all of you that helped guiding me through its development. Thanks to my 52 new watchers too, I believe I now double my previous watcher count. Special thanks to SarahBob for being just the most awesome girlfriend ever :heart:. Now I feel as if I had won an academy award...
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Just came back from Acámbaro from SarahBob's family reunion this weekend. Or something of that sort. Overall, a nice weekend until Sunday...



Friday night. Soaked in hurricane waters, guitar hero tuned the night. Grindcore garage rock, grilled steak meat, and beer made up the atmosphere and closure of the day. We hit the bed diehardidly at 1 or 2 in the morning.

roadtrip. fun fun


Morning, nothing. Noon, nothing yet. One and a half hours riding in the car, bombarded by good ol' songs and highway winds.

Legendary mixtape is legendary


We spent the evening hiding from the rain eating in a separate table next to the grown-ups and playing cards (poker to be precise, a game at which I suck aberrantly) and eating again. Met the family in-law, most of them at least I guess. Everyone's always minding their own business it seems. I went almost unnoticed, thank god.

what can I do with and Ace and a Two of spades?


Churros and coffee for dinner. Walking under a veil of rain, covered by a parasol and all those rustic flashy town lights, hand in hand. Perfect space and time.

Bed again.

quickly! get under the sheets! pretend to be asleep


Coke and pizza for breakfast. Coke and cigarrettes for dessert. Happy guts.
Roadtrip back to the city of Los Arcos.

"Home for the weekend, Looking for a good time"


Calm before the storm. The moment I stepped inside my house I found out we had been robbed.
Apparently it seems like they where looking for some specific files or documents my dad left somewhere in the house years ago before he left, since those bastards only looked through the portfolios and paperstacks. The house was ripped apart, they even cracked the safe open...

...


They didn't steal anything of monetary value, my game consoles are still there, untouched, stagnant...; my pc, untouched as well; jewelry, TVs, and for-fuck's-sake even money were left behind. They only thrased our drawers and skinned through every single piece of paper in the house... oh and they stole my fucking camera. Out of everything they could've taken...

fuck...


So no more photos guys... there's no budget for a new cam.





BTW, check out the propaganda I designed for our presidential campaign at college, some of you red-shirts might like its socialist undertone.  
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Clubs I belong to:
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Photography:
:iconcameraartsclub:CameraArtsClub
:iconphoto--assignment:Photo--Assignment
:iconphotographersclub:PhotographersClub
:iconskyandnatureclub:SkyAndNatureClub
:iconnaturpics-club: NaturPics-club
:iconcityscapes-club: Cityscapes-Club
:iconclose-ups: Close-Ups
:iconnature-nuts: Nature-Nuts

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Digital Art:
:iconbelle-art: Belle-Art
:icondigital-artisans: Digital-Artisans

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Traditional Art:
:icontraditional-artists: Traditional-Artists

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Dark:
:icondarkartists-inc:DarkArtists-Inc

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Fantasy:
:iconfantasyartsnetwork: FantasyArtsNetwork

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Other:
:iconwonderful-world: Wonderful-World
:iconprojectearth: ProjectEarth
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