APE Convention - San Francisco

I will be attending to Ape Convention, booth #436A ... just in case here is the address and the dates: Saturday, Oct. 16 (11am - 7pm) Sunday, Oct. 17 (11am - 6pm) The Concourse, 635 8th Street. I will be attending as well to CTN (Creative Talent Network) in Burbank (19th and 21st of November) Very kindly, they sent me 10 % off coupons that I will be sharing at Ape. I don't have them in large quantities so, if you are interested feel free to stop by and pick them up!

Moreover, this is one of the backgrounds from my short film that I'm woking on right now.....

COMIC-CON 2010!

COMIC-CON 2010! We will be at booth 5530 with my good friends Dan Cooney, Jeremy Saliba and Mr. Brian Schirmer. right across from DC Comics, from the 21st to 25th of July.

Monsters!

No excuses for neglecting my blog for so long! so, here we go: These are a bunch of concepts that I did for a project exploring secondary characters. I took these ones and "cleaned them up" from the original sketches. I did several more to reach these "final" ones but they were a little too loose to show...

New book Available

I am happy to announce that my book will be available very soon at Stuart Ng and at amazon.com as well. If you would like to get a copy before, I would gladly mail it over if you e-mail me at Nicolas.villarreal@gmail.com. Thank you!

WONDERCON and NEW BOOK - BOOTH 1344!!

WONDERCON! We will be at booth 1344 with Julian Meyer and Joko Budiono at Moscone Center in San Francisco. April, Friday 02, Saturday 03, and Sunday 04.

Portraits and Cards

SMOKE...

After a little surgical procedure facelift, here is the brand new Smoke....and hopefully the final version. Very soon the rest of the characters.

Estudiantes de La Plata Campeón de America!

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Today is not a post about drawings or a post about paintings, is not a post about lines, cast or form shadows, reflected light or how to try to use colors, is not even a post regarding animation or anything related to it. I'ts a post about my team Estudiantes de La Plata from Argentina, that yesterday in Brazil, in front of 70,000 fans of Cruzeiro at the Mineirao (yes, 70,000), El Pincha came back from a 0-1 to a 2-1 and become after 39 years Champion of America winning The Libertadores Cup and qualifying to the World Cup of Clubs in Dubai in December. Salud Campeones y Vamos Campeon, Vamos Pinchay y Vamos Bruja querido!


Hoy no es un post sobre dibujos ni pinturas, no es un post sobre lineas, sombras proyectadas o suaves, luz reflejada o como tratar de usar colores, no es nisiquiera un post sobre animacion ni nada relacionando con ella. Es un post sobre mi equipo Estudiantes de La Plata de Argentina, que ayer en Brasil, frente a 70,000 hinchas del Cruzeiro (si, 70,000) El Pincha iba abajo 0-1 y lo dio vuelta 2-1 y se consagro despues de 39 anos Campeon de America ganando La Copa Libertadores y clasificandose para el Mundial de Clubes en Dubai en Diciembre. Salud Campeones y Vamos Campeon, Vamos Pincha y Vamos Bruja querido!

Ogre!

Bycicles, cars and umbrellas...

...good luck trying to fly....






..he is one happy fella...

Smiletown and stuff with clothes and fur

....more conceptual art for Smiletown which is now called "The Frolics". The good news are that after one year of production the short it's done! We are just wrapping up the final details and hopefully I'll be able to put it online next week....



....a clothed figure sketch to mix it up a little bit...




And now some animals from today's field-trip to the new Academy of Sciences in the Golden Gate Park. I took my class today and we sketched all day. These were done with a black ballpoint pen...

Smiletown Painting and...

This is the painting from the design down below. I received the approval from Chris Kauflin, the writer of the series of Smiletown Books to post it. This is part of the concept art for the 3d short that we are doing.


DRUNKEN MOUSE...yes, DRUNKEN MOUSE.





So....I walked into my office a few days ago, and I found the box of little chocolate bottles (evidence A) that was a gift, scratched open and 6 tiny bottles have been half eaten/drunken. I asked Terryl (Terryl Whitlach, amazing and extremely knowledgeable creature designer) and she said "Yes, that was a mouse". I usually don't post pictures, but I'm proud to say that : A mouse, broke into my office, ate some chocolate, got drunk with scotch, and left.....provably to an after hour office party.

PS: She did also say that "provably it died after that". So, minute of silence. Rest in peace little guy.

Comic- Con Biker dude

I saw this guy just "chilling" on my way to Comic-Con...

...a little traditional

...A little traditional just for a change, and 2 posts within a week!!! . These were models from my class at the Academy. Long poses, short ones and even shorter than the ones before, 10 secs. That day was a lot of fun, but we ended up exhausted...

Sketches...

....pilot mosquitos and a beach house.....you know, the usual stuff :P

Barbara Bradley

Very sad news. Barbara Bradley passed away this last Friday. Barbara was for every one of her students not only a teacher, but also a mentor and a friend, always looking over your shoulder helping you as much as she could. Thank you very much for sharing all your knowledge and warmth with us very fondly. You will be immensely missed and we will always remember you. Rest in peace.

http://thankyoubarbarabradley.com/

....a tree

This is part of the concept art that I'm doing for a Children's Book and a tv series.......it's a big tree.

www.Sketchtheater.com

http://www.sketchtheatre.com/?page_id=128


These are a few demos that I did for Sketchtheater, I had the pleasure of meeting everyone a few weeks ago and they invited me to draw. Thank you very much!!

....I hope you like them......

The Fantastic For Oz

These are my last pieces for the challenge "Painting Potluck", a blogspot that we have with a few friends. Last week was redesigning The Wizard of Oz and this one was "Freak Show", the subject matter changes every week....go and check it out if you have sometime, some of the pieces turned out really nice.

Sketches!!!

...about time, these are a bunch of sketches from my...well...sketchbook, where else, right? .... some more Thundercats
and also I was playing around with shapes for fairies, cartoon and a little more realistic. I hope you guys like them...

The Rocketter

A design that I did of the Rocketter a while ago...yes it doesn't really count because its old, but come on, its the rocketter!!!!