Been there, drawn that

Forbidden drawing at Taj Mahal

2012-01-26T04:37:00.000-08:00

At the movies! (Jaipur)

2012-01-24T07:10:00.001-08:00

Jaipur has one of the most famous Bollywood cinemas in India. And know what? Don 2 was actually a very decent action flick compared to some Hollywood blockbusters I've seen lately!

Hawa Mahal (Jaipur)

2012-01-23T03:23:00.000-08:00

From my recent trip to India in a Stillman & Birn Gamma Series notebook. Watercolors

Pain and scars

2012-01-20T07:55:00.000-08:00

Dragon Age 2, end of Act 2

DA2- A diary in Kirkwall (XIII)

2012-01-19T04:35:00.000-08:00

So much for wordy pages! From this point on, text-lite record of the Deep Roads expedition :)

Anatomy of a resort (III)

2012-01-18T04:02:00.000-08:00

The final entry. Needless to say I'm in no way involved with this complex (I wish I were, I'd be now at the Caribe! XD) and they retain all copyright about the map that I'm attaching just because I store it in my notebook as well :D.

Anatomy of a resort (II)

2012-01-17T05:07:00.001-08:00

Anatomy of a resort (I)

2012-01-16T04:11:00.000-08:00

The Stillman & Birn Gamma series (sketchbook) has opened a new world of possibilities for me .. :)

... and a speed visit to Qatar

2012-01-13T04:11:00.001-08:00

Starting a new travel sketchbook, too :)

Another day at Chichen

2012-01-12T01:22:00.001-08:00

Because one can't have enough Chichen ...

DA: A diary in Kirkwall (XII)

2012-01-11T04:59:00.000-08:00

Merry Xmas, people!

2011-12-24T02:14:00.000-08:00

Here comes my traditional NDS Colors sketch card to wish you all the best for these Xmas!

Yet another airport problem ...

2011-12-21T05:18:00.000-08:00

I can't believe that a service as expensive as plane trips may turn out to be so problematic and user-unfriendly. Most staff as airports either lie to you straight faced or simply don't tell you anything at all and you never get any compensation for cancelled flights, lond delays, lost connections, etc, they always go to the little trick of dangerous weather conditions (even when the rest of the planes are taking off without any apparent trouble) or mechanical problems. Just because, that way, they won't need to offer a compensation. Cloaked strikes are not helping, either. These holidays I need to make a connection at Barajas and, believe it or not, I'll pay more to get there by train, that's how reliable spanish lines seem to me at the moment.

The mayan riviera beach

2011-12-17T04:14:00.000-08:00

I could easily get used to this ... :)

Mass Effect 2: Personal log of Commander Shepard

2011-12-16T03:20:00.001-08:00

Open publication - Free publishing - More bioware

Time to post the whole thing in a single compilation. This one was tricky, chinese notebooks are not that solid!

Cozumel

2011-12-15T04:23:00.000-08:00

A great place for scuba diving! (do these things bite? :P)

Cenotes in Mexico

2011-12-14T01:52:00.000-08:00

DA: A diary in Kirkwall (XI)

2011-12-13T05:18:00.000-08:00

The people (and spiders) of Kirkwall ...

DA: A diary in Kirkwall (X)

2011-12-11T05:10:00.000-08:00

Behold the queen of pirates! (and check your purse afterwards)

DA: A diary in Kirkwall (IX)

2011-12-10T05:08:00.000-08:00

All work and no play ...

More microbots: sumo and trackers

2011-12-09T05:15:00.000-08:00

The imperial palace, Tokyo

2011-12-08T04:59:00.000-08:00

... is nowhere to be seen. Basically, because they rebuild it on a need basis. I did not know that the first time I went to Tokyo, so I spent some time looking ...

More NYC sketches

2011-12-07T04:58:00.000-08:00

Hana and a nearby beach

2011-12-06T04:56:00.000-08:00

Beaches in Maui are totally amazing, no big surprise there, but the forests in the north east part of the island are also pretty amazing

Torre de Belen

2011-12-05T04:54:00.000-08:00

A classic view, along with Chiado and Los Geronimos, whenever you go to Lisbon.

Aracena

2011-12-03T04:51:00.000-08:00

Do you know they actually filmed A Journey to the Center of the Earth -the old one, mind you- in the wonderful caves of this village?

The long way to Sierra Nevada

2011-12-02T04:48:00.000-08:00

When I was younger and dumber, I liked to hike all the way to Sierra Nevada, in Granada. I used to sketch at the beginning, when I had still enough strength to hold a pen...

DA: A diary in Kirkwall (VIII)

2011-12-01T03:59:00.001-08:00

Time to meet Anders!

DA: A diary in Kirkwall (VII)

2011-11-30T02:50:00.000-08:00

If you are going to San Francisco ...

2011-11-29T01:38:00.000-08:00

Some very quick old draft from my flash visit to San Francisco

Put some gothic architecture in your life ...

2011-11-25T02:39:00.000-08:00

And France has some really nice churches if you are into gargoyles :D

DA: A diary in Kirkwall (VI)

2011-11-24T03:12:00.000-08:00

DA: A diary in Kirkwall (V)

2011-11-22T02:35:00.001-08:00

My fav Frankfurt platz

2011-11-21T05:49:00.000-08:00

My first visit to Frankfurt, back when I sketched all the windows in the buildings and all :D

Paros, Greece

2011-11-18T04:29:00.000-08:00

Have I ever commented how much I like Greece?

BTW, I'm enjoying throughly Joaquin Dorao's book of watercolors in Greece!

Another old one

2011-11-17T02:29:00.000-08:00

From my second notebook. This is Portugal dos pequeninhos, a park in Coimbra where they've got Portugal main buildings built at small scale. Cool place, if you ask me!

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (XX)

2011-11-16T03:53:00.000-08:00

I need to finish this one some time soon!

DA: A diary in Kirkwall (IV)

2011-11-15T02:03:00.000-08:00

Sintra

2011-11-14T04:13:00.000-08:00

A very old Sintra sketch from my second travel sketchbook

and a newer one from last Xmas

You can find still more recent colored sketches in the blog, also :)

DA: A diary in Kirkwall (III)

2011-11-11T02:45:00.000-08:00

Paseo de Reding, Malaga

2011-11-10T02:57:00.000-08:00

Had to do some trick to fit both buildings in my A4 notebook ...

Jardines de la Concepcion (Malaga)

2011-11-09T06:04:00.000-08:00

Oldies but ... oldies?

2011-11-08T05:39:00.000-08:00

These sketches are way back from my very first travel sketchbook. I did them mostly from the car or while I walked from one place to the next and I was absolutely oblivious to any kind of technique I could use to just draw faster. They are very crude and I don't know exactly what came into me to start doing these doodles during that trip to the Pyrenees, but I haven't stopped ever since :D

DA: A diary in Kirkwall (II)

2011-11-07T03:46:00.001-08:00

Parque Tecnológico Andaluz (PTA) in Málaga

2011-11-04T03:30:00.000-07:00

DA: A diary in Kirkwall (I)

2011-11-03T04:42:00.000-07:00

Some Dragon Age 2, just for a change ..

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (XIX)

2011-11-02T02:27:00.001-07:00

Seriously, guys, what's wrong with these people?? :D:D

Alistair

2011-10-29T04:14:00.000-07:00

I did this sketch as a prize for a little contest in Deviantart with this Marian Hawke drawing. The question was who was Hawke confronting and why. It did not take long for someone to find the answer and, lucky enough, she liked one of my fav characters in Dragon Age Origins. How can anyone not like Alistair? He even reminds me a bit of Dean in Supernatural ... :)

C3P0

2011-10-28T04:24:00.000-07:00

Bought the Star Wars moleskine just the other day ...

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (XVIII)

2011-10-27T04:10:00.000-07:00

So we just have to board an abandoned collector vessel, is it? as simple as that?

Venezia

2011-10-26T02:32:00.000-07:00

Today it's one of those landscape days. Have I ever commented how much I like Venice (original, I know :D)?

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (XVII)

2011-10-25T02:06:00.000-07:00

Now that my ME1 log is totally posted, back to Mass Effect 2!

A weekend in Barna

2011-10-24T02:39:00.000-07:00

It is known ...

2011-10-19T05:09:00.001-07:00

Blood magic is never goo news. From HBO show A Game of Thrones, after G.R.R. Martin's book

Mass Effect: Personal log of Commander Shepard

2011-10-18T03:04:00.000-07:00

Ok, no more pages of this. Here I bring you the whole thing in Issuu format. Good reading!

Open publication - Free publishing - More diary

XXXIII World Sketchcrawl: Puerto de Santa Maria

2011-10-17T04:30:00.000-07:00

Albarracin at night

2011-10-14T02:16:00.000-07:00

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (XVIII)

2011-10-11T02:12:00.000-07:00

Game or not, this can only happen to me ...

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (XVII)

2011-10-10T03:48:00.001-07:00

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (XVI)

2011-10-07T04:57:00.000-07:00

Last man standing

2011-10-06T04:49:00.000-07:00

Or woman, at that. My warrior Marian Hawke, from Bioware's Dragon Age 2:

"Seems to me, the last man standing gets final say on who is right or wrong"

Pavilhao Chines

2011-10-05T02:10:00.000-07:00

My favorite bar in Lisbon. Huge, and every corner is packed with the most amazing things. I could draw there for days!!

Shepard in Illium

2011-10-04T04:45:00.000-07:00

Walking on the renegade line ...

The blood is strong

2011-10-03T09:50:00.000-07:00

Gendry, from HBO "A Game of Thrones" after G.R.R. Martin's book

Sneak Peek into ...

2011-10-02T05:41:00.000-07:00

... my new Dragon Age 2 journal! Beware! I'm on a Bioware spree!

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (XV)

2011-10-01T05:31:00.000-07:00

Hodor

2011-09-30T05:29:00.000-07:00

From HBO "A Game of Thrones" after G.R.R. Martin's book

Plaza del Obispo

2011-09-29T03:36:00.001-07:00

Another little square in Malaga, Spain.
Watercolors

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (XIV)

2011-09-28T03:12:00.001-07:00

Dealing with Cerberus the Shepard's way

Fados

2011-09-26T05:05:00.000-07:00

If there's something you need to do in Lisbon ...

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (XIII)

2011-09-23T04:12:00.000-07:00

On with all my absurd assigments and ...
meeting Cerberus! Operation Hounds of Hades

Lord Commander

2011-09-22T04:04:00.000-07:00

Jeor Mormont, lord commander of the Night Watch, from HBO A game of Thrones, by G.R.R. Martin

Canillas del Aceituno

2011-09-21T03:07:00.000-07:00

Quick sketches from the JAI, at Canillas del Aceituno (Malaga, Spain)

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (XII)

2011-09-20T03:25:00.001-07:00

So you thought I had already given up on my silly version of Mass Effect 1? Bwahahahaha!!!

Plus the romance thing! Seriously, guys ...

Stormborn

2011-09-19T02:55:00.000-07:00

This is a portrait I did for a friend and I dusted off my pastel colors for this one :)

Coffee place at Lisbon

2011-09-18T03:36:00.000-07:00

More Shepard

2011-09-17T03:32:00.000-07:00

Plus Gunnery Chief Williams, in the Citadel (Mass Effect 1)

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (XI)

2011-09-16T02:42:00.001-07:00

Presenting our respects to Cerberus ...

A bit more of Malaga

2011-09-15T01:46:00.000-07:00

The cathedral, this time, from the side I like most of all :)

Lord Varys, the Spider

2011-09-14T03:14:00.000-07:00

Long time since my last AGoT portrait, but I've got a new batch ready. Starting with our master of spies

El cementerio de San Miguel

2011-09-13T02:27:00.000-07:00

The San Miguel graveyard is one of the most famous ones in Andalucia. Many famous people was buried here during last century and, hence, there are large mausoleums and eerie angel statues covered in green all around. We just decided to hold a sketchcrawl over there this last weekend and this is what I got.

And this is Luiz Ruiz's superb map of the place

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (IX) revamped

2011-09-12T06:38:00.000-07:00

After I realized I was missing a lot for starting with ME2 instead of ME1, I stopped playing, finished ME1 and imported my Shepard. Obviously, some things did change, so I had to update some pages in my notebook. This was one of them. In the end, I decided to save Ash in ME1, so I could not meet Alenko in ME2. Also, I cared more for these characters than the first time I played, since I did not know them. This is the updated version of Mass Effect 2 Log 19

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (X)

2011-09-11T11:43:00.000-07:00

The side missions, plus enter Cerberus!

Largo Luis de Camoes

2011-09-09T04:44:00.000-07:00

A peaceful squate in Chiado, Lisbon city center. I did this during a wonderful workshop led by Nina Johannson. I decided to draw views following a circle as I was turning to capture different views on my notebook. Watercolors

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (IX)

2011-09-08T05:20:00.001-07:00

A.C. "Ace" Shepard

2011-09-07T02:29:00.001-07:00

Yep, A.C. happen to be my initials too

Another Lisbon panorama

2011-09-06T05:15:00.000-07:00

This time from the latest urban sketchcrawl, at Plaza del Comercio in Lisbon

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (VIII)

2011-09-05T05:36:00.000-07:00

Lisbon panorama

2011-08-29T04:47:00.000-07:00

I did this in Simoneta Capecci superb workshop "Panoramia" :)

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (VII)

2011-08-27T04:40:00.001-07:00

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (VI)

2011-08-21T16:57:00.001-07:00

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (V)

2011-08-16T18:47:00.000-07:00

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (IV)

2011-08-14T18:43:00.000-07:00

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (III)

2011-08-11T16:34:00.000-07:00

Another entry for Mass Effect 1

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (II)

2011-08-09T16:39:00.000-07:00

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (I)

2011-08-07T17:16:00.000-07:00

Now that I've been playing Mass Effect I for a while, it's time for the first log of AC Shepard :D

Lost in Perspective

2011-08-04T05:18:00.001-07:00

An exercise in perspective at Plaza del Comercio, Lisbon, under the supervision of superb Gerard Michel. I'll probably never be able to do it again myself, but it was great fun to draw with him!!

Lisbon contrasts

2011-08-02T05:34:00.000-07:00

A quick exercise to cope with light and shadows during Lisbon USk symposium. The same street sketched in 7, 5 and 3 minutes (aprox) respectively

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (XVI)

2011-07-29T04:59:00.000-07:00

Personal log of Comm. Shepard (XV)

2011-07-28T02:35:00.000-07:00

Not without dinner and some flowers, mind you :P :D