February 2012
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Where a short intermission takes place
I’ve been sick for the past few days, and I’m also annoyed because I spoiled my favourite brush by letting ink dry overnight all over the bristles. Flu makes you negligent, I guess.
Aside from that, I am not unaware nor insensitive to the fact that some of my latest posts recieved an unusual number of notes. So thank you everybody for your support, you made your friendly neighbour...
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Anonymous asked: Hola, Señor. Una pregunta, por favor. What tools do you use for inking? I am apparently the destroyer of quill pens, but I love their lines. Suggestions? Muchas gracias.
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Where Señor Salme feels flabbergasted
I’m doing my best not to seem pathetically excited, but hey, have you seen this post in Matthew Woodson’s blog? Seventh link in that post links directly to this blog. Please read what he says. So, does this means that he actually (ahem) likes my work?
Please understand that I’ve been an admirer of Matthew Woodson’s work for a very long time.
Now excuse me while I enjoy...
January 2012
8 posts
reverse-collide asked: Hello. Your work is beautiful. Do you have a website?
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Where another drawing is lovingly produced
Another illustration for Bajotierra Teatro, plus some process shots.
Again, Black Magic Higgins ink and grey marker on A3 bristol board, and digital colors.
Still more to come.
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Where the true use of colour shapers is revealed
This is my second illustration for Bajotierra Teatro.
Higgins ink plus gray marker on A4 bristol board. Colours added digitally. Same colour scheme than before, as you may realize.
I used masking fluid to get that negative lettering, and I think I like how it turned out. I used to use a crap brush to apply masking fluid, but this easily turns a crap brush into a ruined, unusable brush (as...
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Where promises are kept, despite appearances...
After saying in my last post that I will never post looped gifs, I felt the uncanny urge to post a looped gif.
So here it is. Sorry.
I was talking about my other blog, though, so technically I’m still keeping my word.
I feel relieved.
December 2011
3 posts
Where a link is proposed, and a secret identity is...
I keep a parallel Tumblr blog called Caballito poni where I post stuff that I like. That’s just the usual inspiration blog, filtered by Señor Salme’s trusty criteria, so you can expect to find some astronauts there, along with mythological stuff and a bunch of classy skulls. No looped gifs, no meme cats, no WTF. I swear. I use that blog, mostly, “for personal use”, that is,...
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Where Señor Salme goes to the theater
I am currently doing a sort of collaboration with the guys at Bajotierra Teatro, a troupe of artists I am quite fond of. The idea is to produce a series of drawings illustrating the rehearsals of their upcoming play. The procedure is easy: I go to the place where the rehearsals take place, sit wherever I can and try to pass unnoticed (which is easy). While I am there, I take photographs (no...
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Where prints are advertised
I have finally created an account at Society6 with the unwise purpose of selling some prints of my work. Some of you, kind people of planet earth, have shown some interest in getting prints, so here they are (I mean: here). I have uploaded a good number of illustrations -at least, the ones I seem to remember have been requested at some point. But if you miss a certain piece you’d like to get, just...
November 2011
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Where Señor Salme finds an excuse to show his iPad
Though most of what you see in this blog is personal work, I also do illustrations for clients from time to time. It doesn’t happen as often as I would like, since that’s not my main source of income (or else I would have been driven to starvation long ago). Besides, a good deal of what I do for clients has clear style requirements which make my drawings look like they were done by...
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Where Venus is born, and the benefits of...
Over the last months I’ve been intermittently devoted to finishing a series of illustrations for another small exhibition. I think I’ve already told you about this. And since placing digital work in an exhibition still seems somewhat inadequate to me, this time I decided to go entirely traditional. So I have been using the airbrush again and polishing my not-so-convenient technique of...
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Where nothing really happens
I’d better not do another post trying to convince you that I’ll post more drawings in the following days. Yes, I’ve been awfully busy lately; I haven’t even been able to answer some very kind emails I’ve got lately. If you happen to be one those affected by my lazyness, then please accept my apologies.
I’m still trying to figure out how to scan my recent,...
September 2011
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Volume II
Yes, dear worthy reader, now you know: I’m that kind of blogger. Lazy, almost non-existent, or at least prone to long, unanticipated hiatus. You may call it hibernation, if you wish, though lately it’s been awful hot over here. Will I find the way to write more than one post every few months? We’ll see.
I need to scan some recent work and more process posts are coming, I swear. But...
June 2011
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Where the vastness of Cosmos is praised
Not really.
An astronaut, what a surprise.
I started this one a while ago, but had to leave it appart and do some real work, which unfortunately I cannot show righ now.
Time to move on to something different, I think.
May 2011
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Where red dominates
Packing for shipment one of the Nucleus illustrations, which has been happily sold. Whenever I sell a drawing to someone I feel poignantly grateful, and this is by no means an exception. I think I’m going to miss this little baby, though.
In a fit of egomania I printed a few stickers with my name, because I thought the envelope would look nice with one of them. Please bear with me.
At...
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Where Señor Salme's obsession with astronauts...
A. took some photos of me while inking. She shot my bad profile, you know. I didn’t even know that I hold the brush like that until I saw this picture. You can see my beloved inkwell there, which is possibily the best shopping I’ve ever done.
That book on the table, just at the bottom of the image, is the Spacesuits collection from the Smithsonian. It shipped a couple of days ago...
April 2011
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Where some associations are recognized, and little...
I have updated my website with the Power in Numbers illustrations and a new drawing.
That was based on an Hermes sculpture, but I fear that I have been watching too many Ulysses 31 episodes lately, and it shows.
That reminds me that I used to hate Kurt Russell until I realized he would have perfectly fit into a film adaptation of the animated series. According to many, the same can be said of...
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Where Señor Salme gets his hands dirty, and a...
Time for another process post, this time regarding one of the pieces I’ve done for Nucleus Gallery. This one:
The idea for this drawing was pretty straightforward, as you can see, and involved a skull and something in between a comic-book ballon and an eye —the sort of eye that you can see in greek pottery, at least. Kind of my usual blending of references.
As this was a piece for the...
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Where new work is shown, finally
Some months ago I was contacted by the people at Gallery Nucleus with an invitation to take part in their charity project Power in Numbers. Gallery Nucleus is an amazing site and it was quite an appealing proposal, so I said inmediately yes. All submissions to this project must be “one-of-a-kind original or mixed media” artwork, and must be sized 5” x 7”, so I had to deal...
Where Señor Salme presents an authoritative...
Tracing, for the art-purpose of improving proportions and acquiring an expressive brush-touch, is a most valuable help to the production of good work. Architects use tracing-paper for changes in plans. Japanese artists trace again and again until satisfied with the quality of touch and strength of drawing.
Arthur Wesley Dow, Composition. A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the use of...
February 2011
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Florentine singer
A drawing from a sculpture in the Glyptotek Museum, in Copenhagen. Ink and Letratone on my sketchbook. Yes I know that you can get basically the same halftone pattern in photoshop, but I guess I am an old school guy and I like the, er… tactile quality of things.
Speaking of tangible things, the level of kipple in my room has reached its critical mass, again. A boring cleaning day is...
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Where Señor Salme draws a rooster, and reveals his...
It turns out that all I needed to wind down a little and recover (at least for a while) from a long period which has been all work and no play was to spend a good couple of hours drawing rooster feathers. Suddenly the universe made sense again. For a while. Highly terapeutic.
And just to celebrate that it seems that this blog has actually some readers, this is going to be a how-to post. No...
January 2011
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On some of Señor Salme's inabilities
Many many months ago I bought a cheap clay package with the ambitious intention of crafting an scapula model to be used as reference. It was no super sculpey nor any fancy clay, just regular clay. Having no experience in clay modeling whatsoever, it took me little time to get convinced that I would not even be able to shape something close to a meatball.
Today I found that clay package, wich was...
December 2010
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One hundred and twenty
Contrary to what I (and everyone else) had expected, I am selling some prints thanks to the exhibition (remember my first post?). Sure, they are barely enough to compensate for the initial investment, but I’m almost there. A few days ago a heaven-sent client asked how big could I print my With & without illustration. Luckily it was scanned at quite a good resolution, so I was able to get...
November 2010
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Where Señor Salme perpetrates another pointless...
So I created a facebook fan page (laughs). No, seriously, I did. My first motivation for doing such a lame thing was to provide you, unknown worthy reader, with some means to show me that you exist, however unlikely your existence may seem (to me). I admit that I was also looking for some quick excuse to add that nice facebook icon which you can see in the top right corner of the website (If you...
Prologue
After some months of interruptions and hesitation, my website and this blog are finally online. In the process I’ve learned some php and css, though my coding may still be a little too naive (I’m supossed to have an IT academic background, so I’m rather concerned about this). Anyway, in the end I tried to keep things simple and I feel happy with the overall result. I hope I’ll be...