04 - Long time no see + Monofighters

Holy cow!! It's been AGES since I last posted here! Almost a year! It's such a pity that I couldn't keep up with this blog, haha. I'll try to keep it running though, as this is a place in which I can post pictures without worrying about copyright issues (unlike deviantART).
Soo...wow...it's been so long I feel like this post should be VERY lengthy. But I don't think it would be very ethic to post a bible text attack, haha. As if anyone read this thing anyways...
But where to start!! Well...last time I posted something was back in October 2007...woah...for the first part I think what deserves a bigger mention is my trip to Guadalajara in December of the same year. The reason I went there was to see Björk give her first concert in my country, but that wasn't the most remarkable thing that spawned from the voyage. What I'm most grateful about is that I found people that would later on become some of my dearest friends ever. I never imagined things would turn out this way, and it's an interesting twist life gave.
You'll see, I can't say I was completely happy about the concert. I spent LOADS of money (the tickets alone were 120 dollars, which is outrageous for a single night festival, add to that traveling expenses and such, and it wasn't cheap at all!), and the concert itself wasn't very satisfying for me. I guess I built a very idealized image of what a Björk concert would be in my head, only to be disappointed by what came in reality. However...thanks to that concert I met incredible people that have marked me for my whole life. These people are a part of an independent studio I now am a part of called Cloverian, and well...appart from giving me new ideas to fulfill, they have given me another family by introducing me to some other people. I can't say I haven't learned anything with the friends I have had before December, but I believe every new person that comes into your life can teach you something new about living and about yourself, and with so many new dear friends I have gotten a clearer vision of my life, my future, and who I am. Of course, the people from Guadalajara haven't been the only people to influence my life so greatly. Some friends from all over the world have also come across my little self, much to my happiness!!

Anyways! It's been enough sweet talk about my short life now, hasn't it?! Let's move on to what was the original reason of this little blog, and that is of course, my personal projects.
The newest is titled Monofighters, and will be hosted monthly in Cloverian. I won't talk much about the plot right now, but I'll say it all starts with 16 people with unusual abilities and even more unusual pasts that get enroled into a tournament to fight for a mystical artifact that can grant any wish to whoever earns it. However, the plot soon develops into a much more complex argument, in which of course the future of the universe itself may be at peril. The original story was written by my good friend Zeo, or Celph, however you want to call him, and was put in motion as an online RPBlog game that goes by the same name. However, my story will be nothing but an adaptation of the original, so a lot of tweaks and changed will be in effect of my own writing. Anyways, I trust the end result will be good, as a lot of people have put their faiths in me. And in a little bit of a promotion I'll leave you with some teaser images of the story.


Promotional poster with most of the main characters.
And a concept design of a creature that will make it's appearance later in the story.
I think it's noticeable how I've had a lot of time to practice with Painter IX, as both of these pictures were crafted with that software. The first one used pencil lineart and colors with Painter and Photoshop, and the second was completely drawn in Painter... Oh no wait, I drew the sketch in Open Canvas, because it's a lighter program. But well, you get the idea, haha.