IDEAS LAB- The Art of Eduardo Vieira

Ideas Lab Blog Banner

2011-11-30T00:26:00.004-03:00

The new Banner of my blog, in a slightly bigger size than the one on the top of the page. Hope you enjoy! =)

Sketchbooking!

2011-11-29T23:43:00.009-03:00

Ask any of my friends, and you will find out how crazy for sketchbooks I am. Hope you like it as much as me, so enjoy this bunch of sketches =)

Character Design is so funny!!!

2011-11-29T23:15:00.007-03:00

EAT THIS! =D

Here are some sketches and works I did recently. Let's go!

First one, This french chef was done for a health program based site. I did three versions at the start and then I was asked to mix somethings here and there from the three options, in order to make the final one.

Remember the Red Hot Chilli Peppers post? This Rock Fan mascot was for the same client, but unfortunately we didn't go until the end with the mascot. But anyways, here are the sketches i did for it. I started the same way, did three different approaches for the mascot, and he chose one, and then I made some posed he requested for the guy. I had so much fun with this one!!! =)

... and here are some character design just for the fun... Oh for the fun. =D The first ones are digital, and the two last guys were done in my sketchbook. the first, the old man in hero suit, was done with red pencil and inks, and the last one, the happy drummer à la McBess, was done with pencil, inks, colored pencils and prismacolor pens. I uploaded two pics of him, one in the original sheet of the sketchbook and one digitally treated in case you would like to see the difference. =)

RADUUUUUUUUUGUI!!!

2011-11-29T23:03:00.003-03:00

Just for the fucking fun of it. Oh, how I love Street Fighter. =)

Reddie

2011-11-29T22:54:00.004-03:00

This is a poster I did of Red Hot Chilli Peppers, as a freelance job. This was so fucking funny to do, I had total freedom over the process, style, finishing style, etc, which is something really rare to happen. I think the general design of the poster is very simple and could be better, but really like how the characters turned out. I'm uploading some shots of the characters if you want to see it better. =)

WHAT? NEW POSTS???

2011-11-29T22:17:00.008-03:00

HOLY GOD!!! THERE'S SOMEONE TAKING CARE OF THIS BLOG AGAIN!!! =D

Hey everybody! Long time no see! If some of you follow my deviantart (http://eduardovieira.deviantart.com/), you may know that I moved from my hometown, Fortaleza, to São Paulo, the biggest city in Brazil, in the end of last year (november 1st), to work as a 2D Concept Artist at Glu Mobile (http://www.glu.com/). What you didn't know is that I'm coming back home in one week. =)

São Paulo was an amazing experience, I learned a lot there, working at Glu. I learned a lot there, both with the work and with all the fellow artists! But due to some personal things, I'm coming back to my hometown, which is something amazing! =D

And now that I have some free time, I would like to come back to my beloved blog and give it some life again! As you can see, I have a new banner, a new signature, and here are some fresh drawings... I'll put a lot of stuff I've been working on, since last year. I'll make this long time without updates worth the wait!

Here are some storyboards I did during december 2010- march 2011, tell me what you think!

Want Moaaaaaar images? Here we go! These happy zombies (oh I like them soooo much XD ) Were part of a brainstorm process for a game I've worked on. Unfortunately, during the process, the zombie idea was abandoned, but hey, I still love these little guys, and i think there's no problem introducing them to you. I really want to pay them a visit and finish these sketches. =)

Some more ideas, some more brainsotorming: This is another bunch of sketches for a rejected project, so I think there's no worries showing them. The idea here was a Bang Bang Dead town, full of funny and charming western ghosts. I really think this was a very good idea that could lead to some amazing game, but unfortunately it didn't work out. Anyways, hope you like the sketches! =)

Despicable Minion

2010-09-02T19:03:00.005-03:00

CLICK DOWNLOAD FOR FULL VIEW PLEASE!

ENGLISH: Just Watched "Despicable Me" yesterday night with the work crew. I have to confess I wasn't expecting much more than a shitty movie, but I surprised myself with it. Very funny story, and AWESOME designs by the always great Carter Goodrich and Sergio Pablos. If you watched the movie, you will know what is this silly little thing the Minion is holding (BTW, these little creatures deserve one solo movie). Ah, Does anyone knows if there's an "Art of" book of it? I tried looking for, but no clue yet. Anyone has any info about it? Well, that's it! I hope you like it!

PORTUGUÊS: Assisti "Meu Malvado Favorito" ontem, com a galera do trabalho. Devo dizer que me surpreendi, pois esperava um filme bem bostinha. Quando vi os trailers, achei que o filme não tivesse nada com nada, mas a história é bem amarrada. Roteiro bacana e designs sempre sensacionais, dos mestres Carter Goodrich e Sergio Pablos. Se você assistiu o filme, sabe que besteirinha é essa que o Minion está segurando. Esse é um dos momentos mais legais do filme na minha opinião, hehehehehe. Aliás, esses minions são tão legais, mas TÃO legais, que mereciam um filme só deles! Ah, alguém sabe se existe um artbook do filme? Procurei feito doido e não achei, nem no Ebay, nem no Amazon. Bom, é isso, galera! Espero que gostem!

New Illustrations

2010-08-30T20:25:00.004-03:00

ENGLISH:

Hey gang!

New works around. I'm working in my 2011 portfolio and these are some pieces I did for the environment session. You can notice that this is a b it more defined than the major part of my works. I used to love this level of detail in my pieces, but I decided to shoot for a cleaner line of works. Now I'm trying to go back in the details in search of a better quality. Not that i think that clean works doesn't have a quality level, but I'm aiming to get to a superior level with these works, because when I'm dealing with a big amount of details is easier to see how to dispose interest areas. So, when I go back in cleaner pieces, I can decide better how to use the limited number of details. =)

I hope you all like it!

PORTUGUÊS:

E aí pessoal!

Novos trampos por aqui. Estou trabalhando no meu portfolio 2011 e estas são algumas das ilustras que fiz pra parte de cenários. Vocês podem notar que estes desenhos estão um pouco diferentes da maioria dos meus trabalhos usuais. Eu adorava aloprar nos detalhes, a uns dois anos atrás, mas acabei indo pruma linha de desenho mais limpinha, com menos linhas. Agora eu estou voltando a fazer trabalhos mais detalhados, em busca de uma qualidade melhor neles. Não que eu ache que trabalhos com poucas linhas não possam ter qualidade; muito pelo contrário. O que acontece é que, pra mim, lidar com uma quantidade maior de detalhes me possibilita visualizar melhor a distribuição das áreas de interesse da figura, então, quando eu voltar aos trabalhos mais "limpos", vou ter maior controle sobre o número limitado de detalhes. =)

Espero que gostem!

Pre-Production for TV Advertising (Brazil)

2010-08-16T21:20:00.020-03:00

ENGLISH:

Hey trolls and trollettes!

I did a freelancer job in january for a company here in Brazil (Tribbo Post) in the pre-production of a national advertising campaign for Chevrolet. It was intitulated "Mundo Encantado das Facilidades Chevrolet" (Something like "Chevrolet's Wonderland", in lack of a better translation) and had a very ludical mood related to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. The 30 second TV advertising aired last monday (August 9th), and since I created one of the concepts for the environment, I'd like to share with you some links related to it, and also a little part of the process.

30 sec TV advertising (in portuguese)

Official Chevrolet site for Brazil

It was a long work, that asked for a lot of research, and for something near 30 hours of intense work. But it was worth the effort. I hope you all like it!

Cheers! =)

PORTUGUÊS:

E aí macacada!

Em janeiro deste ano, trabalhei junto a uma produtora de São Paulo (Tribbo Post- agradecimentos ao Luiz Adriano pelo contato, paciência e pela oportunidade!) na pré-produção de uma campanha nacional da Chevrolet. A campanha teve como título "O mundo Encantado das Facilidades Chevrolet", e tem um clima lúdico inspirado no Universo de Alice no País das Maravilhas, de Lewis Carroll. A campanha foi ao ar no dia 9 de agosto (segunda feira passada). Eu criei um dos concepts do cenário, e gostaria de compartilhar com vocês os links com um pouco da repercussão, a versão final da propaganda (que por sinal, ficou lindona!!!) e um pouco do processo.

VT Mundo Encantado das Facilidades Chevrolet

Chamada no Site Chevrolet com profile dos personagens e dados da campanha

Matéria no "Saiu da Garagem" (site de publicidade automotiva)

Foi um trabalho longo, que exigiu uma boa pesquisa de referência, e um bocado de mão de obra (foram aprox. 30 horas trabalhando nessa imagem- a versão em alta da imagem tem quase 1 giga). Espero que gostem, e que possa servir de inspiração!!!

Um abraço a todos. =)

Greetings!

2010-07-20T22:36:00.004-03:00

ENGLISH:

One more freelance job for the Brazilian Magazine called "Mundo Estranho". This time, the subject was about the most used greetings in the world and their origins/meanings. I did this one in a real hurry but it was fun. Mundo Estranho, Editora Abril. Issue 101, July, Pages 44-45.

PORTUGUÊS:

E aí, galera! Mais um freela que eu fiz pra Mundo Estranho, dessa vez a matéria é sobre as saudações mais usadas no mundo e suas origens/significados. Essa ilustra foi feita numa carreira só, mas foi bem divertida de fazer. Mundo Estranho, Editora Abril. Edição 101, julho, páginas 44-45.

Um Agradecimento especial ao Bernardo Borges pela diagramação!

Posters for Radio Advertising

2010-07-18T17:21:00.003-03:00

ENGLISH:

This is a work I developed for the advertising agency I work at, three Posters for a Radio campaign. Hope you like it! =D

PORTUGUÊS:

Esse é um dos trampos que fiz lá na agência. Três pôsteres que fiz pra uma campanha de rádio.

PIRATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!

2010-07-18T17:06:00.003-03:00

ENGLISH:

As the title says, "PIRATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!" =D

PORTUGUÊS:

O título já disse tudo... "PIRATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!!!" =D

Sacred Seasons 2- In Game Arts

2010-07-18T16:53:00.003-03:00

ENGLISH:

I was responsible for making some of the in-game arts for the game SACRED SEASONS 2 ( see the game HERE). These are my pieces for the game. It´s a great MMORPG that has a big number of amazing artists working at it. These drawings are the "graphics" of the game: I did all elements of the characters (upper and lower arms, hands, head, chest, waist, upper and lower legs, feet and some extra elements like clothes and weapon) in separate layers so they can be animated. What you see here is what you will find in the game. Please, jump there and play it, coz I gave my fucking ass for you to have a bunch of fun, and I'm sure all people that worked at it did the same!!! =P

Thanks to Emerald City Games for the Great opportunity!

PORTUGUÊS:

Há poucos meses atrás, tive a oportunidade de trabalhar no game Sacred Seasons 2 um MMORPG muuuuuuito bacana (Acesse o game AQUI). Uma equipe grande, com vários ótimos artistas, trabalhou nesse jogo. Eu fiquei responsável por fazer os "gráficos" de alguns dos personagens. Minha missão era fazer os personagens com todos os elementos articulados, separados por camadas, para que uma outra equipe da empresa fizesse as animações do game. Então, eu tinha que separar cada elemento articulado (cabeça, tronco, antebraço esquerdo e direito, braço esquerdo e direito, mão esquerda e direita, cintura, coxa esquerda e direita, perna esquerda e direita, e pé esquerdo e direito) em uma camada diferente num arquivo de photoshop. Resumindo, uma trabalheira do caralho, mas que no fim das contas foi sensacional de fazer. O mais legal é que os desenhos que você vê aqui, nas imagens, são exatamente o que você vai ver nos gráficos do game. Então, vai lá! Dá uma clicada aí no link e acessa o jogo, ao menos pra dizer que você viu! Eu tive uma trabalheira danada, e você não vai nem dar uma olhadinha?!? Que sacanagem! =D

Abraços a todos!!!

World Cup Heroes!

2010-07-18T16:37:00.005-03:00

ENGLISH:

Hey everybody!!!

Long time, no see, people! Sorry for the lack of updates recently, I was getting mad at my regular job. I'll be more constant now that I kinda put my life in order =D

Here is a work I did a few days before the world cup for a brazilian magazine. It's about the "Secret Weapons" of some of the Teams that played the World Cup (and now that the cup is over we saw that these secret weapons didn't worked very well...) They hired me to make linework for caricatures of Lionel Messi from Argentina, Luis Fabiano from Brazil, Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal and Wayne Rooney from England. They also asked me to add some little elements from the african warriors, like spears and shields, and also the thing of Luis Fabiano inside two cubes, for mixing with part of the text they made. I really had fun with this work, I hope I can keep working in editorial things coz it's something I really like. =D

PORTUGUÊS:

E aí, galera!!!

Tempão sem pisar por aqui, mas aí ouvi o blog chorando... "Me atualize! Me atualize!" O ritmo de trabalho lá na Agência tá bem puxado, mas tô conseguindo organizar melhor meu tempo agora, e voltarei a produzir e postar mais do que apenas os trampos que faço lá. =D

Fiz esse trabalho aqui uns vinte dias antes da Copa, pra uma revista de circulação Sul-Sudeste chamada Berrini. A matéria era sobre as "Armas Secretas" de algumas das seleções da copa, armas que inclusive nem foram usadas, hehehehe. =P

Pois bem, o caso aqui era fazer umas caricas do Messi, do Luis Fabiano, do Cristiano Ronaldo e do Rooney. Eles também me pediram pra adicionar alguns elementos da cultura dos guerreiros africanos, como lanças, colares e etc. Além disso, pediram pra que eu fizesse o Luis Fabiano dentro de dois cubos, pois iam fazer uma brincadeira com o texto, na revista. Me divirto pra caramba nesses trampos editoriais, então espero que apareçam outros. Um abraço a todos e espero que curtam!!!! =D

Illustration for Brazilian Magazine!!!

2010-03-25T21:29:00.005-03:00

Hey everybody!

I'm a bit absent from my blog on the last few days, but I have good reasons. A new regular job and some freelancers are keeping me away from here. I have a loooooot of artwork to upload, but I'll do it only after I finish the works I'm doing for an upcoming MMORPG (more info coming soon too). Right now, I'm uploading one Illustration I did for a Brazilian Magazine called "Mundo Estranho", it's an amazing magazine about pop culture and curiosities. This piece was done for the session "Classic Questions", and the topic is "which is the strongest animal in the world?". I hope you like it! =D

Fala, macacada,

Muito tempo sem pisar por aqui. Ando bem ocupado com um trampo novo e alguns freelancers, mas separei um tempinho pra postar essa ilustra que fiz pra edição 97 da Mundo Estranho, da Editora Abril. A edição é a de março e já está nas bancas! Fiz essa ilustra pra sessão "dúvidas clássicas", o tema, como dá pra ver na imagem, é "qual o animal mais forte da terra?". A ilustra é minha, e a diagramação dos textos e fotos é da Super Dani Domingues, uma das designers da revista. Valeu Dani! =D

Em breve eu vou postar uma tonelada de imagens que tô devendo aqui, mas agora ando bem ocupado com um freela prum game que vai ser lançado em breve, mais na frente conto os detalhes. Fiquem de olho, daqui a alguns dias, muita novidade por aqui! =D

Spy Alien

2010-02-28T16:38:00.003-03:00

Peasant Goblin

2010-01-25T14:27:00.003-03:00

Mr good Guy

2010-01-21T01:47:00.002-03:00

Ok, this is the first piece of a series of tests and studies i'll be doing on the next few days. I went through the amazing artwork of Fabien Mense in the end of last year and since then, I was thinking about what could I bring from his art and style to my work. one of the first things I thought is that he has one thing I love to do and almost everytime i deny doing it: LINEWORK. Damn. i love doing pencil works. I like doing tight defined lines, but since I try to do overpaints a lot (for some reason I tend to think that lineart works doesn't have a place in this world haha), sometimes I forget that I like doing pencil works and simply going on a kind of cell shade style over them. So, after seeing mr. Mense works, I decided I'll start to explore a lot more this kind of work. I'm not telling by any means that I'll do only this; but i want to balance it with my overpaint tries, so, when I want a work with lineart I can have a good one. This may not look a lot different from my actual works and such, but believe me, it is. At least in my head. :-P

One thing I am sure about it right now is that I like cell shading with a bit of painterly style. I mean, a cell shade done with brush strokes and not that "cut" style done with area selection. I like to do brush strokes, so i want to do it with cell shading too. Right now I think I'm tending to overwork my cell shade pieces, since I don't practice it a lot; I need to be more familiar with it so I can drop off all the unnecessary information and leave only the essential brush strokes and effects. Anyways, this is the first try of this new work, and I hope that I can develop it even more in the following days. I really hope you like it!!! =D

Gunslinger Luigi Model Sheet

2010-01-14T23:05:00.004-03:00

This is a model sheet of that Luigi I did in my Mario & Luigi Poster, the last of my Wanted Poster Series , I hope you like it!!!

Passion for Dancing

2009-12-28T11:35:00.005-03:00

This is a poster me and my great friend Bosco did for a ballroom dancing event in our town. Here i'm posting only the image without the text so you can see the whole pic. Bosco did the lines and I did the colors.

By the way, this is my last 2009 post. I'll be back in 2010 with a ton of new stuff.

Ciao 2009!!!

WACOM Contest Dreams: I'm a Semi-Finalist!!!

2009-12-18T13:36:00.010-03:00

Hey everybody!!!

I'm really happy this week with the last news!!!!!!!

I participated of a Contest promoted by WACOM and DeviantArt , The "Bring Your Vision To Life- DREAMS" and I was selected among the 25 Semi-Finalists!!! WOW!!!

There were more than 5.000 entries on this contest and, for me, being among the 25 semi-finalists is already a great honor. But the biggest prize for my work as an illustrator is the positive feedback. This is, no doubt of sure, the greatest reward I could EVER want. =)

The final results come next week, I think that Dec.22. So, till there, Please cross fingers with me!!!

By the way, here is my entry and the original text I posted on it. Here is the link to the original post on DeviantArt: http://eduardovieira.deviantart.com/art/The-Last-Piece-146190728 . I'll also post some roughs and maybe some step images of it on the next week, so please stay tuned!!! Comments and critiques are very welcome, and I Hope you like it!!!! =)

"My submission for the WACOM CONTEST- DREAMS.

For DREAM, I always understood something whimsical made by the destiny. But also magical. A dream can be a place where everything is possible, even a wooden toy prince becoming human, after finding the last remaining piece, a true human heart. And of course, fitting it properly on the chest."

The Rockstar Mummy

2009-11-09T22:11:00.004-03:00

Hey gang!

This is my entry for the CGHUB Drawing Jam 19 , theme "Halloween". Yay!!! =D

I really can't remember the lat time I was so satisfied with a work like this one. Instead of all the mistakes, I'm pretty happy and, better of all, had toooooooooons of fun with it! Hope you guys like it! :-)

Sharkie!

2009-10-31T03:18:00.002-03:00

45 Minute Sketch for tonight's theme on Bobby Chiu's ChiuStream, "Shark-like Creature". Really had fun with this one, hehe. :-)

Knight

2009-10-27T19:56:00.004-03:00

Just studying. And i need to study a lot more yet.

Street Fighter OrigiCharacter Design

2009-10-16T01:33:00.006-03:00

Hey gang!

I tuned Bobby Chiu's Livestream last night to see Alvin Lee's interview, and they had a mini challenge there, the topic was "Street Fighter original Character". This was my entry to it.

Pathfinder

2009-10-16T01:22:00.004-03:00

Quick Sketch. :-)

My second children's book!!! :-)

2009-10-14T12:50:00.006-03:00

Two pieces of my recently finished second Children's book. :-)

Rival Schools- Edge

2009-10-12T17:01:00.003-03:00

A month or two ago I posted some photos of my new work station, and among the pictures was a sketch of Edge from Rival Schools. I had time to color it a few days ago and I'm planning to color the other sketches I did of some character of this great game. Hope you like it!
And doing this Logo gave all the hell of a work.

I've been featured at Design Inspiration.com!!!

2009-10-07T11:42:00.004-03:00

Hey guys!!!!

I'm so happy to know that Design Inspiration.com has featured me there! :-)

Design Inspiration is a site that, like the name says, provides all kinds of inspiration to design and designers. They have an extense collection of topics and links related to logo design, illustration, concept art, photography, etc.

A few days ago, they made a little topic about Disney buying Marvel comics and featured two of my pieces among the 35 selected. :-)

The pieces featured there are Mickey and Donald. I'm re-uploading them here in case you wanna see them, ok?

That's all folks... Ops!!! This is not from Disney, sorry! :-P

I have a TWITTER!!!

2009-09-24T19:03:00.006-03:00

I have a Twitter now! And you can follow me and I can follow you, right? I think that this is the game over there. :-)

I'm now at CGHub.com!

2009-09-13T00:50:00.005-03:00

Hey guys!!!

I just opened a gallery at CGHub. In fact, I had the account opened since may, but never uploaded anything and never did a profile. So now, I'm there and I really expect that this brings me a lot of good news and a SIGNIFICATIVE UPGRADE in my work. You wanna know why? When you're surrounded by insane artwork of guys like Sam Nielson, Gonçalo Pereira and Bobby Chiu (just to name a few), you HAVE TO get better. Or strongly consider throwing yourself from the window (in my case, from my apartment which is on the 12th floor). Seriously, looking at their works give me such a new breathe to run for another level in my work. these guys are easily among the best illustrators nowadays (I have a "special heart disease" for Sam Nielson's works) and I REALLY want to do things like them.

You should DEFINITELY join us at CGHub (and I'm NOT receiving any money to tell you this).

Dr. Destruction

2009-09-11T22:42:00.006-03:00

From the comic book "Lucha Libre". I really like this guy. =)

Disney Buys Marvel

2009-09-02T14:04:00.006-03:00

When I heard about it, I just didn't believe ( a friend that works at press told me right at the moment it blew on the net, a bit before any journal here), but now everybody is talking about it and I wanna go on the conversation. I love Marvel and I love Disney. I think EVERYBODY loves Disney- Is really difficult to hear someone telling that didn't grew up watching Disney Movies, assuming that Disney has almost 100 years. But when it comes to the point that Disney buys Marvel, everybody goes crazy- And I really don't know why. Because people is afraid of the next Spider Man hero crossover at comics or movies would be with Winnie the Pooh? Bullshit. Warner owns DC Comics and Superman doesn't meet bugs bunny at each month. I may be talking a lot of bullshit, but I think that the greatest eye of Disney is in the 4000 and growing up Marvel's character catalog- and how much money it can bring with movies, licensed products, etc. So, I think that the only interest of Disney is to keep marvel characters in the highlights and making money.
Also, I saw that Tim Townsend just uploaded a journal at his DeviantArt commenting he talked with Joe Quesada and everything will remain the same at Marvel. I have a very positive vision about it, thinking about all the creative minds that are now together and all the talent they have. Man, they'll have to be SO stupid to make bad quality things from now on. The Disney conglomerate just did a BIG step to put more money inside Uncle Scrooge's Big Safe, hehe.

Anyway, Hope you like my three renditions: Mick Fury, Ducktor Octopus and Magoofneto, hehe. :-)

Steampunk Megaman!!!!

2009-09-01T13:43:00.009-03:00

Hey guys!!!

I recently joined a competition promoted by Game Artisans , the Comicon Challenge. The guideline of the comp was simple: make a redesign of any action-based character (super hero or super villain) in a different era. I chose megaman. First, coz the little blue guy is super cool!!! Second, I simply LOVE Capcom! Make my own vision of one of Capcom's characters is always a must. And third, There was lots of known characters like Batman, Spider Man, Superman, etc. But no Megaman. Also, I chose Steampunk era, because I think it fits Megaman perfectly... The perfect place for a Pinocchio-like Fighting Robot living his struggle against the super megalomaniac mad scientist that wants to rule the world. Resuming: super cool stuff!!!!

We worked over 5 weeks on the development of the character. I tried some different designs for him and reworked over some of them till get to the final one. Besides the final shot, we had to submit model sheet and workflow in order to make easier to everybody to follow the process. You can see my thread at Game Artisans here . I'm also posting the step by step process here, so if someone gets curious about how I painted it, it's already here. Feel free to ask questions or make comments! Thanks for looking. :-)

Drac Got a Cold

2009-08-27T19:38:00.006-03:00

Poor little Drac.

Frankie's new cap

2009-08-14T13:11:00.006-03:00

Frank is using his new cap for the first time. =)

MY NEW WORK STATION!!! :-D

2009-08-11T14:46:00.007-03:00

Hey guys!!!! Just wanted to make everybody know that now I have a decent place at home to work on! I'm uploading some photos of my new work station (sorry for the bad quality of the photos... hey, I said "now I have a decent work station", not "now I have a decent camera"! lol ) and some sketches I did on the day I changed my place. :-)

I'll scan some of the drawings that appear on the photos and make some tweaking in photoshop, so, stay tuned.

Eat vegetables, avoid pizza and sleep well, don't be like me fellas. Have a good week!

Children's Book!

2009-08-06T19:16:00.006-03:00

Hey everybody!!!

Do you remember a children's book page I've posted some weeks ago??? So, now I'm posting more illustrations of the book. It's almost on the stores now, so I can reveal a bit more of it. The book will be released here in Brazil by the publishing company Edições Demócrito Rocha very soon ( I really expect it for this month) and I hope to come back soon with some photos of the book! :-D But for now, please enjoy the book pages. :-)

Wanted Posters and Sketches

2009-08-06T10:21:00.007-03:00

Hey guys!

Just wanted to make sure you'd like to see my Wanted Poster Series sketches. I think it would be interesting to somebody if I post a bit f my pre-production process here. This is how I develop an idea, sketching lots of possibilities. Here you have some loosy sketches, some tight ones, some just in pencils, some already painted... I had a couple more ideas, but nothing that should add more info than these, I think. Well, I'm also posting all the posters here, in order to have all condensed into only one post. I'm also leaving below the original links, so you can check and see my specific considerations about each.

1st 2nd 3rd and 4th 5th 6th

Wanted: Mamma Mia Bros

2009-08-01T09:00:00.005-03:00

Does anybody here remember these two??? :-)

This is the last of 6 for my series of Old West Posters.
1st is here
2nd here
3rd and 4th here
5th here

And I present you the 6th! Featured here... The terrible Mamma Mia Bros!!!

The idea came when I was doing the 2nd one. I was trying to think about a double of brothers for the 2nd one, and after I sketched out the Good Goofy Brothers, which happened to be the featured guys on the 2nd, I was scanning the drawing and it popped in my head, "why not doing the Mario Bros as a double of bad guys???" The idea seemed sooooo good to me that I immediately sketched out 4 models of them, and chose this one you're seeing here. I just dropped it down till now. I wanted to close this series with them. I wanted to give them the best treatment I could do, and I think I gave a good breath on them. Tried to use good references from Mario universe, as well as a font based on Mario's fonts. Also, there was another thing that I wanted to make in this last poster, is to give it a kind of same feeling I gave to the first. I received good comments and critiques on the first one, on the DeviantArt Community, and it encouraged me to try to make a similar work, but with an eye on all the details I forgot on the first (please view the critiques and comments of the 1st poster here). Well... All these tips I received helped me to make this last poster. I really hope you enjoyed my Old West Poster Series, and please, come back soon to see my newest series of posters!!!!

Comments are always welcome, as usual. Best regards to everybody, and don't eat mushrooms, you may think you're a fox.

Wanted: A Pirate?!?

2009-07-24T00:30:00.009-03:00

Finally, a free time to come back and work on the very near end of my Wanted Poster series. This is the 5th.

1st is here: http://eduardovieiraart.blogspot.com/2009/05/wanted-1-of-6.html
2nd here: http://eduardovieiraart.blogspot.com/2009/05/wanted-goodgoofy-brothers.html
3rd and 4th here: http://eduardovieiraart.blogspot.com/2009/06/wanted-big-snout-joe-boring-rose.html

I saw Pirates of Caribbean a few days ago and had this idea. I couldn't help to think about the same elements bad cowboys and bad pirates has in common, like I say on the poster: Hats, Weird beards and veeeery ugly faces. So, the idea of a different poster seemed quite good to me. It could be different, it could be fun, it could be original, it's just a personal work, so why not trying to make it? The best ideas come like this, when you're not thinking about them. I drew lots of cowboys for this series and was a really hard time to choose the ones I worked on the previous posters, but it seemed a really good idea to draw a funny pirate and make a poster where I could work on the words and on the idea more than on the image, in order to explain the joke. The first poster was something new, but the other three were, in part, a game of reproduction: they followed a style and didn't have a real innovation, just followed the recipe. My challenge, here, was to give this poster the same face the others had, but with a whole different element. I think I just played good on it, and it has the same general feeling of the others, instead of working with this different element. Well, that's just my opinion. :-D

Hope you all like it (or not, and in this case, share your comments with me! ).

Also, remember to don't go too late for bed, this is not good for you. And don't drink too much Rum.

The Misadventures of Scooby-Doo

2009-06-29T01:20:00.005-03:00

My fan art of one of the most watched animated series of my childhood. :-)

Wanted: Big Snout Joe & Boring Rose

2009-06-16T19:02:00.005-03:00

3rd and 4th of my 6 piece series of Wanted Posters.

1st is here: http://eduardovieiraart.blogspot.com/2009/05/wanted-1-of-6.html

2nd is here: http://eduardovieiraart.blogspot.com/2009/05/wanted-goodgoofy-brothers.html

I really have to say that looking at these two now, i don't like them so much. And I don't like miss Boring Rose not even a bit right now. Well, sometimes, this happens, you like a piece a lot when you're doing it, and not even a bit when you look at it after finishing. that's life. Oh Crap.

Death Comes From Above

2009-06-12T18:45:00.002-03:00

Spider Man Illo. I'm Also putting the original pencil sketch here. Hope you dig! :-)

Earthworm Jim!!!

2009-05-25T22:21:00.007-03:00

Man, I really like this fella... he's just so much fun!
I tried a bit more serious look on him, with this one... made some modifications on his costume but maintaining the feeling of the original design. I'm also posting the pencil sketch if some of you may have interest in the original piece.

Wanted: GoodGoofy Brothers

2009-05-11T17:24:00.008-03:00

ENGLISH: The 2nd from my 6 piece series. This time, the terrible, horrible GoodGoofy Brothers. Please, take care with them. :-)

PORTUGUÊS: O segundo da minha série de 6. Agora a vez é dos horríveis, terríveis Irmãos BonsPatetas. Cuidado com eles. :-)

Wanted!!! (1 of 6)

2009-05-04T12:07:00.009-03:00

ENGLISH:

Wandering around some frequently visited links to get some inspiration for illos, I stepped with some good ideas for Old West Wanted bad guys. Here is the first of what I intend to be a series of 6, just for fun... because the Old West is sooooo cool!!! I present you... El Perro Loco! Hope you dig! :-D

PORTUGUÊS:

Rodando por alguns links que visito com frequência pra me inspirar, Dei de cara com algumas idéias bacanas pra fazer uma série de cartazes com caras feias de vilões ao estilo Velho Oeste. Este é o primeiro do que, eu espero, seja uma série de 6, só por diversão... Porque o Velho Oeste é demais!!! Apresento... El Perro Loco! Espero qque curtam! :-)

Storyboards

2009-01-26T10:36:00.002-03:00

ATTENTION: HUGE FILE

ENGLISH: Hi everybody! It's been a loooong while, since the last update, isn't it??? I'll try to keep the posts more often. :-D

Well, these are some storyboards I did some days ago, for an episode of a TV Animation of an Arabian studio. I did half and a friend did the other half. Unfortunately, the Animation whole deal was canceled and it gave me such a headache. I was really pissed off because of this, but anyways, I can use it as a portfolio... Now that it is not a classified material anymore, I think I can share it with you all. Hope you enjoy! :-)

PORTUGUÊS: Olááááá!!! Faz um bom tempo, desde o último post, não? Eu vou tentar ser um pouco mais frequente nas postagens, tudo bem? :-D

Essas são algumas páginas de um storyboard que dividi com um amigo, para um desenho animado p/ TV, de um estúdio árabe. Infelizmente, o episódio nunca irá ao ar porque o trabalho foi cancelado. Isso me deixou muuuuuito P da vida, mas, de qualquer forma... posso usar como portfólio. É a vida. vivendo e aprendendo. Sim, e agora que o material não é mais sigiloso, acho que já posso dividir com vocês. Espero que gostem! :-)

Ariel The Little Mermaid

2008-11-14T10:24:00.000-03:00

ENGLISH:
My fan art version of Ariel... hope you all like it!!! Comments are welcome. :-D

PORTUGUÊS:
Minha versão fan art da Ariel! Comentários são bem vindos! :-D

Hi Everybody!

2008-11-14T09:20:00.001-03:00

ENGLISH:
Everybody Else is blogging, I'll start to do it too. :-)

PORTUGUÊS:
Como todo mundo está "blogando", eu vou na onda. :-)