Finally, 180 days later
The last few months have been quite messy. I kept myself very busy with client and personal projects, and later in the year ...
Finally! I am sooo excited to be back on YouTube! After over 180 days I'm back with a new video, a Q&A answering a bunch of your questions about the illustration career!
The last few months have been quite messy. I kept myself very busy with client and personal projects, and later in the year, I moved to a completely new working space! Who's up for a new studio tour?
New Book is Out!
My latest illustrated book is out! I waited impatiently to get this one in my hands. It is filled with colorful plants, amazing intelligent animals, and all kinds of curiosities about the natural world.
I loved working on it, learning all sorts of interesting facts and depicting all the animals. Beautifully written by Alex Nogues, published by editorial Flamboyant, illustrated by me✍️ Starting tomorrow, the book is available in libraries in Spain, for now in castellano & catalan💛
Best Advice I have
After I moved into the new studio, It took me quite some time to organize the new space, settle in and also leave behind a lot of things that I wasn't using or enjoying, which made me think how easy it is to fill our spaces and surroundings with objects, that don't add to our lives. I've also been doing my best to honor my own advice and take a step back whenever I've felt I could use a small break.
I managed to make some more time for reading, which allowed my mind to rest and recharge and also go through some of my constantly growing piles of books. Having said all of that, I'm beyond happy to be back on the YouTube track and connect with you again over there! I have so many ideas lined up to convert them into future videos to add to my channel! Many things happened in the past months and I'd love to share them with you. But as always I'd love to hear back from you and if there's anything in particular you'd like me to talk about in a video, just let me know in the comments!
The questions you guys asked me were really inspiring! I think many of them would make great material for future videos. Thanks so much for being such an awesome community!
One of you asked me about 3 favorite subjects to draw while travelling and I thought it was really fun, and unavoidably made me think about the art supplies you choose to take along with you. Before every travel I have a hard time choosing what I should take with me, to keep it simple and versatile but also be prepared for all art situations:) And almost always I take with me a tiny palette of watercolors, which is a medium I'm not the strongest at, but I'm pretty determined to keep improving.
Every time I go somewhere, I come back with one sketchbook spread filled with scribbles and sketches. Last week I got back from Barcelona, where I was eating a lot, getting some sun on my face and spending an outrageous amount of time (and money) in the bookstores. One of the books I found in a travel-oriented bookstore, was an artist's travel sketchbook from their journey across South America which was published as a book and sold there.
This is a beautiful way of keeping memories and saving imagery from your travels! I would love to know what are your essentials you take with you to sketch while travelling? Let me know in the comments below the Substack post.
Bologna Children's Book Fair
Who's going? This year I decided to go to Bologna for the Fair for the first time! Three of the publishers I worked with this past year will have their stands there, so I'm hoping to see my books in Bologna as well! I've never been to any book fair like this one before, and I'm really curious about how it's gonna be.
As an artist and a frequent illustrator of books and book covers, I'm very interested in diving into all the illustrated books from so many publishing houses. I see what others are doing, and I hope to follow some trends in the world of illustrated books.
Of course, you can expect a post-Bologna Fair video from me about the event and the whole experience, and if you're also gonna be there, leave me a comment! Apart from illustrated books, my mind is totally set on all the delicious food - all the pasta, pizza and gelato await me.
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Welcome back! It's so hard to juggle client work and content creation at the same time. I'm wrestling with it myself. Being able to take time off is sooo important, and I'm glad you're allowing yourself to step back and jump back in when it feels right!