Another encouraging success… worked on this piece for the Fresno Art Museum Trashique Show 2012 in April. To my surprise, i was a top favorite and just this weekend was informed that the Trashique event will be traveling to LA for the PennyLane Organization next year!!! EXCITEMENT!!!

This is an old piece… created her last year for the Rogue Festival 2012. The Festival took place in March, and though its been several months now, i still love her.

She was the piece that started it all for me, before i decided to pursue fine art as a second career, i focused mainly on animation, always putting fine art in the back burner.  Since Rogue, its been one success after another, encouraging me to continue working on new pieces and giving Art as much attention as my work in Animation.
Thank you Rogue!!!

to see more of my work, check out my site:
http://aicastillo.carbonmade.com/

To everybody... come and join me this July 5th @ Broadway Studios and check out my latest works.
http://www.muraldistrict.com/broadwaystudios.html

Project # 3 under way

Third piece for the Faces and Figures contest is well under way, just the sketch so far, the bottom leg is proving to be a problem, need more work on it.

Ok, for those of you who know me, I suck at Illustrator. Back in the day when Macromedia was a big hit, I was trained in Freehand, very straight forward, no fuzz no muzz when it came to vector illustration... LOVED IT!!! but one day, poof!!! Macromedia is bought by Adobe and that was it for Freehand, I dabbled here and there with Illustrator but never caught on to it. Then Flash came along and since it was also a vector program and the line tool was and is the Bomb!!! Illustrator took a back seat to my creative mishaps of the digital expression kind, but now... turns out that in order to become a Freelance artist, I really need to suck it up and learn me some Illustrator!!! So here I give you my first attempt to Illustrator. Look familiar? why yes... very Kristen Ulve I would say, her illustrations are absolutely amazing, simple yet so much detail goes into them, every single time I go to her site, I drool at the amazing talent that she is and find myself constantly and eagerly going to her page for inspiration, she makes it look oh so easy!!! I hope to follow in her greatness one day and become a master illustrator!!!

Part 2 of a series of 3 for the Figures and Faces contest.

It is slowly coming together and i hope to make the deadline for July 3rd.

I am still working on the name for this one and for the whole series, 

but in the meantime i wanted to share my progress with everybody 

and see if it's as pleasing to you as it is to me thus far.

Thalurania Furcata on the Behance Network

Another amazing artist from whom I seek for inspiration, his style and imagination are unique into its own, based from tales of rich and traditional Haitian folklore, Evens is a Brilliant illustrator who I hope to work with one of these days.


Thalurania Furcata on the Behance Network