After Green Whisper became popular, I got contacted by a particular who wanted to commission me an illustration in a similar fashion, but with different creature at hand. This was the result.
In 2008, Royal Flush Magazine made a portrait contest, with Ville Valo, frontman of the Finnish 'love-metal' band HIM, as main subject. I won said contest with this image, also the deluxe Venus Doom version of their disk, magazines, clothes and some other goodies.
There is a technique in Digital Painting whose name I can't remember, and whose dynamic consist in throwing random strokes here and there until you can make sense out of the caos. This was my attempt on these fields.
This image was inspired by a picture of a friend of mine. I sold the rights of use to Mexican writter Oscar Sánchez Cervantes, who used it as cover for his book "Pensamientos, Secretos y Reflexiones".
Half hand drawn, half digital, this image came to my mind while waiting for a plane in the airport. There is something about flying that makes me draw little cute creatures alongside huge, scary beings.
My first one hit wonder. This image is based in a self portrait I took once I rescued a baby bird that fell from a tree. Adding some tweaks, photoshop plastic sugery and industrial amounts of green and this is what you get.
This image was featured in Ballistic Publishing Exotique II:
ImagineFX magazine...
Dramatization
...and has been ripped off countless times:
A friend of mine who lives in Germany sent me this. Seems I am the cover of a Psycho CD.
Someone created an app in Facebook where I was renamed as "Ethina", and you earned experience if you come talk to me. Listen kids, I am wise :D
These are the ones I have evidence of. There are also wallpapers, phone desktop themes and tees, according verbal testimony. Welcome! Some pennies this way would be nice.
My friend Marisela and I went to a lake a couple of hours from our hometown. After the obligated photo session, I choose a picture of her and based this painting on it.
