Solo los peces pueden volar

Solo los peces pueden volar/Only fish can fly

You don´t have to be afraid

You don´t even have to be brave.

Living in a guilded cage,

the only risk is that you go

insane.

Tools: oil on wood

Measurements: 72 x 35 cm


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Lyrics by Flume, inspired by this beautiful fan-made video featuring images from Lana del Rey.

Sueños de Papel Part 2

"Sueños de Papel" is a comic project started in the year 2010, the summer I left design university to follow full-time art studies. The thought that drove me the most to make the decision, was the fact that I had to fight for my dreams- as cliché and corny that might sound. What if one day I woke up with my whole life almost gone, only to realise I had never fought to achieve what I truly wanted? "Sueños de Papel" is about that feeling, about being in a life-turning point.

It was my first proper comic, and the first version can be found in this entry (http://rominasantanaart.blogspot.com/2011/12/suenos-de-papel-comic-pages.html) The first version was submitted for a local contest but it didn´t win. The more recent version (posted here) was submited for another contest in 2012. But it didn´t win either. That news were hard to swallow, but I´ve learned to let go of that bitterness. I think it`s important, to learn when things just don´t work and move on. And I´m not just talking about comics, it can be applied to any aspect of your life . You stand up again, and try. You fail. Try again. And again. There is always something new to create .

Chapter 1 of the second version of "Sueños de Papel"

Tools: ink, black pen + photoshop, to adjust contrast levels+ illustrator for
lettering and bubbles.

"Sueños de papel" comic pages

"Sueños de papel" (Paper Dreams) , is a comic made for a national contest in December , 2010. Since its still to be remade, corrected and translated to English, I only chose to upload the strongest pages instead of the whole story (which is divided in three chapter of which the first is already made).
I hope you like it!
Tools: grey textured paper, graphite, ink, white pencil.

Please, don´t...

 

 An old experimental and emotional work for me. I tried to give that citylife feeling that I love so much, and that I feel specially when I travel to large metropolis. The watercolours helped with the expressive part, and I feel that I achived a lot of freedom I failed at other recent watercolors.

tools: watercolour tubes,and color pencils and white acrylic for details