latest oil painting comission

Put on your hat on and come to the arena! Oils out and some refreshing traditional painting for a commissioned portrait of this amazing and good person bullfighter. I tried to get some loose interesting brushstrokes to express the energy of the moment and the passion of this person!  Hope you like it! :D

Children of the Forest

“The First Men named us children, The giants called us woh dak nag gran, the squirrel people, because we were small and quick and fond of trees, but we are no squirrels, no children. Our name in the True Tongue means those who sing the song of earth. Before your Old Tongue was ever spoken, we had sung our songs ten thousand years.”

-A Song of Ice and Fire , R.R.Martin

The Children of the forest are some mysterious characters that appear on the books of R.R.Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire. They are awesome and magical, one of my favorite stories on the books. As in the TV series Game of thrones they are very simplified and far from the book description, I have decided to design my took on these creatures. 

They are half man, half animal, with dappled doe skin beneath a cloak of leaves, a very old wisdom and a strong connection with nature. Below you can see some sketches, exploring the mixture between animal and child, old people and kid looking, until I got a satisfying design. I will post more development od these amazing beings with poses and gesture. Stay tuned!

New facebook art page and this month character design challenge: PIRATES!!!!!

Hi everyone!!!! It is finally here, I have finally created a facebook art page where is going to be easier to share things and start the conversation. Sometimes I will post there links from this blogs, sometimes special content will be there! Stay tuned in https://www.facebook.com/almuredondoart


And second, here it goes my submission for the awesome character design challenge group...this month, PIRATES! Have a look to all the brilliant submissions here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CharacterDesignChallenge/

"- Have I ever told you about that time we encountered those Italian pirates on Delaware Bay? We had a hell of a time with them!
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- Those were bloody good times, ain´t them? The Golden Age of Piracy!!!!
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- After crossing the Atlantic, we were heading to the town of Lewes, totally exhausted. I remember that day was particularly hot, not even a fly was moving…"

Frozen Fortress

After a year full of learning, there it goes the first design of this brand new one! This time is a finished environmental design, a frozen fortress in the mountains! Enjoy!

Tras un año lleno de aprendizaje, ahí va el primer diseño de este recién estrenado año! Esta vez es un diseño de escenarios, una fortaleza congelada en las montañas! Espero que os guste!

Merry Epic Chistmas!!!!!

From mi desk I wish you all a very Happy Epic Christmas!!!!!!!!

Environmental design!

Hi everyone! I would like to share my first steps in environmental design in the class I am taking in CG masters academy with Aaron Limonick (Naughty Dog). I have been experimenting with organic shapes and going nuts with rocks! They are very rought comps and sketches. More to come! What do you think?

Hola a todos! Me gustaría compartir mis primeros pasos en diseño de escenarios para la clase que estoy tomando en CG masters academy, impartida por Aaron Limonick, de Naughty Dog. He estado experimentando con formas orgánicas y volviéndome loca con las rocas! No es nada terminado ni muy pulido, son más bien bocetos. Más avances por venir! Qué os parece?

Sketch_Dailies:Mysterio

So much fun and relax to do sketch dailies Today´s topic: mysteriooooo!!!!!