Best Mickey´s fans

This scene I finished it six months ago, but I have not gotten before have good photos. The idea came to me to see an illustration, and I thought it might be nice if I developed and carried it to 3D.

The process has been quite fast because it was very clear what he wanted and transmit, and probably has been working with the one I had fun with both the creation of the field and with paint.

The title clearly reflects what was the main idea of the scene : The best fans of Mickey. Rats are animals that usually awaken quite dislike , disgust and even fear among the people, and are associated with poverty and "unhygienic " areas. Just the opposite happens with Mickey , a cute and adorable mouse that both children and adults hold dear, and is also a money maker . So it is normal for older fans of Mickey are conspecifics, wishing I could someday be treated and live a life as easy as Mickey.

Here you can see photos of the completed work from various views :  

 

 

But as I said, apart from the main idea, there are other secondary and personal details I wanted to add. Some of them are:

- Despite being a scene clearly fantasy, I wanted to put him elements and historical details, because I like when they are related. Therefore, I wanted to make a connection between the main characters and other elements that can be found and the scene. As I said, the main thing is watching on television mice Mickey, but for example on the shelf found a comic that I own and what I liked: Maus, by Art Spiegelman. The connection of this element with the mice and the historical branch is given because in it we are told biography of Vladek Spiegelman, a survivor of the Nazi death camps Polish Jew, told through his son Art, a cartoonist . To do this, he draws Jews with head of rats, the Nazis with heads of cats, and the Poles pigs heads.

- The comic is related to the soldier photo. This soldier is Werner Goldberg, who in 1939, a Berlin newspaper called it "the ideal German soldier" because of his discipline. He even used his photo in recruitment campaigns for the Nazi army. But in 1940 he was expelled to discover that the considered ideal German soldier was really Jewish.

- Finally, the photo is associated with the image of Mickey on TV, and theories abound accused Walt Disney of being a Nazi in the shade. One of the "evidence" to which reference is less often performed to support the theory of their political inclination toward Nazism, is the movie starring Mickey Mouse 1932 The Wayward Canary where you could see in the house of Mickey Mouse himself a lighter with a swastika. Although circumstantial, the reality is that the film was released in November 1932, right between The seventh and eighth Parliamentary Elections in Germany, elections who saw Hitler came to the power.

Apart from this, I have added other details, but said earlier have a more personal meaning and therefore do not think important to discuss.

I think in the end it has been a pretty scene, and different from what we usually see and do. Hope you like it.

Designing bases

Today I have been designing potential sites for my next figure because I have not very clear where to place it. I thought three options: a lift (outside), a room, or a hospital (my favourite). Which do you prefer?

 

Make good art

It´s important to be optimistic and think that the bad things that happen to us now we can use it in the future for our benefit.

Favole

This morning I received the last artbook I bought. It is the complete edition of Favole, by Victoria Francés.

This book contains the three original volumes of Favole, the best important work of Victoria Francés, in one hardcover volume presented in a collection box.

I loved the design, because I think it´s very carefully and elegant. It contains 248 pages, almost double that the original trilogy, and includes new material as sketches, short stories and poems.

I've always liked the illustrations and the style of Victoria Francés, and  i could not miss the opportunity to have this volume, which I find really good and with a great price.

I leave you some pictures that includes the book and the official presentation video. 

 

Spectrum 18

I´ve always liked the illustration, and when I was a kid, spent many hours drawing, which I enjoyed very much and I was good. Eventually, I stopped the practice because I started with the modelism and free time I devoted to painting miniatures.

But I still like to see illustrations, enjoy it and even get good ideas for my future works.

About a year ago, my friend Piqui, another big fan of fantasy artwork, showed me the Spectum artbooks, which i didn´t know and after to look it, I did not take long to buy one of them.

Every year, is celebrated a Fantastic Art Show where go the best illustrators in the world as Boris Vallejo, Luis Royo, Paul Bonner, Donato Giancola, Peter de Sève, Sam Weber, or illustrators of companies as DC Comics, Marvel, Pixar, D&D, Games Workshop, etc. Only the best works chosen for the judges are collected and published in a book that is published annually.

With the discovery of the Spectrum, I have gradually been acquiring different types of artbooks, which I like to browse over and over again carefully from time to time.

In this post I want to present the last one I bought, that I received last week: Spectrum 18, which is precisely the yearbook of 2011.

Down you can to see the cover and a demostration video, and I recommend it to everyone who love the illustration.

Official website: http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com/