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/

Golden Demon 2012 dates

The White Dwarf magazine has published the dates of the all Golden Demon 2012. This year, the GD Spain chage his location, returning to Barcelona, as in the beginning. For me is this is a bad new because Madrid es a more central location, and therefore it was easier, faster and cheaperto travel there that Barcelona.

This year all Golden Demon are so close to one another, in the last 6 months, and for this I think most people who before went to two or three GD a year, now can not to go to many because having less time to prepare new works (and to save money in some cases).

Work in progress

This is my actual work in progress. For now, the ground practically finished (at 80%)

CoolMiniOrNot Annual 2010

CoolMiniOrNot Annual 2010 just is for sale, and in it you can to see two of my works: Nob Ork Kommand, and The Gatekeeper, in the pages 16 and 99

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Chronic I Seville Modeling Contest 2011

On 10 and 11 December, I was in I Seville Modeling Contest, and the truth is that was very good. I have to thank to the organization, because they had only two months to prepare the contest, and in general I think the result was a good event, with great participation, fantastic works, and a lot of workshops for to make the event more entertaining. We could enjoy high quality works of great artists as Juan Jose Barrena (JJ), Rafa Coll, Pepa Saavedra, Javier Molina (Dragonsland),Roi,  Pedro, Chema or The Cursed Monkeys Fran,  Arsies and Piqui.

Of course, there there were areas for improvement,  as the place, that there were well-conditioned, but it was something small, something that certainly is a good sign because there were more works than the expected. It would also be good to change the lighting of the showcase for natural lights for to see better the miniatures. And finally, it would be to project photos of the winners miniatures or to say the title of the work, because sometimes with just say the name of the winner and the category we did not know waht wokt was the miniature winner.

These are small things I'm sure for next year, witht more preparation time they will improve. The contest was a great weekend for to have a good time with friends, to greet others who I had not seen for some time, and to met more people.  I hope to repeat the experience and that this competition will be performed again the next years.

For my part, I won Gold in the category "Fantasy Figures 30 mm scale" with Boromir, Silver with Nob Ork Komman in category "Science Fiction Figures 30 mm scale," and Silver with Firewarrior Tau in the category "Figures Science Fiction and Fantasy of more than 30mm", so I became very very happy. I also had the luck to win the modelistic Christmas box that was raffled!

Here you can to see pics of the works presented in the contest.

INTERVIEW IN SURFNEIL´S BLOG

Recently Adrian "Surfneil" decided to start a new section of interviews for his blog, and he decided to do the first interview to me. If you can to see it, do click down in the signature.

Tau Firewarrior

These are the photos of my last entry for the Golden Demon: a Tau Firewarrior 54mm.

This miniature has been sculpted by "Papah" and painted by me, and I really enjoyed painting it , although he suffered a little accident few days before of contest and I had to be paint and repair until 2.00am on the night before the GD with Adri "Surfneil" which encouraged me and helped me for fix it and finish the base. Thanks my friend

With this miniature I won the Silver in the category "Large Scale or Bust". I hope you like it.

Link to cmon if you want to vote for:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/283532

Boromir

This was my second entry for the GD Spain 2011 in the category The Lord of the Rings, with which I won a bronze in a very hard category with a lot of nice minis. I hope you like it.

This is the link to cmon for if you want to vote it:

www.coolminiornot.com/282982