DRAWING WINNER PORTRAIT

At the time that my Spanish Facebook page reached 500 followers, I did a drawing to celebrate. Now that she have received it, here's a picture of the winner :)

Thanks to all who participated, when I reach 1000 followers I will do another! XD

PORTRAIT FOR A WEDDING PRESENT

Ups..., I forgot to take a picture of the framed drawing ... Congratulations to the happy (that's obvious) couple. :)

BOOKMARKS

I needed a bookmark and became one with things I had at home (watercolor paper, a red cord and some wooden beads):

After watching it, my niece asked me one for her ... so I did four models to choose:

Being a small piece of watercolor paper (16x5cm)  I used simple geometric designs (those doodles you do if you get bored in class), cat silhouette, for example, is from earrings I have ...


I also put adhesive felt of different colors in the rear, to give greater rigidity and finally punched and placed above color beads.

A little closer...

PORTRAIT FOR A BIRTHDAY PRESENT

After drawing with Autocad few days, I have some time to show you the portrait I gave last Friday.

There were others in between, I will show you some of them when delivered to their recipients. I can not show you others because the people who commissioned, prefer to remain them in the private sphere.

In any case, each of them is a new challenge, reflects different features, a determined look to capture and an illusion for people who give them away ... and of course for me! :)

 

 

Detail

Framed

HOW TO MAKE A CUSTOMIZED DIARY

Speaking yesterday with a friend  about wedding gifts, I remembered that back in 2009, I made a couple of diaries for two children making their First Communion. The idea was to make, plus a gift of economic value and a more personal gift, something that remained over time.

I have not many pictures of the process, but I can tell you the process.

MATERIALS:

2mm cardboard 

Decorative paper 

Metal spiral
A5 sheet of heavyweight paper 

Spray adhesive 

Adhesive paper 

Padlock with key 

printer 

Wood, hinges and metal shutters, adhesive felt and white glue (for the box).

Boy diary

Girl diary

The process was as follows:

COVERS: First cut hard cardboard covers in  A5 size, apply spray adhesive and glue the decorative paper.

INTERIOR COVERS: For the inside covers, composed on a background color (orange for the child, and red for the girl), I wrote a personalized dedication

To compose pages, texts and photographs I used drawing software (Autocad) 

Interior cover and first page

FIRST PAGE: In the first page I put a picture of each child, his name, and of course the date of his First Communion.

INTERIOR JOURNAL: Each page had his name printed on the top and lined paper to facilitate writing.

I wrote three types of pages that were alternated throughout the diary ... one with space for writing and drawings to color (10 different), another with space for write only and the third one with space to write and a photograph of a representative place of the world (65 different) indicating where place was and the country in which they can found it.

 

 

Some of these places were: A port in Denmark, Angkor Wat (Cambodia), the Acropolis of Athens (Greece), a view of Bergen (Norway), a view of Antarctica, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao view, a square of Brussels, ... and so on, 65 different places.

Alguna de las fotografías

ASSEMBLY: Once all pages and covers were composed, drill the covers and place a metal spiral.
Then I put de padlock in the cover.

BOX: For the girl's diary I made ​​a wooden box, I cut the different parts in a carpentry and  I sticked them with white glue.  I covered the inside with red adhesive felt and with the same decorative paper used for the cover of the diary. Finally, I put the hinges and the metal shutters in the box, also with white glue.

Montaje estuche

Finished box

Wrapping

This was the "making of" of two gifts that I did with all my enthusiasm and love for two little people very special to me.

CUSTOMIZED NOTEBOOK

A few days ago, a friend asked me a customized notebook  as a gift for her sister.
Indications were that she wanted "an angel with a kind and smiling face"...

Now that the recipient has received it,  I can show it to you. :)

Customized notebook

A drawing detail:

The packaging, ready for delivering:

TWO PORTRAITS FOR THE SAME PERSON

Here I show you a couple of pictures that went to the south of Galicia (Spain)

And finally some music that I listened while I was drawing: