Artisteada en pausa

Últimamente no ha habido muchos dibujitos nuevos en este blog. Apenas mi nueva oficina/residencia en Prosperidad y Progreso deje de verse como en la foto, empezarán a fluir otra vez las ilustraciones. Gracias por la paciencia.

"La Misha Camiseta"

En edición limitada de una, la Misha Camiseta fue creada con motivo del cumpleaños de Ana Laura del Toro. ( Y no como muestra de mi incontrolable narcisismo)

DIF Xalapa

Monos para "pins" de la campaña de vacunación del DIF en Xalapa, Veracruz.

mishaseidel.com en la red

Aunque sean noticias viejas, los hipsters mexicanos ("mexters"?) dieron con mi pagina... cheken el link aqui

Gracias Trip por la promocion.

Seis Toyotamans se columpiaban sobre la tela..

...uno mas y acabamos.

Hasta el queque

Son las 5 de la mañana y Toyotaman no me deja dormir... Encima de que tengo que alistar una supuesta exposición que tendrá lugar mañana... en Jalapa, Veracruz; que tengo la constante amenaza de apagones y de perder todo lo que se me olvide salvar (por tercera vez),que tengo todavía 2 chambitas más atravezadas y que me esta dando una mega infección/gripa/fiebre... le tengo que dibujar su cajita de herramientas ordenadita al nene...

Sobra decir que no he salido de casa en tres días...

Un dibujo "Malisimo"

Color Study, trying to figure out stuff.


Pencil finals


Second sketch... almost done....



A preliminary sketch for a Mala Rodriguez illustration I'm currently working on.

Independence shirt

Mexico's Independence Day is September 15th... I'm celebrating in style.
(I'm not so sure about the date, might take it out... I have one day to decide)

The girl of my dreams

ToyotaMan

Here is the drawing process for a character I''m currently working on for Toyota in Mexico.

Fast Internet Connection

About f***n time! I 'm now back on track with clients, family and friends.. I have broadband connection again... feel free to contact me... anytime...I still might not be there (I'm researching Mexico city)!!
Cheers!!

Todos los conejines

Me desencanto rápidamente con lo que hago, pero a petición de las masas, aquí están todas los episodios del viaje de conejín hasta el momento....

MY SISTER'S BLOG

My sister finally made it to Maryland to study Cello. She single handedly organized her trip, contacted everybody and gathered all the economic resources to get there. I'm really proud of her.

We all helped her out with everything she needed but even when things seemed not to go right, she was the one that pushed on. You can see the blog I created for her and if you want, please make a donation!

She has a full tuition scholarship from the Columbia Union College for four years, but she still has to pay for room and board as well as personal expenses... She's a hard working little genius and she's looking for sponsors!!

Thanks for your support!

It's official!

I'm now living in Mexico city.. stuck in family life, living with my two favorite cousins and their parents... And slowly but surely opening up to the city I've always wanted to live in... EVERYBODY SHOULD COME VISIT SOME DAY!

At the same time I'm confronting some difficulties while trying to adapt back to Mexican culture... One of them is my big ass two left feet!! It seems that I can't dance at all!! At least not the way people in this city dance...So dance lessons are next on the program.

Also moving around the city is simple but not "New-York-simple", but I guess that'll just take some time to get used to...

Food has been great... Parties? I think I'm filling up a quota for all the times I actually decided to "stay home" or have "dinner and a movie nights" back in New York. But I'm actually hoping that ends soon...

I'm enjoying living close to my family more than I expected it. Sunday lunch meetings, long chats, good food, lots of laughter, Im slowly macerating in the juices of social life in all of it's aspects.

Anybody reading this in the metropolitan area (MEXICO CITY'S metropolitan area, that is) can call me at my new cell 553557-2364 or at my relative's: 555-591117

We can meet for lunch, dinner, coffee, party, or movie...
I'll keep you guys posted.

The saga continues... (more beautiful colors)

Conejin continues to trip hard on Peyote salad and Don juan (the Coyote-bird-head being) guides him out of it..but..Conejin seems like he had a little bit too much and is unable "to come back".

Again, I really enjoy the colors...

Bunny goes psychedelic..

I draw a weekly comic book strip for a Mexican newspaper about a bunny that is an immigrant worker from Mexico in the USA, I'm currently drawing a story about him crossing the border.

In his adventures he'll encounter ghosts, robbers, drug traffickers, minutemen, and Don Juan, the shaman from Carlos Castaneda's writings.

I consider this particular strip above a warm up for the better and more serious illustrations I'm planning on doing of my Ayahuasca trip. Call it a funny "color study", is my first intent on Photoshop at creating something that resembles anything psychedelic.

In the story the bunny is fed a "Peyote salad" by Don Juan and starts hallucinating... the next strip will dwell a little bit more into the nature of his trip..

State of affairs..

Although I'm planning to live in Mexico city, I'm still stuck in my home town, Colima....

I came back to see my mother and to rest and think a little bit about my future. 

...also I had a very strong spiritual experience recently with a psychoactive substance in Peru and I think I need time to process all that has happened in a familiar context.

My idea is to write/draw a story about what happened to me in those sessions, but the nature of the visions I had contrasts sharply with my style of drawing (or my pre-concieved style of drawing), so I'm having to make a lot of effort to produce work that at least resembles what I saw in my visions. In order to do so I had to turn to the work of Alex gray and Jim Woodring for inspiration. I'll be posting the results soon..

In the meantime I'll keep eating the good food of my town, visiting friends and enjoying the good weather... 

Saludos!

Bienvenidos, Welcome!

Hello everybody, I'm setting up  a blog for everybody to keep track of my work and everyday life.. hopefully it will stay on track.

I'm now living in Mexico, so the posting is will be "bilingual", going back and forth between english and spanish...

Enjoy