Son of Dawn

I'm currently working on self publishing an online graphic novel (yeah, like, finally there will be something good to read in this blog). The tentative title is "Son of the Dawn", or "Son of the Morning Star"....something like that, I'm still not sure...

The drawing process has been a hard one..I confess I'm not really consistent with my character's appearances and also drawing the story that I want to tell requires a lot of drawing "whatever , whenever" so there's no chance of tricking, or cropping the shots.

I'm going the whole way with the drawing process: I sketch, I clean up and then I trace everything again in illustrator, I later add textures and color correct in photoshop...

The main character at the top title of this blog was created that way.

The story itself is complicated, but it involves a mystic force responsible for the creation of the universe, a family drama, an African civil war conflict and a reality show series of a racing Derby. "Lot's of crap rolled into one thing will surely make an interesting story" was my thinking, hopefully you guys will like it...

Almost...

Artaud Final

Couldn't wait

Artaud progress 2...

More on the previous illo: It was done fully digital, tracing and coloring everything on a wacom intuos 4 tablet. All sketching and finals were done on photoshop CS5 with no traditional "pencil on paper" planning whatsoever. I'll post the final when it gets printed! Enjoy looking at some of the processes in the meantime...

Artaud progress 1...

Illustration for literature magazine Los Suicidas #5 (The Suicidals). Issue five's theme is madness, and the above illustration is accompanying an essay on Antonin Artaud. Keep posted for more progress.

Blog Feeds

Now Feeds from my blog directly on Facebook.

Currently working on...

I'm working on a children's book story... I'm still sketching and finishing stuff up. These are some color samples I'm still polishing out... More to come.

At some point I worked at an office....

For the first year back in Mexico I worked at an office. Games Distributor Mexico.

There I worked on many projects, many media and learned a lot. I designed all of their visuals and was the director of the Creative Department. You can see their website here.

Sigipablo

Many of you have seen it, many of you have not...Sigi Pablo is a photographer from Colima Mexico, and a good friend of mine. I did the design of his new website and new logo. The guys from idealweb programed it. Click on the links, plenty of stuff to see.

At some point I got some stuff in a show...

It may be old news..but stick with me I´m giving you guys an update on the last 3 years.. My friends at mindsoup had a showcase of local artists from Colima in the Consumo Amor event which also featured a live auction of the work. Two of my pieces were shown there.

"Digital Media" Brochure for Centro

I was asked to create an Illustration for Centro for their new Digital Media course.

The large illustration with the big type at the right is the version closest to what ended up being printed. The rest represent the process of creating it. Many changes happened. Overall I'm happy with the finished product.

Ayahuasca vision

It's been more than three years now since I flew to Peru to drink the sacred medicine of Ayahuasca, a powerful psychotropic substance that no doubt changed my life.

It was a scary, and profound experience that opened my perception and understanding of life and reality. The visions have faded away, the lessons forgotten, the messages are now out of context... but I'm still hoping that some day I will be able to draw my experience in full.

It just seems that whatever I come up with doesn't do justice to the experience. Nevertheless this is some of the stuff that references it that I'm most pleased with.

The first image is a straight forward recollection of a vision where death was represented by fear, and by not letting go of that fear I wasn't able to transcend a cycle of repetitive occurrences. Meanwhile I was freaking out, crying and screaming my lungs out.

the second image is an attempt to narrate a story which involved the shamanistic aspects of ayahuasca. There is still more around to show...

Render of Building in Shangai.

I'm not sure what the status of this job is, but I couldn't wait to share it with you guys, when the time is right I'll show you some more.

ZARAMBEQUE

I proudly showcase the work I did for my friends from Zarambeque, a traditional folk music band from Veracruz, Mexico, that has a contemporary twist.. I did the image, logo, designed (and programed) their website, and also designed the cover for their first cd.

Rooftop Party Flyer

Fireflies

Proposed design for a restaurant window that never happened.

Currently working on....

More Ari Brickman

ARI BRICKMAN

Over the last to years I have collaborated with my good friend Ari Brickman, he sings, he acts, he dances..What CAN'T he do?!!
I have worked with him specifically on his last solo album "Todo Este Querer" (Which can be roughly translated into "All this Loving"). I made the illustrations and took care of the case and booklet design (a first for me). Later on I designed his website and an EPK. Overall it was a very rewarding experience.

Aquí vamos otra vez...

I'm redesigning my new site and uploading all the new work..yep there is new work...After a 3 year hiatus I´m finally compiling all of it and uploading it for your viewing pleasure. Hopefully it will become a habit...(I say that every year)

In the meantime there is this blog...where you can catch up with some of the work that was done not only in the illustration field, but also some web design, some personal projects as well as the progress of some of this work.

Enjoy

Proximamente...

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