In this month I haven't posted too much, this is because I'm very immersed in some projects. One of them is this video in YouTube with my fractal art. I'm enjoying very much writing in this weblog. And many people have written to my e-mail talking about how much this site has been very inspirational for them. It's also for me. I'm writing about a lot of very inspirational topics for artist and writers. When someone makes something artistic needs stories and characters in which to inspire themselves. Writing about fantasy, tales, mythology... This has born in me a big need to show my vision about all that. And I'm doing fantasy artworks. Here you can see some. In the future I will make free wallpapers of my fantasy artworks. Thank you for your support. Thank you my readers for being as you are.

Halloween is near and I'm going to make you a proposal so you can surprise everybody. Following you can find some Halloween make up tutorials. They go from the easiest (that anybody can do, witch cheap materials that you can find elsewhere) to some harder. Sometimes I have done make up for theater and cinema. So I will try to give you some tricks I learned in addition to the tutorials. I bet you won't go unnoticed. It will be fun. Skeleton Makeup This tutorial explains step by step how to do a skeleton face. Remember it doesn't have to be perfect. Instead of buying a latex cap you can use a swimming cap and paint it well, or if you prefer use a hood to cover the head. With a scythe you may look like the Death. Vamp You can make up yourself for Halloween, but stay nice. Remember to enfathise the eyebrow's curve, and paint the lips in red or black. Mummy A classic one. You won't be recognised for sure. You can also paint some portions of the gauzes in red. And the part of the face that can be seen can be painted in dark so it feels deeper. There are some fantasy contact lenses that may be good accesory for this custome. Cat Make Up The nose and mouth are the most important elements of this make up. In children this make up looks great because they tend to have a small nose, and the secret of this make up is to hide the nose. Witch This is the kind of make up that need accesories: a good broom, or a cauldron. It's also fun to add hairy spots in the face using fake flesh and hair. Zombies This make up needs latex. Remember to use the latex firstly in a small portion of the skin to test if it produces allergy. Latex is applied with small sponges that you must use only once. It has a strong smell. It must be applied in small quantities with gentle touches of the sponge. You must let it dry, and after that, you can tear it so it seems ripped flesh. Vampress Living Dead Ghoul Advanced Zombie You can add as accesory a good Halloween t-shirt. I did a fun good design for Halloween. Apart from that, you can find more things like an apron, a tote bag for the candies, and more things. And... HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! HAHAHAHAHA

There was an old song in my country called "mas sexy" said something as "you may be sexy as rock 'n' roll". Was a very cheerful song. The band name was "Coz". Here you are a new version from "Punto de mira" band: "You may be sexy as rock 'n' roll".... who knows... We can be more sexy than rock 'n' roll... it's dificult but we can. No? lol Rock and rockers are very sexy. I was thinking in this moment in not so much handsome rock stars that have been married or dating with really pretty women. I remember have seen one day to a Jerry Hall walking along the beach, and she was a really beautiful woman. I don't doubt that Mick Jagger must be a sexy man to marry with so amusing lady :) The Rolling Stones, despite their many detractors, are one of the greatest rock bands of all times. Well here you are cooly sexy t-shirts that were made for people as you. Enjoy with them. And remember you are: MORE SEXY THAN ROCK 'N' ROLL!!!

I did this design really quickly. Ideas went flowing and I was quite satisfied with the results. I think it was Friday. On Sunday, somebody said me: - Are you going to the cinema? They're showing that movie about Spiderman, and it's Spiderman against Venom. - Versus who? Venom, oh my Gosh... hehe :-) the unconscious sometimes makes this kind of tricks. I love superheroes, their appearance, and I also think the're beneficial as a role-model. By the way, look at this quiz. It's great and quite entertaining, I loved it. I got 90% of Wonder Woman. Not really bad, isn't it? ;-) They say comparisons are usually hateful, but this one is really cool. I don't know much about Wonder Woman. I'll try to get some info. I admire comic illustrators. In fact, my favorite one is the Peruvian Boris Vallejo, who shows beautiful and strong dark haired women instead of the so seen stereotype of fragile women. I always thought that having a myth or hero is really a benefit for oneself. You try to have a role-model and try to reach his merits. Up the mythomaniacs!!! I can tell something about famous mythomaniacs. For example, Alexander the Great, whose favorite book was the Iliad. By trying to emulate his heroes he conquered the entire known world. Without Alexander the Great, the world had not become as we know it. His conquers were the medium to spread the culture that came after him. Later on after him, it came a long chain of people who admired him, and tried to go beyond. They all got great things. (As a curious note, they say Alexander had a long blond hair, like the medieval myth of the blue prince. His personality inspired the ideal of the medieval knights: tell the truth, be brave, seek justice, be compassionate. ) For those willing to know about Alexander, I recommend to read Plutarch, Arrian or Quintus Curtius Rufus, as those are the original sources about him. The rest of writers, the modern writers, they actually write based on other people's writings. Soy they deform the reality until the person they talk about is not the same. Same with annotations of the translators in many books. Historic novels have the risk to make it hard to distinguish fiction and reality. And sometimes, we get a mistaken vision of reality. Another mythomaniac was Julius Caesar, who idealized the figure of Alexander the Great. Julius Caesar was a wealthy patrician -not too much- with poor health but with a strong spirit. He had everything against him, and was very unlucky. (Not as Alexander, who was really fortunate; Arrian tells how a crossbow dart hit him in one of his lungs, but not killed him) He was not as strong as Alexander, nor as healthy, nor was the son of a king. But nothing could make him surrender. His admiration for Alexander made him stronger and determined. In one of Plutarch stories it's told that Julius Caesar was in a tent in Hispania. He was crying because he had the age of Alexander when he died, and Julius had not begun to conquer his empire yet. But after that, this great mithomaniac called Caesar wrote his lifetime through centuries and was remembered for ages until now. Another famous mithomaniac, Cristobal Colon, was all his life and childhood reading about the adventures of Marco Polo. He dreamed to do long journeys, and meet unknown cultures. That bring him to the Spanish court of Isabel the Catholic Queen, and Fernando the Catholic. After knocking several doors, he was able to make Isabel -who was a hard and strict queen- finance his journey to India. What did he told her that made Isabel sold her jewels for this unknown guy -Cristobal Colon- that in a slip discovered America? And the last mithomaniac we can tell: Napoleon, whose idol was Julius Caesar. Let us all have myths, and let's want to go beyond them. Let's have heroes. Maybe they take us beyond we never dreamed. Let us be daydreaming and maybe some day someone would like to emulate us in a distant place.

I really enjoyed myself doing "Pollo Loco" (the mad chicken). I heard the phrase "pollo loco" to a friend of Arizona. When talking about my President, he said that he was a "pollo loco". It was so fun that in few days I did this design. Fortunate those who don't feel ashamed by their politics. But it's too sad to compare this chicken with any politic, as most of them are not fun but shaming or terrific, or both. This "pollo loco, muy loco", has seen the news on TV, I think, and that's why it has become mad.

Nobody can extinguish my fire, my inner fire. Nobody can't control our ideas. Say go to hell to all those people that want to put an end to individualism. We aren't flocks of people, we are persons, and we want to be ourselves. We have the right to rebel, to be free. Go to hell all those politics, the teams we are pushed to choose, the collectives, TV programs that with their rubbish TV try to create "opinion". We ourselves already have an opinion, damn the alienating and manipulating society. Nobody can extinguish our fire neither with their one million of fireman truck. No one can beat us; we have fire inside us, we live to the limit, and live each moment as it was the last of our lives. Nobody can't put an end to this, no one can extinguish our fire.

When I did this design I was thinking in various things. In this consume society, all seems to have an end date: friendships, love, work, ideas... everything. I thought about music, rock, specially about Heavy Metal. When something has the adjective of classic, it is safe from being thrown to the pyre. For that people - who think that Heavy has died, that friendship doesn't exists, that love is pure fiction - with this composition we give to them a kick in the face. Classics never die, the remain there for all those who can understand. Though it's clear, honey was not made for a donkey mouth. You know what I mean.

I love cats. I have a cat called Lilit. I always say it's a present from God. This furry ball gives me so much happiness. Frisky, playful, curious, sleepy, even lazy... It's always by my side purring in the night. Absolutely charming, that is the image of a cat under the moon, playing with the stars, playing in freedom under the moonlight. Free without fears under the night sky. Do you guess what I like most about cats? You have to win their affection, and when you get it, you also find the complicity in their eyes, in their moves. Let us all do as the cats, let's be free and wild under the moonlight. PD: If you end doing like the cat and making acrobatics under the moon, trying to catch the stars, remember: that video may be a success in YouTube !!! hahahahaaha ;-)

When I did "The Dawn" I went back to the worst night of my life.The night when my father died. The night in which I felt desolated. He was gone. I will never be able to win his approval. The game was over. Who can say that never felt this way? Who has never have felt such a desolation in their heart? Who has never had to wake up the day after and continue walking? We all learn since we are children to fall and stand up again, and we will continue doing so to the end of our life. We all are heroes in our lives, perhaps the others don't know it but we do. We fight in battles, they hurt us to death, but we stand. We all are warriors of our life; each day, each second, taking challenges, without trusting our strength, falling again but after all, rising again.