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30.10.25

Sakura CardCaptor fanart, I’ve been revisiting the original anime from the late 1990s and feeling inspired remembering how much I wanted to draw like that... I never could do perfect anime style like CLAMP does but I think just trying ended up taking me on a path to develop my own style. An artist I’ve been super into lately has been Oliwa because she managed to create a style that looks perfectly like anime, but is also quite unique and very much her own... and I find that super inspiring. She also makes a lot of drawings with themes of nature and technology, which I love...

Sketches for the cover of the next book I want to make, which will be a selection of my old short comics, sort of a “best of” from both of my previous collections Ojitos Borrosos and Impatience...

Below are sketches I did to try and figure out the look and feel of the characters from the new comics I want to make. I have three comic ideas, two shorter ones (of about 40 pages each)... including one that I’ve been teasing for years now about the truck driver lady and her transformer robot comic...

Once I’m done with those (I need to warm up... I haven’t done comics in years!) then I’ll start my next long comic / graphic novel... another science fiction story. I’ve already got lots of notes for it but for now I’m mostly trying to design the characters... specially the main one, who still feels too similar to Elisa, the main character of Alienation... but I’ll get there...

WHY I’M STARTING A BLOG

Paintbox Machine was the original name of my first personal website from 2006. On that same year I also started my first blog on a website called LiveJournal. There I met most of my dearest and oldest internet friends, some of whom I ended up meeting in person at some point and many with whom I still keep in touch with to this day even if we live in different parts of the world. I’ve had the luck of meeting many of them in person already. It was a short moment of effervescence, by 2010 most of us had already left for Tumblr, Twitter and other faster moving platforms. LiveJournal wasn’t perfect, I remember feeling anxiety about sharing my drawings and thoughts on it, even when I never posted anything super personal and it was completely separated from my “real life”... but that was part of the anxiety– the looming feeling that my internet life and my real life could collide. The funny thing is that now that it happened, I don’t care about who sees what I post anymore. The internet is now just another public space so I treat it is as such. But back then, it felt magical, like a sort-of secret world where you could find people with whom you shared super specific interests, or maybe just wanted to be friends with because something about how they customized their blog and shared their thoughts really resonated. Life online was slower in the most perfect way: we were already past the era when loading one image took like 30 minutes, but it was still slow enough that most people were very thoughtful and intentional about what they posted, so we updated our blogs like once or twice a month at most with stuff we had been gathering for a while and that we REALLY wanted to share. It felt exciting and inspiring. There was also no bottomless scroll, so after a while you reached the end of your RSS feed and that was it, you turned off the computer and went on with your smartphone-less life. I miss that way of experiencing the internet so much that it was my main motivation behind starting a monthly newsletter in 2022, to share things in a slower and longer format, and to have it be completely free... not that there’s anything wrong with people charging for their work or knowledge online, but it feels so... ugh... I don’t know, I hate how ugly platforms like Patreon are and how abusive they are with their fees. There was something FUN about just posting because you wanted to CONNECT, and not to try an appease “the algorithm” with “content” or to “build a personal brand” or whatever it is you’re supposed to be doing on social media...

Anyway, from now on I’ll be posting here, as it allows me to share more images and get more creative with the layout than the on social media or emails. I’ll keep sending my newsletter for free on the first Friday of each month but the format will be a bit different, now it will be just a summary of my posts (with links to read in full here at my blog) plus updates and special promos from GATOSHOP. If you don’t want to subscribe via email or it keeps being sent to your spam, you can also just bookmark this page and check back every now and then to see if you catch a new post from me ; )

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29.10.25

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