Margarita Gutierrez

2012

2012-01-14T12:46:00.001-08:00

Tanto tiempo!

Bow wow wow

2011-07-16T16:19:00.000-07:00

Let's step out of fashion for a while, shall we?

(The one to the right has something to say to you...)

Weekend

2011-07-11T16:13:00.000-07:00

Hanging around with watercolors, trying to pull something new.

References from

http://thefashionisto.com/nicholas-hoult-by-alan-clarke-for-esquire-uk-july-2011/#more-104815

http://thefashionisto.com/shia-lebeouf-by-matthias-vriens-mcgrath-for-details/#more-104733

Breakup

2011-06-26T16:09:00.001-07:00

We've all been there.

Notitle

2010-11-25T18:45:00.000-08:00

Pixel.

2010-11-22T18:27:00.000-08:00

Long time, no see!

Just in case, reference photograph at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/renolauren/3505867780/in/photostream/

Chunks

2010-05-23T17:14:00.000-07:00

Nuevo header!!
Celebremos con un lindo post :)

Nop!

2010-04-17T18:46:00.000-07:00

Nada seriop.
Ensayando la tablet nuevap :)

Selva, madre natura

2010-02-27T15:44:00.000-08:00

Chop chop!!!!!
Voy a aplicar para ESTE concurso de la revista Marie Claire y estuve casi 2 semanas pensando y haciendo esta ilustración:

Cuando la terminé, me di cuenta que en realidad no me gustaba tanto... tenia demasiado color y detalle para ser una ilustración de moda... además sabia que habia cometido varios errores al colorear...desastre. Tengo que confesar que tuve que replantearme el hecho de presentarme al concurso hasta que un dia me levante por la mañana a bocetar...

Y hoy, en 1 solo dia saque esto:

Cambió sustancialmente la compocisión y el hecho de que agregué las cabecitas de animales como un "fino detalle de coqueteria".

Me parece que ESTO funciona mucho mas que la idea anterior, es mas claro, fresco y sigue transmitiendo la idea de selva. Como tema, compocisión, paleta y forma me parece que pega mucho más.

Chess estravaganza

2010-02-07T07:23:00.000-08:00

It's been some time folks!! Vacations were great and started working on uni final exams as soon as I got back from Bariloche, so here's a quick preview of everything that I've been working on for the last month. I began to use watercolor masking fluid,which is tricky at first(and smells like hell), but it's been of great help and I feel like ideas are more easy to put on paper now that before.I tried to make these works as detailed as possible, so comments are more than welcomed :D
This is all mostly watercolors and color pencils, no fancy paper cuts or anything since I'm replacing that with the watercolor mask. (FYI I began using paper cuts because it was the easiest and more tidy way to get the results I wanted)

Off to battle we go

2009-12-13T15:52:00.000-08:00

Why do I love watercolors so much?

Marcha mesa 9!

2009-11-29T15:39:00.000-08:00

Con el animo de aprender estructura en clase,tuvimos que tomar un dibujo,ilustracion o pintura de cualquier autor, redibujar la estructura y pasarla a un papel nuevo, para luego hacer una version "alternativa" de la imagen original.
Este es mi trabajo, las meseritas torpes de la mesa 9.
El original es de Shigeki Maeshima, tomado del libro "Japanese Comickers".

Ama de Casa

2009-11-21T16:58:00.000-08:00

Ando cansada!! ya a estas alturas del año lo unico que quiero hacer es dedicarme a ver peliculas en casa, dormir, dibujar y salir a bailar (en ese orden).
Este es un super-rapi-disimo sketch hecho en papel de ese para secarse las manos. Suelo bocetar en la oficina en este papel, con eso si queda feo, lo tiro sin remordimientos jojo.

Dios bendiga las pijamas.

God Save the Queen

2009-11-16T17:16:00.000-08:00

I really can't count how many hours I spent doing this, but it was sure a lot.

50 cm x 70 cm

Collage, collage and more collage.
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Hoy me voy a poner sentimental con el post.
No se cuanto tiempo dure haciendo esta ilustracion, es para la universidad, supongo que la van a exponer durante la semana de la moda que comenzo hoy Lunes. Me gusto el resultado pero se que sigue siendo poco profesional, aunque soy conciente que eh mejorado bastante :).

Hoy estaba pensando, lo mucho que me gustaba recibir cartas cuando era mas niña, recibirlas y escribirlas. Me parecia tan increible imaginar que alguien se habia tomado el tiempo para escribirme a mi, que era casi un acto de magia abrir el sobre o desdoblar la hoja y encontrarme algo que era dedicado y exclusivamente hecho para mi. Cada palabra, cada intención que estaba hecha para perdurar en el tiempo por medio de tinta y papel. Marañas de sentimientos impresos manualmente para mi.
No tienen precio esas cosas no? y uno crece y se vuelve idiota, inepto, incapaz de demostrar la sencillez de esas cosas. La simpleza de una hoja dedicada. Hablar de nuestros sentimientos sin verguenza, sin pudor, sin miedo.
Recibo pequeñas cartas de mi familia cuando alguien viene para aca y me trae alguna golosina que me mandan mis padres y mi hermana. No puedo explicar lo que siento cuando leo esas notas hechas medio a la carrera con letra inconfundible. Amo y extraño recibir cartas.

Fish-o-shirt

2009-11-09T17:44:00.000-08:00

La historia viene asi:
Habia una vez una camiseta blanca,hasta que se fue a la lavanderia con ropa que destiñe... La camiseta estaba practicamente nueva! me la habia puesto solo un par de veces y no daba para descartarla solo porque tenia algunas manchas de amarillo, asi que decidi experimentar un poco con texturas sobre la tela. En realidad es una idea bastante sencilla, que si hubiera tenido mas ganas seguro le hubiera puesto mas cosas o mas detalle en su defecto, pero justo hoy hable con mi hermana y me pidio que le mandara de regalo ESTA camiseta, asi que hoy saque tiempo y la termine hasta donde tenia originalmente la idea. Me gusta mucho como se ve, es probable que sea un poco pesadita por los botones etc, pero quedo bastante bien. Tengo mas ropa que no uso o que me regalaron de segunda y la voy a seguir usando para experimentar con este tipo de trabajos no necesariamente estampados, sino que requieran mas trabajo de costuras, apliques, etc.

+Botones
+Marcadores para tela
+Hilo de bordar
+Lana acrilica

Zeus

2009-10-31T11:16:00.001-07:00

Can I haz collage?
Watercolor, ink, pencil color

The last of from the set of 3 gods from the Olympus.

Apolo

2009-10-27T17:20:00.000-07:00

More collage!, ink, colored pencils, water colors.

Hades

2009-10-27T17:14:00.000-07:00

Illustration for College.

We had free choice of topic to make 3 illustrations. I chose 3 gods from the Olympus.

This one is Hades.

I'm using several techniques here: collage, watercolors, ink, colored pencils... It's very entertaining to be able to experiment and find what suits best when it commes to transmiting a mood or a feeling.

Taranis

2009-10-18T09:36:00.000-07:00

Illustration for drawing workshop

We had to make an interpretation of a given God, mine was "Taranis", thunder and storm god from Wales and Britain, he was given sacrifices in order to calm his anger and tough character.

The point of this excercise was to use a colored board as a midtone, thus, we had to make all the lights and shadows leaving the color of the board between these two.

Hair 2

2009-10-15T17:19:00.001-07:00

More ink hair-ness.

I added details with golden ink as to resolve the face/light thing in a different was as I did on Hair 1

Hair1

2009-10-15T17:09:00.000-07:00

Illustration for class at college.
We had to give focus to the hair, so I made it all with ink as to be able to add good detail.

Midnight Flor

2009-10-06T18:44:00.000-07:00

Second try with this experiment. I noticed how this pic looks a whole lot more "controlled" and accurate, something that doesn't quite happens on "Nikei". Colors and textures seem to be more related to each other.

Como

2009-10-04T18:38:00.000-07:00

I used the negavite hair paper cut from "Nikei"

Nikei

2009-10-04T18:13:00.000-07:00

Experimenting with layers on paper and textures.
All hand made.

Stripes

2009-09-27T08:11:00.000-07:00

This picture was taken from a photograph I found on the Vogue Latinoamerica issue of August 2008 by Tim Walker. He has done some pretty impressive work for Vogue throuout many years.

I used different techniques on this one, as triying to make them all work out moslty for the clothes. This paper has such a wonderful texture that allows watercolor (with not a lot of water though) and pencil colors. The little stars and details on the blouse and shoes where made with golden ink, which is sorta lost on the scanning, but it's all nice and sparkly in real life :P

India

2009-09-26T14:34:00.000-07:00

This is a mail stamp made for class. We could work on any topic we wanted and I picked India tigers, that are sorta mistical and enchanting. Wildernes's beauty and magic.

The image is all made with ink, something I've neve done before and it took some time and thought.

I really like how it turned out.

Grass

2009-09-20T10:31:00.000-07:00

More experimenting with magazine paper.

Rivas

2009-09-20T10:26:00.000-07:00

I'm experimenting with textures. I used a magazine page for the background and drew/colored all the inside.

Crew

2009-09-09T17:23:00.002-07:00

We had to make a composition with a woman, a man and a child for class, so I took the opportunity to portrait my own characters, which I'm very fond of.
This was all made with watercolor and pencils on a sheet of 50 cm X 70cm, so it was a real pain to scan and arrange the image properly, not to mention that there's a lot of watercolor detail missing here, none the less, I like it as it turned out.

Crepé Chino

2009-09-02T19:11:00.000-07:00

Little experiment with canvas and acrylics.
Check out the paper texture :B

Los Hermanos Desunidos - Cover

2009-09-01T18:48:00.000-07:00

Cover for "Los hermanos Desunidos" (The torn brothers)

Los Hermanos Desunidos - Insert illustration

2009-09-01T18:43:00.000-07:00

Yo.

I've been doing some excercises for my illustration class and we had to make a couple of pieces for a short fable called "los Hermanos Desunidos" (the torn brothers).
This is the insert illustration

Sabrina

2009-08-18T18:44:00.000-07:00

Meet Sabrina.

Carmin

2009-08-01T17:58:00.000-07:00

Sketch.

There is this strange pleasure in being carefree when using color.

Fluffy

2009-08-01T17:56:00.001-07:00

Quickie :P

Rolling

2009-07-26T07:18:00.000-07:00

Started out as a sketch but ended up like THIS

By now, I'm sure you've already noticed I'm not very creative with picture names :P

Talk

2009-07-26T07:12:00.000-07:00

No comments :P

Thinking out loud

2009-07-26T07:05:00.000-07:00

Doodle at College (not during class though :P)

Pencil and markers

Helen & Me

2009-07-26T06:52:00.000-07:00

No, they are NOT the same person.
This started out as a doodle at work
Ink

Cut!

2009-07-26T06:17:00.001-07:00

This pic had a rather strange birth. It started out as a commision from an old high school friend who wanted an illustration of her boyfriend and her. When I finished it, I realized how ugly the guy was... so I ended up cutting the image and leaving the part that I actually liked.

Black Cherry

2009-07-26T06:12:00.000-07:00

I'm re-loading this blog, thus, I'll start to upload some "not-so-very-old-but-still-good" things, as I manage to keep this thing updated.
Here goes one of my favs. Black cherry (Yes, like the goldfrapp song).
Ink on paper

Dinner

2008-09-29T05:26:00.001-07:00

King for a Day

2008-08-09T20:42:00.001-07:00

The Look

2008-08-02T16:09:00.000-07:00

Peek

2008-07-26T12:08:00.000-07:00

Combinación 1

2008-07-26T07:32:00.000-07:00

Partner

2008-07-23T16:15:00.000-07:00

Day and Night, King and Queen

2008-07-23T15:30:00.000-07:00

Ivonne

2008-07-23T15:23:00.000-07:00

Azul

2008-07-23T15:21:00.000-07:00

Fuji en Llamas - Fuji on Flames

2008-07-23T15:18:00.000-07:00

Rio - River

2008-07-23T15:17:00.001-07:00

Ogro - The Ogre

2008-07-23T15:13:00.000-07:00

Oficina y Rosa - Pink and Office

2008-07-21T19:45:00.000-07:00

Abrigo Amarillo - Yellow Coat

2008-07-21T19:43:00.000-07:00

Tinta en Cartera - Ink on Purse

2008-07-21T19:41:00.000-07:00

Chica Tinta - Ink Girl

2008-07-21T19:39:00.000-07:00

Snow!

2008-07-21T19:33:00.000-07:00

Tormenta de Nieve - Snow Storm

2008-07-21T19:24:00.000-07:00

Primavera - Spring

2008-07-21T19:21:00.001-07:00

Greenlight

2008-07-21T19:18:00.001-07:00

Soldado Muerto - Dead Soldier

2008-07-21T19:14:00.000-07:00

Smoking Dress

2008-07-21T19:10:00.000-07:00

El Arbol de Melocotones - The Peach Tree

2008-07-21T19:00:00.001-07:00