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Just found these pictures of this little guy in my computer, I believe they are from two years ago in Mission Valley, California.

Isn't awesome?

Oh! and when I took the pictures, he was on his way to Hooters...

Feliz día de los muertos!!!

El presente trabajo es una interpretación personal del día de muertos en mi país. En él quise combinar elementos del altar tradicional con algunos símbolos de situaciones que pueden causarnos la muerte en el día a día. También incluí algunas representaciones de problemáticas sociales, por ejemplo: el narcotráfico, contaminación, racismo, etc...

El ritmo y diversidad cromática de los elementos representan la festividad de la fecha y las sonrisas representan la contradicción mexicana a otras culturas de reírnos de la muerte sabiendo que es un destino inevitable y lo mejor que podemos hacer es sonreir.

Diseñado para ser impreso en un formato de 60 cm x 90 cm.

(Click to zoom)

The present work is a personal interpretation of the Day of the Dead in my country. I wanted to combine elements of traditional altar with some symbols of situations that can cause death. I also included some representations of social problems, such as: Narco Trafficking, pollution, racism, etc ...

The color and ritm of the elements represent the festiveness of the date and the smiles represent the Mexican contradiction to other cultures to laugh at death knowing that it is an inevitable destination and the best we can do is smile.

Designed to be printed in a format of 60 cm x 90 cm.

Yei: platform toy

Este es Yei, mi diseño para el nuevo concurso de Aarting. Se trata de un juguete "plataforma" de vinilo, el cual si llegara a ser producido, tendría una altura de 4.5 pulgadas y se lanzaría una edición limitada del mismo en 8 pulgadas de alto.

Su nombre viene del dialecto nahuatl, y significa tres. Decidí llamarlo así debido a que Yei puede ser tres personajes en un mismo cuerpo.

Su cabeza puede ser removida, sus brazos y piernas son articuladas y sus pies pueden voltearse hacia el lado que se quiera exhibir.

Las votaciones se abrieron hace unos momentos y durarán hasta el 15 de noviembre.

Espero que les guste y me apoyen con su voto...

(Gracias a mi hermano Christian A. Carrillo por los renders)

CLICK AQUÍ PARA VOTAR POR YEI

This is Yei, my design for the new Aarting contest. This is a "platform" vinyl toy, which if it gets to be produced, would be 4.5 inches tall and a limited edition version would have an 8 inches high.

The name comes from the Nahuatl dialect, meaning three. That's because Yei can be three characters in one same body.

The head can be removed, the arms and legs are articulated and feet can flip to the side you want to display.

Voting is now open and will last until November 15th.

I hope you enjoy it and vote for it...

(Thanks to my brother Christian A. Carrillo for the renders)

CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR YEI

Some valuable feedbacks...

Hace algunos días, tuve la oportunidad de platicar con el artista Gary Baseman y Choper Nawers. Ambos me dieron valiosos consejos sobre ilustración y revisaron algunas de mis piezas.

Agradezco su tiempo y palabras a ambos.
Saludos...
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to talk with the artist Gary Baseman and Choper Nawers. Both gave me valuable tips on illustration and reviewed some of my pieces.
I appreciate their time and words.
Greetings...

Mictlantecuhtli

Again I'm designing inspired by prehispanic  cultures...

Mictlantecuhtli is the Aztec god of death and the underworld.

This design is competing for a chance to be produced as a real Mimobot flash drive by Mimoco, so I hope you like it and vote for it HERE.

(And come back soon, I am finishing another toy design, so see you later and thanks for your support)

The vendor client relationship

Is sad to say it but these are common reactions from a potencial client to a quote in any creative business. 

So I am getting used to it, actually it is one of the biggest challenges in my profession and sadly the most common, so I try to take it with patience and take it as what it is, a challenge. 

The hard part is that not all clients understands the difference between value and price. 

Any way, is funny to have a deja vu while watching this video. 

If you are a creative, just don't cry (I am with you).

And that's just how I learned to say NO to this kind of clients...

Onwards

Check out this hand-drawn style animation from James Jarvis in collaboration with Nike. 

Amazingly animated by Richard Kenworthy and with excelent music by Caribou.