A short essay about creativity. Creativity is not a monopoly. All beings share the same divine spark that everything was created from, therefore, we’re all creative. Being creative is linking seemingly separated ideas. Identifying patterns, and assembling different thoughts to solve problems.

So… I have this problem. We can call it: “Overreaching”. — Before starting, there’s a funny narrated version of this article on youtube, click here to check it out. This is me in my mind: “I can finish this in 10 minutes, this in another 15 minutes, this is gonna take me like an hour or so, and by the end…

Interesting = Story We, humans, crave stories like we crave food. We seem to love the sense of wonder, intrigue, and discovery that storytelling allows us to participate in. We can see something beautifully done, like a cool drawing, for a couple of minutes and go “wow, that’s cool”, but few of us…

First: the point of this essay is (beyond any political position) to state that any person with an outside perspective on something (like some country’s politics while living in another country) explaining to an inside person (who lives inside the country the outsider is blabbing about) why they’re wrong about…

As a language has dialects, Illustration and drawing have “styles” with particular traits. Cartoon style is all about economy. Cartoons are born out of the necessity of drawing and communicating more using less materials and time; thus, their perfect fit for animation. We can think about cartoons as a really…

The first draft of everything is normally pretty lame. When we write something we normally have to rewrite it to make it better. “Nailing it” on the first try is fairly uncommon, and drawing is not different.

When we start working with 3D volumes, perspective and things rotating on space we’ll likely get somehow lost on the placing of elements over them or in relation to them; for this, we can build and use small grids.

Just as our initial approach to the overall composition of the drawing was based on the use of basic shapes; we can approach the construction of each element drawn as an abstraction of basic 3d volumes: cubes, spheres, cylinders, cones, etc. …

Every element that’s placed on a drawing is calling for attention; let them all yell equally loud and the viewer won’t be able to discern what they’re saying (like on the looking for Waldo books). …