Lion's Vault

Contrato ao Lion #2 (Contract to Lion #2)

2010-10-22T16:58:00.007+01:00

Howdy, people!

Do you have a company with a Communication Department or even a Design Agency?

Are you in need of a new Designer or Illustrator?

Then this is your lucky day! Our Lion's free for a contract!

All you need is to call 96 834 6252 or e-mail david.filipe.pinto@gmail.com to schedule an interview and his imagination and commitment can be yours!

What? Still not convinced?

Take a look at his work on this website or in the Lion's Vault PDF and analyse his CV!

Lion will be waiting!

Peace ;p

________________________________________

Howdy, people!

Tens uma empresa com Departamento de Comunicação ou uma Agencia de Design?

Estás a precisar de um novo Designer ou Ilustrador?

Então este é o teu dia de sorte! O nosso Lion está disponível para contrato!

Tudo o que tens de fazer é ligar para o 96 834 6252 ou contactá-lo por e-mail através do endereço david.filipe.pinto@gmail.com, agendar uma entrevista e a sua imaginação e empenho podem ser teus!

O quê? Não estás convencido?
Dá uma vista de olhos neste webiste ou no Lion's Vault PDF e analisa o seu CV!

O Lion está à tua espera!
Peace ;p

Lion is Watching You!

2010-10-11T00:17:00.000+01:00

100 Years of Republic

2010-10-06T00:19:00.001+01:00

Howdy, people!

I was trying to put it online before the end of the day, but I'm 15 minutes late... Damn.

Anyway. This was a little illustration I just made to celebrate the 100 years of Republic in Portugal (the Republic was established in Portugal on October 5th of 1910).

As most of you may know, the Republic is represented by a topless woman holding the republic flag, so I played around a little bit with that concept, here.

I hope you guys like it.

Stay cool, everyone!

Peace ;p

Contrato ao Lion #1 (Contract to Lion #1)

2010-09-28T11:12:00.009+01:00

Howdy, people!

Do you have a company with a Communication Department or even a Design Agency?

Are you in need of a new Designer or Illustrator?

Then this is your lucky day! Our Lion's free for a contract!

All you need is to call 96 834 6252 or e-mail david.filipe.pinto@gmail.com to schedule an interview and his imagination and commitment can be yours!

What? Still not convinced?

Take a look at his work on this website or in the Lion's Vault PDF and analyse his CV!

Lion will be waiting!

Peace ;p

________________________________________

Howdy, people!

Tens uma empresa com Departamento de Comunicação ou uma Agencia de Design?

Estás a precisar de um novo Designer ou Ilustrador?

Então este é o teu dia de sorte! O nosso Lion está disponível para contrato!

O quê? Não estás convencido?

Dá uma vista de olhos neste webiste ou no Lion's Vault PDF e analisa o seu CV!

O Lion está à tua espera!

Peace ;p

Lion @ the beach

2010-09-22T02:02:00.001+01:00

Howdy, people!

I noticed I haven't posted some of my favorite drawings in the Vault and I decided to show you, so here is one of them.

This drawing was made on a day at the beach (so difficult to imagine that, right?!) and represents an earlier version of Lion enjoying the Summer.

I thought it made sense to post today because the Summer ending and I think it deserves a post that pays the right respects to everyone's (or almost everyone's, at least) favorite season!

Goodbye, Summer! We hope to see you strong next year!

Stay cool, everyone! I hope you liked it...

Peace ;p

Nude Illustration Project

2010-09-21T12:47:00.001+01:00

Howdy, people!

It's been a while, but I've got a lot of brand new and hot projects to show you here!

Today I'm going to show you the Nude Illustration Project, a Digital Painting that I made entirely in Photoshop, using my Wacom graphic tablet. This was meant to be a gift for my girlfriend's mother, and is now an important part of her bedroom's decoration.

The idea was to create an artistic nude as it was something that the lady wanted to have in her bedroom wall for a long time.

I hope you like it, comment it and share it with your friends!

Stay cool, everyone!

Peace ;p

"Arte9" ("Art9") - Pagination work for ETIC

2010-07-15T00:29:00.000+01:00

Howdy, people!

I've been away but I'll be updating the blog more often from now on...

Still unemployed, I've been searching for a job in my areas: Graphic Design, Web and Multimedia Design, Illustration or even Pagination.

This post is a way for me to show some work on that last area. This is a work I did for the Pagination discipline at ETIC, and it's conceived to be a magazine about comic books, for the comic book fans to be updated with the latest news on the "ninth art" ("Arte9" - or "art 9", in English - is the title and is remembering that the Comic Books are the Ninth Art).

I hope you liked it.

Stay cool, people! Visit, comment and tell your friends and contacts about the Lion's Vault!

Peace ;p

Lion's a Benfica fan since he was born!!!

2010-05-23T18:38:00.018+01:00

Howdy, people!

I keep saying I'm sorry - and I really am -, but I keep doing it...

I'm so sorry for all this time without posting.

I finally took my time to post this image that I've added to my Portfolio, so some doubts would vanish.

The thing is:

Portugal is a very soccer-fanatic country, and I'm a big, big fan of Sport Lisboa e Benfica. But while Benfica is represented by an eagle, one of our rivals - Sporting - is represented by a lion. Now you can imagine the amount of times I have to "prove" to people that my Lion has nothing to do with Sporting's lion, and that my Lion is, in fact, a great Benfica fan.

This image is something I made to make people understand that right away and not having to ask me thousands of times.

I hope you people like it.

Stay cool, everyone!

Peace ;p

PS: The image suffered some modifications on Lion's eyes, since my first upload, and I'm now satisfied. Thanks to Bull for the hugely helpful feedback that made me see the "not-so-good" parts and improve!

Lion & Bull in Digital Painting!

2010-01-27T12:05:00.000Z

Howdy, people!

I'm sorry about all this time without posting... I'm sorry that I failed you! :S

Anyway. This time I decided to post 2 Digital Painting works. Both of these works were completely created in Photoshop, drawn and painted with my Wacom Graphire4 XL. They are a bit old, and from one of the first times I tried to make Digital Painting, but I thought they came out nice, and decided to show them to you, here.

What do you people think?!

I hope you like it.

Stay cool, everyone!

Peace ;p

Cool is to Live | Fixe é Viver

2010-01-21T15:34:00.007Z

Howdy, people!

I'm sorry it took me so much time to come back with a new post (in this new era of the Vault, 3 days without a post have to be considered too much time).

I decided to take my time to show you a campaign I created for a school work, back in the first year of my ETIC Design of Communication and Multimedia course.

The idea was to create an Anti-Smoking campaign, having young people as our main target. Trying to prevent them from smoking and even making of them good allies to try and make their parents and adult relatives and friends to stop smoking too.

I decided to go from the wrong idea that the youngster still have, that smoking is "cool".

"Cool", in Portuguese is "Fixe". And "to live" is "viver".

So, my campaign's motto became "Fixe é Viver" ("Cool is to live").

The character I created is a young boy named "Marco" (in Portuguese, it means a "mark", an important moment or happening that marks a life, history, etc).

I also thought it would be a good idea to appeal to the youngsters' Portuguese sports' heroes, like Cristiano Ronaldo, Francis Obikwelu, Telma Monteiro and Ticha Penicheiro (all Portuguese athletes that are famous and successful in the World of sports).

Also, the logo I created for the campaign is a cartoon hand (ideally, Marco's) making a "victory sign" that, not only represents the victory against the dependency and vice of smoking, but also stands for a "V" for "Viver" ("to live").

I hope you like it. Tell me what you think! :)

Keep visiting, commenting and spreading the word, people!

Peace ;p

Lusitanian Soul | Alma Lusa

2010-01-18T12:41:00.003Z

Howdy, people!

Today there's this small post of one of tons of drawings I made while enjoying the sun, at the beach.

I was feeling particularly patriotic, that day. And a lot revolutionary too.

This was made in the Summer of 2005.

I hope you like it.

Stay cool, people!

Peace ;p

Lion @ "Beware of Lion"

2010-01-15T16:34:00.001Z

Howdy, people!

Today I'm showing you 4 images of Lion that I made for my Portfolio's first version (a new and improved version is being prepared and is expected to be done during the next week), that was called "Beware Of Lion".

The first image was used as a presentation image for the area "The Beast", used to give personal info on the author/Designer (me).

Then came 3 more images: one for "The Art", one for "The Print" and one for "The Web". These were the labels to separate these kinds of works.

I hope you like it. And, please, comment and tell your friends and family, and everyone you know. I'll be trying to feed your interest every day with new posts. And I'm hoping the Vault gets more and more visits and comments every day.

Will you help a cute little Lion having the most people possible visiting his Vault and commenting on his work?! Please...?!

Thank you! And stay cool, everyone!

Peace ;p

"Just another service provided by your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man!"

2010-01-13T11:11:00.000Z

Howdy, people!

I decided to a little group of works done having my comic book idol-character, Spider-Man, as the subject. Two of them were drawn in graphite and paper, and the 3rd was drawn and painted entirely in Photoshop, using my faithful and loved Wacom Graphire4 XL graphics tablet... It was one of my first experiments on digital painting, at that time.

Spider-Man is probably one of the main reasons why I love comic books so much and still have this dream of, one day, being a comic book artist. It's partially "his" fault that I'm in love with illustration and also why I discovered that Graphic Design and Illustration was my way to go.

He was created by my biggest idol. The man I, above all others, idolize... Stan Lee. He made me love, feel and live comic books. Thank you, Mr Stan Lee!

Well, I hope you like the drawings and the painting...

I have to go back to work.

Stay cool, everyone!

Peace ;p

David and Goliath (Miccoli and Luisão)...

2010-01-12T11:42:00.004Z

Howdy, people!

I'm going to start showing my handmade drawings and sketches in the Vault, too.

I hope you like it.

This is an old one. Made in 2006, and representing 2 famous Benfica players of that time (one of them is still playing in the club).

Stay cool, people!

Peace ;p

Tilt Shift - Malaga (Part 1)

2010-01-06T11:13:00.003Z

Howdy, people!

Are you enjoying the Vault's new look?!

I'm still going to make some major changes on the Vault, but it has to wait for a bit. I have more urgent work to do before that.

In the meanwhile, I'll be uploading some works to give some life back to this place!

I hope you guys visit, read, see, comment and show to your family and friends...

These works are some tests I made a while ago, on a technique called "Tilt Shift", and that consists in simulating a model city or landscape from a picture of a real city or landscape.

I hope you like it. Comment, people!

Stay cool!

Peace ;p

Lion will be back on action soon...

2009-12-23T19:05:00.000Z

Howdy, people!

Lion's Vault is currently on maintenance...
I'm working to make your experience inside the Vault much better...

I'm sorry and I hope you keep coming to visit us. All I can promise is that I will be doing everything to make the process as short as "lionly" possible!

Will be seeing you soon.
Stay cool and take care people!

Oh... And happy holidays! :D

Peace ;p

"Try as you will. You cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart: Love." (Victor Hugo)

2009-11-24T12:02:00.007Z

Howdy, people!

I know, I know... I'm always asking for forgiveness and it seems like I never learn.
I'm so sorry for these 5 months and some more days of Lion's complete absence.

Well. This work is about one of several things that have been occupying Lion's mind... and his heart.
Since the last time that I shown you how he was recovering from a heartbreak, Lion fell in love again.

I'll be as honest as I can be: things are not going perfect for him this time either...
How can one be so unlucky in gambling and love at the same time?! Wasn't it suppose to be like "Lucky in gambling, unlucky in love"?! Unlucky in both is just pure disaster!

Anyway. Lion's heart is under stress... True. But it's not broken just yet. It's aching, but it didn't break... yet.
He decided the best thing was to give his heart to her. Bad idea?! Depends on how she treats the little one. Love's a mystery... Will Lion get it right this time?!
We'll be here to see how it goes.

In the meanwhile, comment, everyone...
Do you like it?!
If you do, comment and show it to your friends, family, etc. Let's make Lion the most famous love victim since Romeo! Or - let's hope - it's most famous lucky winner!

Stay cool, people!
Peace ;p

2 more birthday cups...

2009-06-15T17:17:00.009+01:00

Howdy, people!

Before proceeding, I have to apologize for these almost 2 months of inactivity, in the Lion's Vault. So, for those of you that are mad because it took me so long to put something new on the Vault, I'm really sorry!
Trying to compensate, I've decided to present to you the graphics I made for the last 2 cups that I got as birthday gifts to 2 more of my friends.

Back in March, by this time, I posted the graphics for Catarina's and Vanessa's cup. Now it's time to show you the graphics for João's/Bull's and Patrícia's cup.

João's birthday was back in May, and for this I got inspired on our group vacation and all the dumb and incredibly funny environment that we've created then.
I used 2 specific moments as themes for the cup.
One was on the beach, in the morning, when we were in Spain. I took a picture, just for fun, of João drinking his chocolate milk.
By that time, we were always trying to look and meet girls, there, and as we all know, chocolate milk is as manly as a drink gets. So, to make a little fun, I took the picture, there, and showed him saying:
"Now the slogan should be... 'El desayuno del macho latino'!"
The other thing was a picture I took in the 2nd week of vacation, when we went to Algarve. One of the early mornings, I found João sleeping in one of the most unusual ways ever. He appears to be thinking or just playing around, making pose. But he wasn't! He was really sleeping like that!
Even when dreaming, this guy gets deep. Look how concentrated he looks...
Then I decided that had to be in the cup, and the phrase couldn't have been another one. This image was screaming for Shakespeare!

All this is made look like it's on top of a brushed metal surface, and colored in hot colors, to remember the summer and to symbolize the "latino" way.

The other cup was made for Patrícia, whose birthday was in the past week, now in June. The young lady in brown eyes ("menina dos olhos castanhos"), and for a long time, a great source of inspiration for me and my works. For a long time, she was kind of my muse.
Now you can understand how this had to be one of the easiest cup graphics for me to produce, as I should get inspiration really easily.

The color is green, as it represents one of the strongest traces of her personality. Like me, she has a deep passion for her favorite football team (Although her favorite football team - Sporting CP - is a weaker team in the national and international panorama, than my favorite football team - SL Benfica. And both are old rivals).
The images were all taken from our group vacation in the Summer of 2008. As it happens in João's graphic, all 3 photos were taken by me too.
On the left, there's a picture taken by the swimming pool, in Algarve. The middle and also the base image was taken on the castle of Málaga, when she was admiring the view... On the right, the picture was taken early, on the way to our stay in Spain. We were in 2 separate cars, and started taking pictures for fun when trapped in a traffic jam.

Also, on top of all the images, I added a texture of a detail showing drops of dew on a leaf. This was supposed to add some extra freshness to the final graphic.

I hope you like it, and feel free to leave me a comment!
Stay cool, people!
Peace ;p

"You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted." (Ruth E. Renkl)

2009-04-18T17:48:00.010+01:00

Howdy, people!

I didn't post this before because I was hoping someone would comment on the last one, and it seems just Morgaine felt like cheering Lion up a bit.
Thanks for the comment, little cousin!

Truth is, after some days spent in pain, Lion started thinking about his life. He thought how suffering, as it is part of life, it's also something that we have to not let take over our heart.
He learned that many times in life we're going to get hurt, but it's how we respond to that pain that determines what we are made of.

It's okay to suffer for love, just cowards and heartless people never do. But Lion understands now that there's a time when we need to say "no" to our heart, because he can get addicted to a lioness even though she's not the lioness of one's life.
Because, when defining "being the woman (or lioness) of one's life", we have to understand that it's not just one being in love with that person (or lioness), it's also getting some love in return.

Love is definitely a beautiful thing, but it's not worth it if all it gives us is pain. We may need to suffer, but sooner or later we have to get something good out of it, otherwise it's not worth the pain.

One thing that is always worth it is living in a way as much positive as possible! Taking the opportunities that life presents to us and enjoying the ride, not letting any blocking obsession get in our way...

Is Lion definitely cured from whatever love, obsession or passion that he feels for that specific lioness?!
No, I don't think so...
Did he understand he needs to be stronger than that feeling and search for happiness in other places and with other felines?!
Sure!

As a final announcement, Lion is back with his chest pumped up with will to live, and finally determined to let other lionesses get into his life.

This is another self-portrait showing the - maybe forced, but true - confidence with which Lion is determined to start facing life and the lionesses he'll be wanting to meet, from now on!

The technique I used to make this one was the same as the last one.
By the way, Morgaine, "Indian Ink" is what we call "Tinta da China". I don't really know why the country changes with the translation, but well... That's what they call it! xP
Turning the outline into a vector is what I usually do in illustrations like this, where there's a "cartoony" shape with an outline.
There's this software called Illustrator that is made for - make your bets - illustration. And it works with vectors rather than just with bitmaps.

The difference between a vector and a bitmap is that the vector is not treated like an image, but an object. This way, when you zoom in into a vector, you don't get to see any pixels, as you will if you zoom in into a bitmap image, which is a map of tiny pixels.
We can then shape and colour a vector as a complete surface, and stretch it as much as we like without loss of quality (which we can't in an image).

So, by turning the outline into a vector and paint the drawing using Illustrator (creating vectors rather than maps of pixels), I'll be creating an image that I can stretch to whatever size or resolution I want, just needing to stretch it in Illustrator and then drag it into Photoshop, where it will be turned into a regular image, as a map of pixels (already in the size I want to be working), and then paint the shadows and highlights, with my Wacom tablet, to make that cool effect that you usually see in Lions' pictures since Bullions' new image got out!

Stay cool, people!
Peace ;p

"(...) life is a lesson | you learn it when you're through (...)" (Limp Bizkit)

2009-04-09T22:25:00.007+01:00

Howdy, people!

It's Easter holidays.
One week to be with the family (or try)...
One week to relax and do something more than just work (or try)...

Basically, this week that is ending was almost all filled with being at home working on the course's final project.
Of course there was time for other things, like drawing stuff for fun, talking to friends (even if almost only by Messenger), even playing a little PS2 (I have to admit I missed it), etc.

On a depressing final of the week, I took my time to draw, between several things, a kind of emotional self-portrait, representing how Lion was feeling in these final days of the week.

I did it using the same technique I always use:
Drawing it on paper, outline it with my faithful Indian ink artist pen. Then I scanned it into my Mac, turned the outline into vector and colour it in Illustrator.
Finally I imported it from Photoshop and did the final art (shadows, highlights and reflection).

Some people asked me: What happened to Lion?! Why is he sad?!
Well, it was hard for me to get an answer from him, but it turns out that he's sad and depressed because there was this she-lion that he loved for a long time, and he found out she's going out with another lion...

Poor Lion. His heart got crushed into a thousand pieces...
Let's hope he heals fast, because we need the old funny Lion with the fantastic sense of humour.
One thing that will definitely help trying to get him to smile again is if there's some new comments on the Vault and on this post! Keep them coming, please, friends!

Stay cool, people!
Peace ;p

Alma Dupla

2009-03-14T19:23:00.007Z

Howdy, people!

This is a work I did for a birthday gift to my beautiful twin friends, Catarina and Vanessa.
The work consisted in making the graphics for two cups. Each of them to each sister.

My idea was to blend a photo of each girl in a background paper texture, and then use the concept of "water drops" to insert half of the sisters' clothing brand's logo, in each cup.
After that, digitally inserting the signatures of all parties involved in the gift and, finally, getting an effect that would make possible, while putting the two cups side-by-side, close together, to make the entire logo (which works based on the idea of two female symmetric souls facing each other). This way, making stronger the idea that the two sisters (represented by the two souls) complete each other.

These were the final results...

This was the graphic made for Catarina's cup.
As she is the most energetic and dynamic of the two sisters, the graphic for her cup is, mostly, red.

And this was the graphic made for Vanessa's cup.
As she is the most calm and harmonious of the two sisters, the graphic for her cup is, mostly, blue.

I hope you liked it.
Stay cool!
Peace ;p

Guitar's Voice

2009-03-14T19:20:00.003Z

Howdy, people!

I've not been posting here as much as I liked and as I should have. This was a logo I made for a band called Guitar's Voice.

I hope you like it.
Stay cool!
Peace ;p

ETIC_Xmas '08

2009-01-04T19:12:00.004Z

Howdy, people!

It has been almost three months since the last post. I promise I will go back to post more frequently. It's just that the last weeks in school, before Christmas, were crazy. And when I entered these mini-holidays, I just got really, really lazy, having so much time to sleep and all.

Anyway, the routine is back, and with it came a new power of will to work even harder and start being more active in my 2 web blogs (let's see how long I can take it).

I decided to start this "comeback" to the Vault with a product of a team work. Teaming up with my collegues PWNY and Jusko, I created this communicative poster for a work selling and demonstration faire that our classes made happen at our school, early on December, this past year.

I hope you enjoy. More to be coming in no time (I hope).
Stick around and keep visiting, commenting and showing to your friends, family and everyone you can think of. I promise I'll be more active from now on.

Stay cool, people!... And take care!
Peace ;p

Wallpapers #2 - NCB, ETIC and Coriscada's Wallpapers

2008-10-09T18:18:00.004+01:00

More wallpapers' experiences...
This time, they're not dedicated to Bullions.
They're dedicated to three other things (from top to bottom):
"NCB" (the Portuguese korfball club you might remember from my old video-post "Treino NCB"), ETIC (my school for the course of Design of Comunication and Multimedia), and Coriscada (my grandparents' little home village).

Hope you people like it...
Stay cool, everyone!
Peace ;p

Wallpapers #1 - Bullions Wallpapers

2008-10-08T01:02:00.012+01:00

Howdy, people!
It's been a while, I know, but I am back to post some more of my artworks, here, at the Vault.
This time I decided to post a series of six walppapers made in honour of the "father-blog", Bullions (where "Lion" was "born"). The wallpapers are not in a final version, and they're not in any final resolution.

What I mean is that these here are just for display at the Vault (you can see they're watermarked as I usually do in my works here), but you can ask for one or more (for free, of course), through the e-mail of Bullions (you can see the address at the end of Bullions' sidebar).
Just ask for your favourite and tell me the dimensions (in pixels) of your screen...

Anyway... These were made in a mix of experiences and tutorials I've been working over in these last days (we have to keep learning, otherwise we're doomed, right?! xP).

Hope you like it... And feel free to comment!
Stay cool!
Peace ;p

Best Of Ill Niño (Album and Concert for "Graphic Production")

2008-07-07T17:52:00.005+01:00

WOW! This has to be some kind of record that I have just broken!... This is the 2nd post in row! (2 posts in 2 days... I'm the David Villa of the blogs, now... or not)

This time, I present you an artwork I made as a phantom work for the New Metal American band called "Ill Niño"! It was the final work for "Graphic Production", in Design of Communication and Multimedia, at ETIC.

The idea was to choose a music band/artist and make a whole production for them, creating a Pin, CD cover, CD label and the poster and ticket for a phantom show they would have at a specific time and place (informations given by the teacher).

I thought of doing a campaign for a "10 year celebration" CD... A "Best Of". I think they already made a "Best Of"... But I don't care. I did a "Best Of Ill Niño" anyway!

I hope you like it!... More artwork coming in no time! I have to put this blog moving!
Stay cool, people!
Peace ;p

Work for a friend #1

2008-07-06T20:34:00.007+01:00

Okay... I'm sorry that I haven't done much updating in my Vault, lately, but I had a pretty major reason for that: I had 2 weeks of doing nothing (let the one of you guys that never felt like doing "nothing" when you go on holidays throw the first rock)!

But, do not despair, my dear fans (aka mom, dad and sister), Lion's back and with a nice little project of a personal wallpaper for a friend.

It's nothing too fancy, I know... But I kind of like the result, here.
I mean, just the work on the girl: She's actually ugly as hell!...
Okay, okay... She's even more beautiful than she looks on the image, so I had no work there.
But, there's the wings (came from a seagull's picture from SXC, and got some lighting, saturation and brushing to look more "angelically white"), the sky (completely "handmade", with a blue to lighter blue gradient and a lot of hand brushing and clouds' brushes), the tattoo, lettering and the light beam done with Pen Tool and Layer Effects!

Hope you people enjoy. And, please, comment!
First one to comment will receive her personal contact as an award!
... NOT! Don't even think about it... But, please... Just a little "feedback" on a comment!

Stay cool, people!
Peace ;p

PS: For a correct visualization of the image, please click on it so your browser opens the file on the original size (original size of the web version, of course). Giving that, as said above, it's a Wallpaper, it's made to be seen big, and not in a kind of small "thumbnail" like it's presented on the post.
It's not going to be suddenly perfect, but it sure will look a little better...

7Up - Rock in Rio Exercise

2008-06-10T15:43:00.008+01:00

This is another small and fast exercise. These were made for the class of "Graphic Production", in which we had to learn how to produce new and good graphics, fast and well. It was also supposed to be ready for print, with all the crop and bleeding marks.

These 3 works were supposed to be something like fabric banners to mark the places "Cidade do Rock", "Palco Mundo" and "Sunset Rock in Rio".

Stay cool, people!... And I promise the good ones are coming soon!
Peace ;p

Colour Exercise

2008-06-10T14:31:00.005+01:00

On this exercise, for the class of "Colour", we had to create simple and fast graphics that would work properly (special attention to the use of colours), in each of the market's situations: "Sexy", "Sophisticated" and "MassMarket"...

This was what I came up with...

Stay cool, people!
Peace ;p

"Treino NCB"

2008-06-06T19:21:00.011+01:00

Howdy, people!
I decided to embed my project for "Video Edition", from ETIC.
It's already uploaded into YouTube, so you can see more about it there.
Basically it's a 2 minutes video about the training of a korfball team where some friends of mine play.

Hope you like it!... And feel free to comment!
Stay cool, people!
Peace ;p

Rainy Day...

2008-06-06T18:53:00.008+01:00

Howdy, people!

This is the first item to come out of my Vault...
It was made for the discipline of "Colour", in the course of Design of Communication and Multimedia, in ETIC.
The idea was to make graphic that would pass our idea of a certain colour. Who's brave enough to try and guess what my colour was?!

Este é o primeiro item a sair do meu cofre ("Vault")...
Foi feito no âmbito da disciplina de "Cor", no curso de Design de Comunicação e Multimédia, na ETIC.
A ideia era criar um gráfico que conseguisse passar a nossa idea de uma certa cor. Quem é corajoso o suficiente para tentar adivinhar qual era a minha cor?!

The image was made in Photoshop CS3, using real image, digital painting and cloud brushes...

A imagem foi feita em Photoshop CS3, usando imagem real, pintura digital e "brushes" de núvens...

Hope you like it!
Stay cool, people!
Peace ;p

Lets open the vault!

2008-06-05T22:55:00.004+01:00

Howdy, people!
For those who know me and my blogging, this may come as a surprise... Not the opening of a new, "solo" blog, made to show off some of my Art and Design works, but the fact that I'm writing in English, and not in Portuguese!

All of you know (or should know) how proud of a Portuguese guy I am... How proud of my country, my culture and my language...
But I've decided to write Lion's Vault in English for a simple and completely legitimate reason: I'm showing my work (or trying to), not for Portugal, but for the World!
And as proud as we can be, we have to accept that, talking to the World, has to be done, mainly, in Shakespeare's language (a simpler version, though)...

Now... You may be asking yourselves: "Were the hell did he put his artworks?!"

I'll answer that: I still haven't! But, do not despair, my fellow followers!... The first work will come out of the Vault in no time!

Just keep in touch... I'll take it out, either today or tomorrow!

Stay cool, people!... And welcome to the Lion's Vault!
Peace ;p