Minnesota

Have a look at this illustration I did for The Destroyed Room's new batch of tees featuring Minnesota a pug dog named after the band's eponymous EP. They'll be on sale at The Destroyed Room's website soon!

The Destroyed Room + The Blackjaw + Ulises Lima

The new year has been here for only 10 days but it somehow feels we've been in it forever.

It's not that I have nostalgia for 2010 (I usually have it even for 4 hours ago), but I still have a lot of things from last year I want to post about. It's just am not a very good blogger.

I'll start with the poster I did during Christmas for The Destroyed Room who are soon touring Spain and wanted something for their next gig in Madrid. I was inspired from a picture I took many years ago of a demolished house in the Les Corts district in Barcelona. It's quite amazing the contrast between the high rise office buildings in Diagonal and the single story house bits in the streets behind. I believe they could be refurbished into great studios but instead they're being knocked down. Easy and cheap. Some are are a hundred years old...

The Destroyed Room - Spanish Tour

Again another huge gap between posts. However I resist to quit blogging, there are still good things to upload.

Specially this poster I did for the very recent The Destroyed Room tour across Spain. This time I didn't have much time to prepare, slightly more than two weeks before the first gig's date. I thought that would be good that people knew about about the gigs with enough time to slot it in their busy agendas so had to hurry up a bit in making it. They played in Andalucia also!

For this illustration I was inspired by this location just 5 min walk from my parent's home. It's the path leading to a bridge crossing over the FGC railways. I miss that place...

By the way, they will be the supporting band for the first ever Smudge gig in Spain. Don't miss out: BeCool Barcelona 26th May!

The Eastern Winds - Sketches

I thought would be a shame not to publish some of the (I insist) almost 50 sketches I did for The Eastern Winds EP. Even though most of them are just little more than scribbles it takes a while to think of something worth making those loose lines.

The first ideas to play with at the very beginning were roads and relationships; deriving, at some moment, to rain, woods, time machines (when I took quite literal) and finally pencil sharpeners.

It's interesting to see how behind this apparently random brainstorming something was slowly taking shape. I'm happy to see we finally came up with the right covers.

The Eastern Winds

Just two weeks after Gomez passed away we already have a new golden retriever puppy, this time slightly whiter which is good to differentiate him. Haven't decided his name yet but we're considering something related to The Addams Family.

Back on the Market Estate days I was also working on The Destroyed Room's new EP album cover. With few themes such as rain, roads, or a red pencil sharpener I almost did 50 sketches (one of them even with a DeLorean time machine). Finally the band decided The Eastern Winds should have two different covers so this is the final result.

Next July they'll be supporting band the The Get Up Kids gig in Barcelona. Congratulations!
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