A lot of invisible work going down for my comic. 👀

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✨🦢✨Here to a new chapter,

For the first time in ages, I drew something for myself, for a story I have been developing for the last year. I honestly am so happy to be able to work on something for the pure joy of it and have no expectations of success or failure which in my opinion gave me more freedom to really see what I wanted to do and how I wanted to draw. I’m happier and more hyped than ever to explore their world and play with snowy landscapes .

While still deciding on a title, this story is a love letter to my craft and to myself. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

(Also thank you everyone for all the love you showed on my Notre Dame de Paris portfolio!)

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✨La Fin✨

Ending with a quote from the book and the character sheet I did for the project before painting the keyframes.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me over the years and many I met in the last couple of weeks. Your support and kind words mean the world. I have learned and sacrificed a lot throughout the whole period. It was a huge milestone in my artistic and personal life, which I’m honestly proud of accomplishing. I hope somehow this is enough of a proof of the quality of my work and get hired soon. You can find the full portfolio here.

Until then, I will be continuing to do work, possibly for personal projects, I have been meaning to develop for a while now but couldn’t find the time to do so with the whole portfolio project. Hope you enjoy the upcoming chapter of my art journey !💕

✨Attack on Notre Dame✨

The final keyframe I worked on for my portfolio. Loved working with the lighting. I wanted to portray the chaos and the grand presence of the cathedral itself; as if it’s a character in the story.

Another quiet thrill of the market visits was always the animals. Not just the usual pet shops or the aviary stalls—those were expected. But the toy animals… That’s where magic lived.

Here and there, sellers sat hunched in the cold, their goods proudly displayed on folding boards or cardboard trays: rubber centipedes, lizards, glossy beetles and spiders, mantises with crooked legs, and translucent snakes frozen mid-wriggle. Each one was a small, absurd treasure.

As a child, I could never understand the strange contrast between the vendor’s weary face and the wild, wondrous creatures he sold. Especially when those brightly colored tropical bugs—clearly born of jungles and sunlight—rested on cardboard among pigeons and snow.

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i want to blind my eyes today

Made this for Rebecca’s birbirthday.

Is that really you? Or is that someone else?

Theres room for improvement but I also like this other frame of my Little prince re-imagined visdev

-Props for Frollo’s Cell-

Was having too much fun by doing them, had to stop at some point to not overdo … It was so interesting to paint so many different styles of book bindings, skulls and bottles, little maximalist inside me is proud and wants to do more.

•Prop design for my visdev project based on Notre Dame De Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) .

Candelabra Designs and Silhouettes

They’re one of the first designs I did for the project . I explored both rigid and curved designs, and ended up going with the more rigid styles to emphasize on Frollo’s character.

•Prop design for my visdev project based on Notre Dame De Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) .

•Archdeacon’s Cell•

I had the pleasure of exploring the room design for Frollo, was such a learning experience from beginning to end. I incorporated many gothic elements along with themes of alchemy. The combination of candlelight and moonlight further enhanced to convey the moral dilemmas faced by the character.

•Set design for my visdev project based on Notre Dame De Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

L.A part 02
A mercantilização do desejo e da identidade.
Uma ode à beleza.

Mirror Images (1992)
Movie/study..