Lovefoxxx, vocalist of what is currently my favorite Brazilian band. My brother downloaded Cansei de Ser Sexy´s mp3s a couple months ago. I was so impressed when I first listened that I stopped cooking just to ask Claudio who was playing.

"Cansei de Ser Sexy."
"Uh?? It´s Brazilian?"
"Yeah."
"Are you sure?"
"Check yourself, dumbass."
"Holy shit..."


Incredible? Probably. Italian? Maybe. Japanese? Not to me.

Olivia is going to Germany with her fiancée in September. Thurday, her dumb brother asked me to draw her, but made no specifications or deadlines. Friday afternoon he writes to me via messenger and says that he´d like to use the illustration Saturday. The drawing above is the best thing I could assemble through various photos on their fotologs. Call him today just to find out he wanted something made on Adobe Illustrator. How can he complain of bad clients if he is one of them? At least my caricature skills are getting better.

Update: Hahaha. I just discovered that only Olivia is going. When she saw the drawing her response was, "Wow! Great... but shouldn´t I be alone?" Lesson learned. Always demand good briefings.

Funniest post ever on this blog?

Lately I´ve been thinking why the women I draw don´t look like the originals, while men are instantly recognized. Maybe, since I simplify women too much, they end up too "industrialized". I confess that I always try to make girls cuter so they won´t feel like killing me. Men are uglier and less worried about how they look (usually). Thus, I feel less pressured when drawing them. Also, I´m always worried of how simplify my drawings. Guess that´s the result of drawing women more oftenly.

Maybe this is what happens in my brain:

The original, based on a photo.



The clone, based on the first drawing.



The second clone, based on the drawing above.



The third clone, based on the drawing above.

Touring throughout Brazil, I hope Mula Manca e a Triste Figura is having a good experience. I miss listening to Tibério. I just hope I never need to get a ride from him again. Words like time and punctuality have a different meaning in his dictionary.


Moved by the sad story about a cat and a girl, I drew this based on two photos I found on Orkut. Finally that website is proving to be useful.

People from bands I talked to during the Coquetel Molotov 2005.


Fantastic presentation by M. Takara. I don´t know if what he used along a synthetizer was a 12-inch powerbook or ibook, but it was in the small Sala Cine UFPE that Hurtmold´s drum player really impressed me.

Update: According to Daniel, he used a powerbook. "Powerbooks are metallic gray, while i-books are plastic white."


Lu Lins from Lulina. Lucky! I got the "Bolhas na Pleura" CD directly from her hands. Ultra charismatic and very original, it´s no wonder why she will always have guaranteed audience on her shows.


Bárbara Jones from Rádio de Outono. Daniel Edmundson rapidly presented us. I missed the beginning of the show because they were all delayed a bit. The postponement confused me since it was the first day of the festival. It would be nice if five minutes before a band started playing, some kind of siren or sound announcement informed people on the lounge area. Not my style of music, but the crowd seemed to like the band a lot. Good mp3 available on their website though.

The shows I liked most were M. Takara, Lulina, Berg Sans Nipple, and The Kills.

August 9th I presented the project. Thankfully the professor who was guiding me, Isabel Duarte, suggested me to do something else besides using my horrible oral skills. I made an eight minute animation using more than a thousand photos and screen caps. The grading board really liked it as it compensated for the decrepit text part of the project. And today I´m just waiting for graduation.

It´s been a while since I last drew. Sunday (14/08) I went to a small gathering to commemorate a friend´s birthday. Inspired by it, I drew Fontanella and Nara. As you can notice, I still have a tough time drawing men. Nara was much easier. Oh yeah, for people who can´t associate names and faces after six months, Nara is the one on the bottom.