Gattai!! AWO x Mazinger

The image on the left is just a silly thing I did while brainstorming Anime World Order logo options. Usually all models are done on paper first, but at that point I had already conveyed all my ideas into bits. The original idea came from this link. Apparently the AWO crew are enjoying the new TV show, Shin Mazinger Shogeki! Z-Hen.

On their show they once questioned why is anime directly associated with mecha, a genre not so popular nowadays. Giant robots are to anime what western is to American cinema. While American animation has an incredibly strong link to slapstick humor, Japanese animation has a powerful bond to science fiction. Even if moe dominates the market today, over 50 years of mecha won't be forgotten so easily. We hope.

Nothing related, but did anyone ever notice a similarity between the opening of Cyber City Oedo 808, Burning World 〜追憶のコマンド〜, and Flashdance's What a Feeling?

Anime World Order: Character Design

I drew Daryl, Clarissa, and Gerald to compose the mock business cards for the logo proposal I sent them. They are all big fans of Osamu Tezuka so I used his character design as basis. Well, at least I tried. My biggest problem was that I couldn't find a character that matched Gerald. I ended up not basing him on anyone of Tezuka's Star System.

Anime World Order: Logo

Two suggestions for logo change of the Anime World Order podcast. From the e-mails I've exchanged with them, I get the feeling they sorta liked but... they grew attached to the one they got. I don't expect them to change anytime soon. It would be crazy if ad agencies kept proposing logo changes for companies. The desire of change must come from the client. That's why it wasn't depressing that they still chose a logo they ripped off from this. Hopefully one day they will yearn for a revamp.

I'm seriously considering removing the circle from within the letter "o". It is distracting more than explaining.




Negative version:




Applied to the website:




Fake Business Cards:





Below is the original version which the guys at mooz like more (designers... pfff). The biggest problem to me is that the name "Anime World Order" doesn't fit anywhere. It is extremely compact... maybe a little too much.

Toradora! x Last Blade

Trying not to forget how to draw and how to use Adobe Illustrator, I recently had the urge to materialize an image in my head. It's been so long since I last drew anime characters. The last time was before the website project, which means around 2005. Above are the two main characters from the best anime I watched from 2008, Toradora. Taiga and Ryuji are dressed up as Shigen and Kaede from my favorite console fighting game, SNK's Last Blade. The title Toradora (tora=tiger and dora=dragon) made me wonder if the characters were based on the four symbols of the Chinese constellation known as Shishin. The first time I recall encountering a reference to it was in Yu Yu Hakusho, but the first time I actually realized they were popular symbols was after playing Last Blade. In the game, Kaede possesses the power of the dragon known as Seyriu while Shigen has the power of the tiger known as Byakko. Below is the intro from the game.

上代さん

Another coworker of mine. She's probably one of the most sympathetic persons I have ever met in my life. Jyoudai-san went some time ago to Hawaii, so I thought I could draw something about it. In the beginning I thought it should be a poster with text, but changed my mind later. Normally I'd say I was just lazy, however this time the problem is that I don't handle fonts well. Whenever I worked with Daniel, he would manage the fonts and the general structure. To be honest, I think most fonts looks the same. I bet that if he wanted, Daniel could make this poster look good with text. Unfortunately he's too busy. Maybe someday he might want to use this commercially. Who knows?

Happy New Year

Just to start the year with a drawing. Twins whom I work with. Miki and Mae are the ones who introduced me to Bump of Chicken, a standard-but-cool Japanese rock band. Both are big fans.

Presentation of the Website

Below is the short and extremely crude stop motion video I made to show the creation of the online portfolio step by step.

Fashion Illustration: Color + Medium

In the end of last year's November I was contacted by an editor at maomao Publications, Macarena San Martin. She asked if I was interested in participating in the last part of a book they were assembling called Essential Color in Fashion Illustration (title changed since then). She had seen my illustrations online and wanted to put four illustrations in the last section of the book reserved for alternative techniques. The process took almost a whole year, but I must emphasize that Macarena was always very attentious and explained everything carefully. Today I picked it up at the local Japan Post central agency since I wasn't home yesterday when the mailman came by.

This not-so-active blog will stop activity for indefinite time because Saturday I´ll be travelling to Japan. Three different flights to get there is no joke. Experience tells me I´ll be offline for a significant time span. Since this last post will be on top for a while, I chose the postcard (never printed) Mooz made me instead of a sketch.

See ya space cowboys and cowgirls.

To make this post more productive, the movie list below should aware the few readers of my preferences. As you can notice, it is largely based on the American production. Lately I´ve been watching French movies and they are just blowing me away. If you think I´m missing something really important, recommend the title through a comment.


love (most of these titles are also essential but I separated them because it´s hard being objective in these cases):

la dolce vita 1960
apocalypse now 1979
omoide poro poro 1991
what's eating gilbert grape 1993
clerks 1994
ghost in the shell 1995
the end of evangelion 1997
american history x 1998
fight club 1999
sen to chihiro no kamikakushi 2001
bowling for columbine 2002
le fils 2002
lost in translation 2003
mindgame 2004


essentials (some of these titles I may not even like that much, but I know it was important to watch them at least once):

the general 1927
un chien andalou 1929
city lights 1931
m 1931
scarface 1932
la grand illusion 1937
gone with the wind 1939
the great dictator 1940
citizen kane 1941
casablanca 1942
it's a wonderful life 1946
la belle et la bête 1946
ladri di biciclette 1948
rope 1948
the third man 1949
all about eve 1950
sunset boulevard 1950
ikiru 1952
singin' in the rain 1952
roman holiday 1953
tokyo story 1953
ugetsu monogatari 1953
dial m for murder 1954
rear window 1954
sancho the bailiff 1954
shichinin no samurai 1954
to catch a thief 1955
12 angry men 1957
det sjunde inseglet (the seventh seal) 1957
 the hidden fortress 1958
vertigo 1958
hiroshima mon amour 1959
les quatre cents coups 1959
à bout de souffle 1960
spartacus 1960
the apartment 1960

yojimbo 1961
jules et jim 1962
la jetée 1962
dr. strangelove 1964
for a few dollars more 1965
blowup 1966
l´armata brancaleone 1966
un homme et une femme 1966
cool hand luke 1967
playtime 1967
the graduate 1967
week end 1967
2001: a space odissey 1968
once upon a time in the west 1968
butch cassidy and the sundance kid 1969
easy rider 1969
midnight cowboy 1969
mash 1970
the last picture show 1971
a clockwork orange 1972
deliverance 1972
the godfather 1972
american graffiti 1973
enter the dragon 1973
the sting 1973
chinatown 1974
jaws 1975
one flew over the cuckoo's nest 1975
all the president's men 1976
network 1976
taxi driver 1976
annie hall 1977
alien 1979
manhattan 1979
the shining 1980
das boot 1981
blade runner 1982
the wall 1982
amadeus 1984
kaze no tani no nausicaa 1984
paris, texas 1984

idi i smotri 1985
ran 1985
blue velvet 1986
babettes gæstebud 1987
der himmel über berlin (wings of desire) 1987
full metal jacket 1987
akira 1988
out of rosenheim (bagdad cafe) 1988
do the right thing 1989
roger & me 1989
the commitments 1991
c'est arrivé près de chez vous (man bites dog) 1992
reservoir dogs 1992
groundhog day 1993
trois couleurs: bleu 1993
chong qing sen lin (chungking express) 1994
pulp fiction 1994
before sunrise 1995
duo luo tian shi (fallen angels) 1995
welcome to the dollhouse 1995
trainspotting 1996
lost highway 1997
chun gwong cha sit (happy together) 1997
festen 1998
lola rennt 1998
rushmore 1998
american beauty 1999
being john malkovich 1999
eyes wide shut 1999
rosetta 1999
todo sobre mi madre 1999
magnolia 2000
o brother, where art thou? 2000
hedwig 2001
le fabuleux destin d'amélie poulain 2001
mulholland drive 2001
cidade de deus 2002
irréversible 2002
elephant 2003
kill bill (volume 1) 2003
finding nemo 2003
closer 2004
fahrenheit 9/11 2004

brokeback mountain 2005
no country for old men 2007
tropa de elite 2007
waltz with bashir 2008

Drawing based on the brilliant Rosetta (1999). The Dardenne brothers, who are both directors and writers of their films, are on a level of their own. Thanks to Tatiana who indicated their Le Fils (2002) and from whom I got Rosetta. I´m eager to watch La Promesse (1996) and L´Enfant (2005).

Professional Brazilian illustrators drawing me.
I´m not a celebrity, just someone who bumped
on a caricaturism convention in Recife.

I was struggling to make a drawing I actually liked of Lu Lins. The unexpected solution was to return to the character design style of rti9.com. I hope she likes it.


Two profiles I did some time ago. My brother told me Rádio de Outono is going to play at the Curitiba Rock Festival, considered by him one of the best in Brazil. Congratulations. On the right, one of the few Lu Lins drawings I did that was pissing me off. Does it look like her?

Fotologs are really popular in Brazil, but damn they´re helpless. Slow upload (if it doesn´t get stuck), limited guestbook, limited size/quality of photos, ugly interface, and the photos are surrounded by annoying ads. Alright that content is what matters, but damn... visuals help a lot.

Ana, Cansei de Ser Sexy´s guitar player and...


...Clara, CSS vocal. Whoever has good quality photos of the rest of the band (Adriano, Luisa, and Mary) please send them to me.

Ira, Cansei de Ser Sexy´s bass player. Hm... at least is whom I tried to portray. Does this drawing look like her? It´s hard to sketch people you only saw on a few images on fotologs. If anybody knows where I can find lots of photo albums of Cansei de Ser Sexy, please contact me. Leave a comment, send an e-mail, shout it out, whatever. I like to choose from a bunch. I also tend to prefer funny or unusual angle photographs.

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.