Ernesto Melo

2011-11-24T11:47:00.001-08:00

...

2011-09-28T12:13:00.000-07:00

....

D..D..D..D....DRGUN

2011-07-23T18:35:00.000-07:00

...

2011-06-18T07:20:00.000-07:00

PO PO PO PO POKER...

DOODLES

2011-04-25T14:02:00.000-07:00

....

2011-02-02T16:45:00.000-08:00

GLANCE

2010-12-11T11:56:00.000-08:00

2010-12-10T13:16:00.000-08:00

ESTUDIO

2010-10-31T12:58:00.000-07:00

RESCUE

..and "Chop the tree"

2010-09-03T13:35:00.001-07:00

MORE AHAB-LIKE

2010-08-05T09:47:00.000-07:00

WARRIOR

2010-08-03T05:25:00.000-07:00

ROUGH AHAB

2010-07-15T10:54:00.000-07:00

DIBUJITOS

2010-06-17T01:27:00.000-07:00

THE LINE OF INFLUENCE: A TRIBUTE TO RONALD SEARLE (UPDATE)
You can watch all the artworks now online HERE

2010-05-17T03:23:00.000-07:00

THE LINE OF INFLUENCE: A TRIBUTE TO RONALD SEARLE

A few months ago I had the opportunity to participate on a
Homage to Ronald Searle for his 90th birthday, organized by
Creative Talent Network's founder Tina Price.

It's too hard for me to tell the magnitude of such Artist.
We must talk about true influences- even though you haven't seen any of his drawings in your life, surely there'll be an artist you know who has grabbed bits of his approach.
There is a great site, Ronald Searle Tribute, where you can find not only
tons of drawings and links but biographical stories.
Maybe the intense years he lived on his youth can make sense about
how intensely alive his characters are. Before such Drawing Giant the less one
can do is say Thanks!

So Tina asked to artists who wanted to express this gratitude with drawings whom she would put together in a book:
"This 60 page book is an exclusive limited edition print of only 75 copies that will never be sold or re-printed.
The book includes artwork and sentiments from over 50 artists."

Roger Allers
Niklas K. Andersen
Chris Armstrong
Lubomir Arsov
AWN
Chris Ayers
Nancy Beiman
Don Bluth
Saud Boksmati
Jamie Kezlarian Bolio
Chen Yi-Chang
David Colman
Peter de Séve
Eric Favela
Francis Glebas
Ed Gombert
Manny Hernandez
Francisco Herrera
Mike Hoffman
Matt Jones
Tom Knowles
Tobias Kwan
Gay Lawrence
John Mahoney
Rik Maki
Patrick Mate
Mark McDonnell
Ernesto Melo
Uli Meyer
Rob Minkoff
John Musker
Francesca Natale
Sue Nichols
Michael Peraza
Rodrigo Perez-Castro
Pierre Perifel
Gabriele Penacchioli
Anette Power
Paul Shardlow
Kyle Shockley
Harald Siepermann
Alessandra Sorrentino
Ken Turner
Carlos Valenti
Valerio Ventura
Glenn Vilppu
Suzanne Lemieux Wilson
Nate Wragg
Dean Yeagle
Kathy Zielinkski

The book will be posted on CTN's site after all copies are distributed.

There you are, my contribution, and cover of the book:

2010-05-17T01:59:00.000-07:00

ARTICLE ABOUT STUFF

Last week the great Illustrator's historian, Leif Peng, asked me
if I could send some lines about me, and some samples about
my working process. Now the article is online, and I'm very proud
to contribute on his site Storyboard Central

2010-05-03T05:15:00.000-07:00

FAST FRAMES

Last week a storyboard commission appeared, with a very
tight deadline. They wanted all frames in color although they
knew that there won't be enough time for me. So I scanned my thumbnails, then
I enlarged them to fit with my template frame and lowered their opacity.
Then I drew directly and decided to use one tone with a small variation
in light source, where I could put another color.

otro más:

2010-03-20T18:23:00.000-07:00

EN EL BOSQUE

B/W

2010-03-13T15:33:00.000-08:00

NIÑA

2010-03-05T02:22:00.000-08:00

GENTE

2010-02-06T06:15:00.000-08:00

DIBUJITOS

2009-12-23T17:58:00.000-08:00

...los regalos siguen cayendo del cielo....
FELIZ NAVIDAD y UN HERMOSO 2010!

...presents keep falling from the sky....
MERRY CHRISTMAS and A BEAUTIFUL 2010!

2009-11-13T01:48:00.000-08:00

STORYBOARD FRAMES

...not AHAB
(but has something of him)

2009-11-07T09:49:00.000-08:00

AHAB

ARPON

2009-10-11T09:15:00.000-07:00

CHICA

2009-09-07T02:56:00.000-07:00

DON JOSÉ

MONSTRUO

2009-08-19T06:47:00.000-07:00

UN GORDO

2009-08-07T14:45:00.000-07:00

ELLA Y SU GUITARRA

2009-07-02T11:04:00.000-07:00

mmmmmmmwwwrrrjjj.........early birds!!!

2009-06-29T09:12:00.000-07:00

CLIMBING UP ON THE WOODS

2009-06-26T02:39:00.000-07:00

TWO SWORDS

doodles

2009-06-05T02:08:00.000-07:00

OLD FRIENDS

2009-06-03T03:31:00.000-07:00

SWAMP MARCH

2009-05-30T03:42:00.000-07:00

THE UNSTABLE HUMILITY OF THE RING

2009-05-28T01:34:00.000-07:00

DAWN

2009-05-21T03:07:00.000-07:00

CHOP THE TREE

2009-05-10T03:52:00.000-07:00

2072's BUCCANEER

2072's DESSERT SCOUT

2009-05-09T08:59:00.000-07:00

15TH ANNIVERSARY

2009-04-28T11:17:00.000-07:00

KC BIRD

2009-04-01T10:00:00.000-07:00

BUCCANEERS

2009-03-22T04:58:00.000-07:00

STILL FIGHTING

2009-03-17T11:12:00.000-07:00

COWBOY

EVIL PEOPLE...
...the same old song.

STEALTH

2009-03-16T06:10:00.000-07:00

MOTHER & CHILD

2009-03-02T07:40:00.000-08:00

WARRIOR

2009-01-03T06:12:00.000-08:00

SHARING OUR WISHES FOR 2009
(... or drawing with my younger daughter on my lap)

When she finished to fill the dog with colors, I asked
what do you think he is thinking?
She began to draw the landscape, the sun, I did the running dog.
"These dogs usually are white, but when they have these
thoughts they turn into these colors...".. we laughed.
I continued watching him, the leash, the way he was looking
the scene, and I thought that it was a WISH.
And all this story is for if you want to fill (or feel) your 2009's WISH,
this drawing comes together with a copy, but with a blank balloon.

2008-12-24T07:35:00.001-08:00

FELICES FIESTAS!!

2008-12-12T03:27:00.000-08:00

2008-10-31T07:21:00.000-07:00

HOSTAGE

Sí, is a daily storyboard frame, but is the kind of scene that one always wishes to draw!

HAZY SHADE OF WINTER

'XMAS IS ALL AROUND

A BIT SAD

TITANIUM (!)

DINO IN GALA COSTUME

ARCHER

THINKING

2008-10-18T13:46:00.000-07:00

....I DON'T REALLY HURT YOU

2008-08-06T08:07:00.000-07:00

VAMPI

2008-06-16T15:50:00.001-07:00

PETER'S NIGHTMARE

AHUM...

2008-06-10T09:43:00.000-07:00

HERE COMES THE FLOOD

2008-05-26T03:02:00.000-07:00

HARLEQUIN

2008-04-24T03:21:00.000-07:00

T-SHIRT

2008-04-01T15:34:00.000-07:00

GATO FOR BOARD
Yes, I had in mind during the staging, that old amazing, marvelous cat from the '50s ad.
He is sitting very straight (almost abstract) and he's enjoying Royal jelly(?) or something...
Now I'm remembering, that maybe he is with his son(?), that means, the same cat, but smaller.

OK, now, what do you think?:

2008-04-01T15:27:00.000-07:00

VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR

2008-03-15T12:32:00.001-07:00

ZAPPING

2008-03-15T11:08:00.000-07:00

STORY, AN OLDIE ONE

2008-03-14T03:18:00.000-07:00

Hmmm... I'm watching you...

2008-01-07T16:47:00.000-08:00

TARAGÜÍ

2007-12-13T11:22:00.000-08:00

PIXIES

I've started a series of music-inspired.
First song: Where is my mind?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGXdXcpNsv4&feature=related

OR

GIVE ME SOME TRUTH

...and a doodle (not a song):
HERE COMES THE SCRIBE

2007-12-12T02:49:00.000-08:00

DOODLING

2007-12-07T03:17:00.000-08:00

Welcome to THE 60's!
Edna:
"Tracy,I haven't left this house in years....
I don't wanna be seen like this,
the neighbors haven't seen me since
I was a size 10.
Don't make me do it Tracy."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mjgD-i3mMw&feature=related

2007-05-27T04:05:00.000-07:00

Zulu NIMH's Guardian

2006-10-18T03:25:00.000-07:00

Warrior II

2006-08-17T04:38:00.000-07:00

DOODLING AGAIN

2006-05-25T01:59:00.000-07:00

Mmm....mmm....(singing)

2006-04-23T15:26:00.000-07:00

PENCIL

2006-03-19T16:22:00.000-08:00

Little rough

2006-03-16T10:36:00.000-08:00

Shadow on the sunset

2006-03-14T02:27:00.000-08:00

Proud Princess

2006-03-06T15:53:00.000-08:00

2006-02-28T01:34:00.000-08:00

OLDIES...

2006-02-09T05:00:00.000-08:00

Warrior

2006-01-16T11:06:00.000-08:00

CHECK OUT THIS ARTIST:
http://sylviamenendez.blogspot.com/

2006-01-14T06:27:00.000-08:00

The other day I had the luck to be commissioned for illustrate one of my
Robert L. Stevenson favorite books: "Kidnapped", for Oxford University Press.
So I was looking for information in my H. Pyle, N. C. Wyeth's books, Pirates of the
Caribbean dvd...With that reference I began doing some scribbles for the costumes, mood and
characters acting.
The image's text says "I lifted my pistol and shot at them" and belongs to the
round-house of Hoseason’s ship attack.

2005-12-22T13:08:00.000-08:00

FELICES FIESTAS, BLOGGERS!

2005-12-17T13:18:00.000-08:00

Happy witch

2005-12-13T05:13:00.000-08:00

Panoramic storyboard frames

2005-12-08T12:24:00.000-08:00

These Painter sketches were made with the attempt to find the characters for a web game.

2005-11-29T11:15:00.000-08:00

Pencil frame

2005-11-25T08:58:00.000-08:00

Animator Alligator

2005-11-22T09:11:00.000-08:00

Greetings card

2005-11-18T06:12:00.000-08:00

Another board

2005-11-17T15:10:00.000-08:00

Dibujito

2005-11-03T14:58:00.001-08:00

Sketches

2005-11-01T01:29:00.000-08:00

Sepia TV commercial storyboard.

2005-10-29T11:13:00.000-07:00

Layer for an animatic.

2005-10-29T07:12:00.000-07:00

Other frames that I've done for a TV commercial with
Gaudi's "La Sagrada Familia" as background.
I enjoyed the possibility to use flat colors for the characters
and a bit of "non-matching with the line" ones
for the backgrounds.

2005-10-25T01:41:00.000-07:00

A recent board...

2005-10-24T15:55:00.000-07:00

A very fast shootin' I did some years ago
for Universal-Port Aventura

2005-10-19T04:50:00.000-07:00

A character design for a web game and two
backgrounds.

2005-10-17T10:38:00.000-07:00

An old board for a thematic park "Universal-Port Aventura".
Markers and airbrush "Tria".

2005-10-15T04:27:00.000-07:00

Another two commercial storyboards

2005-10-15T04:16:00.000-07:00

2005-10-11T06:02:00.000-07:00

Lufthansa comp.

2005-10-11T01:30:00.000-07:00

Barcelona sunset with Father and "Simba" son" storyboard.

2005-10-07T06:18:00.000-07:00

This was a character design of "El Mano" for a special edition
of "El Eternauta", made many years ago.

2005-10-04T06:55:00.000-07:00

Spiderman 2 promo Storyboard

2005-10-04T06:20:00.000-07:00

Storyboard for Cheeto's