Long time ago in a galaxy far far away

Well it's been indeed a while and life has been hectic! Back in November I decided to leave everything behind and go spend some time in Europe with no real plan whatsoever. Well that turned into this great 4-month adventure throughout Portugal, Spain, Canary Islands, Italy, Switzerland and Paris. Indeed one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) trip I've ever done. The photo above is from a Keith Haring exposition in Pisa, Italy.

But this meant I had no access to my dear Wacom tablet, or a proper computer setup to keep working on digital artworks. That's why everything you see on my IG page -- which is the most up to date spot for my artworks -- has been ink artworks. I'm now back to America, trying to sort out my life in the next few months and as soon as I'm settled again, I'll be back to the digital world.

One thing I have realized is that even though it's been years since I purchased my Wacom tablet, hand-drawing on paper is still what suits me the most. I have a few ideas on my mind regarding what's coming next: a site refresh probably to display multiple tiles on each section, finishing up the final episode of Escuadron 37 and coming up with new NFT and drawing projects.

Andres

The obligatory Halloween post

 

Happy Halloween! And what a year it's been eh? There hasn't been much improvement since my last post, but here we are. I'm still doing the same old stuff but drawing is still my escape out of reality and somehow what keeps me sane during these hard times. 

I'm still trying to figure out the best way to promote my NFT collection, not really to make any money but to somehow have a group of people collect my art if possible, that'd be amazing.

I made some progress on the final episode of Escuadron 37, but there's still so much work to be done there. The script is complete and 90% of the voices have been recorded, which is fantastic. I just need to sit down and spend more time on it...

The photo above was my last minute Halloween costume idea, which turned out to be great!

I'm also looking at moving cities, will keep you all posted. Oh and I'm flying to Europe for a month and a half, I may write from there.

Have a fun time!

Mid-year update!

Well it's been a long time since I wrote here! It's for sure been a crazy year for me, after spending almost four months in my home country of Argentina, I got back to the US and took me a while to finally decide to rent a place again (instead of keeping travelling). I'm now settled again for the time being -- which will probably last one or two years until I go crazy once again :)

But what about my art? As you have seen, most of this time I spent outside of Seattle, I did not have access to my Wacom tablet. In fact, it was just resting in my car's trunk for the longest time! So ink artworks were the only solution to survive, but it worked out! I think I drew more than ever before during this period though. I'm back to the digital days now, without forgetting about inky doodles in between!

I also uploaded the whole original Escuadron 37 series (in argentine spanish) to my Instagram account, feel free to go check it out. I still need to add subtitles to the episodes, I think only the first few got them so far.

Finally, I created an NFT collection for my digital art on OpenSea! I'm slowly adding more and more, and will probably feature most digital artworks coming in the future. I'll also be adding links to the NFTs in their corresponding artwork pages, together with direct interaction to the ethereum blockchain if possible! Go check it out for now: Okcerk's Digital Masterpieces

That's it for now, I'll keep you all posted! Have a great summer!

Everything I know about life & more: A coloring book

Aaaand to beging the year with hugely massive exciting news, I just released my first coloring book on Amazon ! I have no words to tell how excited I am about this. (by the way here is the link: GET BOOK )

While spending a few months with my family in Argentina, a conversation about my art and website came up during lunch time. At some point I said I should create a coloring book and well, turns out my little sister is a soon-to-be graphic designer and so she got right into making it happen. Really, nothing could have happened without her, so I'm super thankful. We got together trying to decide which drawings were going to make the cut and ended up picking 28 from the already created ones, plus two that would have needed to be drawn in the coming days. These were all drawings from the last three years, since I started my instagram account and my current website. 

At the same time, I came to know about Amazon KDP: an amazing platform where you cannot just publish your eBooks in a very simple matter but also they'll do all the work to get your paperback book ready. So I created and account, got the templates downloaded and after one month the book was ready to ship (or upload :P ) on February 8th!

This has been the best possible start of the year and cannot wait for future projects!

PS: I have also made a bunch of changes on my website recently such as adding a brand new menu, merging the inktober section into the Ink section (and removing some doodles I didn't like) + creating a new section for the book itself.

Til next time!

Andres

Home is nowhere

 Given how often I post on this blog, this will be the last post of 2020. And what a year it's been! I'm sure everyone loved it. I have just left my apartment in Seattle and flew to my home country of Argentina to stay here for a few months. But that's the catch, I'm technically homeless right now... or nomad, whatever you wanna tag it.

So given that, I do not have my Wacom tablet and I'm just left with a sketch block, my laptop and a few ink pens here which I've been using to draw whenever I get bored of work. Once I get a new place in a few months (probably) and get my setup running again, I'll go back to digital art. I do have the time now to make a bunch of improvements to my site though, since I'm not wasting my time watching many TV shows and such. Should I start over and make comic strips?

I've been realizing life had just got too bad and boring this year and needed to make a radical change, so that's it for now but we'll see where this journey takes me. For the time being, I hope everyone is safe and just feel free to reach out with suggestions! I know not many people read this blog but maybe one day, who knows?

Happy new year, let's hope the next one is at least 1% better :)

Escuadron 37 in HD

After a long time trying to figure out the best way to do it, while being locked inside this weekend thanks to the Californian smokes here in Seattle, I managed to convert all episodes of Escuadron 37 in HD and upload them to Youtube. This should've been done long long ago and never got around doing it. Those days are gone and now everyone can enjoy them on HD! The episodes are in Argentine Spanish and will work on adding proper subtitles in English.

I have also got 5 minutes ready for the final episode, but as I mentioned before, it'll be a long run since its script is massive. But once it's done, it'll wrap up this series deep story (? 

If you haven't, go check out my site as always, since I've been uploading on a daily basis after I got back from my trip to Yellowstone (I guess the one best thing about this horrible year :S).

My Youtube Channel

My Art Website

'Til next time!

Summer at the cave

Well it's almost the start of the summer and as I added a few nice tweaks to the site, I thought to myself it's been a while since I blogged. The quarantine is finally slowing down or I'm somehow more used to it or I'm just going crazier by being locked down inside. At least I got one of those inflatable kayaks to spend my free time at the lake whenever there's sun outside. On the other side, things have been okay I guess:
* I haven't been drawing as much as I was expecting but it's still been alright. I've just added a new "under construction" section called Ink, which I'll be most likely filling up this weekend with all those inky artworks I usually upload to Instagram and nowhere else. If I'm adventurous enough, I'll
also dig into my bag of old drawings and upload some more surprises too. As usual, Instagram is where my most up to date things are but from now on that gap will be smaller and smaller, because of this new section.
* The doodles section has been renamed to Digital! I know, comics I make are also digital but that does not mean one day I'll go back to hand-draw some comics :)
* Migrated all of the artworks from png to jpg format and now the site is super fast to load. Of course, the quality got slightly downgraded but it's worth it, trust me!
* Still need to get back to the Escuadron 37 final episode, I've been a total lazy bastard and I'm sorry for that.
I've also been thinking about ways to increment my followers on Instagram and Twitter, if you have any recommendations please let me know!
And finally:
* I changed the navigation buttons once again because I really hated the second wave I had created. Hopefully this third one is here to stay and I won't be adding more sections for a while I guess
(or will I?)

Stay healthy people!