Yes Land

22.4.10

Láminas de edición limitada firmadas 50x70cm a la venta en la Galería Marlaska!
Limited Edition prints signed 50x70 cm available at Marlaska Gallery!

1. How are you feeling

2. El mono dorado de la suerte (the golden lucky monkey)

3. Flip

4. El moscon (the fly)

16.4.10

Cartel Animayo 2010 :: Animayo's 2010 poster

Aqui esta mi propuesta para el cartel de Animayo 2010. Fue preseleccionada junto con otras 7 propuestas, pero gano Maria Teresa Santana Almeida con su platillo volante sobre fondo negro. ¡Felicidades Maria Teresa! No me disgusta el concepto, entre los preseleccionados habria elegido la propuesta de Octavio Alonso, ¡me encanta!

Para ver todos los finalistas : animayo.com

EN

Here is my proposal for the Animayo's 2010 poster. It was shortlisted along with 7 other proposals, but Maria Teresa Santana Almeida's one was the winner with her flying saucer over a black background. Maria Teresa,congratulations! I like the concept though, between the shortlisted proposal I'd have chosen the Octavio Alonso, I love it!

To take a look at the others visit: animayo.com

11.4.10

Laminas de edicion limitada en Marlaska!
Laminas de 50X60 cm, limitadas y firmadas, ven a verlas!

Signed limited edition prints at Marlaska Gallery! 50X60cm
Come and check them out!

9.4.10

HerbieCans Entrevista en Esradio

El proximo lunes a las 12:45 !!!(online en : http://avenidafm.com/ ) o el dial FM 101.1. Tengan un poco de paciencia porque tarda un poco en oirse, es posible que tengan que instalar algun plugin. Se emitira en el espacio "A Todo en Gran Canaria" . El que quiera poner la oreja, esta vez se oye!! jajaja
Puedes oirla aqui :

EN
Interview at Esradio on monday 12 you can hear it online at http://avenidafm.com/ (in spanish) be patience 'cause it takes a bit to hear the online radio. : )
If you don't want to wait you can hear it here but in spanish, sorry!

8.4.10

Proceso del mural :: Mural process

Si quieres verlo mejor, pasate por Marlaska! Estare pintandolo los Martes de 5 a 9pm y los jueves de 7 a 9pm.

If you want to take a better look at it, come to Marlaska Gallery! I'm painting it from 5pm to 9pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7pm to 9pm until 30th April.

3.4.10

Taller de Manga :: Manga's workshop

Con motivo del "Abril culturas mil" que organiza el centro cultural de Maspalomas impartire un taller de Manga que pretende dar una vision general de la tecnica de dibujo manga.

Siento decir que las plazas estan todas agotadas pero esta sera mi primera toma de contacto con una clase y espero que la experiencia sea productiva para asi animarme a impartir algun curso de mas duracion.

El taller sera los dias 12, 14, 16, 19, 21 y 23 de Abril de 17:00 a 19:00 en el Centro Cultural de Maspalomas, Av Tejeda 72, San Fernando. Tf: 928 72 00 35.

Entrevista en Radio Dunas a cerca del taller :

EN:
On the occasion of "April thousand cultures" organized by the Cultural Centre of Maspalomas, I'll be teaching a Manga workshop that aims to provide an overview of manga's drawing technics.

I regret to say that the seats are all sold out but this will be my first contact with a class and I hope that the experience is productive so that it encourages me to provide some longer courses.

The workshop will be on 12, 14, 16, 19, 21 and April 23rd from 17:00 to 19:00 in the Cultural Centre of Maspalomas, 72 Tejeda Av, San Fernando. P: 928 72 00 35

1.4.10

YesLand in Marlaska Pictures by Nisa Arce

28.3.10

YesLand in Marlaska!

¡Gracias a todos los que se acercaron a la inauguracion!a GreenMindz por amenizarnos con su R&B electronico, a Xira-RT y Kawaii&Cute y en especial a Tony de Marlaska que lo ha hecho posible. Ayer comence un mural que seguire durante el tiempo que dura la exposicion (hasta el 30 de Abril)¡dense un salto! Tambien hare una exhibicion de ilustracion digital tableta en mano. Un saludo y nos seguimos viendo en Marlaska!

EN

Thanks to everyone who came to the inauguration! To GreenMindz with his R & B sounds, Xira-RT, Kawaii & Cute, and especially Tony from Marlaska Gallery who made this possible. Yesterday I started a mural which I'll continue during the exhibition (until April 30) Please come to take a look! I'll also display a step by step live exhibition of digital illustration. Greetings and see you in Marlaska!

¡Gracias a "Nisa Arce" por su recopilacion de fotos de la expo! Thanks to "Nisa Arce" for her picture recopilation about the exhibition! Here you go the link!
Aqui tienen un link a su galeria de fotos: YesLand in Marlaska

15.3.10

Portada Canarias Creativa :: Canarias Creativa's cover

Portada para el Fanzine 2 de Canarias Creativa "Quién lleva los pantone en casa".
Cover for 2nd fanzine of Canarias Creativa "who wears pantone at home?"

Fanzine 2

7.3.10

Kawaii&Cute HerbieCans's Collection!

Proximamente en Marlaska Kawaii&Cute HerbieCans's collection! Llaveros, muñecos de fieltro.. Disponible a partir del 26 de Marzo en la galería Marlaska ^__^

Soon, at Marlaska Gallery Kawaii&Cute HerbieCans's collection! Keyrigns, dolls.. From 26th March at Marlaska Gallery.

1.3.10

Flip

Trabajando en material nuevo para la expo de Marlaska :D

Working in new stuff for Marlaska's exhibition!

23.2.10

Exposición "YesLand" en Café Central :: "YesLand exhibition at Café Central

Del Miercoles 24 de Febrero al Martes 16 de Marzo "YesLand" acompañara tus comidas en Cafe Central. Esta cafeteria surfera ubicada en la Calle Numancia nº 85 es famosa por su buen ambiente, su buena comida y sus exposiciones variadas.
Ven a disfrutar con tus amigos! Si no conocias el sitio te seguro que te encantara. :D

EN:
From Wednesday 24th February to Tuesday 16th March "YesLand" go with your meal at Cafe Central. This surfing cafeteria located at Numancia street No 85 is well known for its great atmosphere, good food and cool exhibitions.
Come and enjoy with your friends! If you didn't know this place I'm sure you'll love it! :D

15.2.10

Exposición YesLand en la galería Marlaska :: "Yesland Exhibition at Marlaska Gallery

El proximo 26 de Marzo a las 19:30 sera la inauguracion de la exposicion "Yesland" en Marlaska.
Con la colaboracion del Dj Green Mindz, Kawaii&Cute y XiRa-RT.
La muestra estara nutrida de nuevos trabajos, habra musica y muchas cosas mas : laminas, camisetas, figuras, dolls, llaveros,postales,chapas...
¡Animate y ven a echar un vistazo!

EN:
Next 26th March at 19:30 inaugurates "YesLand" Exhibition at Marlaska Gallery.
With the collaboration of Dj GreenMindz, Kawaii&Cute and XiRa-RT.
The exhibition will be nourished by new jobs, there'll be music and much more: sheets, shirts, figurines, dolls, key chains, postcards...
Come take a look!

11.2.10

Entrevista Canarias Creativa :: Canarias Creativa Interview

Hace poco me hicieron una entrevista en Canarias Creativa, una pagina dedicada al diseño, comunicacion y artes graficas de las Islas Canarias.

Espero que les guste!

EN:

For those english speakers I'll try to translate it. Please excuse my english :P

CC: HerbieCans comes to represent a new illustrative design scene in the Canary Islands. Young, talented and with a fresh style that has permeated the net.

Hello Herbie,...first,thanks, and second, how would you like us to cal you from now? hehe

HC: Hahaha hi Sergio, no,no, thank you! HerbieCans is the pseudonym I which I'd like to be known.^__^

CC: Well, getting serious. What does a girl like you in a world like this? How did you begin to devote yourself to your illustration artwork?

HC: Well, actually I'm in the animation field, illustration is a collateral damage I'd say,hehe. Uhmm I guess sometimes, events draw us toward what we're ment to do. I think that's what happened to me.

I had been almost two months studying architecture in Madrid when by chance I walked into a comic shop. That action changed my life and am very grateful to Edu, (the guy who flirted with me hehe)for telling me he was studying animation. Suddenly a childhood dream came back to me as a revelation saying: That's it!

So the next day I left college. I studied 3 years animation in ARS Animation . Then I returned to Gran canaria and was hired by Bitestudio ,a design studio based in the capital of Gran Canaria: young, dynamic, innovative and where the working environment couldn't be better. I owe them a lot and learned a lot. Above all what I'll always thank them most is that they awoke in me the germ of design. They are to blame for my transition from animation to the static. So I'd date there my first approaches to illustration (in terms of something more serious) but it wasn't until next year when everything would began to jell.

I also workedat Cool city project with now named Machango Studio, a very good experience. Then I went to Valencia, where I worked at Black Maria studios.

This is where my illustration skills started developing. At that time I was already combining my work with my personal project (which I try to give shape in my blog: yesland.blogspot.com): Create a world full of cute and lighthearted characters, keeping a (Madrid) and then I went back to Gran Canaria, where, against all odds I found work as character animator. After that I was hired as animator and character designer. I gained a lot experience, friends, and was also a dream place to work at. I'm proud of having worked with them.harmonious aesthetics. Thanks to which I made a tutorial for the magazine Arte y Diseño (No. 96-kawaii cool design). Since then I attempt to promote my work by putting"Yesland" stands. The first one was at international design exhibition "Design Festa, Tokyo. I lived half a year visually and personally nurturing from this city. After that I promoted myself at home: in the third Manga room of Gran Canaria and the Tenerife Lan Party, whose organization was great.

Then came my first solo exhibition at the lighthouse of Maspalomas, and my body took more work.
Er..., tremendous paragraph hahaha!Sorry! I rolled up a bit.

CC : Have you preserved any sketches at maths books of those years at school? Do you think your style has evolved with you or that you're the one that has evolved to what was coming out of your pencil?

HC : Sure! I keep drawings since I was 4 , but .. we all do .. right? . For the second question .. I don't know,it would be a bit like asking what came first, the chicken or the egg? I wouldn't know what to answer.

CC : For those wondering: Age? Training?

HC: 26, I studied traditional animation at ARS, Madrid. Where I had great teachers like Carlos Martinez and Jorge Pozo. Also I was fortunate to learn from other great animators Joanna Quinn, Raul Garcia, Sergio Pablos, Borja Montoro and many people that I've been finding on the road.

CC : In recent years, the animation scene in the Canary Islands seems to be turning on and looking for it's little place in the market. The door opened a bit more with Machango studio and colleagues who are slowly creating a school. In your case, where does the determination to give movement to your designs come from?

HC: Yes, I'd also want to send them a hug and encouragement from here. They're doing a great job and we need to enhance the animation film industry here in our land. I worked with them when they were Dachefa productions with Coolcity draft, and was a good experience. I hope to repeat soon!

More than giving movement to my characters I want to bring them alive. Actually my early steps were in animation field so, it's funny that now I'm doing the opposite thing, bringing them to static. I'm also trying other formats .. as figures and other type of merchandise (badges, T-shirts, postcards ...) We'll see a sample of that at Marlaska gallery from March 26th. Whoever wants to go .. I just drop it here hahaha. In shorter-term at "Café Central" I'll be exposing from February 24th.

CC: Your style is peculiar and easy to recognize, that's very difficult to see in this era of information. Still, I suppose you drink from many sources ... tell me some ....

CH: Ehh .. you just killed me. haha,Yes, I feed on many things for sure, but I'm not quite aware of what. I like many people's work but it may not be semilar to what I do. Anyway it's not a good thing that your drawing style is recognizable for an animator hehehe ... and it's something I try to avoid when animating. At least in my illustrator facet it's got good connotations. ^ __ ^

To say something and not leaving the answer in innopia, my sources may be my trips to Asia, dreams, paranoias (yup,I'm a bit crazy), all whom I've learned something and the music,which really inspires me.

CC: At facebook you delight us with freehand sketches and in your blog we've seen many times the "before" and "after". Tell us a little about the process that you follow, techniques and software you use.

HC: It all starts by drawing a sketch by hand. Then I scan it and decide whether to vectorize it (which is usually the option chosen at least for the outline) or redraw it entirely in Photoshop (something I've started doing recently). Normally I'd sketch by hand, flash vectorize the outline and either finish the artwork in this program or take it to Photoshop that gives me more room to trim level. You see, I have no mystery hahaha.

CC: In the last dates you're working in a short animated film with people recruited to 2.0 style. Can you anticipate how and when the project will see the light?

HC: Yes, it's about nothing in particular, it depends on the reading that you want to give. A character enters the scene suffers several transformations. It's a about 50 seconds long, done in flash and my intention was to send it to the Pictoplasma festival but because of a lack of time it won't be possible. In its place I'll be sending it to other festivals. I hope that we¡ll view it at Animayo's festival, though it'll be probably finished at mid-February. I'll upload it at my blog and let you know on Facebook.

I want to thank Sergio Morales for offering us space in the Gran Canaria Digital Space, forgive the repetition. And Fausman, whose collaboration and motivation has been relentless since the beginning of this project.

CC : At a level of training, what would you improve in the current studies that you think would benefit talented illustrators?

HC : Well, in the illustration field I'm a newcomer. I know that the school of art of GC offers an illustration course but I ignore the rest of the island offers . I feel more comfortable talking about animation that is more my field. In that aspect I think there's a very little supply, although it's starting to be some. I consider it a disgrace that talented people in the islands must go out to study animation. (although there is something such as "La casa animada" in Tenerife) I impart particular animation lessons , but I'm thinking about opening an animation and illustration studio-school in Gran Canaria in the future.

CC : And now, a classic: the quick test .... Ready? There goes the first: "Moleskine or recycledsheets ?

HC : Not Moleskine, any book will do, and with recycled sheets even better .

CC : Watercolors "or markers?

HC : Markers

CC : " Hand drawn sketches or directly into the computer?

HC : Hand drawing

CC : "Pixel or vector?

HC : Both but more towards the vectorized shot.

CC : "Illustrator, Freehand or Corel?

HC : Flash ... Take that. XD

CC : "Mac or PC?

HC : PC please.

CC : "Soundtrack to work?

HC: Wow, that's a big question!. Synthesizing:
For happy moments K-pop/J-pop : (Humming Urban Stereo), (Casked), (Clazziquai), The pillows, Chemistry ...

Serious time / concentrated Electro-minimal: Ellen Allien, Justice, Digitalism ...

Melancholic moments songwriters and BSO: (Nell), Gackt, Kenji Kawai ...

CC : Soundtrack to celebrate the end of a job

HC : That's a (Big Bang) moment haha

CC : "Static or animated?

HC : Both have their charm. If I choose one I betray the other, it can't be

CC : A color (the one you want ... Pantone, RGB, CMYK) and why.

HC : C = 0 M = 48 Y = 88 K = 0 or, which is the same, Pantone 1375C Because I like yellows and oranges alive and this is not all bad.

CC : An illustrator you admire...

HC : The great Mel Milton for his high quality and versatility. he's a crack.

CC : Something that has impressed you lately?

HC : I recently found the illustrator Oscar Llorens and I really liked his work. :)

CC : well that's all ... I don't bother you anymore. Thanks for the interview and the best of lucks in the coming gigs!

HC : Thank you Sergio! Congratulations for Canarias creativa and the initiative of the Fanzine.
^___^

9.2.10

" Transform-able "

Este es un corto de animacion flash en el que llevo trabajando el ultimo mes. Saldra a finales de este mes y lo colgare aqui. Luego lo mandare a varios festivales de animacion.
Espero que les guste!

This is a flash short film I've been working on the past month. Releasing later this month, I'll hang it here, and send it to several animation festivals.
I hope you like it!