❤️ Day 1 Corazon Week 2026 ❤️
DRESS UP
La Faena del Silencio 🇪🇸
❤️ Corazon Week 2026 has finally begun, and I couldn't be happier! To start this year's challenge, I decided to revisit one of my very first digital illustrations. This concept was born from a little headcanon of mine: I have always imagined the Donquixote Family as having Hispanic roots. Although I don't support bullfighting as a tradition, I have always been fascinated by the elegance and craftsmanship of the traje de luces. That curiosity led me to wonder how Rosinante would look wearing one.
Compared to my original version, I made several changes in composition, lighting, and costume design, hoping to better capture the atmosphere I had envisioned years ago.
🎨 The piece is heavily inspired by Spanish bullfighting portraiture, particularly the paintings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, where matadors were often portrayed with both dignity and quiet solemnity. I wanted to borrow that visual language while reimagining Corazon through it.
🖼️ For those discovering my work for the first time, a brief introduction: I am an art historian and curator, so classical painting is at the heart of my artistic practice. Nearly every illustration I create begins with the study of historical artworks, allowing me to reinterpret their visual narratives through contemporary characters.
💻 Before sharing the rest of this week's illustrations, I also wanted to mention that this challenge came with quite a few technical difficulties. My drawing application repeatedly corrupted files and even deleted entire layers, so I often had to export unfinished pieces and continue working from flattened images. Because of that, these works may not be as polished as I originally intended, but I poured my heart into each one nonetheless.
🌹 I truly hope you enjoy this journey. I've also included both the original illustration and this new versión, I hope you can see how much I've grown over the years.
✨ Thank you so much for following along. Your support truly means the world to me.
Holy shit I legitimately thought this was a cosplayer, the art is gorgeous 😍












