#palqu

"And the sky embraces us" (2012)

A quick painting I made back in the day. I can't remember what inspired it, but there was some emotional weight, most likely Winter depression, but perhaps something else. A little scene, at a high mountain patch of woods.

Not much to say, a simple one, but i like the colors.

And yes, I remain distanced from social media, but it's what I need, and what's best for me at the moment.

"Grumpy, but loyal" (2021)

I have this tradition of sorts. Every year, I travel to my parents' house for the holidays. And while I'm there, I tend to do this pencil OC picture, the last art piece oft he year. This was done with a brand new color pencils box I got for Christmas 2021.

I wanna repeat this tradition this year, too!

"Now that was amazing!" (2018)

Not a very old one, but wanted to archive one of the pieces featuring my two main twerps. Still fighting off a certain awkwardness towards Deviantart in general. I can't talk about it much while avoiding specific details, I just wanted to mention that getting to write long descriptions here in Tumblr is such a sweet feeling. Because deviantArt has hidden descriptions, they are way too Community friendly for the site I guess.

It's almost like one is interested in what an artist has to say, what they experimented while drawing, what they inspired them; and compare it all with our personal interpretations. Why hide it?

"Awka, page 60" (2019)

I'm cheating by adding a comic page here, but I'm out of town at my parents's, and don't remember what I had queued for upload. This is one of my favourite pages in the comic, and might share a few more of my favs. They're often the ones that have limited dialogue, and are mostly visual.

2022 has been a weird year. Probably better overall than 2020 and 2021, but crazy on is own right. This year my comics have slowed down a ton, but sadly, it's hard to not feel I'm feeding my hard work to AIs, in dA. regardless, I do want to keep uploading them, advancing on the stories, I just don't wanna force myself to do it, I want the right mood for comics back. I do have a small buff of completed pages, and I am considering an alternate tumblr account, just for comic pages, I've seen some other artists do that and it's pretty sweet!

From October to now, too much has happened. Work was intrusive as always, but also I've traveled, finished off some things in my house, repaired the fence plus some other mainteinance, helped friends move not once but twice (one of them on december 23th), and have been helping out a best friend who needs major surgery, which she is getting soon. 23th at night I drove to the family house, and will stay here at least for the first week of January. I've been sleping a ton at my family's house, and overall having a great time. It's just mom, the cat and I! Dad is out in a trip (my grandma is 90, and he's taking care of her) and so are my brothers, all of them will come here for New year.

So yeah. I want to get back to art, but I need to get my focus on its right place again. So far, the rest has been working wonders. I will be back to comics and art in general, hopefully during January.

Life uipdates are boring i guess! but it's what I have right now.

"Lessons for life" and "Pampas cat character study" (2008 both)

Some hystorical Palqus! The fact they're both traditional art is really a coincidence, I was well into Digital by then; and IIRC, I was just going through a Traditional rush of inspiration.

I have to confess I misremembered Mr Kitty's "date of birth" so to speak, I could've sworn it was 2009. I wasn't sure about the cat's gender by then, but as soon as Awka as a story began taking shape in my head (I will tell this one in lenght some day! My very first idea was different than it ended up being), and a friend I had back then named the cat, the characters slowly began drifting into place.

My oldest picture of Retama never went online, it's probably from around 2009 (gotta check) and it's a wip I never finished... really tempted to share that inedit never-finished-wip, even if it probably looks even worse than I remember.

"Bed of Moss" (2020)

One thing that I love doing is, whenever I find deep, dense moss on a rock, sink my hand into it (one of these days my hand is gonna land on something disgusting, or I'm gonna get bitten/stung). I just love deep moss, and even if you truly couldn't lay and sleep on it, as fluffy dense deep moss tends to be very moist, I've always just loved the concept of napping on moss.

"Dust bath" (2014) and "Scratch, scratch" (2012)

When in doubt, I always enjoy drawing ats being silly!

Long time no post... I'm finishing Summer's break, and not at all eager to get back to work. On the positive side, if everything goes as planned, I should be maknig some important changes this year, and switching works over, to a new one where I'll make a bit less money, but will be far more satisfied. The change has already started, little by little: in addition to previous teaching work, I've gotten into university, where I'm mostly doing Investigation (I started in december). I want to take this further.

“Affection is a gift” and “Fate”, both from 2010. Featuring Awka the huemul and Palqu the pampas cat, both characters of a webcominc I’m still drawing to this day. 

Now, a story many people doesn’t know is that Awka  was originally conceived in 2009, and the plot was different. Basically an “animal war” comic in which the native animals got together to fight off a very antagonistic red deer herd (+ other invasve species). This was, until I discovered an old novel from the 70′s or 80′s IIRC, called “Renancó and the last huemul”. I loved the novel back then, but it was absolutely soul crushing to me as that story it contained has a LOT in common with the one I had vaguely conceived.  

This brought me to basically put the story on hold, as I loved the characters regardless, and still drew them.

Other things happened in between, which I will narrate in separate entries, until I decided to dust the characters off and completely rewrite the story in 2016.

I have many MANY more things to tell about the origin of my current main webcomic, which will come in its right time ^^