Writing and illustrating the book "Xolos"

Escritura e ilustración del libro "Xolos"

Hello everyone.
Here I share several images of what will be my next book, which will be published in Chile next year 2021 by Erdosain Ediciones.
This project is, although not directly, a sort of continuation of the semantic universe I already worked on in my book "Animal," which I published with the same publisher in 2014.
This time I've been more ambitious in developing the originals. As you can see, in each one I've tried with great ambition and work—after many, many hours of passionate research—to achieve a balance between a "classical" painting and a film still. It's true that in my previous works I've already tried to achieve this effect, but this time I've dedicated a lot of time, like never before, to analog techniques. I've done it with a very unconventional technique: I've impregnated the backgrounds with ink, on which I've, very slowly as is my custom, worked in the many details that make up each illustration. Graphite for the blacks, dry pastels for the colors, and, in only a few of them, certain details with ink and watercolor and colored pencils.
I hope you enjoy it!