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Category Archives: Work Process

Image in the Background

October 10, 2009 – 10:21 PM

I’ve been asked a few times about the picture in the background in www.alemercado.com I did a large drawing that you can only see fully if you have a 21″ screen or larger. It’s not that good anyway, so you are not missing much. I called it “The Evil Powers of Illustration.”

By Alé Mercado | Also posted in Blog, Traditional Illustration | Comments (0)

Novartis Live Illustration

September 24, 2009 – 10:07 AM

I was called by OMT Group to help them in an event they were doing within the Annual Conference NOVARTIS was having in Wicklow. The idea was to visually condense all the ideas people attending the conference would come up with in a creativity exercise which was coordinated by Paula Clarke. It consisted in representing [...]

By Alé Mercado | Also posted in Commercial Work, Exhibition, Painting | Comments (2)

Drafts from Barnstorm Play

February 4, 2009 – 5:12 PM

I thought it might be interesting to show some of the drafts I developed for the illustration for the New Barnstorm production.Once I had the structure clear in my head (and the customer gave me the go-ahead) I redrew everything from scratch in Photoshop and Painter Here you have them.

By Alé Mercado | Tagged barsntorm, drafts, pencils | Comments (0)

Famous Rejects

May 14, 2008 – 5:56 PM

I am clearing my hard drive from jobs done last year. I’ve come across this poster that never made it. It was very influenced by Saturio Alonso’s Olmo pieces. I also got to see the three attempts to get to the final image for this film festival… It was quite difficult to get the mood [...]

By Alé Mercado | Also posted in Commercial Work, Digital Illustration, Graphic Design, Traditional Illustration | Comments (2)
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