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I'm in Neil Gaiman's 'A Calendar of Tales'!!!

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You probably agree that meeting your all-time favourite author in person is a great honour and a thrilling experience. Multiply that by 100 if that author is Neil Gaiman. Multiply that by 1000 if you're an illustrator and you get to illustrate one of his stories.

On February 4th 2013 Neil Gaiman embarked on a fantastic art project in partnership with BlackBerry and millions of his fans. He tweeted twelve questions to the world, one for each month of the year. From the tens of thousands of responses he received, Neil picked his favourite answers and wrote twelve short stories inspired by them. Releasing these back to the world, Neil asked people to contribute art to illustrate the stories. From the thousands of illustrations he received, Neil picked one illustration for each month to illustrate his digital (and soon to be printed) book, A Calendar Of Tales.

Well… I'm June!
This has been an amazing experience from beginning to end, and I'm so grateful for each and every step of it! I got to illustrate one of Neil's stories (lifetime achievement unlocked), I was invited to participate in the project's documentary, shot in London, I talked to some of the wonderful artists who illustrate the rest of the book with their extraordinary artwork and I met Neil himself who is one of the most interesting, inspiring, friendly and positive persons I have ever met!
 
Here's the documentary (I'm the guy with the hat and vest :) ):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg3Sfh…

And here's my illustration for June:

fav.me/d6c8yjq

@neilhimself asked: "Where would you spend a perfect June?"
@DKSakar replied: "A refrigerator. Summertime always makes me wish they'd make large refrigerators that people could squeeze in."
 
You can view the digital version of the book hear:

acalendaroftales.com/

I strongly recommend to listen to the stories instead of reading them, as they are narrated by Neil Gaiman himself!

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Still here!

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Hello everyone!

I know I haven't posted anything for quite a while. Truth is these last few months have been really busy ones and I haven't had the time or energy to keep up-to-date any of my galleries. It's just now that I'm getting around to it, and the first one in my list is, of course, DeviantArt :).

But a lack of time was a small price to pay. These past few months have been very rewarding in many ways. I learned a lot of things in the way, made some new connections, grew as an artist and as a professional in an almost tangible way - even though I know these processes are (or should be) always present.

Thank you all for the time you put in commenting - it means a lot, it helps a lot, and I really, REALLY appreciate it :)
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New stuff and prints available!

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I just finished uploading a series of photos from the first (and possibly only) album I created a few months ago called 'Abandonment'. These are mainly photos of old buildings, factories and train stations retouched and edited in Photoshop CS2 to give them a grungy, surreal, almost ghostly look. I'm still, of course, an illustrator, but the graphic designer in me thought these were worth uploading here :).
Prints  available!

I also made available high resolution prints, as many of you requested, for the following illustrations:
Night Market , Family Ties , Cat Chase , Men Are Chickens  and Arthur !
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My first Daily Deviation!

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Woohoo! Today I got my first Daily Deviation feature with Family Ties and already the activity and comments have rocketed to number almost a thousand! I'm going to try to reply most comments but it's probably gonna take days! Thanks to anyone who commented, faved or watched anyway!

:iconmanicolorz: was the one to suggest the illustration and :iconjunkbyjen: was the one to feature it - thank you both very, very much!

PS: In the next few days, I'm going to make available prints of Family Ties as well as of other pictures people seem to like, so keep an open eye!
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