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“A hero is a person or character who is admired for their courage, achievements, noble qualities, who looks fear in the eyes and doesn’t even blink.”

That is the quote I saw on the wall of my sixth grade students classroom today. I strongly disagree.

All humans have hesitated. It’s instinct. It’s vital. It’s as strong as your heart beating. It is the culmination of thousands of years of survival. Hesitation is a universal experience.

Therefore, a hero always “blinks.” That ‘blink’ is the moment that human beings realize what they are doing. That singular defining moment that changes the gravity of the situation. The exact second that the given circumstances could produce a hero if the right choices are made.

Humans program robots. Robots don’t blink. If a robot were to walk through a path of throwing knives without blinking, would it be a hero? No, of course not. But by the first definition, they technically would be. The reasoning as to why they aren’t? Because the robot faces no repercussions. The robot has no risk. The robot has no real understanding of the danger, nor have they been forced to confront the facts of what they are up against.

That's where we come to our hero blinking. In order to be a hero, you must blink. You must have a moment to see the horrors that all logic would tell to run. Because it’s in that blink that the hero confronts the danger they put themselves in, and pushes forth anyways. That is what makes a hero. To have that shackling sensation of hesitation, and where most others would turn back, they trailblaze on. They trailblaze on anyway.

So here I propose a new definition:

“A hero is a person or character who is admired for their courage, achievements, and noble qualities, who looks fear in the eyes, blinks, and despite facing the world’s darkness, chooses to continue being the world’s light.”

What do I do with my day off from classes? Paint my notebooks!

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a series of composition tips i’d been sharing on twitter!

and since some people had asked, i’ve put up a pdf version of this on gumroad along with a layered psd of one of the example images too

tips would be really appreciated, but it’s up for free!

a comic coloring style test. It looks ok if you squint. I am so lazy about coloring in lines

Esta acuarela viene también a la Expo “Kunst” Viernes 17, de 18-21:30 en la planta baja del hotel Ónix, Rambla Cataluña 24 Estéis tod@s invitad@s! This little watercolor beauty is coming to our artshow as well. Wanna see her live? Come Friday evening the 17th, between 6-9:30pm at the Ramblas Catalonia 24 in Barcelona, Spain. 🎨🎨🎨 http://ift.tt/2m44zx5

To stay with the dreamy Beauties of early 2015! I really liked these ethereal faces which seem to have the ability to take me on a journey into space. (Red space in this case) And these are very reasonable priced, medium sized paintings that could fit in any regular house, 1 meter high and 60cm wide (is a meter approx 30"? … I always mix those sizes up). That’s why it puzzles me that these paintings are still in the Austrian Gallery Lendnine in Graz. Perhaps I should make mega-sizes of these, so they REALLY stand out on big walls??? http://ift.tt/2oajSFe

The beginning of “Hesitation”, last year summer, I love painting in just a tank-top, having a jug of iced herbtea right next to me and the best ice scream shop of Barcelona on a 3 minute stroll from my studio! http://ift.tt/2ny4UFO

Yeayyy! Prints now available in my http://ift.tt/2os2Mj4 🎨🎨🎨 I am so exited to be able to offer my fans the opportunity to get some of my art in prints!!! Visit my shop and get your fav copy fast, as they are limited to only 25. Each of these is hand numbered, titled and signed by me. Once sold out I will not print more of these 30x30cm copies! http://ift.tt/2okSd3V

Staying with the WIP of the last posts: In some ways, painting a big format is easier than a medium size… This is because there is so much more margen for errors: If you dot paint in a small or medium work and it’s ½ or 1 cm (0,39") off, you will have to cover it/wipe it off and do it again, Yet when it’s only 1 cm off on a 2,60 cm wide work, nobody will notice!!! 🎨🎨🎨 And so goes for this mouth, it’s probably about 85cm wide (our real mouth is approx 3cm). This gave me a lot of playground to style-lise it a lot! Personally I enjoy seeing here how my perception accepts the green color as part of the red lips and how my mind isn’t bothered by the continuous dark shadow that depicts both lip and deep “empty” mouth-space without tone changing! Perhaps I am a bit weird, but I think that is just so exiting! 😁😁😁 http://ift.tt/2nzEiHU

O.M.G. … is THIS my idea of keeping it in grey-scales??? I am so silly!!! *hooked on colors* 🎨🎨🎨 #insta_art #instarte #artoninstagram #artnerd #newcontemporaryart #neopopart #artefigurativo #figurativeart #notblackandwhite #sillyme #lettering #letterpainting #portraitart #beauty #acrylicpainting #artdeadline #jocreo #igbcn #igersbarcelona #artsanfrancisco #artmiami #artberlin #artlondon #artamsterdam #artmadrid #artrome #artnyc #urbanart http://ift.tt/2jzYxhH

This painting is going to have a lot of outlines to explain the forms. I started with the darkest values, to define the range of tone-values visually for myself. 🎨🎨🎨 I try never to use black in my mixes, for I feel that kill the vibration of the colors (scientifically it’s proven that colors are not much more than wavelengths -much like radio sonic waves- that reach our eyes and that our brains translate them into what we “see” as colors) and weakens the artwork as a whole. 🎨🎨🎨 These dark colors I am using here is bright red mixed with a marine blue adding a tiny bit of fluorescent orange to vibe along with them. http://ift.tt/2oCIxj4