✦Salamanca✦

Some fun facts bonus about my relationship with this city:

- I wasn't born here but I studied Fine Arts in its University (the second oldest in Europe!)

- I've been coming here regularly, at least once every summer, since I was a baby (my dad's hometown is less than an hour drive from here).

- I officially became an adult (turned 18) here! (I started university when I was only 17 because I was born in November).

- Even though his name is Japanese, Mochi is 100% salmantino (born and raised in Salamanca haha!)

- Alarico got his official Salamanca residency paperworks before I did (definitely a testimony of how much I f*king hate bureaucracy.

- I've met some of the most important people in my life in this city.

- I still don't know the name of most streets U^^

- Coffee and rain smell different here <3 

January original rewards Mochi edition! 🦊🧡

 

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Naranjita 🍊

 

January sketchbook tour! :D

 

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Art VS Artist 2024

 It’s that time of the year again #ArtVSArtist2024✍️💫 ! It’s always so fun to compare these over the years and see the changes 👀✨

This 2024 has been so surreal and I still can’t believe that my characters and paintings have been exhibited in Los Angeles and Tokyo 🤯

Thanks SO much to everyone who made it possible, to the animation studios that trusted me for their character designs and to all of you for your amazing support in this little corner of the internet! Crossing fingers for a 2025 half as good as this one! ❤️❤️❤️

December Patreon rewards! :D

 

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Warrior Art Camp new classes!

So excited to be teaching one more year my long-format "Character Design for Animation" course with Warrior Art Camp! Starting on February 15th, we'll have 7 weeks of online theory classes, demos and individual feedback sessions to prepare a character design project for your portfolio! 

Registrations open tomorrow at noon (PT) and there will be only 12 spots available: https://www.warriorartcamp.com/character-design-for-animation-with-esther-morales

Can't wait to see you there! :D

Japan places

A part of my heart misses Japan on a daily basis :.) Until I can visit it again I at least have a massive sketchbook full of drawings to flip through. Here's some of the cosiest places I visited while I was living there:

- The chonky hay roofs of the medieval houses in Shirakawa-go.

- A cute little alley in Kamakura 

- Our studio space at Almost Perfect, with my sishteru Antonia Yordanova working by her desk.

- The view from said studio window.

- The plants from my favorite café in our neighborhood "229" (I still dream of their chocolate and orange french toasts <3)

New character design workshop at La Galería Roja

 

Hi everybodyy! I will be teaching an online character design workshop at La Galería Roja next month! :D It will be 8 days long (32 hours) and we will be covering the full process of designing a character from the early rough visual development stage to the more technical model sheet process. Here's all the info and thanks SO much for always being so supportive of my classes!

• Dates: 30th ,31st of January, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 13rd and 14th of February

• Time: 17:30 - 21:30 (CET Spain time)

• Prize: 320€

• There will be only 12 spots and you can already sign up in their website: https://lagaleriaroja.com/en/producto/online-illustration-workshop-character-design-with-esther-morales-3/ 

"Magpie"

 

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20% discount in Gallery Nucleus!!

Great news everybody!! If you ever wanted to get high quality prints of my artwork, my original paintings from our duo show "Night Critters" or my animal sketches artbook "Zoiôn", Gallery Nucleus is now having a 20% off Black Friday sale in their website!! The discount is applicable from November 29th - December 2nd with the code THANKS20 :D Thanks SO much as always for your support!! (You can check all the available artwork in this link: https://gallerynucleus.com/artists/esther_morales )

Japanese critters

During my time in Japan I encountered so many creatures in the form of toys, charms, sculptures, keychains... I needed to capture all these little treasures in my sketchbook. Here's are a few! :3

サラリーマン • 💼📄📎🚬🍜

 

KingFisher

Litte Kingfishers on Japanese postcard paper for my Patreon original rewards! I love the proportions of this type of bird 🧡💙