AKACORLEONE.COM!

yeah, it is true, my online portfolio is finally online so hurry up anc check it!

COMING SOON…

finally my website will be online soon with new stuff and a fresh and clean look!

stay tuned…

GOING FREELANCE…NOW WHAT?

Hey!

Já não escrevo nada a algum tempo pois estou numa fase de transição, finalmente liberto dum trabalho pouco entusiasmante, em que a minha criatividade era assassinada por horas sem fim em num emprego das 10 as 7 em frente a um computador…

mas quando dou por mim, estou naquele “limbo” do estatuto freelancer (nome bonito para desempregado), a acordar a horas indecentes, para estar o dia todo em blogues e facebooks, de pijama, a almoçar chocapic porque a vontade de me mexer é quase inexistente…

claro que este é apenas uma consequência da ressaca de um ano e meio de emprego rotineiro, em que a quebra se manifesta através dum estilo de vida verdadeiramente low life, mesmo assim…O desafio em que me encontro neste momento é o de fazer alguma coisa com a minha vida, porque ideias há muitas, existem planos mirabolantes de fazer só aquilo que mais gosto, ilustrar o dia todo, desenhar no sketchbook até me doer a mão, andar de bicicleta para desanuviar, ler imensas bd´s novas, por aí fora, mas o mais importante é criar, não me deixar abandalhar, não me tornar no gajo que entrou pó guiness por ter a maior barba do mundo…

estou curioso para ver o que o destino me reserva daqui pá frente, espero ter o tempo e a “coragem” para fazer aquilo tudo que pretendo, aproveitar esta fase para desenvolver aqueles projectos todos que tenho guardados no baú, ou se isso não resultar, espero tornar me no melhor jogador de ping pong do planeta!

se entretanto alguém tiver sugestões de futuros profissionais, nã se acanhem…

When i´m nervous, i draw…

it is true, don´t know why, when i´m nervous, i calm down by just doodling some random stuff, usually i just play with weird sentences that come to my head…

JUST PICK YOURSELF UP!

Poster for July 2: “Pick Yourself Up”

“July 2nd was a rough day for me as i had a set back on my plans to start a Masters in Lausanne Switzerland, bringing me down at first and seeing my future messed up…
But i soon found out that everything happens for a reason and this was actually good for me, with new projects appearing!

This Poster reflects this duality between good and bad moments in life, being the idea that the poster has two “sides” and it can be shown one way or the other, depending on how you feel about life at one particular moment of your life!”

Poster created for the Celebration of July Exhibition at the London College of Communication, showing until Friday August 28th!

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Ecoline Monsters!

I present you Ecoline Monsters!( the orange one is Edna,hehe).

this series were started by mistake: i spilled som ecoline on a piece of paper and when i looked at it i found a hidden monster, the only thing i had to do was drawing him! then i started spilling more colors together and finding more monsters!

made this sometime ago, but i still love it…

Bio aka vor v zakone!

one day, talking to one of my best friends, after seeing Eastern Promises, we were crazy about russian underworld tattoos so he decided to cover his body with these bad ass ink, but i found it a little bit weird, since he´s a nice fellow, with some wishes to be a big gangster, but still a peaceful (maybe not so much) person!

so i decided to make a drawing of what he would look like if he actually decided to make these tattoos(obviously this is not a faithful replica of russian gang tattoos, it´s just a mix up of different styles)…

he still wants to do it,hahaah!

Cheers bro Bio, Joãozinho, Doom, Reap, Nova, whatever you want to call him!

Nice guys finish last! (or at least in second…)

today i received the news that i got the second prize on a brand identity national contest for the Instituto Politécnico de Santarém…

i was kind of bummed because the first prize was 1500 €, but it´s not bad do finish in second, at least i´m 500€ richer…and i don´t have the massive work of implementing the whole brand…(i´ve got to think positive).

anyway this contest was crazy, i had 15 days to develop the brand identity of one institution and 8 universities, the briefing was absolute madness, full of contradictions, very top secret, ninja stuff and i developed 2 proposals, so i did n´t sleep for 2 weeks…

i´m not cut for corporate branding, i just wanted do doodle all the time!

April Fools Day!

hahaha, love this day!just having some fun with different typos…

it would work nicely as wallpaper images…

Happy B-Day doggy Jade! (my 14 years old boxer)

Pillow Talk!

Last illustration i did, a proposal for Playboy, not accepted, but still very fun, actually one of the illustrations i enjoyed most doing…

some you win, some you loose…

my childhood dream of having Playboy magazines around the house without shame is bound to happen!