Free Print!

THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE!!! :)
I'm so thrilled for your great response, the time has finished and I will announce here by monday first time the winner.
Is going to be a loooong and fun weekend reading all your nice comments :)
Thanks again!

• What?
Yes! I'm giving away one nice 13" X 19" Giclee Print signed and dedicated by hand and is going to be any one of your choice from my ETSY store in the 13x19 selections.
All free including the shipping, no matter in which part of the globe you are located!

• Why?
Because I want to thank you all for visit and constantly inspiring me with such a nice comments and emails about what I do.

• How?
Just leave a comment here and let me know which print you want and why and I will pick the best comment, no rules! You can say anything, even if you don't like my work and you just want the print to burn it out or do something filthy with it :)
You are very welcome to comment as much as you want (english or spanish). If you really convince me to give you away that particular print you choose then is all yours!

• When?
Starting as soon you read this and ending by the friday July 10th, 2009. I will announce the winner comment and print here the next monday, July 13th.

Terrible Yellow Eyes

Yes! I did a contribution for the great blog project "Terrible Yellow Eyes". A collection of works inspired by the beloved classic, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.

Thanks to Cory Godbey for allow me to be part of this wonderful project among a lot of great artists.

Cushions!

Now you can have some of these guys living with you as a comfortable funky pillow for you or for your favorite person!
Click for Art is also offering an amazing variety of prints and big boxed canvases from great artists, I'm so amazed to be part of the group now! CHECK IT.

Playtime (New Print)

For those who were waiting for a cat illustration there is a new addition to the family and you can get a Giclee Print right away on my ETSY.

Grandpa Faces

I've been painting these for a faces series, these are my first two.
Acrylic on Wood Panel
Panel measures 8" X 10" + wooden accessories.

String Republic

One of my illustrations was used as part of the 2009 summer collection of String Republic. Can't wait to have my pair on my hands :)

Spring Melody 01

This is a new piece and is available @ my ETSY as a Giclee Print in two different sizes. If you like skeletons playing banjo surrounded by birds and smoking a cigar, then this is the one for you!

First Pattern!

I was just playing around with these birds and I decided to create my very first pattern, so you can download it and use it as you like, Twitter background is a good idea. More to come!

Download the pattern HERE.

Lion

This the first in a series of a project I'm working on... More to come!

Happy Day!

Illustration created for a greeting card.

+ Creatures

Just another friendly critter.

Yearning for Freedom

New Giclee print available for purchase in two different sizes:
13" x 19" and 8.5" x 11"

Originals for sale

Now offering several original works for sale through my ETSY Shop.

Angry

New editorial illustration about treat the children with anger.

Character Design

Recently I was commissioned by an ad agency to create some characters as a key idea to follow up in the creation for a bug-virus costume to be part of a campaign for Kleenex. These are a couple of the final illustrations I did for this project.

Process of a Painting

Fishing in Peace
Acrylics on Wood
16" X 20" (40.6 X 50.8 cm.)

Available now as a Giclee Print.

New ETSY shop

I just released my new artwork shop at ETSY!!!!
I'm planning also to sell original work on it. Thanks for visiting :)
www.acerriteno.etsy.com

New Painting

Cactocyclops with Hat and Bow
Original Painting
12" X 12" Acrylics on Wood Panel

Some New Work

The Enamored Mico / Giclee Print on Canvas



Azulejo / Acrylic on Paper


Recuerdos / Giclee Print on Canvas


Milo / Acrylic on Wood Panel

Three On Tree / Giclee Print on Canvas


Twenty Stars And One Hat / Giclee Print on Canvas



If you are interested you can purchase the pieces above by contacting Artful Goods at Portland.

Artful Goods | Show Opening

If you are in Portland by the friday March the 3rd please stop by to check some new artwork and say hello. I would be more than happy to see you there!

Date: Friday, April 3, 2009
Time: 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Artful Goods, 1233 SW 10th Ave. Portland, OR

http://artfulgoods.com/

PICTOPIA 2009 | Berlin, Germany

I had the chance to attend Pictopia 2009, the 3rd Pictoplasma Conference in the beautiful city of Berlin. Also I had the opportunity to show my work to the audience and talk in a brief presentation about it.

Featured on DPI Taiwan

I just received my copy of Design Stars Boulevard, DPI Interview Collection Vol 2.0 The Taiwanese magazine.
Is such a great honor to me share pages with bunch of my favorite illustrators.

New Gelaskin

Hey! there is anew Gelaskin product with one of my more recent illustrations, The Enamored Owl. Run or walk or take a bus or just click on the "buy now" button to get one for your favorite gadget!

Walking in Budapest

Well, I haven't post any new work cause unfortunately I cannot show what I'm doing for this project. But I can tell you I'm having a great time here in Budapest, working with very talented guys and absorbing as much I can of this fascinating city and culture, I've meet really interesting and funny people and amazing places. BTW in case you was wondering, I'm working in the character and design concept for a hungarian animated movie, so happy to do it :)

So, this is a video I did for my family of one single day of walking around here and would like to share it, in case you are interest in visit Budapest some day. Warning: You can get dizzy by watching the whole thing.


Larga caminata el Sábado 24 de enero 2009 from Alberto Cerriteño on Vimeo.

First Lost Tooth!

The other day Bruno, my five years old son lost his first tooth, I missed cause I'm in a trip :(
So I made a quick drawing to celebrate the small but important event.
Te amo Bruno :)

Character

I saw this person the other day in the Underground in my way to the office. So I made a drawing based on him.

In Budapest

I'm in the beautiful Budapest, Hungary working in a long term project. This project is related to animation and I'm doing a very fun part :)
That's pretty much all what I can say for now. But I promise to post more new work soon, maybe not related to this project cause confidential policies but something will come up, inspiration is in everywhere here. Later!

PS. If someone in Budapest wants to hang out with me, I'm totally in. Love to meet people who can teach me how to curse in hungarian, just drop me a line :D

Sora

Sora, the winter angel is the name of this new piece created to celebrate the next holidays, if you are interested in purchase a Gicleé print for the season visit my online shop and know more details about this and new prints I just posted. Hopefully you like it as much I do!


Detail 1:

Detail 2:

Detail of actual print:

Cowboys

Recently the great motion-graphics studio Interspectacular with base in NY invited me to collaborate with them in a pitch package for the new identity of CMT (Country Music Television). My participation was to come up with a character dvelopment, layout and some ideas for a promo clip series and a new logo explorations. This is what I did for them plus a new illustration a little bit inspired in the main character I did previously for this project.
Thanks to Luis Blanco and Michael Uman for invite me to participate in their project.

• New illustration of a random cowboy character:


• Look and feel boards and character development:



• Story ideas:


• Logo explorations:

The Enamored Owl

Celebrating two years since I did a piece called "The Enamored Whale" which by the way has become in one of the more popular pieces in my portfolio now I have done a new piece inspired by that particular one, and probably the second of enamored creatures series. If you want to drop ideas n my brain what creature you guys would like to see in the future?
I really hope you like it!

Surfacing Show

A couple of new pieces I did for the Surfacing Show at Hibbleton Gallery.
Contact the Gallery for pricing or drop by to check them out if you are by the area:
112 W. Wilshire Ave.
Fullerton, CA 92832
714.441.2857


Equilibrium
10" X 13"
Acrylic on Paper


Concentration
10" X 13"
Acrylic on Paper

The Enamored Whale in Gelaskins

Yes, that's true! Now you can get "The Enamored Whale" to protect and decor your favorite laptop or gadget. Now Gelaskins is offering a lot more of new products. Also they have now Giclée prints, printed on heavyweight, environmentally-friendly, bamboo paper stock.

Download also a free wallpaper for you iPhone of this piece here.

Custom G2 Mutant

Some time a go there was an art show inviting several artists to customize a G2 Mutant vinyl toy, the fabulous mascot of Nike 6.0 I wasn't invited to the be part of the show but recently my friend Jamal, who actually was in charge to 3D model this guy at Nemo Design asked me to customize his own copy of the very limited edition (6 pieces). And this is the result, he just said – I like Dia de los Muertos stuff– So, I did something expressing a bit that.

Vinyl Toy 12" tall, acrylics.

Shiva >> Music video for Austin TV

Finally the music video for the single Shiva of mexican indie-instrumental band Austin TV is out and in rotation of regular broadcast of MTV Latin America and some other local TV music shows, I directed the video and did all the art used and a very talented guy named Diego Huacuja helped out with the animation and compositing, all was done in an intense record time of one month and everybody evolved in the project is very happy with the final result.

The story is based in an original idea of the fine mates from Austin TV, the booklet of the album it comes with a bunch of pages with sketches and stories written by this fictional character named Mario Lupo and the video tells just one of these surreal stories, when he and his xoloscuincle dog, Kerdoc, went to take a walk and accidentally fell in a subterranean magical forest that at the end results in the Devil's cave.


Austin TV / Shiva from Alberto Cerriteño on Vimeo.

This is an animatic we used to establish timing and a preliminary idea of action and sequences in the animation:

Animatic Shiva - Austin TV from Alberto Cerriteño on Vimeo.

Here are some still images of the art used in the project.

Future / Collab

The illustrative magazine Göoo from Argentina recently invited me to collaborate with a pice for the issue No. 6 coming up, the theme was Future and this is what I came up with. Hope you like it!

Click the image to see it larger.


Detail 1:


Detail 2:

The Juggler

The other night I did this little guy just for fun, then I decided to animate him but now I'm not sure what I can do with him, maybe I'll complete the animation as a little short.

Cereal caveman

I recently was invited by Passion Pictures to create a character development study for a cereal TV spot, the request was just some simple sketches and a color suggestion of this chocolate caveman.

Cree en el Niño

Recently I was contacted by an advertising agency in Madrid, Spain named Sra. Rushmore, they commissioned me to create an image to compete for a lottery campaign of Spain. This campaign is focused in the children, not sure how this works and if is legal in Spain for the kids to play lottery but the main idea was based in trust in your kids to choose the numbers, the image shows a kid happy to introduce the monster that lives in his closet, this is the proof! You can trust in what he say...

M.L.

This image belongs to a secret project I'm currently working on, I'm very exciting about this, stay tuned to know more about :)

Born Magazine Cover

Born Magazine, an online project in Portland about literary arts and interactive media recently invited me to create the cover for their next issue.