Priscilla Hernandez blog

After a scare I had yesterday (check my twitter or facebook, eek!)  I was forced to stay up late all night and couldn't sleep, made all sorts of random sketches and also  took the chance to keep on painting the artworks for The Underliving (please spread the link to help us) so working and  finishing the artworks of the CD, my deadline is in july, if things go ok I'd love to release it during summer. I've been painting a pair of eyes for "ode to the silence" it's a simple drawing, just a front face with a hush gesture, but somehow I spent painting like forever in the eyes, and they ended up much more realistic than the rest of the sketch... (pd. no photo, it's just painting, and not very clean but these eyes were suddenly looking back at me... Well for the rest of the drawing, now almost finished you'll have to wait for the cd. I also almost finished "a thought at the dreams door" so getting back to Northern Lights the one I promised to share step by step and that you can see up to actual state in previous blog entries.

So previous blog post I shared the pencil sketch of  "Northern Lights" (read the Lyrics) a song dedicated to the dying Arctic, and it portrays the journey of a wolf (I painted also a wolf girl but wolf and girl are the same thing) journeying to North to behold the Northern Lights, So full pencil sketch... Today I made an overall matte painting background and started to add details to the face of the wolf girl. I'll try to finish her and start details on the wolf tomorrow. Here´s a detail:

I shall be posting how this particular drawing progresses to show it as example, though of course there are 16 songs (hint hint lots of work)

How the idea started (overall idea, clothing design, blah blah), then clean pencil sketch before starting to paint. I'll be posting the  updates editing this very entry as I proceed

Then cleaning the overall idea (took the profile side option).


Then starting to paint the background, overall turquoise and dark wash with some blurred pine trees, drew somelines and duplicated the layer several times with different levels of blur and glow, will post the overall background once I put a few more details, Then starting to color some detail on the face. I always start by the faces... it's like something I should not but always do.http://theunderliving.com

I also finished some pencil  sketches for "a thought at the dreams door" among others. Thanks to all the ones reading and supporting this project, and please keep on spreading theunderliving.com

I'll keep posting updates, so bookmark the blog.

Update:  today I sort of finished matte painting the background and overall Northern lights,  and started to add details to the figure. Not entirely convinced may make it overall darker... but so far, this is how it looks. More in the following days. Feel lazy now to start painting the wolf and the fur, so may rest with another drawing in between.

I spent a lovely sunday out in the Catalonian forests  with Héctor and my friends Jose Javier and Oristila. Both Héctor and Oris took me plenty of pictures that I'll share soon, I also recorded some video. It was so fun! I carried my harp (endorsed by Harpsicle harps) all the way.  It is indeed so lightweight, but after hours of trek in the forest hahaha I really felt insanely tired. It was worth the effort, We got to see a lovely waterfall and back down we enjoyed some cheese and bread by the water. Overall a perfect day...

Here is Héctor wearing the YIDNETH t-shirt  (even if you can´t see it LOL) soon available in the store. :) By the way my man is a little bit reckless :/ climbing and jumping...! I also saw boars for the first time, they were behind a fence but soooo cute!

A shot of the landscape (lush, green, wet, lovely). Photo by Héctor Corcín.

and  one promotional picture we took up there also taken by Héctor of me playing my harpsicle harp. I'm wearing also the crown by Los Tesoros de la Ayalga, and my arm gloves and scarf by Opal Moon design. (see both in my endorsements). More lovely pics (and video) to come :) but so far sharing this one that I've called "Forest ballad"

You can see a bigger version of the photo in "My sponsors" gallery

Este es mi loco lugar de trabajo....!

Así que bienvenidos. También he habilitado un pequeño espacio fuera de la habitación para grabar sin el ruido de las máquinas pero la mayor parte de mi música se crea en esta habitación.  Nunca está ordenada más de cinco minutos, pero es mi rincón mágico, lleno de recuerdos y bajo la custodía del hombre de la luna (gracias Patricia) y de Kira (que está por todos lados)

También podéis ver más fotos de mis instrumentos en esta otra sección de la web

Así que una primera visión en conjunto de mis "niños" :)

Arriba: Mi pequeño estudio. Podéis ver mi salterio, mi arpa (fullsicle), mis carrillones shanti y koshi, mi kantele, mis dulcimeres apalachianos (el baritono por Ron Ewing), algunas flautas, percusiones y otros accesorios. 

Arriba: mi tambor "oscar" de Tribalthunder. También un cuenco tibetano que me regalaron tres haditas del norte de España mi pasado cumpleaños. También mi cajita donde guardo mis púas favoritas y semillas de serbal que según mi amiga Kelly que me las regaló protegen mis cosas.

Un panel totalmente desordenado donde pongo las cosas que debo hacer, notas, y posters de algunos eventos. Encima custodiado por Kira (dibujada y enmarcada por mi amiga Melissa Irwin) y en la estantería mi jouhikko, una especia de lira sajona/violín vikingo muy difícil de domar pero que estoy aprendiendo a tocar. Y al fondo más whistles y cosas que hacen ruido. hahah!

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Arriba: el micro que utilizo más un rodek2, aunque he probado micros mucho más caros por ahora esoty muy contenta con este para grabar la mayor parte de mis instrumentos, me gusta su tono y es muy versátil. También arriba mi teclado  Roland rd700sx con teclas de piano, que es el que más uso junto a un Roland fantom. Tengo varios teclados vintage pero ya en desuso.

Por las fotos de arriba no es difícil averiguar cuales son mis películas favoritas... !! También podéis ver la muñeca que Alba García esculpió inspirándose en mí en compañía de criaturas del Cristal Oscuro.

Arriba  mi ordenador  donde tengo que hacer la mayor parte del trabajo de edición, mis monitors y  mi tarjeta de sonido. Sí, confieso que necesito actualizar mis monitores de estudio, pero mientras confío en más oídos en los míos para la mezcla. También más muñequitos por si el patio no estaba suficientemente lleno una brujita de  Patricia  Hedegaard y también oculto por ahí Jareth de Laberinto.

Y bueno ahora vuelvo a mi estudio para seguir trabajando, espero que os sintiérais bienvenidos y cómodos.