Tonalpohualli 13

Tonalpohualli 13
This is the second CD I was commissioned to design which was released in 2010. Tonalpohualli 13 “A Mexican Ambient Compilation” which features music from 4 talented bands: Arkhanoth, Whispers of Ghosts, Theomorphosys and X-17. As the title suggests the music in this compilation explores musical ambients with dark tones, some prehispanic sound elements and some electro.

Cover

I was asked to make an illustration of space and stars to be used as the background for the inner pages; this was all drawn using Photoshop. I also worked on the cover and general design of the album.

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Whispers of ghosts – The coldest place

The Coldest Place

This was the first album I designed which was a very interesting project. Whispers of Ghosts is the musical project of Israel Valladares – his debut album in 2008, “The coldest place” is an atmospheric album with neo-classical influences, full of dark ambients and imaginative landscapes inspired by nature and introspection.

The Inner Eye

I made this illustration with acrylic paint and ink for a school asingment in 2002

“We have only so much as to glance at another human beign and we at once begin to read beneath the surface. we see there another conscious person, like ourselves. We see someone with human fellings, memories, desires. A mind potentially like ours. And yet, of course, human fellings are the one thing we do not see.”
Nicholas Humphrey  –  The inner eye

A dream of a thousand days

She falls in a deep slumber, in a far far away spot in the realm of Hypnos,
suddenly her home turns into a palace with a high crystal dome and rich
ornaments on the walls…

Her long hair falls from the bed growing deep into the dream transforming into the roots of gigantic trees that form a forest,
then her hair becomes green almost blue,
this colour shines surrounding the forest,
from above the forest she can see a path amidst the trees,
a long, long path that disappears as far as the eye can see,
and then she sees him approaching,
walking the lonely path just beneath her,
she feels happy because for a long time she has waited for him to arrive but fears that he will only exist as long as her dream continues…

· this two images belongs to a series of drawings i made as part of a short story, but i never finished it, hopefully one of this days

· variation of the first image, “Sigrid in a dream”

all images and texts, by Víctor Yáñez

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