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Lots of questions about this, so I decided to write a complete blog post: "Hey Fran, how do you achieve those perfect thin lines?" NEW BLOG POST! :D <3

15 minutes talking about markers, I’M NOT ASHAMED. 

~ 15 minutos hablando de marcadores, NO ESTOY AVERGONZADA.

One and a half year of footage, this is the entire process behind my travel journal published by Penguin Random House! Wanna know how a book gets published from the first email with your editor till the printing day? Then this video is for you. I really hope you like it! :)

~ Un año y medio de grabaciones, este es el proceso completo detrás de mi diario de viaje A Punto de Partir, publicado por Penguin Random House! Quieres saber cómo un libro es publicado desde el primer email con tu editor esta el día de impresión? Entonces este video es para ti, espero que les guste :)

Rainy London = painting with watercolors, coffee and catching up with my podcast feed <3

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Thank you so much guys for sending me questions! They ALWAYS inspire me to new videos and blog posts!

You can find more about The Beagle Freedom Project here and also about The Identity Campaign. Let me know if you have questions or ideas for future cruelty free or vegan related posts, your feedback is really helpful for me!

Cozy rainy day in London only means a Let's Draw Something videoo! (and coffee) (and blankets) 

Let’s go out and draw a lot. Here are my sketches! :V

~ Salgamos afuera y dibujemos un montón. Aquí están mis dibujos! :V

All the nice things I enjoyed in October

1. Franco Manca's pizza, I'm officially addicted. Best pizza in London so far.

2. I spent my birthday at Black Cat Cafe (awesome vegan coffee shop) drawing, drinking coffee and eating cake with my friends.

3. My good friend Anke gave me the Fabulous Fudge Factory Dairy Free Chocolate Raisins as a gift and I ate the whole bag in one sit. No regrets.

4. I've been doing the 30 day yoga challenge with Adriane and thank god I'm doing yoga again.

5. This year's inktober. It was a love/hate relationship but it was worth all the way.

6. This news

7. Tigers in the Sky, I can't believe I didn't hear anything from this guys before

Please recommend me something that made you smile last month! :)

Don't forget my eBay auction is up until this Sunday!

So for my last Inktober illustration, I decided to do The Story of Catherine and Her Fate, an italian fairy tale in which Catherine is haunted by her fate who comes in the shape of a beautiful woman and, let me tell ya, her fate is a bitch: she destroys everything and makes Catherine's life a living hell.

If you're wondering why I'm only doing 21 illustrations instead of 31, I did explain this a little bit on this video and on this one. Thanks for joining me on Inktober 2015! Stay tuned for the sale I'll be doing for the originals, don't worry I'll let you know when, where and how that happens!

For today's inktober, one lovely person on Instagram suggested me the Frau Holle tale, in which a young girl works for an old lady, doing some cleaning, making her bed and (by the old lady's request) shaking her pillows every day until the feathers turn into snow. After working really hard, the old lady covered the young girl with gold, so.... can anyone give me PLEASE the address of that old lady?

The Star Money (or The Star Talers) for inktober day 19! What have we learned from this tale? That if you're poor and kind, money will fall from the skies :0

For today's inktober I illustrated The Bamboo Cutter fairy tale, amazing japanese story, even more amazing movie. Happy Sunday my beloved nerds!

The Princess Who Never Smiled, for inktober day 17!

Snow White and Rose Red fairy tale, for inktober day 16!

After months of reading lots and lots of fairy tales, I've came across patterns or same characters in different stories. Baba Yaga is one of those characters. She is an evil cannibal witch and you can see her in many fairy tales! This story in particular is very similar to The Magic Wild Geese (that I've already illustrated in this challenge) and it's about a girl who must work for Baba Yaga and then (le spoiler) runs away from her. At the end, in every story, everybody always runs away from Baba Yaga.

Today, whilst I was searching for the Baba Yaga tale, I've found three versions of this same story.  Isn't this amazing?