The Squirrels (A Valentine's Day Special)

Happy Valentine's Day from Draw a Tale!

This time we did a special video for Valentine's Day. We knew we wanted to do funny video for this date, something only for entertainment and very different from what we did before.

I wanted the video to be about rejection more than about love. I didn't want the typical love story with the perfect end. I wanted to reflect the three types of people in Valentine´s Day: people who love, people who reject and people who just don't care about it.

I  had this idea about the squirrels and the tree, where the same flower is used by different squirrels to win other squirrel's heart. I didn't have an end for it, the flower was going to be flying from one squirrel to other over and over again, I didn't know how to end it. I told Felipe my idea and we gave me an end, I found it very funny and random, with the last squirrel watching TV inside the tree.

This is how the story happened, a funny story for Valentine's Day from two people who don't care about it.

My background

Apparently, I was born with a pen in my hand. Since the very beginning of my life I was always drawing. In fact, my mom kept my very first draw that had some sense, as a two year old everything looked pretty much as a mess of doodles, but one day I drew something where you could see two people. My parents laminated it and it is still in their room.

I was always drawing, in school and then in Highschool, it was pretty clear I as going to dedicate my life to something related to arts. With the years I changed my mind a few times, first I wanted to be a fashion designer, then a graphic designer and later I said I wanted to go draw comics. And then something happen, I took a new subject in Highschool named Economics when I was around 16, and I decided I wanted to study Business Administration in the University. 

I have to say I also followed my parents opinion, saying that Economics could give me more opportunities, and that I could always be an artist anyway.

But during all my years in University I was drawing less and less until I stop it completely. And after so many years I lost my capacity and don't touch a pencil for around 7 years. I don't have anything to blame but me, I think I lost interest.

But life change a lot, I moved to another country and I don't know why I started drawing again. It was and it still is very frustrating to see how much I lost, and how good I could become if I never stopped. But this is how things are now, I have to thank Felipe to help me and support me, because probably without Draw a Tale I would give up drawing again.

The Cat and the Bow

Hello everyone,

I don´t know why I find cats so fascinating, they are so pretty and majestic, I knew from the beginning I wanted a cat to be the principal in one of our videos. I started thinking story lines and most of them had a cat as a main character.

"The Cat and the Bow" was our first video, I didn't had any kind of tool to draw on the computer and I never had it before, I was a paper kind of person. 

We film it during the night, it was pretty unusual for me as I couldn't relax completely. The camera was behind me so I couldn't move forward or I would cover the pictures, and also I couldn't move the paper while drawing. But everything turn out pretty well to be the first one.

I was trying the sleep when the idea for this plot came to my mind. I thought that you can't really tell the sex of a cat, when you see it with a bow on the top of their head you will think is a girl, however if the bow is under the head like a bow tie you will think it is a boy. How we allocate gender to something depending on where a bow is?

I feel we allocate a very specific gender role to the kids from the beginning, blue for baby boys and pink for baby girls, the boys are brute and girls are princesses. 

I remember been asked a lot if I was a boy or a girl when I was a kid, I had short hair and always wear pants, nothing too feminin but I was not completely a tom boy. Random people at school used to ask me what I was, that dind't bother me at all, I used to think that makes me special. 

My idea was not to give a name to the cat, just name it Cat or Kitten, as this words won't give you any clue on the gender. But Felipe thought naming the cat Naru was a good a idea as for him Naru could work for both sexes and we would also honor our dear cat.

So Naru is a real cat, is our two year old kitten, who inspired the first story of this project.

With love,

Marina

Butterfly

Hello guys,

Butterfly is a video I was very excited about while doing it, but I was not very excited about it when we finished it, I feel I might share too much about myself, I wanted to name it "The Struggle" as for me this is what it is about.

I always carry with me a little notebook where I write sometimes, I don't write there very often but I found it very useful, it really helps you to liberate yourself. Writing down your feelings helps you to keep them in the paper and not on your mind.

So basically Butterfly express a bad moment in my life, that kind of moment we all have and makes us feel weak. I want to remind you that bad moments make you stronger and you have to keep fighting because you can do it!

If you want to check out the video Buttefly click below:

And if you want to enjoy the music on the video:

With love,

Marina

Skin

     Hi everyone, we are Draw a Tale and we just start our blog :D

     Here is one of our favorite videos from our you tube channel, we will keep updating the blog with all the videos and news from our creations!

How Skin happened:

It is funny how ideas come to your head, I was running on a treadmill in the gym when the idea

for this video came to me.

I was with the headphones on while I was watching the music video from Daft Punk & Michel Gondry for their song "Around the World".

In this video few guys dressing as skeletons dance, and then something click on my mind, <<maybe they are dressing as skeletons because the want to fit in a world full of skeletons>>, being a skeleton would be what is "normal" and not being one is weird. In a second I picture in my brain this little kid with a skeleton costume, trying too hard to be like the rest.

With this story I want to tell people that it is ok to be different, even if your differences are visible or not it is fine, you don't have to change or pretend to fit, keep being different because that it was makes you special.

With love,

Marina