What do you think is the greatest challenge facing by the illustrators today?

I think we illustrators are sometimes like musicians that would love to play in front a huge crowd, make them scream and be assholes through the whole show if they wanted but instead, they have to play jingles sometimes and give a few classes to idiots because well the money is needed while the fame gets to the door. That’s more like it, we illustrators are doomed to work for people that just want a logo or a publicity image for their business with an awful payment rate, and that’s not wrong, sometimes works as a challenge or it’s needed but that stops us from working our skills or to develop our own thoughts, to find the time between working to make money with stuff I don´t like while I´m doing my personal work in the hopes that someday people just ask me for that, that’s time consuming, but that’s also me complaining a lot, I really think we have one of the coolest jobs around.

Can you describe to us the last time that you undertook a project that demanded a lot of initiative?

Definitely when I was working on my grade project on 2013, I had to pick a theme to work, make a text to go with it and some images, I could decide on everything freely and I had a year to do it and so…. I panicked. The thing is that I had to have initiative and propose something and the pressure was horrible, it’s funny, when you do something because you want to and have no expectations everything works perfect, but in this case there was a huge expectation that because I was free to choose whatever I wanted it had to be very good and not only that, I had a year to do so, it felt like it was meant to be something to endure, and that kill all my motivations, at the end I decided that I just needed to work with something I could love my whole life and talk about it, it was called “Mapas Estelares” something like, Stellar maps, it involved stars and constellations and some references to ancient cultures and its links with the skies. The seven pieces I did are all on the internet.

Can you give us an example of a time when you had to think outside of the box?.

Well, there was this time where I had to illustrate a text based on some data of the human papillomavirus, it was…weird, the images had to be kind of pretty but the theme was terrifying, I don’t think it was thinking out of the box but it sure was hard for me to work in between those terms, the result was bizarre. I'm not one of those clever illustrators.