Roberto Ribeiro Padula

It's humble, but it's home! Booth 403! Lets go Lightbox!

Just made a new friend at the cinema while waiting for my movie!

Hello Pasadena! Who else is already here for lightbox? Let's go!

Getting ready to start my anual pilgrimage to Pasadena for Lightbox! Hope to see you all there!!

Ooh boy. Have you noticed that work never ends? You would think that with all the effort we put into it we'd eventually cause an impact on it, but work just regenerates and keep on coming. I think this might be a hydra situation. Have we tried using fire against work?

Sketched a little bird human thing!

Some butts are hairy, that's just a fact of life.

Recursive self-improvement is as real as the Easter bunny! Don't buy into their bullshit!

Here he is! The Fluviovorator rotundus! Bask in his glory!!! And remember kids, every time you use AI, Elon Musk has an orgasm, so don't do it!

I made a little wormy guy!

I think I'm ready to call this piece done. What do you think? Looks good?

This chonky boy is coming along swimmingly!

Remember when the biggest thing on the internet were NFTs? I used to receive hundreds of spam emails about people wanting to "buy my art" everyday. We were all going to be millionaires. That must have been 30 years ago... We were just kids back then. Oh nostalgia.

Working on a new creature. I wanted to paint something chonky, so I did! Let's see where this will take me.

I've seen so many great artists just stop and disappear. This is not a kind world for artists and it's completely reasonable to have to change your priorities, but I miss you all.

I've painted this piece 12 years ago. It's hard to say if I evolved much since then. I feel like I've learned more and got more confident, but there still are days when I can't draw a single line right. Welp, that's life! Gotta keep on painting!

This guy has seen some stuff! I feel ya, little guy.

I like painting!

I always have fun hearing people say my name. Most people pronounce it as Row-Burr-Toe which is close, but no cigar. The proper pronunciation is Ho-Bear-Toh. But this makes me wonder how much I'm butchering other people's names without knowing! Names are fun!

Thanks for the support, everyone! It means the world to me to know that out there there's someone enjoying seeing my silly creatures!

Am I dumb for not photobashing or using 3d? I really like painting all the textures and details, but I wonder if I'm not just shooting myself in the foot work-wise. It's harder than people think to turn a passion into work, in my opinion.

Oh how I miss the beauty of my youth. To be able to bend my knees without grunting while they creak. Good times.

One fish, two fish, red fish, big fish... or something like that, I don't remember very well.

There is a hidden pleasure in putting things in jars. Something primordial. We were born to pickle things! When I die I want to be pickled.

Hey there folks, I'm back! I got burned out so I took some time off from the internet. During that time my brother got married, I turned 39 and I learned how to pickle mini potatoes. What an eventful July!

I think I've finished this one! Gonna give it some time to cool down and then give it one final pass, but I can't think of anything to fix or change right now. What do you think? Do you like it?

I think I've found my color scheme! What do you think?

I like the idea of classical style paintings with weird creatures instead of normal subjects.

Some more color explorations. Here we have The Leopard, The Snow Leopard, and The Spotted Banana!

I'm trying to find a good color scheme. Right now I have evil gremlin from gremlins and albino.

I'm starting to get afraid of how used I've become to use .psb instead of .psd for all of my works. Everything is getting too big now! Huge files galore!

Trying out a lighting scheme and some early color exploration. All in all I think this coming along just fine. I honestly can't understand anyone who would want to outsource this experience to AI. It's like building a robot to eat your pie while you sit on the cuck chair.

I think my brain might be reaching its storage limit. I need to delete some stuff and open up some space.

Have we had any new actually useful technology lately? I'm always afraid of being nostalgic or just angry, but I feel like I haven't seen anything worthwhile in quite a while. I miss being impressed by technology, everything is just boring lately.

I think this guy would look cool as a puppet. If only I had the knowledge to do that. Welp, at least I can fake it in 2D

Heyo! Come see me at #LBX2026 I mean, there will be more than just me there, and you don't even have to come see me at all if you don't want to, but hey! I'll be there! Drop by why don't cha. #lightboxexpo

I need to trim my beard... Sometimes life is so unfair... Can't my beard just stop growing? So unfair...

I'm not a fan of driving.

Here's a peek at what I'm working on right now. I haven't been the most productive lately, but I feel like this one has potential. I'm painting my own version of a Kappa! Trying hard not to mess it up!

Can we catch a break? Cryptocurrency, NFTs, covid, AI, prediction market... It has just been bad news after bad news. It's getting harder and harder to have any hope for the future. I'm tired. What's next?