Aztec Warrior portfolio piece

What up!

So awhile back I was working on a character that was a sort of homage to my Mexican heritage.

first 2 posts: http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5795146889496044004#editor/target=post;postID=4165121269973109140

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5795146889496044004#editor/target=post;postID=4543085605260905629

I since have worked on this character for awhile, working on a portfolio piece for my eventual new site.

Im not sure about what name to give (yet) but I wanted to hammer out an illustration, a sort of splash page of the character entirely in an action pose....so here's the black and white version of the piece.

I might give it some time before I move onto colors, maybe make adjustments here and there...but this is what she looks like for now, hope you guys like it.

Cheers!

*update 5/11/12*

This is a color rough for this particular piece...next step is to refine the light and dark values before I 100% settle on this.

Caricature Practice cont.

*Update* Here are my color samples since my last post. It's been a minute since I colored caricatures using wood-less color pencils but these came out pretty good all-in-all. I picked out the three best ones from the bunch and decided to color only those. With the work I put into all the recent caricature stuff, I feel Im getting a better hold of it and can use it as another skill set. Maybe digital coloring next? Well see...hope you dig it!

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Caricature Practice

Here are some familiar faces (well hopefully familiar :D )...long story short, these are practice drawings for a job as a caricature artist at Navy Pier. Took some time to do, but Im definitely getting the hang of it...after these are the final samples which will (...again HOPEFULLY) go on the booth as my samples....enjoy yall!





....and for my family, this is NOT my uncle Arthur! lol

Latest Work

Here's TedEBear character, which has had no love from me in a while, so I decided to do something with a new friend of his: meet Skully, the creation of a fellow artist and a good friend of mine named Rudie Vazquez...check out his site http://rudievii.com/

Here we see the both of them deep in thought, what exactly is going through these two dudes mind exactly! :P

Inked Peices

Here are a couple of pieces I spent some time inking....I'm debating if I should do a more deep shadow to convey depth or go for I have been doing which is detailing through line work...maybe a mix of both?

Anyways I feel I should standard way of inking in my repertoire and then move onto coloring to use on fully illustrated pieces (which is the eventual goal). To be continued....

Viking character I made

Aztec warrior character from previous blog post

Sketches for May

So I'm gonna try something new here and post pages from my sketchbook, now here's the catch....it can be pictures of anything and everything....from drawings I did after watching a movie to practicing drawing women, creatures, animals...you name it.

This is all a way to "bleed" out ideas and any creative subject matter I have in mind at that moment....

random pirate sketches with a freehand sketch of good ol' Jack Sparrow


facial sketches based off the movie "The Pianist"

sketches of Stalin (don't ask why) and Charles Bukowski, an author known for his drinking and swearing

facial studies off of pics on google, including David Beckham (a bad one at that)

Kim Kardashian or at least the ones that look like her

hair studies and a random Lindsey Lohan pic

a Frank Frazetta pic I freehand copied and more hair studies

I was watching Ken Burns documentary "The Civil War" and was inspired to do pics of people featured in it....one being William Tecumseh Sherman and the other Abraham Lincoln

a roman solider in an action pose

more roman-themed drawings

conceptual sketches of a grim reaper-esque character

I found some cool photos dating back to WWI and decided to do studies of them

drawings I did using photo references for a character I made up


and finally D-Rose!! hope you liked them :)

Keira Knightly- well sort of.....

I did a portrait of Keira Knightly as practice for digital painting, I was attempting to apply a technique called 'Flemish-style painting' in this. But this really just ended up being something completely my own once I got into the nitty gritty.

I don't think it look like her 100% but like the way it came out in the end. Anyways here she is :)