new year, new work....new agenda!

 So! what a better way for an artist to start a new year other than to put up more "trabajo". I usually have a bunch of different ideas that I like to sketch or observational drawings or what not, this time around I found myself working on a couple of personal projects outside of the usual sketches....

One was a drawing I did for my nephew's birthday, the idea was to have Harry Potter fly around Hogwarts in a griffin. The good news was he loved it! :) the bad news was I didn't get a chance to scan in the final :( BUT I do have the sketches for it below....

Next up! only the most awesome mini-series on TV (in my humble opinion) Boardwalk Empire...I couldn't help but do sketches of James Darmody and Richard Harrow, two of my fav characters.  For James I used a black colored pencil, it was something different but i like that I can get broader lines for the buildup to the detailed stage in my sketches....also I did a sketch of a tree, I love to draw organic shapes.

 Finally an illustration I did for my brother for xmas...he took this photo of the Eiffel Tower while is Paris. Im not too thrilled on the proportions or accuracy of the photo in my art, but I decided to put it up anyways just to show how much observational/practice "stuff" I do on my own time. Hope ya like it.

Now that I uploaded this stufff....I hope to put more portfolio work, ESPECIALLY colored work, I have way too much b/w on my blog/portfolio. So hope you guys can join me in getting a new portfolio out there with feedback and critiques, my page has been getting traffic which is awesome. So thanx guys for checking out my stuff and hope to hear you all continue to check in. On to another year of  'art hustlin'!

E

December Sketches....

 

Its been too long since my last post, so I 'm posting my sketches I did in the past week...random stuff, some quick exercises I usually do or warm ups to get myself familiar with ideas I have in mind...enough chatter though, check em out fer yourself ya? :P

SketchBook Project preview

Buenos Dias!

Hello to all, hope everyone didnt party too hard or eat too much candy this past Halloween. For this post I decided to post a sneak peek for my SP submission. Its due next year and I basically have to fill it out according to a theme...I chose the Grey Side of Life. Check out the link if you're interested in seeing what it is.

http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject

So what better way to start that theme with a very "grey" person...Edgar Allen Poe! :)

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!

E

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