NO MORE HEROES!!!

Ok, so I promised myself no more superheroes after this post(especially X-Men). I think fan art is the addictive hard drug of artists. The more you do of it, the more you wind up drawing it till your body of work is nothing but other artist's creations and not your own. So this is the last batch of heroes I'll do for a while so I can focus more on original content. I seriously need a twelve step program ... :-(
Nightcrawler

Rogue

Magik

Wolverine, Captain America, Black Widow

Just some warm ups ...

I'm trying to do at least a post a month, so since I missed out in April I'll be doing at least two this month. I decided to do some warm up sketches. These are just simple for now but I'll be doing bigger illustrations soon. Post numero dos will be up soon!

Animal lovers

Here's a couple sketches I kicked out, one old and one new. The lion family is a revamp of an older post, I tried pushing the design a little bit more. While working on the lion family I had an idea for a Southern alligator couple, I think I'm happy with it ... for now :-)

POW ... PING ... PANG ... POW ...

I figured I'd start the year with Wonder Woman doing what she does best, deflecting an entire shower of high velocity bullets with very tiny bracelets. How that works? I don't know ... but it just does.

Mele Kalikimaka

It's awful seeing the last posting date on this blog, so I managed to squeeze in my annual Christmas drawing before the holidays were over! I love Christmas and I love tropical, so why not put them together?

Therapeutic posting

This is an old drawing I've had for a while. It's only recently I've brought it to color and it's gone through A LOT of changes.

I'll leave it where it is for now, time to move on to the next one.


I'm happy with the way the henna designs turned out and facial details.

Keeping the X in X-Mas

I haven't posted in a little while so I wanted to make sure I put up a Christmas post. Here's a quick one I whipped up in just the nick of time in all this Christmas craziness.

Phew . . . lots of X-Men

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Psylocke

Shadowcat & Lockheed

Storm, this one is my fave.

Dazzler

Domino, well she's actually X-Force, but whatever . . .

Summer drawings

It's been almost too long since my last post and even then I'm not too hot about the last one. It's been a long summer, but despite that I've still been drawing in my leisurely time. The old man is based off a neat photograph I saw, the girl is based off of what I call "the Starbucks Girl" whom you see everywhere at any Starbucks and the dogs were a shot out of my comfort zone cause I haven't spent a lot of time drawing them.

It's that time of the year again . . .

So here's my Christmas card submission this year at Radical Axis. I think I like this one more than the one I did last year (see 12.11.07 post).

Sketching Ahead

Ok that title was a really bad joke but I had to do it. I wanted to do a quick sketch last night just because Halloween is a good excuse to do something like this.

Ode to the X-Men

One of the biggest artistic influences in my life were the X-Men comics growing up, read them then, and I still read them now. I realized that I hadn't done any fan art of them so I'd give them a shot.

This was a difficult piece because I don't have the same artistic freedoms as I did the last post, especially with color because these are obviously preexisting characters. I tried to take some liberties with color without deviating from their trademark palettes. I think I'm satisfied with it, I feel that it's missing a little something but that's okay. I've spent enough time on this one, time to go on to the next one.

We start with blue and red color erase:

It's scanned and colored in Flash and then given softens and blurs in Photoshop:

Surfers and sunsets

I went to Waikiki Beach, Hawaii in mid April for a wedding and I saw a ton of surfers everyday I was there and this vintage postcard was inspired by that. I also posted the process so you can see what I did.

This was purely an experimental piece and in all honesty I had no real idea what I was doing, just screwing around with Flash and Photoshop and see what I can do with the drawing I had available.

Again, the preview is kinda small so you'll have to click on it to see better:

So first we start with our drawing with blue and red color erase pencil on 11x17 xerox paper:

We then scan it into Flash and layout the line work and assign line width. Also in this stage I do my corrections I feel necessary and in this case I felt the clouds didn't convex very well so I laid out a faint grid and redrew them in Flash:

Now in this stage I just played around and experimented with color. There was also a lot of changes in the design of the water because I didn't think that they were working from the drawing.I also stretched the background by about 40% and it looked waaaaaaaayyyy better that way:

Finally it's dragged into Photoshop and given filters, textures,blurs, and all that good stuff:


Hope you enjoy, and there's more coming like this . . .

As I promised . . . more!

Here's just some more random sketches:



And there's still more to come!!!

I'm not dead

I know it's been a little while since I've posted anything and I've been getting alot of gripes and complaints through emails and comments about why I haven't posted any new stuff. Well for the record I'm not dead and there's gonna be new stuff up soon. So here is some filler till then.

These are scans from my Moleskine sketchbook. I only use this sketchbook when I travel.

This is from Stockholm, Sweden. The Venus de Milo was just a replica in a Flemmish Museum:

This was outside my Hotel in Paris,France:

And this was from inside the Lourve in Paris:

These are from when I went to Waikiki Beach at Honolulu,Hawaii:


This was when I was in Tennesse (which is a lame state from what I saw) and was inspired to sketch out Jesus Christ, a man to whom I owe my life to . . .