Dinosaurs in NY

This assignment was a double spread for narrative art II, where we had to chose between either dinosaurs and aliens. I obviously picked up the dinosaurs in N.Y. because I have never draw them before. I also thought it was a good opportunity to throw in a shout out for some of my friends books back in Monterrey. (which if you don't know, is my hometown, and a very awesome kick ass city).

This is the process.

Digital roughs

Digital roughs 2

Background

Pencils

Inks

Figure drawing class

Some samples from my figure drawing class.

Death of a Superhero

 Death of a superhero assignment for Narrative art. This was actually my final assignment for Adam Kubert's class. In this assignment we had to show the death of a superhero without actually showing the super hero.

Thumb and roughs

Pencils

Inks

There is actually a couple of things that are not so hidden on the image, but I put them just to give hints of who was it that I killed before I placed the title.

Larger versions: Pencils [here] and inks [here] 

Wolverine - Elektra

We don't ever see Wolvie smoking anymore.

Wolverine Pages

These are pages done for an assignment for school. It was based on a Wolverine / Elektra script.

Thumbs

Full size roughs

I'm still experimenting with several techniques to find out wich way is faster and better. This time I used Google Sketch up for some of the backgrounds and objects. I still have to lightbox them and put my spin to it. I found out that this Google sketch up is useful just for some things.

Pencils and Inks 11x17" bristol pages.

 

Hope you dig. Wolverine, Elektra and The Hand are trademarks of Marvel.

Comic Strip Assignment

Characters for a comics strip I'm doing for my Humor and Caricature class. I'll explain later what the deal is with these two guys.

Cover, Inks.

How to become a comic book artist with Fernando Ruiz

I know I have not posted anything in a while, but I promise I have tons of cools stuff to post, if I can only make some time to do it. School is pretty tight now and there are some extra curricular projects that also take most of my time.

In the mean time I leave you guys an interview done by Bleeding Cool, to one of my teachers at The Kubert School: Fernando Ruiz. He is a really really good teacher and I have learned a lot from him.

Keep drawing my friends!

Emma Stone

Emma Stone.

 That zombieland movie girl.  I did not get the face right, but it was a nice exercise.

First time using charcoal, ever.

Mariachi Vs. Afro

This is a very special piece to me, because I give all of my heart and effort to make it look as best as I could. It started as a homework assignment for Layout class, and it became one of the coolest works I have ever had the pleasure to do.

The assignment's objective was to design a poster using symmetry. I chose mirror symmetry because it better suited the purpose and resources for this particular job.


It is no secret that I love ninjas and samurais and everything japan related. So I figured this would be the perfect opportunity to make a tribute to two awesome representatives of this subject matter.

So here it goes:

Composition 

Plane separation

Mariachi art line

Afro art line

Flats

Slaping skin tones (detail)

Teaser

Final

Mariachi Samurai is an amazing graphic novel I just recently discovered during this past NY ComiCon, and I just love Afro Samurai ever since I watched that Resurrection movie.

I hope you guys liked it.

Batman Wrap Around Cover

Bats!

And now the process:

1. Digital sketch

2. Tighter lines  (badguys)

 3. Tighter lines  (goodguys)

4. Character Adjustments

 5. Finished pencils

6. Final Inks

Done as a project for one of my classes. The instructions were design a wrap around cover with two distinct focal points, one in front and one in the back that together could work as a poster.

I don't have the colored version yet, because the only thing that I have finished after the inks is just the color flats, and I don't consider that to be worthy of being published. So bear with me, I'll post it when I'm done with the colors.

Till then, rock on.