The Flash

After a month or so of coming back to my hometown, the beautiful and sunny Monterrey, I had a lot of plans of what I wanted to do with my summer. But you know, life happens. You just have to keep your eyes in the prize and move forward.

This is a gift for a friend. The flash on heavy Bristol using copics and pitt pens.

Hope you dig!

New Id

Hello my friends! Long time no see. I know that I have been away for a long time, but I really try to give it my very best at school, and that takes up time and dedication. Fortunately I can still update this from time to time, just like Red from Shawshank redemption.

This one was done for an assignment at school, but I liked it so much that I made it my new avatar for almost everything. I'm also using it on my business cards.

Rough

Inks 1

Inks 2

Inks 2

Final color

Inks on bristol. Color on Photoshop CS5.

 Hope you dig!

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.

Leather Face

I smell bacon.

Now is the turn for Leatherface! Here is the process

1. Scratchboard

2. Sketch on tracing paper

2. Chalk on scratchboard

Voila!

Dark vs. Light

One of the things that I'm liking the most about The Kubert School, is the fact that they teach all of the traditional weapons that a comic book artist has at his disposal, even the oldschool ones. So, since the beginning we are doing everything by pencil and inks... that is, traditional pencil and inks, not digital. 

This is the first assignment I had since I got into the school, and the second one in which I used inks. So bear with m, it has been a while since I last inked anything. 

Here it goes:

First of all, as usual I start with a small thumbnail sketch of how I imagine the composition to be. I wanted to show the teacher that I have some knowledge of the male and the female anatomy, as well as a hint of the use of perspective. Besides Spawn is always fun to draw, and I have never drawn Power Girl before. Plus, she is hot. 

Once I had the poses right, I blew up the image in photoshop and procede to use a light box to trace the figure with blue non repro pencil. Once I had that ready, I rendered the details using mechanical pencil and several B pencils, and one and another H pencil. 

That was like a week ago. Last friday I started the inking stage (which is due tuesday) and finished on saturday. It took a while, but I enjoyed every minute of it. Here some pics and details of the process.

Final image is at the top of the page.

Inked with a combination of speedball India Ink and Pelican Ink, plus a number 2 brush and microns.

Deadpool sketch

My life has been complete madness during these last weeks. Since its good bye month for me here in my hometown, visiting all the friends and family one last time before becoming a fulltime student again of course is the perfect excuse not to draw everyday as I should. I know, I know. My bad.

Just not to a total lazy-ass, here is a quick Deadpool sketch from last saturday´s artjam.

Bats Sketch

Quick Batman sketch. Just to play around in Sketkchbook pro and Photoshop.

Daily Sketching

I'm gonna try to keep a daily sketch for as long as I can. I have to force myself to do this. There will always be a reason not to do it.

And that just won't do.

Art Jam 12: The Crow

90's rule

Tribute to The Crow.

Sketched during last week's ArtJam! and colored yesterday.

I kinda rushed the coloring and decided to do it Cell Shaded style because of the time I had to my disposal. I was sick with the flu last week, and I kinda slacked off for a bit. I know that is not an excuse :P

Done in Photoshop CS5. Around 5 hours.

Art Jam 11: Chun-Li

Talk to the hand biatch.

This piece is special.

2 weeks ago, we decided to pay tribute to one of the toughest and hottest videogame babes ever, that is of course Chun-Li. I decided to go for a different kind of pose, something I have not done before. This is to push myself to do other things and explore new alternatives. Plus, EDSFOX dared me again to paint it, instead of color it (all digital). 

And even though I begin the sketching during the ArtJam! I wasn't quite sure of the final result. I was not happy with the first 4 sketches, and it took me almost an hour to do one that was sort of decent. So yes, I didn't finish that day, or even that week.

I finished the final art line just in time for the next session, and we did a coloring marathon during last week's ArtJam.

Overall it took me two sessions of ArtJam! to finish the piece, mostly because of the pose and the style of coloring. This has been the closest to painting that I have ever done, not just using the lines over the coloring, but integrating everything as a whole... or at least I tried. 

I'm thinking of making a Cell Shaded version of this one but I'm not sure anymore. It was a lot of fun but at the end it wore me out. 

Check out EDSFOX's version of Chun-Li. It kicks ass! 

Hope you like it.

Cell Shaded Wonder Woman

It started out as a warm up, but sometimes this babies just have a life of their own. Soon I realize that It could turn into my very first Wonder Woman piece, so I just went along with it.

And just after I began coloring it, I decided this could be my very first Cell Shaded experiment. I always loved how MetalHanzo and Lastscionz do their his anime-ish coloring so this was my shot at it. And I have to say I like a lot the way it came up. I'm too planning on doing many more like this one. It can't hurt to have different styles on one's art repertoire.

The sketch

Here is the Chamba piece I used as help on the tecnical side, you know, the Layer modes on Photoshop. More of his tutorials here.

Spidey Colors

For all you color junkies, here is the process I went through to put some color to my first ever Spiderman illustration.

No music on this one either. Done in Photoshop CS5.

Here is the finished thing.

Video Sketch: Mumm Ra

Let's start the week with some video sketches. I bet this week is gonna be awesome.

Here is the video from Mumm Rah's Art Jam.

Sorry, no music this time.

Art Jam 6: Spidey

I have a couple of unfinished drawings on my Laptop. They are either sketches that went too far and turned into almost finished illustrations or half finished tributes. But  I wanted to specially tackle this one since I started it.

On this week's Art Jam, EDSFOX and I wanted to explore our style of coloring. Each of us took a finished sketch and practiced coloring. Just relaxed and drinking coffee. MarteGod couldn't make it, (coloring Marvel comics is a tough job) We hope to see you very soon bro.

So here is my first Spidey ever. I'm surprised that I have never really try to draw famous characters such as this one before. The background is just an experiment so the character wouldn't felt so alone on the layout.

Done in Sketchbook Pro and colored in Photoshop CS5. 

Digital Art Process : Nadia Color

Continuing with the Digital Art Process Series of posts, here is the third and final state:

The Color Process. Part 1 and 2.

 

Done in Photoshop CS5. 

The only part that I didn't record was the flattening of the colors. This is where you just put a flat color or colors on the art just to have a base on where to start coloring. I'm not saying that this stage is a waste of time, it's just that for the sake of the video not being an hour long I cut this part out.

I hope this series has helped you in some sort of way. Please feel free to ask or comment anything. I will be looking forward to it.

Digital Art Process : Nadia Inks

Continuing with the Digital Art Process Series of posts, here is the second state:

The Inking Process. Part 1 and 2.

 

Also done in Manga Studio Ex 4. I must say that this was one of the first times I got to try this software and it is marvelous. It perfectly emulates the real thing with all its ups and almost none of its downs. Plus, the forever awesome Undo function, saves you lots of time and boosts your productivity.

Digital Art Process : Pencils

About a month ago I posted the general process I follow when I'm doing a commission. I also said that I record the whole process and I would post it. Here it is the first of three posts of the whole thing:

The drawing process.

This was done on Manga Studio Ex 4. My review of the software is still pending. For now I leave you with the video post. Hope it helps you.

Art Jam 4: Red Eye

Continuing with last week's Art Jam Thundercats themed characters, here is Red Eye from the Lunataks!

I do recommend full view.

The lines are from the awesome Marte. The colors by me.

Check out EDSFOX coloring on Mumm Rah

Art Jam 4: Mumm Ra

Art Jam came and went again. Getting better with each edition, we went back to the popular coffee shop with a great affluence of cute girls. This time we had a visitor, Hugo, who just stayed for a while.

This week's theme was the allmighty Thundercats. My character: Mumm Ra, your favorite Thundera sac of evil and bones.

Art Jam Mike Colors

As I said before, the only way to improve is through hard work and to surround yourself with better artists than you. And if they happen to be awesome people, well, it doesn't get any better than that.

This is the result of last week's Art Jam with Martegod. He deliciously colored Michaelangelo and I couldn't  be more impressed with his work! What can I say... the guy is insanely good.

Be sure to check out his work http://martegod.deviantart.com/ you wont regret it.