Invincible fan art

This is my first Invincible fan art ever. I started to read the book during summer and I got hooked! It is entertainment god and the art is superb! If you haven't yet, you should totally check it out.

Luther Strode fan art

If you haven't read the incredibly cool Luther Strode comic book, you have no idea what you are missing.

I'm doing an art trade with a friend of mine. I'm doing the pencils (digital in this case) she is gonna color it. She is pretty good so I'm looking forward to the final thing.

Sketch

Fleshing it out

Final lines

Batman Sketch

It is no secret that I love Starbucks. And they love me back. 

This is a Sketch done for a friend at Starbucks.

Christabel you rock.

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.

Bats Sketch

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

Art Jam 14: IronWar

Full view please!

Long time since my last post.

I should have posted something sooner but here it is. My tribute to Ironman and WarMachine. I should say that I grew a rather stronger preference towards Warmachine, I dunno why.

Here is the process:

1. Sketch

 

Although Ironman's lines are semi clean, this is how it started, setting both characters in position. I tried to make them as dinamic as I could, given the fact that they are both avoiding the explosions and flying at mach 5 speed (hehe). Then I proceeded to draw both armors in place.

2. Clean up

Using a clean hard brush, I cleaned all the sketchy lines, leaving some of them as I saw fit.

3. Finished piece

So there you go. I hope you guys like it.

Be sure to check EDSFOX version of Ironman.  He did an awesome job!

Til next time dudes.

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. 

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.

Art Jam Leo Colors

Here is the colored version of last week's Art Jam Leo with EDSFOX. I did the color of his work, and apparently he gave me the thumbs up.

His only request was that, maybe next time I could include something in the background.

Art Jam 3: Michaelangelo

Taco pizza Dude!

Who doesn't love the TMNT? It was my favorite saturday morning cartoon and my personal childhood heroes.

In this week's Art Jam, EdsFox introduced me to a buddy of him, MarteGod. We jam at his apartment, not at Starbucks like we usually do. Turns out he is not only an awesome artist but also a really cool guy. He even gave me some beer, nothing wrong with that :) Check out his work!

Anyway, this time I drew Michaelangelo. Marte did Raph and EdsFox did Leo.

MarteGod is going to put the colors on mine. I will color EdsFox's Leo and he will color Marte's Raph.

Art Jam Numero dos: Ryu

First Ryu ever. Honest.

I went to my favorite Starbucks with my buddy EdsFox for an Art Jam. In my book this means Laptops + Tablets + coffee + good looking women = fun. This is the second time we get together to jam, and the idea is to keep doing it and inspire more people to join us.

While the first time we talked and discussed several subjects related to illustration, we pretty much did our own thing. This time we came up with a set of  rules to make it more interesting:

1. We had only 30 min. to draw
2. We would have to draw the same character. (in this case Ryu)
3. We would have to use the same software (in this case Photoshop CS5)
4. Once finished the sketch, each one had to color each other's drawing.

I tried to draw as fast as I could keeping the lines loose keeping that sketchy look, even though it was being done in Photoshop.

It was fun! Of course we extended the time up to 50 min (just cuz we wanted a little bit more detail, and we didn't finish the color part, but we will continue next week.

The Legend of Zelda 2nd Teaser

Where is Navi now?

It's not my intention to keep you guys on the edge waiting and waiting for the finished piece... (or is it?). I have already finished the inks on the whole piece, I just need to make myself enough time to put the colors into it. Again, in the mean time here is another teaser of the process, which I will make a complete post once is ready.

To be honest this is the first time I draw Link and I really liked the result. I'm hoping the colors will really make it come alive.

Everything you need to know about the Legend of Zelda here.

Zelda Teaser

What would Papa Smurf do?

So the other day I started one of the daily sketches trying to do some Zelda stuff. It turned out into something more than a sketch. Here is a small teaser, Link doing his thing.