Pin-Up Girls.

 My first attempt at drawing pin-up art. The pose was drawn based on a photo that I saw a while back. The hair, skin, bikini designs and coloring were all created by me.

I decided to change the skin tones to show some diversity such as: African American, latina, middle eastern, caucasian, etc. because woman of beauty come in all shapes and colors.

FISTS OF FURY!

One of my personal favorite drawings done in 2016. This started off as a black and white drawing, but I later decided to color and use a practice for coloring backgrounds. I'm really impressed with how the colors turned out.

But who would win?

 I just wanted to have a little fun sketching both Naruto and Ang from their popular animated series.  Who knows, I may turn this into a cool WIP for a vs. battle between the two. What do you think? Who would win between Ang or Naruto?

She's got attitude!

 More character design art from a previous project I worked on.

Sketch compilation 2

Various sketches that were scanned, colored, and put together in Photoshop.

Some old and unused character designs.

Some old and unused character designs from a previous web-comic idea. I named this character Dave. The strange-looking guy on the bottom there is simply known as "Dark Rob". I had a lot of fun drawing & coloring them both.

BIGGEST MOUTH IN THE WEST!!!

Cartoon adaption of one of my favorite movie comedies. I had a lot of fun creating this illustration.

THE HERO CHICS!

I decided to create some alternate versions of my female superhero character

for my Latino, African American, and friends of other ethnicities out there.

Who knows, maybe I'll put them on t-shirts next.

The hero chic

My patriotic heroine. Started off as a rough sketch that I decided to color later on.

Color Test for comic page

Here's a another test page for my upcoming coming book. I have been doing a few test pages to see what the characters in my comic book would look like in full color. I also wanted to test myself by coloring more backgrounds and special effects. Lastly, I wanted to work on my timing for coloring comic book pages. As you can see, I wanted the characters to have an animated feel, as if they were characters in a cartoon; and I am still working to get better with that style of coloring.

These two panels took about 4-5 hours to complete within 2 days. I know that sounds long, but it was because I had to do some revisions to the original artwork. As you can see in the original black and white panel below, the energy particles around the main character had to be redesigned. While it looks good in black & white, I discovered later, that I needed less special effects, and more room for dialogue with the word balloons. I also went over some of the inked lines to close gaps and strengthen my black lines. The character in panel 2 was inked perfectly, and turned out really nice once color was added. The icing on the cake for me was coloring the special effects. I definitely get excited when the colors turn out how I see then in my head. It gets me motivated to do more coloring.

I must say that I enjoyed the challenge of finding the right spacing for the word balloons too. Creating the right word balloons is a learning process within itself and I am eager to learn more about it. After it's all said and done I am about 90% pleased with the end result. As I mentioned earlier, I am still practicing with colors, so I want to improve and get faster.

How about a little sneek peek?

Wow, it's March already and it certainly has been a busy year for me, busy I mean as in productive. I'm nearly finished with the new introduction for my web comic and plan to get the webpage up and going later this year. I've also been working on new character designs and revisions. I decided to offer up a little sneek peak into one of the characters i've been working on. I was so pleased with his design and color scheme that I almost couldn't decide which color scheme I liked better for his sneekers, the black with blue trim or the white with blue trim. I'm kind of leaning towards the black sneakers though. What do you think?

 

The Popular girls!

Some characater designs from an independent, creator-owned web-comic coming out next year. I'll have more details on that once the project is completed. Hand drawn then colored and finished in photoshop. Hope you all are staying busy on your own projects!

Gotta sketch em' all!

More random sketches from the portfolio. If you look close you might see a familiar face in there. All sketches were done in pen and ink. Scanned and colored in photoshop.

The Throwback!

This is a throwback drawing from back in the day. I believe It was originally done around 2001-2002. Simple pencil drawing with rapidiograph pen. I was just coming out of my Street Fighter /manga-phase and was starting to develop my own style of drawing. Still one of my favorite designs after all these years.