Drawing stuff!

For this drawing, I traced my rough pencil lines over a light table using a technical pencil, with an 0.5 lead. Next, I used a sharpie marker to color the hair and outfit, to add contrast, and make the character stand out more. For the next step, I decided to add a floor design (just something from the top of my head) to give the character some 3-dimensional spacing. Afterwards, I used a grey Copic sketch marker to add some shading to the character. Lastly, I decided to manipulate the drawing on the computer, to give it some color, and the end result was this cool drawing.

This drawing starting off as a warm up exercise. I was just sketching a rough idea from my head that later turned into this drawing. I liked it so much that I decided to post it on my blog. Who knows, maybe I will redo this drawing in full color one day. 

Stay creative!

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.

KUNG FU GRIP!!!

Here's a fun drawing that started out as a simple sketch, but then turned into much more than expected.

Sketch compilation 1

Some random sketches that I scanned, colored, and  and compiled together using Adobe 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.

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.

Full page color test!

 Here is my full color comic book page. As I mentioned in a previous post, this is a test page, to help me see what my comic book would look like in full color. I decided to post the original, inked, black and white page next to the color page, just to show what a difference color makes. In a previous post, I mentioned wanting my comic book to have the feel of an animated cartoon. This is partly because i've always seen my comic book in an animated form as opposed to the traditional  comic book color format. Nonetheless, I am pleased with how this 1st test page turned out, as this will allow me to improve on my colors and get better on future comic pages.  I look forward to showing you more full color comic pages in the future. I hope all is going well with your projects too--STAY CREATIVE!

Future hip-hop!



 

Here's more teaser art from the graphic novel i'm working on. It's not the official artwork, but just some promotional artwork to give people a taste of what i'm doing. The official poster will be completed later this year. However most of the characters you see here will have new colors and designs. I'm very excited about this project and cannot wait to share it with the world once it's completed.
 

The Knight Rider!

Taking it back to the 80's with this one!

Here is the colored version of the Knight Rider Illustration I did back in November 2013. I basically added color to the Black and white version as well as a few special effects. It came out better than I expected in my opinion. I think I'll post a blog in the future detailing my creative process step by step using this Illustration as an example.

Dem' pretty girls!

More character art from a project created earlier this year. Pen & ink drawing then scanned & colored in photoshop.

Still Sketching!

More Warm up sketches to get the art juices flowing! Black ink pen & sharpie marker on regular paper. Scanned and colored in Adobe photoshop.

Sketch it man!

Warm up sketches from the portfolio. Some of these sketches were done from photographs. Loose sketch with a regular ink pen.

Sketching around!

   
New sketches straight from the artist's desk. In between working on character designs and my graphic novel I still try to

find time to just sketch around. It's always good to keep the skills fresh, stay creative & draw different things.

These are various pen and ink drawings scanned in photoshop. Enjoy!

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 Goth Chic

My goth character from my upcoming graphic novel. She is a mixture of goth/hip-hop with a little bit of Sci-fi in there. Enjoy!

"Just a bit of a break from the norm"

Got some new sketches for you! June has been quite a busy month for me in between the job & my freelance work I've been quite the busy bee!

I also wanted to say thanks to all the viewers out there giving me feedback on my artwork. I appreciate you very much and keep coming back because the best is yet to come!