A little drawing

This is supposed to be me. Just a quickie for fun.

Cheers!

Ezio

Yesterday I went to get my copy of Assassin's Creed 2 cuz my uncle had told me about a place that sells it for cheaper than anywhere else. Then of course I went home to play the crap out of it.
I played for only 5 hours and I LOVED IT. When I went to bed I was thinking to myself that Ezio deserves to be drawn sexily too so today instead of getting important well-paid work done, I drew Ezio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It took me about 8 hours. The details of the outfit are not quite similar to the actual character cuz I copied it from the case.

Altair with some slight changes

W00t!! UPDATE!!

I'm super happy my machine is alive again cuz I was eager to finish up this drawing before AC2 is released on the 17th.

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I just don't know what to say about this drawing without sounding like a massive pervy geeky girl cuz that is not something I'd like to show in my blogspot which happens to be my official online portfolio. So I'll just leave it like that, you may check out my deviantart account if you're really curious about its description.


Cheers!!!


EDIT:

Oh, I know. I'll post how the drawing progressed cuz I happened to save a few WIPs.

2004 vs 2009

This morning I found out that there had been a contest in dA called "Kick your ass" which was about redoing one of your old drawings, not improving it, doing another drawing that looked like it was clearly based on the old one. The contest was over already, but I thought that was a pretty cool idea so I did mine anyway.

The old one was my very first entry to the TNT mascot contest in Mexico City. Back then I thought it was the greatest drawing ever but now I realize how crappy it is, hahaha.
The new one is a quick remake, since I did it for fun i didn't even bother cleaning up the ruff.

I dunno.... I think I just kicked my own ass. YOU SHOULD KICK YOURS TOO!!!

Coolest artist you'll ever see

Last night I ran into an awesome dA of a Disney guy. He's got pretty much the most amazing style you'll ever see (I know, I know... I overuse that phrase but this time I'm being serial, dammit!!). So after browsing his dA page I found his blog.

I checked it out and I found the most gorgeous drawings I've seen lately. Every single one of his illustrations has so much personality!!

I love his drawings because they all look sooooo solid and so 3D, some of them even look like actual 3D models from Maya. Also, he's got very strong character and environment design, crazy life drawing and caricatures, even his street sketches and doodles are masterpieces!!

Ug, I can't find enough words to describe how I feel about his art.

You can find it here.


GO TO HIS SITE............ NOW!!! NOOOOOWWW!!!!

Cool artists and such

This entry won't be about my "art" (yes, I use quotation marks cuz I just found real artist that make real art), instead I'll use this space to share some stuff I found on deviantArt.

The thing with dA is that most people there upload whatever piece of crap they drew at school so the site developed a bad reputation. However this doesn't mean you can't find good art, I can name at least 10 awesome artists that have blown my mind and you'll see.

Let's start off with He's from Hong Kong. I loved his art because his digital illustrations look like they were painted with oil on a canvas. His style is very impressionist, large undefined strokes that all together make a masterpiece. Also the concepts are very interesting, kind of darkish and erotic, apparently they're for a book or something like that. The lighting, the colors, the angles, the facial expressions, the feeling and the composition are simply perfect. BTW his got a gf who has a great gallery too. Super artistic couples always make me happy.

The second deviant artist I can think off the top of my head is She's from the Netherlands. I found her a couple of months back and I fell in love with her art when I saw this drawing. She made me find inspiration again, before that I didn't feel motivated to improve my drawing and painting skills at all. What I liked about her art is that it's simply beautiful. No dramatic angles, no overwhelming designs, no super realistic textures, nothing but subtle beauty. The way she mixes colors is gorgeous and they blend pretty well with the texture, I hadn't seen something like that before. Her drawing style is very cool too, she draws super cute faces and bodies. I wanna be like her when I grow up (true fact).

Then we have This Chinese-American 19 year-old girl has the extraordinary ability of expressing true feelings through art. Her drawings are unbelievably expressive, they have so much soul and content. Whenever you see her illustrations it's like you're looking right through her heart. This is my fave pic of her, I could stare at it all day long, it just conveys so many feelings and thoughts.... She's very young and crazy talented, it'll be interesting to see her art in a few years.

The next one is Another Dutch girl. You just need to see her gallery to see why I think she's an awesome artist. Her pencil portraits are photorealistic. She captures every single subtlety of the person. She's got a funny technique, she knows eyes are the most important part of the face, if you get the eyes wrong your drawing is wrong. So what she does is to start from the eyes out, I don't know how she does it, but her tutorials look like the drawing just emerges from the blank sheet of paper.

Her friend from the UK, does exactly the same but with Prismacolor pencils. The first time I saw one of her drawings I thought they were photos!! She can paint extremely realistic in photoshop too, it's ridiculous. There you can see some of her old stuff and it was hideous, I can't believe she improved this much, she musta sold her soul to the devil.

The next artist is He's from Mexico. He's got pretty cool concepts and compositions. He's the kind of guy that draws eccentric outfits but in a good way. Some of his drawings are dark and insane, some of them are just insane. Both styles are pretty awesome cuz they have this nice touch of fantasy all over them. His coloring style is not quite clean and even though some of his pictures look incomplete, they're still pretty sweet. Oh, and he has tons of neat linearts in his gallery that look suuuper hardcore.

Next in the list is He's from Chile. There's only one word to describe his illustrations: epic. Whatever he draws looks epic. He's the kind of artist that once they've found their comfort zone drawing wise, they stay there and everyone loves it. All his illustrations have pretty much the same formula but it's such a gooood formula.

Then comes He's from sweet sweet Sweden. I just haven't seen something like this before. He's got one of the coolest styles ever. It's all dark and twisted, I love the colors and the texture on top of them. The concepts are kinda surreal and fantastic. Most of his illustrations are objects or people that look extremely lonely and abandoned, so they're a bit depressing. Still they're great to look at.


The ninth chosen one is from the US. No one can resist her kitties comic. I just love the world of Lackadaisy. I can't say it's quite original but she pulled it off soooo well. The whole concept is fully developed, the art has its own style, from logos to characters. Not to mention the fact that she colors like a goddess. everything looks super 3D and the textures are very realistic. She found the point where cartoony and realism blend perfectly. She's got a large range of style so that's cool.

Oh man, I hate it when I have to mention the last one of the list... It makes it so tough cuz there are too many great artists out there and I have to choose only one. Well, I guess I'll go for the youngest in my list She's a 16 year-old Russian (damn those crazy talented Russians). I'm quite impressed that someone so young can draw stuff like this. I just can't imagine how good she'll get when she's my age. I feel like an amateur in comparisson, haha. Even at this age I can't do pretty things like her, which is really sad.


Anyway, that's all. I think I spent like 2 hours writing this entry but it was tough to pick only 10 people and describe how I feel about their art!!!

I should get back to work now.


Enjoy!!

Robin Scherbatsky

I'm so excited about the fifth season of HIMYM that I just haven't stopped thinking about it and have been watching episodes of the previous seasons.

Last night Liliana asked me to draw Ted but I told her I'd do it once I find inspiration. Today inspiration came but I drew Robin instead, haha. She's super cool and the funniest things always happen to her. I love her!!

I copied it from a photo, it's not quite similar, especially for the eyes but eyes are tough to draw because they say a lot about the person. I'd call it a speed painting but it honestly took me about an hour.... so I'm not quite as fast =/

Enjoy and don't forget to watch this show, it's super awesome!!!

BTW I might consider this a way to celebrate the new season premiere tonight, haha.

Vectorized Leela

A vector drawing of Leela, that's right people, it was entirely made in Flash.

I had never tried to color a drawing in vectors like this, but it was actually pretty fun although it gets boring after a while. It took me FOREVAAAA, I started it like 2 or 3 weeks ago, but I hadn't finished it cuz i was sick of looking at it, it's tough!!

At first it was gonna be just plain vectors with plain shadows and highlights but I love challenges so I decided to go for the semi-photoshop look.

Used hundreds upon hundreds of gradients and the soften fill edges tool that you can find under Modify/Shape/Softer Fill Edges....

Cheers!!

Chavo Cute pt.2 - The Ladies

Now the girls from the show!!

Liliana digitalized Popis and Florinda, but since she broke her leg she couldn't continue so I drew the other two characters. I actually didn't wanna make Clotilde and Paty because I don't like them very much, but here they are anyways, I like them better like this, haha.

From left to right: Popis (Paw-pees), Paty (Pah-tee), Florinda, Clotilde (Claw-till-deh)



Cheers!!

First date

One day when I was going to work for some reason I ended up thinking of the least common beverage you can drink with a straw. So I thought of beer, and the only good excuse to drink beer with a straw is because you're Irish thus you're too hardcore for milkshakes.

So I came up with this idea of an irish date. Haha.

This one took me about 15 hours to complete. At first it was gonna be simple: black outline, solid colors. But then I thought that was a waste of a good concept so I got rid of the super nice and smooth outline and started thinking of a nice way to color it. I redid it like three times.... but finally, here it is... now I just have one drawing left to be completed!!

The scroll was taken from google, I'm not THAT good....yet!!

Enjoy!!!










This is the outlined version

Chavo Cute pt.1

In Anima Estudios we make the animated series of El Chavo del 8, the remake of a live action TV show from the 70's.

Yesterday I was browsing deviantArt and I stumbled upon a ridiculously cute drawing of some manga character. It was so cute I felt like puking so I asked Liliana why drawings like that are so damn popular and she said that it's because cute is what people like. So I made a cute version of a few characters of El Chavo just cuz that's what it needs to be popular.

I sketched 8 out of like 12 characters, but Liliana only painted 4 of them in Flash. Someday I'll upload the rest.

Chavo (cha-vuh), Quico (Kee-kaw), Ñoño (as in "jalapeÑO"), Don Ramon.





Cheers!!

Lonesome Organist Rapes Page Turner

I feel like I spent my entire life on this illustration!!

I started it weeks ago at work but I hadn't had time to color it. My first attempt was the day I did the ruff drawing but for some reason it wasn't quite working. I realized I can't color without inspiration so I've been using different masterpieces as wallpaper so whenever I turn on my machine I see those beautiful sources of inspiration, haha.

That happened two or three days ago when I started coloring this at work (I know, I know, I'm a bad person). I just couldn't let the mousepen go, it was attached to my hand!!

It's supposed to be a graphic representation of the song "Lonesome Organist Rapes Page Turner" by The Dresden Dolls. I kinda wanted to make an animation instead but it would've taken me years literally, so I went for the illustration thingy. I was having trouble coming up with a design for the characters. She had to look all inocent and submissive whereas he had to look creepy and pervy. I guess they ended up looking great, I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out.

Oh man....so many things to tell about this drawing...

Anyway, I should actually be in bed cuz I'm meeting up with Liliana tomorrow morning and it's 5am already. Time flies when you're having fun.

Enjoy, and you should listen to this song, it's great!!

Guten nacht

Baby Ren

Today after work I wanted to color a drawing that I had made yesterday, but I don't know why it wasn't looking quite as I had in mind ....so I aborted the mission and maybe someday I'll feel like trying again.

Instead (since I found coloring realistically very fun and educational) I drew myself as a baby. I hadn't realized how much I've been drawing myselt lately. Next time I'll try drawing some friends.

It took me about an hour and a half. I like the way it turned out cuz it looks like an oil painting sort of thing.

Enjoy

Myself

So I wanted to try a different kind of coloring. I'm trying very hard to improve my technique that it's getting rusty already.

This is supposed to be me, it's sliiiiightly different though, but hey.... I can't be THAT accurate.

I liked the way it turned out, it looks smoooooth.

BTW I'm not green-eyed.... but brown eyes looked too lame in this drawing

Took me about two hours OMG
I usually take ages to finish a drawing that I like, hahaha

Cheers

Time Warp

So here's me at different ages.
I did it for fun and for practicing some character design, I'm kinda bad at it ):