Sketchbook work

I got a book about Italy and its culture and the photographs were amazing. I wanted to use some of those beautiful photographs and draw from them.

Drawing at the AMNH

Indian Rhinoceros

Female Pirate 2

I decided to go back to some of the reference images I had left on my desk and work on some of them. This was one of the images I really wanted to work on. Since the first pirate I did was in watercolor I thought it would be good to keep using watercolor in order to get more practice with it.

It's a Part of Me

This is the final color version of the original b/w painting of my good friend Andres Taveras. He is very passionate about graffiti so I thought it would be appropriate to portray him painting himself out of a wall.

Pen and Ink

I used a lot of brown paper, ink, gesso, oil paint, and only one nib. It was my favorite, it could do any line and it held a lot of ink. Interesting to work with these materials.

Osama's Legacy

Pen and Ink illustration for an article about 9/11. The article was hard to deal with since it was a little dry and not very interesting. The most interesting information I found on the article was the author's opinion on how the event divided the Muslim world from the Western world. I used that to portray him underwater cutting up a map. This was the very first illustration I have done with a pen and nibs and not with micron pens. It was difficult to control but in the end it was a good learning experience.

Oil Paint "Grisaille"

This is my very first oil painting. It has been an amazing experience to learn how to use the paint and paint mediums. I wanted to have a good digital copy of this stage of the painting since it will go on to be a color painting in a few days. I have to thank my friend Andres Taveras for letting me paint him and for helping me with all the poses I needed for this.

Globophobia!

This is my interpretation of this unusual kind of phobia. Globophobia is the fear of balloons. I decided to put regular balloons at the bottom and they come alive as they get higher and higher. My entry for the Halloween Phobias Contest. Done in Photoshop with a few textures from CG Textures.

OWLlusionist

This is one of the first characters I have done just in Illustrator. It is great to finally be able to push the techniques I know as far as I can. I am looking forward to the next one!

Latin American Heritage Month Contest

This is my entry for this contest. I wanted to have 4 different figures that are part of our heritage. The four figures represent different aspects of our culture. Literature, entertainment, government, and of course ART!!

14 x 17

Pen and ink on bristol paper.