SI Sketch Night "Bar Adventures"

 20 min pose. My favorite one.

20 min each.

SI Sketch Night "Casual Night"

 

20 min pose. My favorite of the night

20 min each.

Drawing from Plates I

A few years ago I attended a drawing class in which the instructor gave me a copy of one page from a book which contained hundreds of plates of anatomy studies. For a long time I looked for that book and never found it. About a while ago I found it and bought it. I will be studying these plates and copying them. This is the first one I studied.

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.