Busy, Busy

I apologize for not having updated here in quite a while! I have been rather busy this Fall with self promotion, working still at the Cleaners, and attending school. I just want to take a moment and tell you that I really appreciate your support and interest in what I am doing and how I am growing, it means more than you know and I am very excited and eager to bring you all new work to see! 

     This Fall I tabled at two conventions and attended Creative Talent Networks Animation Expo down in Burbank, CA all within three months of each other.

     I printed my first comic and sold it at both Alternative Press Expo and at East Bay Alternative Zine Fest. In between those conventions was the CTN Animation Expo which I learned quite a bit from and am eternally grateful for the wonderful people I met there and the advice I received. This has been the first time I have really put myself out there and you all made me feel like I was welcomed into a family with open arms. Thank you, truly. 

So here is some art to look at for the time being as I need to get back to work on finals. 

Those who attended EBABZ Fair probably remember this ugly thing just as well as my classmates in my Illustration 2 class. I created a print of this guy and was selling him for $10. I still have four left if anyone wants one, so just let me know in a comment or an email. I'll be posting this up in my online store this weekend. 

If you have been following me on Twitter or Instagram you have probably seen these really stupid characters I've been doing under the hashtag #MuniPeople.

"Muni People" is a series that I started a few months ago when I forgot to bring a book with me to read on the train and noticed a large fellow with lots of freckles and bushy red hair standing over me. I went home and sketched him as a warm up for another project and I loved drawing him so much that now I have about 40 of these little buggers and I have plans of making a book and hopefully showing them at a gallery in the city someplace. The ultimate goal for me was to practice character design and what I hope you find is that when you see these characters either up on my website or at a gallery someplace you can find yourself in one of my many drawings!

So anyway, to spawn from that series I had a friend message me that he would like to commission me to illustrate a portrait of him in the same manner as my Muni People. So here it is! 

Thank you so much for viewing and thank you for your continued support! Once I am able to rest and get back to normal.. (clean the house, do some laundry, pay bills, take out recycling, eat properly, etc) I'll post more here and update you on my new comic and post a few assignments I'm pretty darn proud of. 

Everything is coming together. 

Cheers!

New Sketchbook, New Techniques

Been rather busy and forgetful as of late, here is an update on some new skills I have learned and a new style I'm trying out.

I made a new sketchbook which is 100sheets of cardstock 100lb half white and half antique grey. I am very thrilled with this although I wish they had some darker cardstock than this light grey, but I can just throw some tone on it and mess with pulling lights and darks. The point is that it is cardstock and soaks up ink and watercolor. It's the sexiest thing I have ever seen in my entire life.

Til next time.. keep it classy San Francisco. :]

Something To Look At

So a few friends started a group called the Environmental Sketch Club of which meets three times a week. This past Saturday we went to the Wharf and I practiced my water colours and I think I'll practice a lot more often now.

Something from the workshop

Homo sapiens and architecture

I'll make an animal post later on, but for now this is some of what I have done this summer.

recently discovered water color crayons and brush ink pen

Ricky!!!

I saw ba'man!

Self portrait caricature! That was a fun day.

Sketchbook Dump

Busy, busy with these two intense classes. Will post that work soon but for now here are some drawings from workshops and whatnot. :]

Child Drawing with Chuck Pyle (director of Illustration)

This here is Zoey, Thomas Gronbukts cute little girl! I didn't do her much justice.. sorry Thomas!

Embarcadero sketch

Gronbukt's Quick Study workshop

Enrique drawing a rainbow.

Cheers! Wish me luck on midterms!

Open ended for repercussion, practice

Water color study in Gronbukts class, Spring '10

Water color study, quite pleased with it. :P

Bill Sanchez workshop

Airport study and misc.. :)

Study of dad in ink and water color

Sketchbook misc

Little girl water color study from today

Muddy Mug

Here is a self portrait that I just did within about an hour's time.. Done in water color and black prisma pencil for line, I was on the phone but wanted to do a portrait without the phone. Then figured what the heck, roll with it. So this is the end result.. I put my one eye farther away, my bad. But all in al I have stopped trying to modify myself to what I perceive versus reality.. It seems to be working.

Cheers and goodnight :]