Break Time

A Pin up inspired by the secretary at work. Sometimes 15 minutes seems like forever =]

Mr. Bojangles

A portrait of my friend Mr. Bojangles. Charcoal on White bread. I need to scan this image as this photo isnt cutting it.

The Shogun of Harlem

During my three day memorial day weekend I watched the fantastic movie "The Last Dragon" with the baddest villain low DOWN around town ... ... ... SHO NUFF!! I started to sketch him out in a sorta Afro Samurai meets funky tattoo. Worked on this during some epic games of Munchkin at my buds place and wicked dodgeball games in the hot hot sun.

This is the original scan. SHO NUFF!

Welcome Back Mr. Ruiz

Wow, havent updated here in a bit, Ive been posting mainly on my facebook page but im gettin the feeling its getting obnoxiousness hehehh. So lets play catch up. First off I set up my art table to fit my needs a bit more. Started putting up some recent art images.

I like surrounding myself in my sketches, helps me keep focused that "yeah, keep it up" heh.

I tried this set up for a bit but found it very closed up. So I moved my art kit behind me and turned this little stump of a drawer into a table to draw on. So much easier to work on. Plus, my desk kinda surrounds me, im digging my work space.

So now im all set up and started working on a pin up. I felt ive the space, the tools, and the big papers (another story for another time) to do something worth hanging up. I have a buncha sketches and photoshop pieces, but I want something that someone wouldnt mind having on their wall. So I started a pin up (Two, actually) and got to the point of color.

I didnt want to use Photoshop, cause well, kinda defeats the purpose of aiming to hang. I dug out my Crayola Crayons and started building a pallet. I went to test the colors out and made a face. And here we are =]

Mauvelous

So I went to color an image and didnt know what to color it with. I didnt want to use the computer, and I had no color pencils. So I had some pastels and Crayola Crayons. A Lot of crayons. Figured id give it a shot with the crayons, so I picked out some skin tones and kinda built a pallet to work with.

To see how the textures of the crayon worked (Havent used crayons in a while heh) I doodled a face real quick. out of a 15 min or so time frame I sketched this lovely lady. I really like the way it turned out. Im pretty excited to try it out on my pin up piece :)