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 :)

Welcome new year!

Gggaaahhhhhh, already the 2nd month in and I havnt been drawing as much as I should.

Today, I was moving some stuff around in my portfolio (Thankfully returned, altho still missing some artwork =[ ) and ran across some unfinished pieces. Well, a bunch of work in my folders are unfinished, seems to be the way. YET, for some strange reason I was . . . "Drawn" in to finishing them up. While I only scanned one (For now) I did finish a few pieces that id like to share.

This guy I drew a looooong ass time ago. Hes been sittin in my folio for some time as just a rough. He only had one arm finished (The controllers were barely there) and his head heh. So, I fleshed him out some more, and decided to add 4 more arms. Kinda giving him a Kali vibe. Each hand holds a controller for a game system I enjoyed out of the rest, aside from the mouse only cause I couldnt think of another home console I played as much (I LOVE strategy games on the PC, Age of Empires, Medieval, Command and Conquer, Dune hehe).

Is this a representation of mua? possibly, but I just think its a cool looking image, prolly good for a tattoo later down the line.

Sacred Dinky

This is my take on a Mexica war shield. The shield shows a coyote with his mouth open and next to him the symbol for "Sacred War."

I decided to make an image of my best bud in this style, cause I dig it. I dunno what im going to do with it, I know I would like to make some sort of wall art with it, and maybe a tattoo.

Either way, heres to you my Sacred Dinky.

Body Building

Some more sketches. Working on using less strokes to create a figure. Cleaner lines means better image. IMO. Enjoy :)

Break time sketches from Friday 11/5/10

Hello all! Well I have some more sketches to post. I seem to find more drive to draw when im at work, go figure heh. I work for a recycling company, we take old IT equipment (Monitors, PCs, TVs, Servers . . . . ) and well, recycle them. I work with a really cool group of people, we all get along pretty good. While taking in printers we have to make sure to remove the toners and paper. Cause we go through a ton of printers we have amassed a tower of copy paper. Every time I add a chunk of pulped fiber to the pile I drool at the thought of stickin it in a clip board and having my way with it hahaa.

so I did. I figured since I enjoy drawing more at work than on my free time (Weird, but its how it normally is for me) I plan on drawing during my breaks. These sketches are about 10 minutes of sketching what I can.

This is my bud Zack. I was sketching this from inside the warmth of Nes's car during the final break. I tried sketching him while he was smoking, but he kept moving. I think he knew what I was doing hehehehh. I felt I had a lot of open space left over so I did a quick portrait of him to fill the gap. I wanted to add a smoke in his mouth, but I think I highlighted it already.
I drew this during lunch. Normally youll find me listening to the news in my car while eating a bag lunch heh. This day I tried to draw a character named Achtotlacatl. Acht is a character ive been developing based of the story of Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, as well as heavy influences by Robert E Howards Conan the Barbarian. I didnt like how the figure was turning out so I did a close up of the face.
This was the first sketch I did of the day. First break. I went and chilled with Nester in his car bumpin some music and enjoying life. I told him I was gonna sketch him so he held still for the most part heh. This sketch I used the entire 15 minute break to work on, where as the other two I kept it trimmed at 10 mins each.

Hope yall enjoy, Ill add some more soon!