Figure Sketching

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Some sketches done this past week.
All from life.
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Figure Studies from Life

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A couple of sketches done last friday. 10 minutes each.
Green colored pencil on paper.
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A bit more from life...

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Quick sketches from a live model.
Ballpoint pen on sketchbook.
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From Life...

Ballpoint pen on sketchbook.
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Genetic Engineering

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A quick sketch done this evening.
A little joke about gene manipulation.
Colored pencil on sketchbook.
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Colored Pencil on Black Paper

Howdy! This is a quick sketch done this afternoon.
Sketched from a photograph by Steven Meisel.
I can easily spot the mistakes, but I thought it would be worth posting it anyway.
It's not 100% but as we all know "Practice makes perfect".
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Homage to Bouguereau

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I had some time to spare between classes this evening, and decided to try some colored pencils I got as a gift (one of those 12 pencil kits).
Trying to copy the mastery of Adolphe-William Bouguereau is a hard enough challenge by itself, let alone with a limited palette.
About seven colored pencils were used in this sketch.
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Veronica

A quick sketch of one of my students busy with her drawing assignment.
Feels good to sketch from life again.
Pencil on sketchbook.
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Still Busy

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I sketched this one this afternoon, at work.
I know I need to sketch more from life but I need to get all the rust out of my system first.
Ballpoint pen on sketchbook.
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Really Busy...

Hello folks! These past weeks have been really hectic.
I just wanted to keep the Blog updated for you guys.
Hope you like the sketches. Ballpoint pen on sketchbook.
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Samurai

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Just a little something I sketched last night. The gray background was added digitally.
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Just 4 Fun

The title says it all.
The newspaper texture was added digitally.
I wanted to cut some newspaper and paste it over the sketch but I was just so darn lazy today...
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Back home

Hello folks! It's been a while.
I decided to take a vacation for a couple of weeks, I really needed the break.
Anyway, I'm back home and I felt the need to update something.
It's not much, but it's the funniest one among my vacation sketches.
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Oh, please. Not Another Step-by-step!!!

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Things are pretty busy around here, it's really hard to find some time to update the blog. I'd like to take this time to thank you for your patience.
Going back to the basics. It's a digital painting from a photograph (a printed photograph, not a digital file, which made it a bit harder to paint).
Started with the big shapes, trying to capture the colors.
Then on to the drawing.
Then fixing the painting according to the drawing.
And finally, introducing some texture, adjusting the colors and making the background a bit more interesting.
90% done with Painter, 10% Photoshop.
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Sketching from Life - again

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I tried to capture the personality of the model on this one.
I had fun using dyes, it was a short pose so I tried to capture her likeness fast using big strokes.
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Pink!

Hello folks, today's update is an illustration I developed for a friend of mine.
She liked it a lot but personally I think it's a little over-saturated and I should tone it down a little.
Well, hope you enjoy it as much as she did.
I sure had fun doing it.
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Lunch Break

It was early, I was bored, and I was waiting for my class to start.
There was a magazine lying on the table right next to me, my sketchbook was opened and I thought: "Why not?"
There are some artists who question the value of a drawing or sketch from a magazine photograph.
I say "it's better to draw from a photograph than not to draw at all."
Colored pencil on sketchbook. Sketches from photographs.
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Figure Sketches from life

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Figure Drawing Class.
We had a male model today.
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CARTOON - from start to finish

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How's everybody doing?
There you go, my process from conceptual stage to finished piece.
I had fun doing this one. Hope no one gets offended by it.
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WORTH DYING FOR - first strip

Howdy folks! How've you been?
I know I have been promising this comic strip for a while and finally I did it.
The first strip of (hopefully) many to come.
The following uploads for Worth Dying For will be available here.
Enjoy!
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