Sunday, April 12, 2009

L.A. ZOO (and link update!)

Great place to draw and not only animals, the greenery around is fantastic too, some groups of people and/or individuals are also worth a shot.
Anyway, a great few hours scattered here and there with the inevitable thought of 'some of these animals look really out of place...'. Fantastic opportunity to see them live and in motion otherwise.

Btw I just read at 'Lines and Colors' about the 'Freelancers Union' (see links). -Very- interesting.

32 comments:

  1. La última vez que yo fui al zoo no lo pasé tan bien, la gente es algo pesada con los animales, y no puedo dibujar agusto. Por eso estos dibujos tuyos tienen aun más merito. Hiciste la tinta directamente en vivo, o tomaste apuntes que acabaste en casa? pregunto porque te han salido especialmente bien..:)

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  2. Nice gestural quality to these. Sweet!

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  3. Man that is amazing and incredibly difficult. I tried it once and failed miserably. Me=humbled

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  4. Makes me want to get my sketchbook and brushpens out of storage and into the jungle... so inspiring

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  5. muy buenos!! la soltura del dibujo... los colores... grandes apuntes!

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  6. amazing! you always have such a strong lyrical energy to your animals and people. ... ... .. D:

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  7. great work Marcos! always a delight to visit your blog!

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  8. Thank you very much for your visit and comments guys!

    Guillermo, el dibujo lo hice en el zoo, en casa lo escanee y le di color. Un saludo!

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  9. your style is wonderful. very inspirational!

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  10. wow , thanks for the feedback marcos im a BIG fan !

    swing by anytime , and keep up the awesome work :D

    -ian

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  11. Que alucine los bocetos de los monos balancendose, tan sueltosy esquematicos, y tan definidos al mismo tiempo. No dejas de sorprender!
    Un saludo

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  12. Ay!canalla,que dificil es hacer que parezca facil.
    Que precisión tienes.

    El blog de Victor de la Fuente me ha llevado a ti

    Un abrazo

    Roberto de la Torre

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  13. Marcos, you are amazing -- what beautiful sketches. I really can feel the weight of that monkey swinging from branch to branch.

    You need to contact the Sharpie marker company. I think they would be surprised to learn that their fat marker is a finely tuned artistic instrument of choice for one of the premiere artists in the world. :)

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  14. cool! it looks digital to me, what did you use for hardware/ software?

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  15. -Thank you all for coming by and for your comments!

    -Thanks Marcelo!, the monkeys were definitely something else, they sure had an attitude worth transferring on to a piece of paper :)

    -Daniel, the color is photoshop on a Cintiq, but if you are talking about the drawing, it's a sharpie marker as Marcelo was saying.

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  16. Hola Marcos!Quin domini de la anatomia animal,be que he de dir,genials.Salutacions,espero estiguis be.

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  17. és increíble com una taca negre pot esdevenir un mico, aquesta és l'essència de l'apunt, capturar formes i sintetitzar volums, mai fer descripcions del contorn

    ets un crack

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  18. Hey Marcos,

    Awesome sketches! I especially like the monkeys.

    I'm L.A. now and finishing up on my portfolio, so I can start the hunt:)

    See you soon,

    -Hans

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  19. Man you are an artist in the true sense of the word....beautiful stuff man...really like the monkeys so simple but so much life there.

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  20. Unos apuntes GENIALES. no somos dignos!! un saludo Marcos (soy dani, ex-pumpkin)

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  21. Marcos, I just came across your blog today and am amazed at all your work. Thanks for showing all this great stuff!

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  22. Really cool, indeed. I like the dynamic stroke. And drawing animals is soooo difficult ...

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  23. Bravo! Es usted un gran Dibujante
    (lo primero es lo primero.)
    Y para resumir .-Un artista Extraordinario,Un grab abrazo
    de su amigo Sergio!

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  24. Wonderful drawings, Marcos!

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