Pictures.

Just for the sakes of variety, here are a few shots I took about... two years ago?
Anyway, the two first "public transportation" ones are from a trip to San Franthisco (I feel better now).
The other one is L.A.

-THIS- I call scan quality!

Aah well, they are not really scans as you can tell. It's my digital camera doing its best counting on the fact that the originals are really big...(good job 'Gumersindita'!)

Characters

Nice sunny Sunday morning today here in Southern California.
Anyway, the guy sitting at the table is a few months old, (...the drawing, is). The young lady is a design for an old project of mine that I hope I'll get together some day.
I hope you are all doing fine!

Really really old stuff

My friend Magdalena (she did my website) recently sent me copies of old stuff I kept in my computer in Spain. So it's memory lane type thing today as I'm reviewing some of it.
Good oportunity to update this (lately) rather slow blog.
One of them is a fashion illustration I did shortly after I arrived in Spain in summer 1999. The other a much older piece, a self portrait I did when I was fifteen, rather saturated and impatient as you can see. The original signature bottom left is a total mess, I remember I didn't want to wait for the painting to dry.
That's the spirit!

Custom sketchclub

Sometimes the Friday routine doesn't work, so we decide to get together some other time, as Craig and I did last Saturday.
I guess I could have called this one "shots from the 'Santa Monica Mall'" or something like that.
Anyway, here are three of the sketches I did during that session.
You should check up Craig's (I don't know if he has updated his blog yet, but he did some reeeally cool ones as usual!)

Gangster types!

-More website stuff! detail and all included, like in the serious places...

-Otro de la web! No da tiempo a mas estos dias... aunque esta pieza sigue siendo una de mis favoritas.
Un saludo!

Yeah yeah...

...I know this one is in my website but, what can I do! no time to do anything new these days.
It must be three years old, and done as a portfolio piece.

Renaissance Faire

Boy that was fun, the Renaissance faire at Irwindale (right at the Santa Fe Dam recreation area) was packed with people from all sorts of reanactment type associations and a definitely dedicated audience.
Medieval Tournaments, all sorts of medieval and renaissance commerces and shops, people in character with their beautiful period costumes...
I have to say everybody was really nice and willing to give all sorts of information about the period they were representing and everything else you were curious about.
I nearly finished a whole sketchpad there, of which you can see three samples in the next three posts.

Mr. Don Tartaglia

Mr. Mattschibler

Mr. Andrew Johnson Mac Colin

More life drawing, what a surprise!

No time these days to come up with new "fancy" stuff. Old is the word!
So, here are two more life drawing type exercises.
'talk soon.
M.

Classic comics

Our friend 'Anguloagudus' has this blog called 'Comics en extincion" (please, see link).
I have to say I'm a regular visitor as it is a pleasure to see pages of all these masters in a row, just for anyone to click on them and see them in detail.
He has everything from Jesus Blasco, to Victor de la Fuente, Alex raymond, Jean Giraud, Frank Robbins and so many others. Worth visiting!


Habeis visitado ya "Comics en extincion" de Anguloagudus (ver link)?
Vale la pena. Un buen repaso por algunos de los mejores periodos de la reciente historia del comic.
Saludos.