Figure Drawing 10/12/14

It's been a while since my last figure drawing post. These were done at the Paul McNear's Sunday class in Crealdé School of Art with a Faber Castell Pitt Pen, Kuretake brush pen, and Pentel Tradio and Brush pens on 8.5"x11 copy bond paper.

Warning: if you're offended by artistic nudity, I'd  suggest you not go further and please check out my other work here in the non-figure drawing posts (or clothed ones) and at the Dos Illustros sketchblog instead. If you're not offended then please read on...

Figure Drawing 4/6/14

Struggled in the quick drawings of the session but got a few good ones by the end. These are all 20 min. poses at Crealdé School of Art. Bruynzeel black color pencil on Aquabee Super Deluxe 808 Sketch Book 9"x12".

Warning: if you're offended by artistic nudity, I'd  suggest you not go further and please check out my other work here in the non-figure drawing posts (or clothed ones) and at the Dos Illustros sketchblog instead. If you're not offended then please read on...

Ultraman

Ultraman drawing: light blue Col-Erase, Pentel Tradio & Pocket Brush on Moleskine.

More Café

Here's a couple from last Thursday sketched from life. Both are Pentel Tradio & Kurotake Brush pens on Moleskine:

Figure Drawing 2/16/14

These are figure drawings from today's Sunday morning class at Crealdé School of Art in Winter Park, FL and the model is my coworker and Orlando artist Lesley Silvia. Done with a Blackwing 602 pencil on Aquabee Super Deluxe 808 paper 9"x12". Click on the images for a bigger version:

5 min.

20 min.

 

Café

At the local Barnes & Noble, Pentel Tradio & Pocket Brush on the Moleskine. - Hugo

Portraits and a bird!

A couple of birthday portraits last year, in the same vein as the previous Edge one. All in Canson BFK Rives cream paper about 5"x7".

Portraits were done with a Pentel Tradio and Pocket Brush pens. I also used the regular Pentel Brush Pen for drybrush textures.

Young Michael Stipe from R.E.M. (click images for bigger versions):

A young Dolly Parton:

This blue-gray gnatcatcher was painted with Dr. Martin dyes and a touch of white gouache:

Armed Forces Military Museum

Back in January last month, I visited the Armed Forces Military Museum in Largo, FL (just north of St. Petersburg on the West Coast) with my friends Jason Pichon, his brother Josh McLaughlin, and Elaine Cruz for a day of researching military equipment through history and drawing.

I got only a couple drawings but took lots of photos for reference. Hopefully I'll look at the photos and make more drawings later on. These were done with the Pentel Tradio and Pocket Brush pens on Moleskine.

I felt like I was a kid again drawing my G.I. Joes! I highly recommend this place if you have to research any type of historical military equipment!


http://armedforcesmuseum.com/directions.html

Armed Forces History Museum
2050 34th Way North
Largo, FL 33771

Full Sail University's the HUB Gallery shows

2 of my paintings and 1 drawing were selected for 3 different shows at Full Sail University's Digital Arts & Design gallery the HUB:

"The First Lady of Song (Ella)", 11"x14" acrylic on linen back in September 2013 for the Music show:

A print on watercolor paper of "Turkey Lake Park", 5 1/4"x8" oil plein air on illustration board back in November 2013 for the Nature show:

And lastly the drawing of my friend "Audrey", 9"x12" Copic markers on marker paper for the Black and White show in January 2014 and currently on display:

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End of 2013 Figure Drawing

Hi everybody! Just thought I'd post some of the art that I couldn't post last year. The last quarter of the year gets really busy at my teaching job so it takes a while to get back into the swing of things.

Warning: This post includes artistic nudity from figure drawing class so if you are offended by this, I'd suggest you not go further and please check out my other work here in the non-figure drawing posts (or clothed ones) and at the Dos Illustros sketchblog instead. If you're not offended then please read on...

Thomas Thorspecken's "The Hub"

Hey guys,

I just wanted to post a link for Tom Thorspecken's sketch from his amazing blog, Analog Artist Digital World, for the opening of Full Sail University's Digital Arts & Graphic Design gallery The Hub. Here is an article about it from Full Sail:

http://www.fullsailblog.com/digital-arts-designs-hub-gallery-returns-with-music-inspired-art/

Thor sketched my co-workers Curator and History of Visual Communication Course Director Kim Lomas, Resident Artist Tom Buzbee, and Studio Artist Avaryl Buzbee. Also at the bottom left of the page, you'll find a familiar figure holding a Nikon camera (as the unofficial photographer) and drinking from a water bottle while chatting up co-worker and Art History Assistant Course Director Jessica Vick.

Thorspecken is an Orlando event reporter except instead of taking pictures, he sketches the event (or part of it) in watercolor. He was a clean-up artist at Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida and now teaches in the 2D Animation class at Full Sail University's Computer Animation department. I worked at Disney Florida on "Brother Bear" and although we never worked together, I hold Thor in the highest respect for working at the studio.

Check out the sketch here:

http://www.analogartistdigitalworld.com/2013/10/the-hub.html

Figure drawing post

Drawings posted after the break, these are figure drawings from the Sunday morning class at Crealdé School of Art in Winter Park, FL for 3 different sessions in the last few months. Done with a Pentel Tradio pen and gray Copic Sketch markers (N2, 5, & 8) on Strathmore 500 Series marker paper 9"x12". My scanner computer is still broken and I waited a bit until I could scan a bunch of them from work. 

Warning: if you're offended by artistic nudity, I'd  suggest you not go further and please check out my other work here in the non-figure drawing posts (or clothed ones) and at the Dos Illustros sketchblog instead. If you're not offended then please read on...

Slowing down

Hey guys,

My schedule has been really busy with teaching classes both on-campus and online for the last 3 months but thankfully things have slowed down for a bit and I'm going on vacation next week to recharge batteries. I'm planning to do some personal artwork along with the relaxation before things pick up again so hopefully there'll be more art coming to the blog here. Now that I have at least a working scanner in the studio, I'll be able to post the last Crealdé figure drawing session I went to.

For now I'd like to post a portrait of U2's guitarist The Edge from the Joshua Tree days (photo reference from Anton Corbjin) done recently for my friend Jeff Lang. It's pen & ink on 5"x7" Canson BFK Rives cream paper, click on the image for a closer look:

And here's a photo from my Kleeman and Mike panel at Full Sail's Hall of Fame event since I found at Full Sail's Flickr feed:

Hope everyone's summer is going ok! Florida gets a bit miserable with the heat, rain, and humidity but I hope to make it to the beach soon!

ICONS +

Doing this art show next Sat. with friends +Ernie Turner, +George Frei, &+STEVE PARKER. Come check out some great art & music at Thee Grotto in downtown Orlando, my latest piece "Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy" will be on display! Images coming to the blog soon, go to the Facebook event page for details:

http://www.facebook.com/events/472730879457330/

I also want to remind everybody that the FROSTED 3D anti-bullying Kickstarter campaign is still going at 20 days left and we'd love your help to make it happen! Please donate and share the link if you can!

http://kck.st/X1EQ0f


Here's a recent 20s'/30's cartoon character from my sketchbook at Dos Illustros:

http://dosillustros.blogspot.com/2013/01/20s30s-animated-character.html


And if you haven't seen "Kleeman and Mike in Backyard Jam", the latest animated short I worked on, then head on over here to check it out! We entered it at the Florida Film Festival for 2013, crossing our fingers!

http://vimeo.com/53638798


Peaces!

-hugo


UPDATE at 4:10pm:

I was just informed that "Kleeman and Mike in Backyard Jam" was featured in YouTube's Network A Skate channel! Check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/NetworkASkate
http://goo.gl/WtlrS

ps. Fun fact: comedian Paul Rodriguez's son is a pro skater featured on the channel!

Birthday drawings

Here's a couple of birthday drawings for some of my co-workers. I used the Pentel Tradio and Pocket brush pens for the main parts of the drawings and a Pentel Black Color Brush pen for dry brush effects on Canson BFK Rives cream paper. As always, click on the images for a closer look.

R.E.M.'s bassist Mike Mills for Kim last month, 5"x7" (http://instagr.am/p/PNC55_AsSu/):

A fun/weird drawing of heavy metal vocalist King Diamond and Korean pop star PSY (dancing in Gangnam Style) for my friend Avaryl, 8"x10" (http://instagr.am/p/PNFOVsgsUM/):

(I changed King's eye makeup to look like a fish, put a correct cross on his cheek, and made him smiling as opposed to his usual grimace for fun)

And as a bonus during these election times, here's a fictional ad that one of my former students worked up for fun. I don't think I'd ever run for office but Elias thinks I should! I think the logo is pretty cool although my real beard is whiter in color these days:

'Til next!

New sketches

I posted a couple of sketches over at Dos Illustros, check them out! Click on the names to go to the post:


Girl Robin & Batman
New Kleeman and Mike

Avengers doodles

Did some Avengers quick sketches (and a Downton Abbey surprise) on a storyboard pad with a Pentel Stylo pen for fun last week after watching the movie. It was fun! Go check them out at the Dos Illustros blog!

http://dosillustros.blogspot.com/2012/05/avengers-doodles.html 

1st thursdays pt. 2

Here is the full Bugs Bunny piece, which along with my Amélie Poulain piece (12"x18" acrylic on canvas) and Audrey figure drawing (9"x12" on marker paper"), were exhibited at the OMA 1st thursdays Full Sail Art Show last May 3rd. Original is 24"x36" painted in acrylic on wood, not for sale at the moment but contact me if interested in prints! Click on the images for a bigger view:

Bugs Bunny, 24"x36" acrylic on wood

Amélie Poulain, 12"x18" acrylic on canvas

Audrey, 9"x12" Copic Markers on marker paper

Digital ink

Quick digital ink portrait in Corel Painter IX, hope you like!  -h

Figure Drawing (clothed) 3/4/12

Here are some figure drawings from last Sunday's Crealde morning class on March 4. I usually attend when one of my friends prods me to go since it's better to be in good company that early on a Sunday!

The model was my close friend Audrey Zindler and she posed with clothing. Audrey is also a great artist who is currently studying graphic design and you can see her work here: http://absoluteaudrey.deviantart.com/

Click on the drawings for bigger versions:

2 minute gestures:

5 min.:

10 min.:

20 minutes:

My favorite of the day:

Detail: