A girl worth fighting for!

Although Mulan is not my favorite of Disney's female persuasion (it's actually Ariel & Pocahontas ^_^), she does hold a special place for me the other ones don't. Drawing Mulan actually takes me back to my formative years in college due to one particular animation professor. During my senior year there was a new teacher that no one knew anything about or what he taught. It was like this weird mystery professor but the mystery was revealed on the first day of class. He was a former animator of Disney, Warner Brothers, and Dreamworks who had his hand in all the recent classics. One in particular, Mulan. As our assignment, he would give us the actual model sheets the real Disney animators would use from Mulan, to draw new poses and were graded on how well we kept them on model. He had tons of handouts he collected over the years at Disney, even actual drawings from Glen Keane! He was an absolute well of knowledge to whom I largely give credit to my growing skills in my career today. When I started this drawing, I had dusted off my old college portfolio and pulled out his old model sheets to help me out, even with the original syllabus stapled to it! So as I post this ten years after taking his class (boy I'm old) I hope I do him proud :-)

A whole new world ...

Since I toiled so much over my lightsaber girls, I wanted to try a different direction that is just fun and simple. Even though I think her idea isn't as original as the others, I do like this execution more. It's made me rethink how I handle the rest, even go back and tweak the previous ones. When I think about Leia in Jabba's ill-lit palace, I always remember those slats of light across her figure, so I made sure I put that in there.

Yup, she took the plunge

Yes ladies and gentlemen, she has finally gone off the deep end. It was not easy to work Snow White's signaiture BRIGHT YELLOW DRESS into a SITH design. What was I thinking when I started this? The blues and reds were easy to work, but that mustard yellow ...great googly moogly. After many attempts of different color palettes, I finally decided to pull back the yellow and replace it with colors from the Evil Queen. The pattern on the front flap is taken from the box the queen hands to the huntsman to put White's heart in. I think I'm okay with it ... for now ... but let me know what you guys think!

The Force was strong with this one ...

Rapunzel was a bit more involving than Ariel because there was more overlapping ideas to work into the design. Translating her outfit into the Jedi garb was tricky and since her hair glowed already, I ditched using a traditional lightsaber. I don't know if I feel totally satisfied but none of the less I'm happy with it.

Once upon a time ... in a galaxy far far away ...

Woo hoo, first posting of 2013!!! I have a good feeling that this year I'll have a more creatively productive year. For a while I've been wanting to put my own spin on the Disney princesses and I've finally found a different direction for them that I haven't seen explored too much (surprisingly).I had to look up a good bit of Star Wars reference because I'm not entirely familiar with all their characters, so I borrowed visual motifs from different Jedis such as Asajj Ventress and Kit Fisto. There are more designs for other ones so stay tuned!

Maligayang Pasko !!!

Here's my annual Christmas illustration for this year, I felt I rushed it alittle but I got it done just in time!Now that I've posted this, time to go and make Christmas goose for my family dinner :-) If you're wondering about the title, it's Tagalog (Filipino) for Merry Christmas!

I haven't left yet ... promise (updated)

This looks horrible seeing the last time I posted something here. I've been updating Deviantart more often lately, but I'm gonna spend some more time adding new work and an updated banner.Gotta give this place more love ;-) I just updated this old post because I thought it was wierd to put a Walking Dead illustration next to this happy, colorful Christmas drawing ... haha ...

There's a storm coming Mr. Wayne ...

I watched Dark Knight Rises and this came out after I got home. There's a journal on my DeviantArt page about how I felt about the movie, lots of good things of course :-)

In space ... martians want brain ice cream

These started out as just warm-up drawings but I liked them so much I decided to bring them to full color. There was originally one more character but I didn't feel like the design was strong enough. I love the 1950's look and especially old monster movies so I figured I'd give that look a test drive. I like where this is going and will try and design more stuff in the same vein :-)

NO MORE HEROES!!!

Ok, so I promised myself no more superheroes after this post(especially X-Men). I think fan art is the addictive hard drug of artists. The more you do of it, the more you wind up drawing it till your body of work is nothing but other artist's creations and not your own. So this is the last batch of heroes I'll do for a while so I can focus more on original content. I seriously need a twelve step program ... :-(
Nightcrawler

Rogue

Magik

Wolverine, Captain America, Black Widow

Just some warm ups ...

I'm trying to do at least a post a month, so since I missed out in April I'll be doing at least two this month. I decided to do some warm up sketches. These are just simple for now but I'll be doing bigger illustrations soon. Post numero dos will be up soon!

Animal lovers

Here's a couple sketches I kicked out, one old and one new. The lion family is a revamp of an older post, I tried pushing the design a little bit more. While working on the lion family I had an idea for a Southern alligator couple, I think I'm happy with it ... for now :-)

POW ... PING ... PANG ... POW ...

I figured I'd start the year with Wonder Woman doing what she does best, deflecting an entire shower of high velocity bullets with very tiny bracelets. How that works? I don't know ... but it just does.

Mele Kalikimaka

It's awful seeing the last posting date on this blog, so I managed to squeeze in my annual Christmas drawing before the holidays were over! I love Christmas and I love tropical, so why not put them together?

Therapeutic posting

This is an old drawing I've had for a while. It's only recently I've brought it to color and it's gone through A LOT of changes.

I'll leave it where it is for now, time to move on to the next one.


I'm happy with the way the henna designs turned out and facial details.

Keeping the X in X-Mas

I haven't posted in a little while so I wanted to make sure I put up a Christmas post. Here's a quick one I whipped up in just the nick of time in all this Christmas craziness.

Phew . . . lots of X-Men

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Psylocke

Shadowcat & Lockheed

Storm, this one is my fave.

Dazzler

Domino, well she's actually X-Force, but whatever . . .

Summer drawings

It's been almost too long since my last post and even then I'm not too hot about the last one. It's been a long summer, but despite that I've still been drawing in my leisurely time. The old man is based off a neat photograph I saw, the girl is based off of what I call "the Starbucks Girl" whom you see everywhere at any Starbucks and the dogs were a shot out of my comfort zone cause I haven't spent a lot of time drawing them.

It's that time of the year again . . .

So here's my Christmas card submission this year at Radical Axis. I think I like this one more than the one I did last year (see 12.11.07 post).

Sketching Ahead

Ok that title was a really bad joke but I had to do it. I wanted to do a quick sketch last night just because Halloween is a good excuse to do something like this.