Homework 5 Returned

Well this is it! The returned art with comments. They is a saying when you are being reviewed "it is best when they have nothing to say at all." It means you have done such a good job they find no fault.

On my last critique there wasn't much to say at all.. the pencils had a few comments, the inks only 2 and the colors had no comments at all on it (so I didn't post).

That is a great sign I did great work.

The ink drawing is below

Here are the pencils

Homework Number #5

 This assignment was the most time consuming and the most challenging... but it was the most fun and I love that I get to show you my process from beginning bluelines to full colors.

First I lay out my pages in blue line non reproducible pencil.

Then using graphite I start laying in all the details

Using Micron Pens I ink in the piece

Then into Photoshop to do the computer coloring.

Then into Illustrator to do the borders and text.

The four part process.

This assignment was fun to get into the principles of complete pages.

Thank you to The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art for the amazing education.

Excelsior!

Homework #4 Returned

Here is my homework assignments with notes form the instructor.

Joe Kubert himself used to correct my work, but since he has passed I had another instructor critique my work.

Angry Gnome Comics

Well I have been hired to finally draw for a real live Comic Book!!

I was asked to draw a 2 page spread for a small publication named Angry Gnome Comics, true it is not Marvel or DC but you have to start somewhere.

The pages were written by Mario DeAngelis

Week 8

I am still trying to do a sketch per week.. sometimes they slip from me.. but I do love to try to get them in.I have used this model before, she is rydenbunny on Instagram if you follow on IG.. and recommend going out and checking her photos out.

Kim's Tattoo

I was commissioned by a friend, Kim Allen, to design a tattoo she was looking to get 

She loves Sunflowers and Music so she was looking for something feminine and very nice

I came up with this concept and she approved with very minor adjustments

and here is the finished art for her tattoo.

Star Wars Snowflakes

Today I found a great creative project STAR WARS CHRISTMAS SNOWFLAKES!! 

I did a Darth Vader one 

http://www.anthonyherreradesigns.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56:star-wars-snowflakes&catid=34:anthonydesign-blog

Have fun and a very Menry Christmas!!

Week 5

Another Instagram photo turned into a sketch. 

This photographer just takes photos of his wife and posts them, they are done so well, if you are on Instagram follow kirishoru he does wonderful work.

These are just sketches in my sketchbook.

Pencil on paper

Week 3

Well technically in is not the third week.. but it is my third desk drawing.
This is the Amazon Horned Toad, I loved his face and how serious he looks... the technical part of this drawing was making his skin have the semi scaly feel of a frog with using only an ink pen.
He turned out well.

Pen on Paper

Week 2

Fatty

This cute little guy is a Brussels Griffon he is the pride and joy of my friend Holly Jo.... I absolutely love his face.

This drawing was a nice challenge, drawing fur is always complex and with a pen it is a challenge to get the shading correct. I had fun drawing this little Chunky Monkey.

Pen on Paper

Week 1

I felt that I had been losing a little bit of my focus on art with so much going on in life so I set up my desk at work to be a drafting table and told myself to try to do a drawing a week... TRY being the key word.

Here is the first weeks drawing, a Humbolt Squid, I have an obsession with drawing tentacles...they riddle my sketch books and work station.... I have no idea where the need to draw them comes from.... but they are fun.

Pen on Paper

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Well my favorite holiday is upon us. Thanksgiving! It is a holiday when family gets together and just has a great time... the smell of everything cooking in the kitchen and the nieces and nephews running around.. the game on T.V. and yes I do wish I had a glass of wine in my hand .... but maybe one day when I hold Thanksgiving at my house that dream will come true.

This Illustration was inspired by a story Roger ( my step father ) told years ago around the dinner table, about a group of astronauts that came to a planet and the inhabitants were giants that captured them all and boiled them and ate them for a feast.. then kept the remaining astronauts around and bred them so they would always have them for dinner every year...
the joke being that the astronauts were from a Turkey planet and we were the giants... that is Roger's sense of humor for ya... funny stuff.

Graphite on Paper 8.5" x 11"
!!HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!