Harley Davidson Commission

I was asked to draw a Harley Davidson Street Glider for a present and the idea of that scared me a little. I know that the detail in the motors are really high and knew it'd be a challenge. To make it more fun for myself, I suggested we add Ghost Rider into the mix and thankfully the client went for it. The new Ghost Rider drives a muscle car but I wanted to draw him anyway since his history with bikes is long and full of life. I also wanted to draw the new GR because he's Latino and I don't get to draw enough Latino characters. If you watch the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. show, you'll see him there. 

Feel free to reach out to me at thelearningcurv@gmail.com if you'd like a custom piece of art for yourself or your loved ones. The holidays are coming and this would be an amazing gift for you and yours!

Below you can see what the pencil and ink stage of the piece look like.

2006

I was working consistently at the Children's Aid Society at this point and I was busy trying to figure out where life was taking me.  I continued drawing as often as possible, but some goals had shifted a bit. I was spending a lot of time learning how to play the Vs. System card game that was similar to Yugi-Oh, but had Marvel and DC characters as their players. I studied the game a good deal and either won or placed highly in a few tournaments, and just had a great deal of fun with the game, so naturally I wanted to bring my artistic talents into this new passion.  I started drawing images I felt would work well in the card game I began to love so much.

I was also entering a stage where I was making t-shirts of my designs to market myself a bit more. The spider-man image at the top of this page was my very first shirt and, years later, I was able to show it to Spider-man legend, John Romita Sr.... He gave me the most immense compliment I have yet to receive in which he said if I were around when he was drawing Spider-man, he'd have hired me to do his backgrounds! The validation i felt after hearing that was extremely uplifting and pushed me to keep pushing towards my goal of making art my life. 

The Hunt

With my book about to be on Kickstarter, I have been able to knock out some commissions. I rarely draw night scenes so this was interesting. I did my best to differentiate Black Panther from the night time colors.
Balancing extreme light vs dark is no easy task. Who do you think would win between Black Panther and Moon Knight?

The original point of this drawing was to marker it up and I realized I never did a piece with either character and wanted to have it in my portfolio. This will go out to the commissioner tomorrow with a big thank you for allowing me to take it home and digitize it... This took a total of 6 hours from sketch to markers.

 

Hulk will NOT Smash for you...

As I finished the inking of this piece, I realized it wasn't enough. I came up with the rational for the defeated Avengers from the AvX storyline and figured it'd be a nice quick fix to make it stand out even more. My childhood full of fun what if's helped inspire me. 

Are you going to Heroes Con? Cause I am=]

I have been attending & exhibiting my art at Comic Book Conventions since 2008 & every artist worth their salt raves about Heroes Con. It's always been said that it is geared toward artists & is VERY artist friendly. What artist wouldn't want to attend a show with that kind of reputation?

I will be attending the show this year for the first time. I have been hearing more recently that Heroes is a show where original art is better received than prints. That made me take the time to do some Sketch Covers to have available at the show. I have pretty much every sketch cover ever produced, so if you'll be at the show you could either request one from me beforehand or get one at the show. 

Hope to see you there! 

We find Galactus, Devourer of Worlds, among a galaxy that has a plethora of planets... he no longer hungers... Pencils and inks done in 2009, colors done today!

I remember being scared to color this for a long time.  I didn't feel I had the skills to accurately pull this off
and stayed away from it for a long time.  I've been on this journey for a while now and my new adventures have taken me into space with a good number of illustrations I have created. Thankfully the practice on this lead me to this image being created.

I am becoming much more comfortable in who I am as an artist and am loving this journey.  Thank you to all of you who have been there along with me and have supported my travels as an artist!

C2E2 here I come!

Nova Prime

For a long time I've enjoyed the art of Mahmud Asrar mahmudasrar.deviantart.com, Yildiray Cinar http://cinar.deviantart.com/, Chris Stevens http://christopherstevens.deviantart.com/ and others who have created beautifully rendered images with markers.  I've always been inspired and finally have been able to afford the markers and am now am trying to get myself to another stage in my work. I hope you enjoy this piece, I knocked it out in a few hours with the distractions of the day and hope to do many many more like this!

Chicago Bound!

I can't wait til this weekend, I'll be celebrating my birthday and exhibiting my art at the 3rd largest show in the country! Come check me out if yo're in Chicago, tickets are on sale at www.c2e2.com for cheaper now than they will be at the door! Get them now=]

Magneto Vs Phoenix

I have begun the process of doing more artwork by hand as apposed to relying on the computer for my coloring and this is another example of that.  is is a piece I did on two sketch cards, each sized at 2.5 x 3.5 for a total of 3.5 x 5.

As I look at this I wonder what it may look like as a digitally edited 11x17 print.  I may end up touching this up ;-) Stay tuned!

Smells like Victory

I am always asked at conventions, "Have you drawn any Deadpool?" so I felt i needed to get that done for the show goers.  Any time I speak about Deadpool with fans, i always hear about how he loves tacos, so in my research about why (he just LOVES Taco's it's insane!) I found a painting with Deadpool replacing the baby in "Smells like teen Spirit" and a taco is on the end of the fishing line. If that image was as famous as it is ridiculous, I figured seeing Deadpool, the Merc with a Mouth, standing inside a Taco surrounded by pancakes would have him ecstatic.  Seeing Paco Medina draw Deadpool cooking so many pancakes had me dieing, so I had to include that in this image. Hope you dig this, I had a lot of fun drawing this, and now am on the mend for all those pancakes I drew ;-)

Impending Doom!

The king of Latveria is rarely seen protecting his land, for he would not sully his hands with such an activity. His genius provides for that with Doom Bots and other such creations. We have found Doom in a rare occassion of practicing his magics in the open air in a courtyard within his castle grounds. Doom's magics rival those of the Sorcerer Supreme and are to be reckoned with. Do not cross Doom, for you will be forever in regret....hehehe

The Red Skull!

The main villain in the Captain America movie was the Red Skull.  I've always refrained from ever wanting to draw him simply because I had a problem recreating a character that came from so much hate (he was suppose to be a large player in the Nazi party). I was finally able to get over it and enjoyed the fact that he was going to get his face punched out.  The design for the Hydra leader of World World 2 was extremely well done.  He finally felt imposing and less of a joke to me and I enjoyed recreating him with a dramatic exaltation to attaining the Cosmic Cube (the tesseract from the movies). 

It would be interesting to see the Red Skull be the minor villain to lead up to Thanos in part 2 of Avengers.

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