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[GriNGo]

NEW STUFF AT LAST PAGE!

The images that were in this first post are going to the next one.

later,
:android: GriNGoLoCo

[Smitherines]

Holy fuckin chaos, you crammed a lot in on these peices of paper. Something about the 3rd to last peice that I really like a lot. Its like there is a story going on in each peice. I find it very intriguing. They all have a very mysterious feel to them. I would almost like to see them larger, with more details, but stay in black and white ink.

[IceMoon]

Well if it is'nt my fellow TD competitor :teeth:

I thought you quited the idea of a sketchbook! Well good to see you have a new one :yayca:

You've got some nice ideas going there, and pretty vivid sketches. Now I'm wondering how a more "finished" sketch would look like. Looking forward to your next update.

[Carnifex]

now let's see who makes "shitty progress stuff" and who doesn't...:P

[GriNGo]

the difference is that mine wont be THAT shitty :D

i'll post my todays sketches later! most likely tdome practice stuff.

later,
:android: GRINGOLOCO

EDIT HERE IS THE STUFF OF MY FIRST POST, check it out. I put it here cause I want a little thumbnail for my thread...
the first too pages of this new "stuff".

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/concept1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/concept2.jpg

A quick self portrait :P not alike at all...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/hc1.jpg

the most recent pages. done in the course of this week. the last page is a bunch of quick concepts for a battle i'm a part of (against ICEMOON).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/concept3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/concept4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/concept5.jpg

each of these pages is an a4... the drawings are small, but each of them take about 3-4 minutes to do... so i usally take a good time on each page :p i hope i can show you anything new later on.

[glikster]

nice start... looking forward to seeing more. I know I have a hard time filling up the pages... I have to work on that.
Do you do those as warm-ups? If so, can we see what you warm up to?

[talmir]

Hello there. You cram a whole lot of stuff on each page.. And what is that pink stuff you use to color them? Is it marker?

You seem to have a pretty good sense of form but your linework could be better. You seem to have a slight problem deciding where the lines should go which gives your drawing a very big sketchy look, sometimes it is difficult to see what things are and seperate them...

But hey, that comes with practice... Show us more progress stuff and we´ll show you how usefull sketchbooks can be.

[blankslatejoe]

yo gingoloco, good to see you giving the sketchbooks another try. Hope you don't mind me posting a little feedback here.

you got lotsa energy going on here, I like your linework the most when you switch to that weird quasi-cross hatching style that you use in the self portrait (and also in the little corner drawing of the guy with the gasmask thingy). I can see that linework technique being refined into a really definitive, and cool, look for your work.

Anyway, keep it up dude.

[GriNGo]

Smitherines - Thanks for your comments man :) Yes, initially i usually tried to draw one or 2 "complex" drawings in one page, but then i said FUCK IT! it was a waste of space and ideas.... now i just draw whatever my mind is coming up with.... and draw and draw some more :} And yes, black and white kicks ass... i'll stay with it at least through this summer... I'm going to make a comic for this contest here in my country, and I'll be practicing and trying different styles that can possibly go with it.... but the black and white will be defenite... be tuned for an excercise comic I'm making! i'll show you progress soon....

IceMoon - thanks man! i'll try to post as often as possible... the COOL stuff... and about finished pieces... i'll try to concentrate on one or two tomorrow, so you guys can give some crits.

glikster - thanks for the comment! i would consider that I do permanent warm ups. which pisses me off, as I told IceMoon above, I'll try to come up with some better sketches to show off... not just warm ups.

talmir - teh ENEMEH! nah just kidding man :bashful: thanks for posting the comment! that "pink" stuff are the warm gray shades of prisma color markers. they kick ass! at least i love them for sketches... allows me to give them a quick tone to my stuff, without making much ink lines. about my linework, yes it can be MUCH better... i hope that i gain better control and "finnesse" over them as soon as possible... and yes sketchbooks are usefull. a very bad experience with them in the past though... and it's a hell-lot-of-work!

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JUNE 8th!

was checking out lung_bugs old sketchbook... damn. I'm jealeous :nohope: someday I'll catch him! i swear! very good ideas, very nice line work, very kick ass stuff... i wish him the best!

- first my updated last page i showed you yesterday. now it's finished... it's pretty much a big pile of you know what... but i'm kinda proud of the bigger sketch in the bottom section... i'll see if i start some work on the "grand" version tomorrow... sketches, but more complete ones:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/1_8jun.jpg

- now the SELF PORTRAIT... gotta say, i like how it turned out :) the text was added in Photoshop... i did it for a little comp between me and a friend of mine.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/sp8dejunio.jpg

- another two showoffs. the last one are real life portraits of my dad and brother, while we were watching the great Argentina vs Brasil soccer game tonight... kick ass soccer! now i hope you like em.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/2_8jun.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/3_8jun.jpg

later!
GRiNGoLoCo

[blankslatejoe]

woah, simultaneous postings. I agree the bigger sketch on that one page is stronger. The grey around it brings it out more too. The sp is cool, though, you look like wolverine in it.

hey, i saw an oil thread of yours awhile back... any of that stuff floating around?

[jorge2k]

come on gringo... stop the autoglorification and put someting real in the sketchbook, someting like the selfportrait (very good job), not 10000000000000000000 small pages whith endless drawings and 0 anatomy (is a good exercise anyway)

[evidence]

great sketchbook. only thing i can say is that i would like to see how you handle a finish, but thats for another thread.

my book (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43720)

[glikster]

Well, as a member of your Sketchbook Support Group now...
Nice new SP and nice portrait of your dad.
I'm the getting the impression looking in here, though, that you do the same thing I do sometimes: when you're not sure about something you just throw a million lines at it and hope it goes away. I keep doing that and I'm trying to get away from it. Like the head of that guy holding the sword and on some of the small sketches.

Great work! Keep posting!!

[Art_Addict]

Hi ,

Very promising what i see here...
i like your line quality and those pages filled with little sketches are fun!

I would like to see you do a fully rendered drawing , see how that turns out.
That last SP reminds me of Snake of Metal gear solid somehow, hehe :)
little crit : although those filled pages are fun to look at. I somehow loose track. There isn't a place for my eye to rest on those. Crowded drawings are tricky cause you've got to somehow get a focal point in there and its often difficult not to loose your composition.
I would also vary the line weight more and nock in some values and shadows here and there.. Maybe even render out one of the figures more then the other to get the attention, --- focal point :)

Anyway , good stuff , keep em coming
Tom

[PHATandy]

This isgood gringo, quite unique style for sure. especially if u develop it somewhat. Similar to a german artist called Egon shciele, you might look up his work you might like it.

Some of your faces come out like that last SP, quite expressive, they look nice. Would be nice for some of that in more of your normal drawings.

I think one thing is to work on anatomy somewhat, in places you can see where its off. Studies in your style should look interesting, in terms of whole body shots.

Good luck, and keep it up dude... Ill be here pestering you if u dont :D.


lol.. Andy.

[Ivan.R]

I like most of your drawings. All strokes are drawn confidently and fast, I rally like that. I would like to be able to draw so nice with a pen :(

[GriNGo]

blankslatejoe - thanks for the comments man! all my other postings, i think i deleted all that stuff from my photobucket account... so the thread still exists, but you wont see anything. sorry. the same goes for my old online sketchbook. thanks for the wolverine comparision :bashful:

jorge2k - you suck (he's a personal friend of mine). he has this "i know everything" attitude... :D

evidence - thanks for the comment man! you're sketchbook is great too! i hope i can post something finished soon.

glikster - thanks for the comment! i tend to like to draw "dirty" stuff, hence all that unnecssary linework in most of my stuff. Still i like it :)

Art_Addict - thanks for your focal point tip man! i'll really like to keep that in mind from now on. and thx for the solid snake comparision :bashful:

PHATandy- hey man thanks for your comment. and thanks for naming Egon Schielle! I checked out his works and they turn out to be a style i most definetly like! I promise i'll do some anatomy studies this week.... to show off.

Ivan.R - dont get discouarged man! the pen is as easy to start with as pencil. you've got to be more careful though.. or else the drawing could get very fucked up. thanks for your comment! and by the way, I'll try to post as "daily" as possible.... sometimes i really just dont have time to scan and post em :( but i assure you i draw everyday.

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11th June Update

well fellas, sorry for not daily posting. I just suck at that. Well anyways, let me tell you what i have been doing for the last days. First of all, my relationship with my girl just turned 11 months old, so I had to prepare something special. I spent too days making a nice little present for her, with some special illustrations included. 4 of them. they are simple, but took some time to make.... and that was not the only gift i "made", so you get the point. so that's the main reason of not having posted much. I would've posted them, but she has them now :p so duh. I also filled a page in a bus, but as the bus is very "shaky", you could guess the results of it... a complete shit fest. The only thing that I will show you is the last page i did today of the sketchbook, featuring a selfportrait of mine... the worst part of it, is that it turned out very good :$ (but i dont like it, cause i look too gay in it) so i'm fucked! no more gay portraits EVER!.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/huevada.jpg

[Alisa]

I love your sketchy style... I would like to see more though ! Very cool.

[Ivan.R]

Yeah, I know how much time it takes scanning, optimizing, uploading, and posting. :dead: It sometimes takes more time than drawing a new picture.

The men on the lower part of the paper looks quite well drawn. Once again I admire your work with the pen. But the face of the upper part looks a bit strange to me, I find that the mouth is not drawn quite correctly. You have drawn it in a quite extreme perspective that does not corresponds to the face. The hair does not look to me like hair at all. It seems to me like something flat put on top of the face. Maybe you should have used more curvy lines to achieve more believability.

You should give me some tips how to use the inky pen so well as you do!
I hope that you will spare some time to post some new drawings.

[Art_Addict]

I don't agree with Ivan altough the drawing is still up for improvement i think.
The hair is a nice touch. I doesn't look like real hair , no , but it's obviously done this way on purpose. So illustration wise i think it looks good. :) The focal point now are the eyes of the top head, no doubt about that. Then your eye wonders of to the lower right face and then to the lower left of the drawing . So it's well readable now, good composition. Much better then the ones above i think.
The one thing i don't like is how you shadowed the above face. Not so subtle, man. For inspiration i suggest you look at pen drawings from El Coro. Those are the bomb!!
I'm gonna try those inks and pens you suggested too.. :)

Anyway, nice drawing
Tom

[jorge2k]

cool work men... and you suck too my friend ^^

you should do somethin "big"... a full rendered ilustration.

[blankslatejoe]

cool sp...gives a good sens of character... I don't think the radial hatching in the hair works too well, but that's just my take. I like how you cram an insane amount of stuff into every page.

Not sure why I thought of this, but you might get a kick out of James Callahan's inkwork. It's tough to find his stuff, but if you go to http://www.oddgodpress.com/ and click on the strange detective tales comic, you can see a couple of his pages. Lots and Lots of detail fun.

[GriNGo]

Alisa - Thanks for your comment!
Ivan.R - Welll, the mouth looks odd, cause I put it in a strange position, leaning towards the right part of my face.... i rather feel it's donde decently... but anyways, the goal would be that nobody who sees it, it will look well to all those minds. I need to practice more :p Thanks for keeping on posting.
Art_Addict - I was trying to go for a normal approach in shadowing. with the ink pens it resulted difficult. I'll keep practing more to see which method is better for me at the end. Thanks for posting! By the way, i tried to check out Coro's inks, but couldn't find any.... if you can link me to the thread.. I would appreciate dearly.
blankslatejoe
cool sp...gives a good sens of character...

:nohope:

I also dont think the radial crossing of my hair worked well, but anyway, it was an experiment... that's the goal in this sketching stravaganza. sketch anything you can think of. And thanks for the link man! I checked out James work and it was great.

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June 13th 2005

Here is a page i made. i tried a more "artsy" approach, with all those strange human forms.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/huevada2.jpg

[Art_Addict]

It's easier to look on his site for those, not on the boards.
Coro's site with direct link to some ink pages : Coro's inks (http://www.coro36ink.com/sketchbook2.html)

Enjoy !

[PHATandy]

Cool stuff again man, i think you need to work on the actual human face some more, as in skull/planes of the face, so when you do your facial drawings (which you do alot of) you can atleast make them correct anatomically. Also with some of the rendering, try to spend more time working the lines for the values in, not just scribbling.

Like in your SB, i thought was very good but the light rendering on the face was to muhc scribbling and took something out.

Good work tthough keep it up.

Andy.

[Ivan.R]

I can see some very nicely drawn tiny details. In contrast the 3 big heads are drawn very loosely and there are no details on them. Maybe you want to pop them up but I think that the consistency of the drawing is lost that way.

[GriNGo]

Art_Addict: thanks for the link man!
PHATandy: in this case, i wanted the faces to be weird looking :dad: and i also agree with your rendering suggestion. I'll try to spend more time on the newer pages. Thanks for posting!
Ivan.R: Thanks for your comments man! I was very lazy with this page :p

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June 16th, 2005

Photo and mental studies of women. The small ones are my "inventions".

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/mujeres1.jpg

My TD entry against Icemoon. The topic is: Future Warrior with a distinct ancient influence. Here are the progress shots, and the final corrected and edited version (using Photoshop):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/gringoTDprogress.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/GringoTdSMALL.jpg

Here is the link the TD thread, so you can vote (but not yet, since Icemoon hasnt submitted his entry yet :) ) : http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=46340

later people!
GriNGoLoCo

[Ivan.R]

The first stage of the gladiator looks very well, but I don't like so much the finished one. I think that too many details are lost in the final version. I would never be able to recognise the sword without looking the first picture. How did you managed to draw the gladiator, did you draw it lightly with a pencil or did you draw it directly with the pen?

[glikster]

Great updates! The women show a lot of promise.
The TD pic looks great in the finished piece, but the linework shows a lot of anatomy issues. The biggest problem is that he doesn't have a ribcage, but that's comflaged my the ink wash, but his legs are still too short. Also the wash hides the claw leg.
Great concept, design and style!
Keep posting!

[PHATandy]

Excellent update.. like the study. but try not to scribble with those lines.. work in pencil first and then bring in the nice clean lines with the pen.. iot will look alot better for it. That TD entry is very good aswell.... i really like your use of lines and conntours on the armor..

good work man. keep it up.

[GriNGo]

Ivan.R I drew it with a pencil first, lots of scribbling and shit, to get the main forms, then, i started using the ink pens to define the main lines, then i got a "thinner" ink pen and started drawing the more finite details. Before I screwed it all up with the ink brush though, i scanned it and corrected some stuff in photoshop, at 200 dpi. it helped a lot in the end. I just had to superimpose the final scan (the 2nd phase image) and go erasing and correcting some parts. In the end, I still like the piece :) thanks for your comments man!

gliksteryeah, what I can say. I just need to practice more and more anatomy :p thanks for the comments man!

PHATandyman, i just love scribbling with the ink pen! it just rocks... although sometimes it can be very perturbing :D thanks for the comments!

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June 24th

hello folks! sorry for not posting anything... been busy drawing! I've started a quest to draw all of burne hogarth's books that I have. Every illustration and drawing they contain. Good practice. I've started with Dynamic Figure Drawing, then I will go to the Head book, and then the Hands book. Here's one of my sketch pages:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/dynamicFIG1.jpg

Here's another SP, practice I did. I'll try to do a daily one from now on (hopefully I'll be able to post them) And yes, now I'm bald (kindof) :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/gringosp4.jpg

Been reading lots of SANDMAN comics lately. Here's a concept inspiration sketch I started earlier today:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/sandmanTRIBprog1.jpg

later,
GRiNGoLoCO

[glikster]

Woo-hoo!! About time!! I felt very abandoned for a while there...

Those new studies and the SP are GREAT!! Are some of the torsos too long? I'm not good enough with anatomy to say for sure, but it seems like they are.

And I LOVE the Sandman comics. I have all of the Trade Paperbacks stored at my mother's house, but she just called and told me that a sink pipe burst and the ceiling fell in... I hope they're still all right...

He's got a big-ass hand there, actually I think the problem is that you drew his body from above, but the arm and hand seem to be on a different perspective...

[GriNGo]

glikster thanks for the comment man! and i hope your sandman collection is allright. i still pretty much suck in perspective and anatomy, i try to get better evertime..

here is my finished sandman tribute! it took me like 4-5 hours to do this... including Photoshop time. I'll probably modify with more Photoshop madness later on.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/sandmanTRIBUTE.jpg

later,
GRiNGoLoCO

[GriNGo]

This is kinda sick (for me) >:D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/gringoSPoral.jpg

later,
GriNGoLoCO

[glikster]

yeah, that's freaky...
but nicely done!
What happened to our Support Group?

[Flip]

It's good to see you doing those hogarth studies. The way I've been taught to draw bodies is to start with a skeleton, rough in the ribcage, pelvis, spine and limbs then add flesh and stir. Try finding the skeletons in those hogarth studies first, then use your ref to help you flesh it out, keeping in mind the 3d forms. Sketching with felt tip pen(?) will make your rough skeletons more obvious so you might want to use pencil or ball point when doing that, that way you can keep your construction lines light.

Oh yeah, and if you don't post soon i'll come along with some plastic tubing and take a leaf out of your book. :devil:

[Ivan.R]

Hi, GriNGoLoCo! Wow another ssg #6 member that is doing studies of Hoggarth's books! For now you are doing better than me :wink: but I will continue to draw from that book till I finally learn to draw the human body. The last drawing is well drawn but it is really nasty looking :S if that was your goal you have certainly achieved it!

[baquitania]

Hola Gringo:

Great sketches, I gotta make myself doodle like that, the whole fill the page till there's no white left... It really is a discipline, after all this is about sketching! Love your line work, reminds me of Moebius. Check him out:

http://www.lambiek.net/moebius.htm

Btw, just joined SSG#6... so gonna post some work later today, and hopefully we can all get back in the groove.

[GriNGo]

here are some SEMI-FINISHED stuff i want to show you, these are part of the midterm project of mine at school of my Illustration Class. We got a story from a book and started designing & drawing characters for it. It is a neat experience to say the least. Here are most of them:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/Xemayetl_Final.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/Pirata_Final.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/Yoxnan_Final.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/Pinox_Final.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/Guardia_Final.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/Peregrino_Final.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/Mula_Final.jpg

Now comes my CHOW # 1 entry... done in about 2 hours, preplanning & thinking another 2 hours... it's a pretty great excercise, so I recommend everybody to go in and participate in CHOW if they have the chance:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/gringo_FINALchow1.jpg

I'll also be doing lost of PASTEL stuff, so I'll post some excercises soon. (have to take photographs of most of them! they are big!)

later,
GRiNGoLoCo

[blankslatejoe]

that chow entry came pretty nice.. strong composition and that's an interesting use of grain/overlay effects. I hope you keep entering the minicomps on here!

[glikster]

Dude... thanks for stopping by my SB... do you have another one of these, or is this it? If it is, UP-FRIGGIN-DATE!

[asoir]

Yeah man! I remember this s/b, loved how he injected detail into stuff so well!
Please update!

[GriNGo]

Blankslatejoe - Thanks & I hope I find the time soon to do so!
Glikster! - Yes this is the one! & I hope I will be post more often
Asoir! Thanks a lot man! Keep up with your practicing, you'll get far man.

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To resume, I have changed my major's carreer from animation to design. so that may be the biggest reason why I havent posted anything in a long friggin time. I'm also started to enter the world of "art"... like museams & shit, & i'm currently preparing myself for my first big expo here in my hometown of Quito. I will show you some of that stuff as it comes along.. the expo is in 3 weeks. For the moment, let me show you some of my stuff from the last 3 months. I consider them more personal studies on discovering a style... I think i'm nailing it somewhat for the moment. Hope you like!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/portrait1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/portrait2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/portrait3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/portrait4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/portrait5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/portrait6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/babyportrait.jpg

Identity Design (this is for a SP mod i have been involved with for the last 2 years or so. This is the main logo).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/unrealsp/thelogo2.jpg

Greetings!
GriNGoLoCo

[tensai]

that last bunch of pen drawings is killing me man. love their warpedness and character.

keep it up

[glikster]

Sweet stuff! That 2nd pic in this last batch is awesome!
definitley keep posting!

[Recursive_End]

Pretty interesting style. Really like the earlier pages. All the stuff you put in them :D
Those last updates look good also, the one with ramiro written on the right shoulder reminds me alot of Quino's drawings, not for the artistic side but for the technical side...Dunno if you heard about him.
Anyway, your doing some cool stuff, keep us posted with your new discoveries :)

[Johann de Venecia]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/sp8dejunio.jpg <--- sweet! Been obsessing over inks lately, so I'm gulping this down like a madman. Did you use a brush pen for this one? Also like how you incorporate text in most of your stuff. Good stuff.

[GriNGo]

tensai - thanks for your comments. it's a real honor to have them, really. i love your city compositions, you're projects are absolutely gorgeous.
glikster - thanks my man for your kind words. kick ass.
Recursive_End - heya man, thanks for your comments. Yes I've heard a lot of Quino, and maybe I can say he has been an inspiration since my earlier highschool days? I just love his storytelling abilities, and his inking and character design style is just, his. Mafalda and his other own stuff just is top notch. And since I read it in the newspapers nearly every day then, i think I like it. And up & discovering I'll go!
Lukavi - wow man, i never expected your reply. It's an honor aswell to hear from you. The text incorporation is more like certain design elements I try to blend in with the illustration. Just for fun & practice.

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Well, about the update. Here are some pastel stuff I have been doing. The portraits are oldish stuff, each one of them sizing A3 or bigger on average. These portraits are from the last year.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/retratomaria.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/retratomanolo.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/retratodiego.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/retratodonsegundo.jpg

This one below is a study, referenced from a photo.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/estudiorocoto.jpg

Self Portrait:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/autoretratopastel.jpg

Now comes some 2006 stuff.
This is a design illustrationI submitted to a contest, it's quite big (60x99cm) on original scale. I was finalist in the contest (honor mention). The piece is entitled "Ángel de la Guard". Translated it means "Guardian Angel":

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/angeldelaguarda.jpg

Now here comes stuff I did in the last week since posting: Here is an illustration piece I have called "KIDDY PLANE". It's also like 60 x 99 cm in dimensions, and I finished it in about 8 hours straight working. It has pastel & acrylics painted on it: Here is a progress sequence you can check out:

1)http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/kiddyplaneearly.jpg
2)http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/kiddyplanemid.jpg
3)http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/kiddyplane.jpg

Now here comes a self portrait I did yesterday. I did it with inks & brush (markers) The actual size is 65x50 cm or so. I really like how it turned out. Hope you guys like it aswell:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/retratoexpresionismo.jpg

later,
GRiNGoLoCo

[bengonzalez]

Gringo a lot of very nice work in that last post. I like your ink work a lot it's very expressive. The color work is also very well done but "Angel de la Guard" just stands out as very different from the rest. It has a very graphic appeal to it.

Solid work keep at it.

Perdona que no tengo tiempo para darte una buena critica. Te la debo.

[Burning Eyes]

yeo gringo! remember u beat me in a lil thunderdome long time ago? im callin you out again to see what i can do competitionwise now... you up for it!?

[Onir]

hey man, nice stuff! you've got a really nice style; freaky but it's really expressive. the pastel portraits look great, and I like that one piece with the ship and all the little guys around it. great usage of color btw, looks like you understand color nicely. keep at it man, it's looking great!

[camilografix]

gringo tu si eres LOCO

[Orozc0]

sick shit bro. i like the colors

[max1975]

Lotta great stuff here, cool colors especially. This one's my favorite: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/kiddyplane.jpg

A lot of your human figures and look a bit off, not as good as certain others demonstrate you're capable of. Some of them are pretty obviously intentionally off, but sometimes I can't tell whether you're being disturbing or lazy :)

Great work on the whole, though.

Thanks for stopping by my book.

[pennington]

hey thanks for the comment. diggin your style. what kinda pen you use. i need to get some pens. really like the guys from post #39. especially like mula! angel de la guard is really sweet too!

[Mort]

hey man. really like the logo . keep em coming.

[Tad]

Hey cool,
my grandfather was from Quito Equidor as well!
small world :)

[joiton]

Nice stuff !
I like the style you have. And the portrait serie in warm colors. And the old man in grays.

Cheers!

[GriNGo]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/cincompasion.jpg

[mentler]

Lots of style here <> great verve and energy

[Burning Eyes]

challenge is on! maybe start a thread in thunderdome section and ill look tomorrow, the other ? i dun understand, avatar in sig?

[GriNGo]

thanks for everyone who has replied! i'll be posting in your SB's in return soon

here is a SP i did for a class of mine.. the drawing took me like 2 hours (ink on paper), and the blending & effects & shit in photoshop like another hour or so. the original size is 42cm x 29,7 cm, 300 dpi. it kicks ass :D hehe.... hope you like it!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/gringo1POLSKAflat.jpg

greetings!
GRINGOLOCo

[krakel]

that last illustration kicks ass!! The face doesnt quite keep up with the rest of it though.. Maybe you could add some wrinkles and def. work on the connection between head and hand- right now it looks a bit too hard..

Personally I dont like heads without necks- but thisone would look weird with just a neck.. So maybe you could add a whole body in an extreme perspective?! Just a thought I had- looking at it

welll keep posting :D


krakel

[gmags]

Hey Gringo, whAT's up? Interesting pen work you got in your sb! Like those pastel portraits you did. Keep it up paisa! Ecuador!!! :yayca:

[Ashrumm]

Your last work kicks ass I love the approach you took to complete it. It looks as though you have alot of pent up energy I'm excited to see more of your work keep it up. Very nice stuff here.

[Lone Wolf]

I like your woobly lines. They really give the art emotion.

[GriNGo]

To everyone who replied! thanks! I'll post in your SB's soon enough!

Wiener Werkstatte (Vienna Secession) artist Moriz Jung inspired me to do a SP on his style... without losing mine I hope!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/Poster1FLATtrue.jpg

Again, it's original size is A3 300dpi.. it should print well. & BurningEyes, it's not my comp entry! i'll be doing another one for that!

later,
GRiNGoLoCo

[Matt Smith]

The head/hand piece has a nice style to it. The hand looks real creepy too. THe new piece has a nice look too, but I am not sure about the treatment of the font yet, parts of it look too cramped.

[Ham-e]

Hey you've got some solid work in here, great job! Keep it up, looking forward to your next update:)

[DireZen]

hey man, great stuff. Really loved the anatomy studies! keep it up!

[GriNGo]

MattSmith - Yeah, the font was merely a small addition that was required, do to the nature of the college assignment. Most Weiner Werkstatte commercial illustration had some kind of typographic treatment in it... that was, well, cramped. thanks for the pointers though!
Ham-e: thanks man!
DireZen: thanks man!
_____-

sorry for not updating soon enough, i'm just lazy. been doing a lot of drawing lately! sketches sketches & more sketches.. all pen stuff. Recently participated in a national college art contest, with some kick ass prizes. I went to the "drawing" category. I will know if I win something or not on June14... I'll keep you informed. What was kick ass about this contest, is that they would take you to a studio, and you would have to draw your piece there---Here is the drawing I submitted (with me in it!) the photo doesn't do it justice, lots of details and colors can't be seen.... at least you can see the dimensions & size of it!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/estirpeazr.jpg

Here now is another drawing i did after i finished this one.... this is the initial stages... now it has more shit in it, and is as big as the last one. Still have to work on it though.. I'll post something soon enough so you can check it out.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/vesahuev.jpg

[Ham-e]

Nice work man...good luck in the contest!

[armando]

Yellow and purple work well together, and your drawing style is interesting but could use some tweaking. For example this one would benefit from more angular lines. All the lines tend to follow a wiggly curve path, this has a spagetti like effect. Solidity is lost and therfore believability. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/Poster1FLATtrue.jpg
However this one has a similar look but is better, http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/gringo1POLSKAflat.jpgin this case I think it's because of how the shade lines and wrinkles wrap the forms and emphasize their 3 dimensionality. What I like about your line work is that it has a sort of trippy dreamlike effect, but the form can feel a bit weak, this is because of the lack angular lines. Adding angular lines can strengthen your drawings, look at art noveau for example. Though they tend to use curves there are still a lot of angles and corners everywhere, look at Alphonse Mucha, Winsor McCay, Jules Cherot.

[GriNGo]

Ham-e thanks for the support! but i didn't win! abstract art one! anyways it was a neat contest, some really great stuff was shown.
Armando thanks for the tips man, really appreciated. Will have to think a lot about my "technique" after your post.

anatomy shit... well, i realized i suck in a lot of areas, and one of them is anatomy, so i decided to work at least during summer, in my own private time, as much as I can in that. As part of this effort, I have also subscribed to the CGtalk Anatomy forums (as they have better info on this topic there), I'll be posting studies there aswell. Anyways, here's some of the first batch of stuff I have come up with. First 3 are 10-13 minute sketches.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/anatomy/3skth.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/anatomy/bleh1.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/anatomy/1skth.jpg50 heads in one month activity: 1st alpha
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/anatomy/head001_alpha.jpg

PS: I'll try to be posting my new non-anatomy stuff(which is a shitload), soon.

greetings!
GriNGoLoCo

[taxman]

Great book, lots of good vibes and energy going on here. You seem to experiment a lot. Good pen work, some of your sketches have kind of a classic feel to them. I see you´re participating in this 50 heads a month challenge on cg talk, why don´t you try to draw some of Dürers stuff? Could make your pen technique even better, just a thought... Keep going.

[GriNGo]

taxman: thanks for the comments man! Durer? have heard of him a lot but I have to confess I really don't have a mind image of his work. I'll go look his stuff up.. thanks for the suggestion!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/Gringoloco_CHOW31_Subutai.jpg

CHOW ENTRY... non-hispanic-toreador. Did it today in about 3 hours. Concept took much longer though. Tried to give it an old chinese painting feel to it. For the whole "storyline" i wrote for this concept, go check out the CHOW31 thread. Alternative history.

later,
GRiNGoLoCo

[Stupidity'sUglyHead]

Striking sketches and intriguing unique style. not a fan of your nipples though... Anyway I especially like this one:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/gringo1POLSKAflat.jpg
GRINGOLOCo

[GriNGo]

Stupidity'sUglyHead: lol, & thanks for your support. Do you have a sketchbook?

Here is a study update:

Pantormo Studies
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/anatomy/3skth.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/anatomy/bleh1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/anatomy/julio3_0001.jpg

Schielle Studies (preperation for Last Man Standing)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/anatomy/julio3_0003.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/anatomy/julio3_0004.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/anatomy/julio3_0006.jpg

Misc (heads for CG talk activity, aka 50 heads in a month. 48 to go):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/anatomy/julio3_0005.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/anatomy/julio3_0002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/anatomy/julio3_0007.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/anatomy/head001_alpha.jpg

[gmags]

Hey Gringo, sweet stuff in here!!! Really like your lastest posts. This one's my fav.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/Gringoloco_CHOW31_Subutai.jpg Keep em comin Gringo!!! :wink:

[GriNGo]

Hello, here is are some of the black & white stuff I have done recently. Medium: Edding 1880 drawliner, 0.3; 0.5: 0.7. On white A4 size normal bond paper (my SB). 1 is my capoeira instructor. 2-3 are studies of the work of ERTE, which is an amazing 1930's artist (check him out!).. 4 is one of my SB's pages. 5 is my old studio (right now i changed to a new one). 6 is a head study (for rebekka of CGtalk 50 heads in a month activity. There are 3 heads in this painting, so i had a fine time studying it The other 2 can be found in the twelfth image of this post.. 7-11 are real life stuff, i'm going to a disabled persons center to help out a bit, and sometimes I have time to draw. I was trying to explore the lines, using as few as possible. As the people in this place (physical therapy area) moved a lot, I tried to be quick as possible. Most of these drawings took 5-10 minutes each. Anatomy is wrong most of the time, but I rather think I captured the mood of the place well. Anways that's it for now! Until next time.....

GMAGS you rock, thanks for passing by.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/02_Ag_06sb_0001.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/02_Ag_06sb_0002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/02_Ag_06sb_0003.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/02_Ag_06sb_0004.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/02_Ag_06sb_0005.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/02_Ag_06sb_0006.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/02_Ag_06sb_0007.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/02_Ag_06sb_0008.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/02_Ag_06sb_0009.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/02_Ag_06sb_0010.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/02_Ag_06sb_0011.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/02_Ag_06sb_0012.jpg

cheers!
GriNGoLoCo

[GriNGo]

Fanfare Ciocarlia!

that's what I'm hearing right now. anyways here are some recent stuff I have done. The head's and SP's (image 3 & 4) are practice for my TD with Sundance.. the last is a rl sketch of my brother playing the friggin xbox. & i have some good news too brag about, i made it to the second round of the LMS2, & i'm up against these guys called Helzon & Johanson, both of them kick ass, but I have to be honest, I'm more impressed by HELZON. I already have some ideas churning about what to do for this round, I just need to practice a bit. Good luck to them, but specially for me :) I'll work my ass off, you'll see.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/07Ag06_s0001.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/07Ag06_s0002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/07Ag06_s0003.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/07Ag06_s0004.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/07Ag06_s0005.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/07Ag06_s0006.jpg

later,
GriNGoLoCo

[trickynick1001]

Hey, nice stuff in here. You do really nice work in pen, which is difficult for me to do sometimes. Thanks for the comment on my sb too. Cheers!

[mentler]

May have said this before <> think you have something going on with the pen work <> interesting feel and texture to your works <> like the page with a zillion sketches on them...... rated your thread <> you would be pleased....

Thanks for feeding the Bear

[GriNGo]

tricknick1001 > thanks for coming by man! much appreciated!
mentler > thank you so much for visiting this thread! much gratitude for your rating! (although it doesn't seem to appear :P)

Ok guys, here is a minor update, an excercise i did today for the thunderdome I have with SUNDANCE, which is due Tuesday!

[van]

Very loose. I like it.

[GriNGo]

some quickie color studies i just did.. preparation for LMS round 2. they are from real life, just outside my dorm.

[demented]

Sup GriNGoLoCo

With the Bone Doctor - seeing lotsa potential in those pen sketches. Loose, relaxed, and a wonderful feel to them.

On the coloured TD: Taking good direction, think your colours are conflicting a tad... but the feel is great. Have some stars for your hard work mate!
ciao!

- d.

[sabe2003]

oh man!
Great energy in these ink sketches. Wow. :O
Also really enjoy this peice. >
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/Gringoloco_CHOW31_Subutai.jpg

[Ulver]

Hey man, thank you for stopping by my sketchbook! I really like your drawings, very nice style! Those pen sketches are just great. Looking at them I think I need to spend more time on contours drawings. Amazing work, keep it up! And answer your question - think it really means "wolf" :)

[GriNGo]

Hey fellas, thanks for your comments... Demented, I really need to brush up on my color theory, although I really like how they turned out, for first timers. But the wacom my friend lent me is leaving tomorrow :( so hmpf... Will try to practice with some traditional media. Sabe2003, glad you enjoyed it. & Ulver, thanks for coming bye. You should really check out the band "Ulver" anyhow man :) it kicks ass...

Here's another "quickie" a did earlier in the afternoon... And also the first entry for my Thunderdome with Sundance. This time I did a self portrait... posted are the initial inked lines, and the final messed up version :D ... have to say, i like the lines most, but i'm pretty satisfied with the colors, although I need to get better at it. Just in case, the SP dones were done with a mirror, in a A3 sized sheet of paper... turned out pretty kick ass. I look like that. Still need to get better though. Burne Hogarth's Head book is the best! Enjoy!

[demented]

Hey GriNGoLoCo

That pen is really great mate, as is the digi accompanying it - think those colours are great, really helps to establish a better feel! Keep up the good work mate, think you are well on your way!

ciao!

- d.

[Meatsworthy]

Thanks for visiting my sketchbook. Cool style you have, very bold. The color studies looked good too, it's too bad your wacom is leaving :(.

[Listing]

Nice work. Keep producing. More life work.

[GriNGo]

all of it is real life stuff... 5-25 minutes each. i specially like the first kid drawing. There are a a lot of SP studies there too.. most pages need more filling up to do anyways. & one last thing: bumskee rules! check out his SB thread NOW!

[gmags]

Hey Gringo, como estas? Very nice updates so far!! Your portraits are really improving. Goin to see Ecuador kick Peru's ass on wednesday Sept 6 in New Jersey, can't wait. Ecuador!!!!:} This one is so funny loco!! Keep postin more good stuff primo!!! :yayca:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/07Ag06_s0006.jpg

[GriNGo]

Long time no see...
To make it up for you, here is a mega update of stuff from my SB, the best random doodles I have done recently! (past 2 months) From capoeira drawings to class doodles & life drawings, every sort of drawing is present. Ink/Pen drawings of course. Enjoy...

[GriNGo]

here are some illustrations for you.... 1st one is from round 3 of the competion I had with sundance. I ended up winning. It's a portrait of Jonathan Davis. The second one is a WIP of a poster design I'm doing for a buddies animation short. The initial coloring is there. I'm going to approach this design in a similar style as the Jonathan Davis portrait above.

[enthombed]

wow, i found one peculiar artist here, great lines in your work man, and cool colors i really like this stuff.. remember the master Moebius, lol cool.

Keep posting

[GriNGo]

Here is an update on the first poster... and the "logo" design of the name of the animation... :^^:

[Goog]

sweet inks man, really fun style you've got.

[GriNGo]

thanks for the comments goog!.. kick ass avatar you got there man.

Here is my christmas gift for BUNNY (of the 1st annual CA.org gift exchange). It's supposed to be a WP. Click on it to see it!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/conceptart/forbunny.jpg (http://franciscogalarraga.com/misc/bunnychristmasWP2006.jpg)

[Goog]

Heheh I like it too man :). Just wanted to say thanks for that link in my sb. Didn't even know that place existed. I've been lookin for something like that for a while. BTW, that bunny piece is pretty sweet, I'm sure (s?)he'll like it. Cheers!

[GriNGo]

I got my 9x12 wacom yesterday, this is my first painting try on it, based on one of caravaggio's paintings that are found in the Open Figure Drawing workshop that Rebeccak started. SO far I'm very excited with this thing, it just kicks ass! So far it's about 30-45 minutes of work...

http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/misc/practice/caravaggio.jpg

[GriNGo]

i decided to begin all over again with my "copy" of the caravaggio painting, and here is my status now.. about 2 hours of work...

[Ulver]

Glad to see you`re posting again! Your multicoloured pieces just kickass stuff! Very impressive! Cool line quality as usual. I`d love to see finished copy of Caravaggio :) Keep on going!

[GriNGo]

ulver- thanks for your support bro! happy new year!

heya guys, here is the last update of 2006,
i decided to finish off my caravaggio copy excerice, so I can focus on the ingres self portrait copy I'm going to start... TOMORROW! but at first, today is party night... so I hope i don't get too wasted.!

the still:
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/misc/practice/caravaggio2i.jpg

http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/misc/practice/caravaggio2animeOP.gif

I pasted the head, in honor of CARAVAGGIO's magnificent skills... I'll get him one day, I swear... 2007 is my CA.org year!

later!
GriNGoLoCo

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! :yayca:

[GriNGo]

here is my ingres selfportrait copy until now: about 2 and a half hours:

http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/misc/practice/ingres1g.jpg

[Don-key]

your lines are super slick hombre, me likes much, you have a mad illustration mindset :D have you seen sarah simblets books? your pages remind me of her travel sketchbooks...

NICE MAN!!

[enthombed]

nice stuff this last one, iwill try when another OFDM start dude.

Cheers

[GriNGo]

don-key: thanks for your comments... i tried searchinb for sarah simblets sketchbooks, but I had no luck!
enthombed_ yes bro you should try the OFDW's; rebeccak makes some really neat excercises to do!

Here is my finished study of master Ingres's self portrait:

Still
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/misc/practice/ingres1i.jpg

Link to the animated progress version: CLICK! (http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/misc/practice/ingres1.gif)

later!
GriNGoLoCo

[GriNGo]

http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/misc/practice/leighton1j.jpg

[GriNGo]

have some drawings i made today... the coloring is photoshop madness

[GriNGo]

Some portrait practice. The first is myself, the next one is a friend from school... just messing with Photoshop.. each took about half an hour to 45 minutes to make...

[GriNGo]

Friday Afternoon art session

[GriNGo]

self portrait excercise! 20-45 minutes

[GriNGo]

a portrait of a friend. his name is george.

[Kan Muftić]

This is a really cool and stylish place you got.
Credits,

[asoir]

great improvement buddy!

[GriNGo]

chupacabra & asoir: thanks!

rainbow macho heart. self portrait study.

[GriNGo]

http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/misc/GringoLoco_HunPikTokvsSpani.jpg

[AdamDillabo]

the jan 23rd update was a nice one. nice pen work too.

[Snarfevs]

Hi, just returning your comment on my sketchbook. I enjoy your bold colour and typography sense and your delicious hatching style. Definite improvement throughout the course of this SB. Some of your eyes are out of alignment with each other however in some cases such as 'leighton1j' it looks quirky and cool.

Your gods at war entry was intriguing. I love the atmospheric ambience but I'm stumped as to the relative size of the deity and whether what i assume are stone knives are heading towards him or away (I assume away). Pointing his head in the direction he is attacking and possibly casting a shadow onto the temple would probably have helped a lot.

[GriNGo]

Thanks for the input guys, well recieved specially from you Snarfevs. I'll try to get all your pointers to thought for round 2.

In the meantime, here comes a BEARDSLEY inspired drawing I just made. It's a design I came up for a friend, who's filming a short movie called "The Celebration"... if yo understand BEARDSLEY's stuff, then you get the mood of the film. Pure decadence. From conceptualization, research and this final inking, it has taken me about 4 hours to do. Damn long.

[enthombed]

hey my friend, great updates sice my last visit here.

i really like how you work with colors and your concepts are great and crazy sometimes.

Posting more please

Cheers

[GriNGo]

thanks enthombed for your post! i forgot to show you guys a big drawing I'm working on. it's a3 300 dpi sized in PS: it's getting good! Here is the state until now, complete with a detail shot:

[GriNGo]

Maybe I'll make the texture less strong, maybe not. birdies are on the way!

[GriNGo]

here is a color study for an printed ad i suggested at work. hopefully it will be accepted so i can start fleshing out the details.

[GriNGo]

Ok here, is the comp study I decided to go for,and below is the actual progress. I'm quite unsatisfied with the tube thing on the wall, so that most possibly will change later. I still have a couple of pigeons to do, and add some finishing touches. Just for the note, this thing is being painted in A3 size, 300 dpi. About other things, yesterday I submitted my God of War Entry Round 2... I'll post it here once JLAlfaro creates the entry thread. And I have to do about 5-10 illos this week. So I'm fucked! but it will be fun..

[GriNGo]

as promised:

[GriNGo]

Here comes Puppeteer, end version. Original size: 55x37cm, 300 dpi. Tools used: Photoshop, and some refs. It probably is my best digital work yet.

[GriNGo]

a quickie i was testing out in painter. from real life, just outside my window. 15-30 minutes, with artist oils and charcoal brushes.

[GriNGo]

another painter excercise

[GriNGo]

cliché but cool! this is an a3 sized ink drawing, scanned in and colored experimentally in photoshop :) it was nice to work at, and looks even more kick ass at hi res.

[chaosrocks]

cool
your color handling is always so refresshing.
beware the seductive surfaces in Painter
they can start to look gimicky if you are not careful

chaos

[GriNGo]

thanks chaos for your input. I will be more careful with those surfaces!

here is a beach sketch i made a few days ago in the beach. holy week vacations were a snap!

[hurricane]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=117247&stc=1&d=1175577239

you should think about interaction more!
this picture is just "ball and man" not "man playing ball".
just a thought!

cheers!

[Konstruktion]

Hey man thanks a lto for the comment in my SB! Really appreciate it. That Puppeteer is really nice, only thing I dont like as much as the rest of it is her foot. The pigeon closest to the viewer looks kind off wierd too, but keep at it! I looked at your website, some relly good stuff you've got there!

[GriNGo]

Thanks for your tip Hurricane! I'll think about interaction more frequently, at least when illustrating people or characters. Sarcophagus, yes I know the foot stinks but it mostly due to my hard time in foot anatomy. Just need to practice and study it more. My next big illo will be better of course ;) & I'm glad you liked my portfolio! For the moment I leave you with some flower studies I made with painter/photoshop combo... with some flickr refs.

[costas]

lovely drawings.....

[GriNGo]

costas - thanks bro!

some painter practice from yesterday and today! studies from real life. just in case: the lower three are some cloud/sky studies.

[Ham-e]

I like the colors in the second cloud study http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=123462&stc=1&d=1176687279. nice work:)

[GriNGo]

Ham-e thanks for your input!

Here is a little teaser illustration from my Final Design Project, which is a book and a series of posters. I'm currently working on that full time. Once I finish I will show you the results!

later!
GRiNGoLoCo

[GriNGo]

A painter illustration I'm working on. Here is the initial phase of it. it has taken me a couple of hours so far. I'm working it at 300 dpi, 42x29,7cm in Painter, using charcoal and artist oils.

[Ham-e]

Yo GriNGO, nice work with the digi paint I especially like the two figures on the right hand side. But I have to tell you I like when you work like this http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=130101&stc=1&d=1177656983 much better than the digis, but that's just my opinion.

[Sybo]

Im really enjoying that last paint, it has a macbre feel to it, a totally cool mood.Nice detail on the faces also, althoughthe one on the left could do with a bit of tightening up.

Also Im loving your colour studies with the clouds, very nice, fresh.

The beardsley pience up the top could be worked on a bit particullaly the line-thickness, but the characters are quite like his. You've probably finnished working that one anyway.
Well keep it uP!

[GriNGo]

ham-e thanks for your comments bro!. i like to practice "traditional" digis as well more experimental pieces... as more as I get to learn from both types of illustrations/paintings, the more I grow art-wise. You'll be see'ing a lot of both anyways, so it's better for all of us :)

Sybo thanks man! you got the mood alright. about the left face, i was also thinking it should be more realistic, but I then kinda liked the distorted feel it has to it.

for the moment, here is some abstract shape experimentation i did using zbrush... which i recommend everyone to get! the software's brush engine is just so full of possibilities, it's amazing that we don't have a zbrush subforum in here.

[johanson]

Greetings, past Thunderdome rival. (That last sentence is funnier if you read it in a crappy cartoon villain voice). Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I’m really enjoying your sketchbook. It’s fun to see you trying these different approaches to your art. I’m looking forward to see what you do with Z-Brush, and those cloud studies are great.

Have a good one,
-andrew

[GriNGo]

Here are some illustrations from my final project class, to be able to graduate with a Graphic Design major. I designed, illustrated & wrote a book, which chronicles my life since I entered college (which was a theme imposed to us since the beginning). The portraits are of people from college that I met during these times and that in some way have influenced my personal development. The final format is a book of about 80 pages, A4 size, hardback white cover. It turned out excellent, and I will be officially be graduating this June the 2nd.

Here is the title design/illustration, & most of the portraits. Mixed Media, final tinkering done in Photoshop. Actual size (A3), (for possible exhibition purposes):

http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Portada1.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_AlejandroEscobarF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_AnaGabrielaMartinezF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_AnaMariaF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_CarolinaIzquierdoF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_CharlyTorresF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_ChirisAyoraF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_ChristianMoralesF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_DavidCabreraF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_EdisonFuentesF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_ErnestoVillacisF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_EstefaniaArciniegasF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_FerRodriguezF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_GabyRecaldeF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_GeovannyVerdezotoF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_GuisseGuadaF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_JorgeChamorroF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_JuanIsaacF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_JuanJavierDavalosF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_KarlaCordovaAlarconF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_LizzaDalleNogareF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_MajoCarvajalF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_MartinIzurietaF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_OscarRobertoCabreraF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_PabloAulestiaF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_SantiagoSotoF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Estud_SantiagoValdiviesoF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Prof_EduardoVillacisF.jpg
http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/pf/Prof_GuidoAlvarezF.jpg

[Jokisalo]

bläöblböbl lov ya pal, love your lines for sure!!

[GriNGo]

Jokisalo - thanks man!

long time no see... to begin, i have finally graduated from college, and have a BA in Graphic Deisgn, with some minors in Illustration and Fine Arts. Tomorrow I start work at an ad agency, hopefully with a lot of illustration jobs so I can practice. The past few weeks have been full of work and shit, like going to a Barron Storey seminar here in my hometown (he's a god among illustrators!), drawing in my sb, actually graduating (it's such a fuss in my college), and doing an abstract experimental comic for a contest in about 3 days... this is what I'm going to show you... I made a big image with all the pages so you can get a better reading experience (it's in spanish though, so tough luck!).


About the comic, well the title loosely translate into "The Most Beautiful Dream in the World". It's an actual dream that was written down upon waking up by a friend, called Santiago Soto. I changed the original text a little to make it more suitable for a comic strip. Last week on Monday I designed the layout of the images, and then by wednesday i started working on the illustrations, in a A4 sized format, 300 dpi. I finished by midday on Friday. The media is mixed, basically inks and digital stuff. Please click on the image below so you can see the readable (larger version). This is my first comic attempt and I have to confess that I enjoyed doing it alot.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/sueopaneo.jpg (http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/misc/sueñopaneo.jpg)

Here is a pic of my final project, as proof that is printed.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/gringoPF.jpg

& me goofing off with the Barron!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/GriNGoLoCO/gringobarron.jpg

until next time...

[JL.Alfaro]

El vergero? que onda?
estan chidas tus pinturas hermano, algo differente a lo que has hecho por aqui.

estaria bien un show por ahi...let me know if you do have one.

ora

[GriNGo]

jlalfaro - jeje por no decir el mierdero :D y te haré saber si algun show se asoma..

un poco más de cosillas: the first 3 are some stuff i made during the barron storey seminar i atended a couple of weeks ago. barron storey is a very inspirational man, full of knowledge and he will be dearly missed here.

The next drawings 4 images are real life inks/pastels/pencils of 1) a model 2) my girlfriend 3) my uncle 4) a portrait of my father

greetings!

[GriNGo]

greetings!

[ped454]

trippy

[GriNGo]

ped454: :yayca:

Haley & John.

[GriNGo]

Hello, once again I'm updating this... the first two images are from past friday's drawing session. the next is the cover of my new sketchbook, DESTINO BASURA (aprox the 10th in a couple of years) and the 4th is the work in progress for the curse challenge, due on july 4. Hopefully I'll finish the whole image tonight, so I can work on finishing the details tomorrow. Enjoy!

[GriNGo]

one day late. :nohope:

[GriNGo]

the first of a series of made up portraits: painter x and photoshop. i added some texture to the face with a photo of a surface I took. My texture library is great! Now if I can find a way to do this with real paint... nevertheless, the series will continue!

[GriNGo]

Here's another portrait. I'll call him Slodoban.

[Ulver]

I like your portraits, man! And that abstract stuff is looking extremely great!

[GriNGo]

ulver - thanks for the comment man! in your honor, I'll name this one portrait ULVER.

[GriNGo]

a portrait of my love

[loveandasandwich]

Wowowowowow, I love your style!


This (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=155675&stc=1&d=1182222197) is gorgeous. & the skull is awesome. and the made up portraits are fantastic too. and and and and and. im subscribing to yours. :D

[GriNGo]

28chelseaslater thanks for passing by! and it's an honor to have been subscribed to! really... :yayca:

Now for updates, first of all no head in this post :( but i'll post one tomorrow. I wanted to show a study I'm doing now. It's an old master copy, all digital, using painter for the moment. A couple of hours until now. I can't remember who made the original, but I pretty much liked it the first time I saw it. The main purpose of this copy is to study how the values are working within this composition, and also as an excercise to see if I can find a way to emulte 'real life' textures in Painter. so I expect to have a great time learning on this one.

[GriNGo]

5th... :O

[GriNGo]

6th. this is fucking fun! :wink:

[GriNGo]

i present you spiky.. made him real fast, with some new photoshop brushes i made for myself.

[GriNGo]

an abstract doodle i made while listening to queen. when i finished, that song was playing.

[GriNGo]

a quicky and nasty photoshop experimentation. the pissed eye. :dad:

[GriNGo]

sketch one of a project I'm working on, called "Tormenta". It's supposed to be a mural.

[asoir]

nice to see a fellow experimentorr! your latest stuff is impressive, try something new though, something you've never quite done- medium could be a strange one?

peace

[GriNGo]

asoir - thanks for posting buddy. I'll be trying to do some oil paintings soon enough, and more complex illustrations (apart from faces), using the new "techniques" I discovered. Thankfully I have lots to do!

a quick fooling around in photoshop, just before supper. I like the solors & mood of the fellow. He's called HUEVON. EDIT: Oh and I forgot to mention that so far, non of the faces & stuff I have been posting has been referenced from photos or any other source. it's only from my humble mind!"

[iceman478]

I love your stuff ...it works so well the .style and colors and everything...
There is so much going on in each picture very cool stuff...keep up the amazing work

[GriNGo]

iceman478 - thanks for your comments man. & i won't let you down!

possibly last post for today.. a saint among thorns. hope you like! :P (it's a thirty minute photoshop excercise)

[Sirio_Brozzi]

Gringo man, Im digging your exploration of digital rendering dude. So far
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=174680&stc=1&d=1185386727
This is my favorite one so far, its got a macabre feel to it, and the way you rendered it works best. These digitals are a bit hit and miss, but keep experimenting! You'll get a hang of it soon. Ciao. :p

[GriNGo]

Sirio_Brozzi - Thanks for your input man, & yes the experimentation has been fun so far! Just loving it... hit & miss & all.

Here is an experiment I'm calling "Siamese Fate". Abou 30 mi, just using Photoshop.

[gmags]

What's up paisa? Nice updates here!! Alotta cool experimentin in here!! Gotta get a copy of PS to mess around with. Ecuador gana la medalla de oro!!! Hijo de Puta!! Keep rockin on paisa!!! :) Thanx for passin by!!

[GriNGo]

prelunch excercise! photoshop, about 15 minutes, no ref.

[GriNGo]

:yayca:

My tribute to Glen Angus (CHOW#82)

[GriNGo]

Here are some illos made for an ecuadorian online mag, called JUDAS: the topic was SIN. Painter & Photoshop.

[Basil]

nice work with the pen and ink sketches, you're getting quite good at shading along the contour of the figure. :)

for the most part it seems like you are doing heavily abstract and/or heavily stylized work, and some of it is really cool. do you intend to do mostly editorial illustration or concept art also? if you want to do concept art, it would be a good idea to do some more representational images that show off concept.

[GriNGo]

notspecialist- thanks for your compliments! I really don't have a favorite preference in the illustration realm (for me concept art is part of illustration).. i'd really love to do stuff which will be portrayed in any media, and if it has more public viewing it, even better!

Here are some character design teasers for an animation project I'm currently involved in here in my country- hopefully some of these designs will be accepted towards the animation phase: the first one is an ink sketch scanned in and colored in photoshop, the other two are entirely digital: from painter to photoshop. two different styles, two different characters.

[Hamsta]

Hey, Gringo, thx for commenting on my SB.

I like the last character the best, it looks and feels better than the angel, in terms of color, the nuances that break the symmetry, as well as anatomically.
The nose ring is the only thing that bothers me, it sort of blends with the mouth.

With the angel, I think the neck is too long, the wings at an uncomfortable angle/position, and with the simian features of the face.

The inks are very "artsy" but some features are lost, in all the lines (the soldier's hands for example)

[Maestro Andres]

Hey, pense que ya habia comentado antes en tu sketchbook. Esta muy interesante los trabajos que tienes aqui, lo mejor me parece tu uso de texturas en Painter, en especial la de los ultimos retratos. Y se nota que has mejorado con tu uso de tintas y pluma. Pues sigue adelante mano!

Por cierto, de que parte del pais eres? :}

[DIMAGYAN]

muy buenos trabajos. es interesante ver todo lo que experimentas en tus dibujos. lo que mas me ha llamado la atencion son los colores que usas(mejor dicho como los usas) muy bueno en verdad.me agrada como combinas elementos graficos con elementos mas realistas.interesante estilo con la tinta.
pues nada sigue con el buen trabajo.estare al pendiente de lo que subes

[Sketch]

I really like that you have a look that's all yours! It's really cool to see you try new things but it still looks like it's done by you.

[Ulver]

Interesting designs! Your style rocks man!

[GriNGo]

Ulver - thanks man!
Sketch - thanks for your comment man! it's nice to hear that people think my style is forming, when i really don't activley search or practice it! it's make me glad to see people appreciate what i do.
DIMAGYAN - gracias por tus comentarios hermano! me honra los comentarios que pusiste!
Maestro Andres - gracias por tu comentario loco, seguiré practicando en la medida de lo posible... espero que pronto me salgan proyectos para dedicarme por completo al freelance. Para responder a tu pregunta, nací, vivo y trabajo en QUITO.
Hamsta - thanks for your suggestions and tips bro.

now for some work, here are some traditional painting stuff I have been doing in the past two months.. (beware the quality of the photos :( )

the first is the latest one, from sunday: an oil painting, it's the basis for an illustration that I'm thinking of doing about justice. I need it to dry so I can scan it (it's letter sized).

the next is a portrait of my cousin, part of a series of family portraits i'm making. It's a venture into grayscale, high contrast, realistic portrait. I like how it turned out. It's an acrylic, and it must measure something like 50 cm x 40cm

The next is a self portrait where I tried to make an experiment in deconstructing the forms of my face (but retaining the overall likeness of my face). i think i kinda failed in the retaining part, but nonetheless, i like result. It's the same size as the portrait of my cousin. This one is the oldest of the bunch, 2 months old or so.

Finally here comes my self portrait, in the same style as my cousin. I made this before my cousins portrait, and is the first of the series of family portraits I'm currently working on. It's a bit bigger than my cousins portrait, like 70x40cm

[daveneale]

thanks for your kind comments on my skewtchbook, you have some wicked stuff yourself-the portraits are really interesting

[GriNGo]

davekneale - thanks man!

A slight update: portraits i made for self portrait day (nov 1 2007). And my last fruit study (done today!). You can see more of my fruit studies over at the Digital Painting #2 thread by bumskee over at the Photoshop subforum.

later folks,
Gringo

[Ulver]

Great portrait experiments man! I like 3 b&w portraits in the post #188 the most. Red one is nice too.

[GriNGo]

ulver - thanks man!

here is my "justice" painting, scanned and a bit photooshopped.. i like how it came out, despite the simplicity... check out the oil "detail" shot, i love how oils look! <3

[loveandasandwich]

I love this style of sketching you have: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=185774&stc=1&d=1187159168

It looks awesome.

[Darktwin]

I love the last one in post 182, man thats sick, Good luck to you also man, it will be fun, and I know I'm going to have to work hard now, looking at your sketchbook.:wink:

[lennon]

Che gringoloco, muy buenos tus experimentos!

[joiton]

Don señor! realmente impresionado con sus trabajos,
Me encanta la carga de personalidad que tienen,
impresionante la forma que experimentas con los medios tradicionales,
la ultima imagen al oleo espectacular!
y tambien con lo digital, esos experimentos mirroreados geniales!
Felicitaciones y segui posteando, pronto volvere por aca!
Un saludo

[GriNGo]

28chelseaslater - thanks bro!
Darktwin - yeah man it's going to be one hell of a fight! all the best for you bro!
lennon - gracias hermano!
joiton - gracias por tus comentarios hermano! es un honor saber que piensas que mis trabajos son así, especialmente viendo la calidad de tu portafolio! nos vemos en el chat hermano..

heya fellas a los años... well here is my latest tiny update: 1 is one of those mirror faced bastards (again), he's quite a kick assing guy don't you think? doind this made me realize how much I suck a t anatomy! the next one is an anti-bullfighting poster I did (during the bullfighting celebrations of my city). I posted a couple of big ass posters up near the bull-fighting ring, and smaller ones in the neighborhood beside it. Only 1 small one remains... I'll put up the pictures of me pasting them up once I get them...

later people...

[GriNGo]

here's the result of the collab with Joiton, using my Guerrero face illustration in the previous post.. joiton is one hell of a painter! i love his result. Next is an image called warpig, just a teeny excercise i did today, for the Ca.org Metal Militia mascot challenge... very very late :rocker:

[lennon]

Muy buen laburo, me gustan mucho las updates, especialmente warpig y el póster de "jesus el gran poder". Te pagaron por esos? O era el placer de verlos en la calle? (bueno, también está la causa noble imagino). De cualquier manera, me encantan.

[GriNGo]

lennon - gracias por tu comentario! no me pagaron por el jesus del gran poder... era todo autofinanciado... el placer de verlos en la calle, de que la gente vea y se ponga a pensar... toda esa nota.. el arte de la calle me fascina... espero poder tener más oportunidades de hacer proyectos de este estilo de nuevo.

new stuff! just an excercies i've done today... i wanted to do a phoenix... first is the black & white, then my coloring attempt... i like both, but i like the b&w version better.

[ped454]

Nice experimentations. Would love to see more characters from different angles and poses.

lats

[ICH]

Hey Gringo, I'm enjoied your sketchbook. Your art is so personal and strong, I like it! I also like a lot your ink style works, nice gestures!
Like I say you on chat, I'm in love whit your puppeteer piece.

Cheers!

[Jonish]

Wow, beautiful work. It really has spirit! I also wanted to thank you for critting my missing ambient light, as I wrote in my SB, I'll try to have a look at adequate article asap.

PS
I'll try to crit you in spanish, just when I get "a little bit" better :-)

[gustavo desimone]

vos decis que te gusta mucho mi dibujo te digo lo mismo del tuyo tenes un muy buen dibujo muy europeo

[bakatron]

amazing. truly. its like egon schiele meets bill sienkewicz and something completely different as well.

[bengonzalez]

Mira Gringo se ve bien la ultima pintura. me gusta el sentido de compocision que tiene y la porfundidad de sombras.

Oh y la mezcolanza de cuerpos que querias saber como la hice fue con una modelo muy paciente y la ayuda de un libro de anatomia "bridgman's" (si lla se que me tomo my tiempo en responder)

[Sketch]

On some of these latest ones you're teetering on genius! The bull one really sticks out to me... in an awesome way.

[Mr. Mu]

really like that phoenix, man!

Great sketchbook.

[GriNGo]

:mod:

I have finally arrived. Sorry for the lack of updates... work has gotten to me. I have updated my blog frequently, and I also built & uploaded my new website/portfolio (check it out at www.franciscogalarraga.com) but CA deserves the same justice so I'm sorry for not posting sooner. Now to the reply your kindness:

- ped454 : thanks man. right now i'm in a project that involves doind different charaacters & poses. I hope I can show it to you once the "NDA" gets "terminated".
- ICH : thanks bro. I'm glad you love that piece, I just hope you'll start liking other stuff I do in the future!
- Jonish : Thanks man, you should check out PrometheusANJ's (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15745) coloring tuts: very simple & good.
- Gustavo Desimone : Gracias hermano! Europeo mi dibujo? es un honor que lo tilden así... pero sinceramente estoy viendo si es que mi dibujo puede ser considerado latino también...
- bakatron : that comparison really made a tear come out from my eye: much thanks bro!... what an honor.
- bengonzalez : gracias hermano, espero seguir mejorando en el futuro..
- Sketch : thanks man, really kind of you to say that. I'm glad you liked the bull a lot... i really didn't think the CA community (at least people who have seen it in this SB) would recieve it well, since it's more of a poster than concept art.
- Mr Mu : thanks bro!

Here's some of the best I have done recentley. Hopefully next week I'll put some actual real life sketches from my first moleskine (nice little pad).
1) My LMS3 round 1 entry. Didn't pass to the next one though :( Prostate SUnrise did.
2-3)A pair of faces of dead people. Quickies, without ref, using photoshop.
4-5-6)More quickies.. without ref. Quick coloring.
7) A "tribute", to my GF. Te amo nena!

[bakatron]

im in love. im totally blown away by the mad genius your work represents.

[GriNGo]

bakatron - you're too kind! :yayca:

recentley i've been into CA.org's sketcher.. it's pretty great place to hang out. The first is a solo i made (entirely from mind), and the next man is a collab with DIANTRES... collabing rocks!

[GriNGo]

Colored in PS

[GriNGo]

more sketcher... the blue sketch is mine.

[GriNGo]

here comes a batch of my favorite moleskin drawings so far... that lil' notebook is a blast to carry around. everybody should have one in my opinion. The last painting is an acrylic (like 80x50 cm or smething like that) which i did in about 4-5 hours for a workshop I won an entrance to called PLACE here in my hometown of Quito... which was actually a bigger collaborative project that happened throughout the world in different cities, organized by Barcelona design studio VASAVA... great project overall. & Last but not least please help my design win this t-shirt design contest by voting (http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/11282). I used my old bull character from last year, in attempt to make him progress into hi-end fashion (:P) j/k.. if you vote, you have my thanks!

later,
GRINGOLOCO

[ICH]

Hey Gringo! I dig your sketches, nice speed pen gestures, nice mood.
Love the blue sketch!
Keep it up! Cheers!

P.S. Good luck for the contest, you got my vote! Really like the bull!

[Ulver]

Awesome pen sketches, man! Great line!

[Goog]

nice stuff mate, keep with those studies. That one chick in pencils is fantastic.

[hedwordup]

hi gringo, loving your style its very loose and getting better with every page. nice to see someone working in pen too

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120987

[GriNGo]

Hey, guys thanks for your comments:

ICH: thanks bro, and thanks for the vote! soon i think i'll add a pair of designs to see if i have any luck!
ULVER: thanks bro! i'll try to improve..
Goog thanks bro, that chick by the way is my gf :)
hedwordup thanks for the comment man, improvement is the only option for me right now.

here come some new pen sketches... some new crazy ideas i have been doing. tell me what you think... oh and yes, i have the new bargue drawing course!!! i have been thinking of a way to work with it... an alternative way. i'll post details soon. later guys/gals!

[johanson]

It’s been a while since I’ve dropped by. I’m looking forward to seeing more of what you’re planning with the Bargue series. And the designs you posted back on Aug 14th are Great (I'm a little late getting to the party on that one).
Rock on.

[yinteck]

Thanks for visiting my sketchbook. Nothing much to say. I really like your pen work and the artistic drawing of yours. Keep posting, wanna see more

[Maestro Andres]

Gringo, los ultimos sketches de moleskin se ven bastante interesantes, tienen su abstracion y buen uso de lineas para sombrear. Como sugerencia, de pronto puedes combinar diferentes colores de pluma, uno azul con un rojo, para anadir mas dimension. Sigue adelante!

[towy]

Very diversified and there are many work here, keep up studies :]

[GriNGo]

thanks everyone for taking time in giving me your thoughts. :yayca: what a wonderful community...

johanson -well basically, what I have been thinking about doing is trying to work with alternate mediums (at least initially) then what the course recommends (which is charcoal or pencils). I'm going to see if trying to copy the plates with inks or pens will produce the same learning experience. Also, I have this tendency to NOT erase when I make a mistake. I know that's an insult to the ACADEMY tradition that the book tieaches, but personally i like the results. I'm also interested in making the drawings quicker than what's standard. Frankly, my job as a freelancer and other duties will keep me from making one drawing in a timeframe of 2-3 weeks (or more). I'm not saying that's it wrong to make such long studies (if i had the free time, I'd certainly try to draw as patiently as possible), but right now I don't. That's my "alternative". I'll try to do my first plate in this week.
yinteck - thanks, i'l keep posting, specially since DEEP is here :D sounds like a great contest.
Maestro Andres - gracias hermano, muy buena sugerencia sobre intentar usar diferentes colores.. ya voy a conseguirme un esferito rojo o verde para ver que puede salir.
Towarlock - thanks for thinking i'm diverse! and i will keep up the studies.

a rucar!!!!!!!!! :zzz:

[johanson]

Rock on, I think this will be a good project. Using alternate media should be effective. If anything having to push for the subtlety needed will help get an even finer control of your chosen material. Good stuff. I might disagree with you on the not erasing anything, but that’s just on personal preference. Right now I think I need to erase more. Then again, not ever erasing could over time make someone more efficient at drawing. If you can’t erase then you have to train yourself to get it right the first time.

Sounds like you’re going in for DEEP. It sounds rad. I’m trying to decide if I have the 110% needed to devote to it.

take it easy,
-andrew

[GriNGo]

johanson - you're right about erasing.. i think eventually i'll have to force myself to do it. right now I'm in 7 saturday painting course, and our instructor was really strict about getting the drawing right. at first it was awkward for me to erase... but then i started to see the useful ness of it.. and then the drawing started to get better! oh well... at least with other mediums I won't erase as much (pens, inks, etc).

http://www.franciscogalarraga.com/blog/uploaded_images/chuta-737961.jpg

about deep i started sketching stuff but got DEEPLY frustrated on my lack of creativity on the subject.. i simply suck at making creatures for the moment.. and the job has been getting in the way, so maybe I'll try to do something for future contests. thanks for passing by bro... the bargues will be coming soon!

hey some updates.. small sketches and experiments (PS!) the first two are a pair of ghostly people, and the last is an experiment in shapes, colors, fractals, filters ( :wtf: ) hahah..

[ICH]

Hey man! Love the ghost guys! Keep it up!

[Maestro Andres]

Estan buenos los fantasmas. Solo como idea, capaz para los fantasmas puedes tener los cuerpos espectrales pero con una cara mas definida. Claro es cosa cuestion de gusto pero es solo una sugerencia. Esos experimentos si pegan bien. Vamos a ver que sale de tu clase de pintura, se escucha bueno eso. Por cierto, poderosa esa camiseta que llevas. Viva la seleccion!


I like the ghosts a lot too. Just to throw in an idea, maybe you can have the bodies to be all ghostly while having the face more defined. Of course it is a matter of taste but just an idea :D Looking forward for your painting class project. BTW, that soccer jersey rules!

[johanson]

DEEPLY frustrated. HA, puns! I know what you mean. I bailed on DEEP too. I started to storyboard an intro to the world but then just stopped. Pure laziness I fear.

I dig the PS ghostly people, especially the second one. It looks like their almost made of birds or something. It might be interesting to see a collection of them made from different objects reflecting something about their life/personality. But that’s just me rambling.

Oh, and you should post up what you’re working on in the 7 Saturday painting course.

later,
-andrew

[GriNGo]

ICH: thanks man!
Maestro: jajaj gracias bro - la clase de pintura esta bien, estoy aprendiendo bastante sobre el oleo tradicional, y al mismo tiempo viendo mis falencias. ya sabesf, esa camisa es inmortal.. jajaj.
johanson: hey man, thanks.. about bailing on Deep, last week i decided that i might give it a shot in some areas (more possible character design, industrial design, creature design and most importantly panel design). I got this general idea of a civilization called Abstracts, created, from a deep see mineral with miracoulous and still unkown properties. Way different from my initial frustration sketches: the idea is good (for me anyways), so maybe I will be submitting something after all!. I was kind of inspired from the ghostly people i made in the last post to start writing about this civilization... I have already done a but of sketches and stuff, but i can't find my moleskine to scan them and upload them: one thing is sure, more "ghostly" people will start to arrive soon I hope... i'm kind of concerned about the rules not making abstract figured beings, hopefully my creations won't be as abstract as to earn a disqualification... And the drawing I was making in the photo is from the first day at the painting course!

Now here comes some stuff from the painting course (an underpainting and the initial grayscale "conversion": the last stage which i'm currently repeating since the physical resemblance with the model is WAY off). And next, are my first mudbox sculptures, colored in Photoshop. Mudbox just kicks ass... so expect to see more experimentations using it. thanks for watching people!

[GriNGo]

the updated "grayscale" painting... now it looks much more similar to the model. The next two are some "teasers" for what I'm trying to do for DEEP... later today I'll post a major dump of sketches and ideas of what I have been thinking about my undersea "UTOPIA"...

[ICH]

Man, the "grayscale painting" is becoming great. Last step have a nice "real feeling". I dig the contrast and the intensity of the model's eyes.
Glad to see your experiments whit mudbox. I'm tryng something similar whit ZBrush and it's totally funny! Your model are creeeepy, nice!
Good luck for the chow, i see some interesting studies, keep posting!

[Brashen]

Keep it up man!!

[GriNGo]

Well, I decied to do some pieces (CHOW & POW), on an underwater society I'm calling Abstract Ghosts. Basically, they were once humans, but who shipwrecked in deep seas. By contact with ABSTRACT ( a substance/mineral that essentially alters their physical and mental states to an ethereal almost inmortal, degree), they survived although not as normal human beings. Rarely seen by normal humans, the have become the masters of a once considered iun controllable entity. They don't procreate as normal surface humans do, their existance is basically based on the quantity of people who die for whatever reason at sea. Each person who dies at sea becomes on of them, due to unknown ETHEREAL properties of Abstract.

The first two are CHOW, then come some sketches and finally a POW entry. Not to much, but I liked how they turned out,

[DIMAGYAN]

che estan muy buenos los ultimos laburos que posteaste. los fantasmas estan muy interesantes.
esperando la proxima subida...

[GriNGo]

DIMAGYAN - gracias hermano!

SPACE MAN GRINGO an excercise in composition and abstract shapes (sortof)..

[Maestro Andres]

Que bueno ver que te animaste a hacer el CHOW pana. Muy interesantes esas ideas y sketches. Los experimentos de Mudbox se ven interesantes, algo que podrias hacer es de eliminar los "hard edges" para que no se vea como una figura cortado. De todos modos, se ve muy bueno la ultima pintura y el nuevo update es una gran mejora sobre el anterior.

[jozulus]

Thanks for visiting my SB.

You got very good sense for colors, and making a picture from anything.

Sometimes your figures are very fine, but sometimes seems that was hard to create them. Thats just a suggestion, but i think you should practice to draw with less lines sometimes, try to catch to forms to first (i am on that too at now). ;)

[Ulver]

Yo, Gringo! That "abstract" pages are great man! Love that ghosts sketches :)

[DIMAGYAN]

esta muy bueno el ultimo...es interesante el rumbo que estas tomando dejando ver la abstraccion en las formas. pues nada, sigue asi!

[GriNGo]

maestro andres - gracias pana por el apoyo moral! espero que para la próxima te apuntes! sobre esa opción de mudbox, ya voy a ver como le corrijo! gracias por el dato..
jozulus - thanks man, i'll take your suggestion into consideration! it'll be hard, since i love scribbling!
ulver - thanks man!
DIMAGYAN - gracias amigo, así voy a seguir!

thanks for visiting everyone, here comes a study of velasquez, done in PS in about 3 hours.. fun fun fun... started with a grayscale drawing of the painting and then i started adding layers of color.. this is the final result of the excercise... YAY PAGE 9!

[GriNGo]

here's some more mastery copying!

[Mon Chat]

Wow! thanks for checking out my sketchbook! awesome stuff you've got going on here! really impressive studies of masters! :)

[Texahol]

master copies are hard work, but I think you can spend more time on them. Really look at the angles and relationships for everthing. On the last one, the values are pretty close, but the basic drawing has a lot of issues, especially in the head. you've squashed it flat horizontally a little bit, and the relationship between the hair ribbon and forhead are reversed. The way I look at it when doing master copies, is they didn't just spend a few hours on it...they went until it was perfect! You can too! hehehe

I wouldn't worry too much about the texture of these copies, I'd focus just on correctness, values and edges. What I like to do is find the largest value shapes and just draw them in, and then refine from big to small :)

keep up the good work dude, studies always pay off with whatever you put into them :D

[jedininjaman]

Nice work on the master copy the proportions are spot on
keep at it -jedi

[GriNGo]

J.Boswell - thanks for the visit man!
Texahol - thanks for the crits man, really appreciated. I really would love to spend lots of time on these, but sometimes work gets in the way, that's why i want to make them short.. like a quickie or something :D But you're right, only trial and error makes you a better draftsmen. From big to small, that's how i work too, but i always try start with a basic underlying drying and start building up the shapes from there.. if i don't make the drawing i tend to make proportions way crazy.
jedininjaman - thanks for the vist and crit my friend!

here's another one, about 2-3 hours: velasquez.

[GriNGo]

more velasquez fun :yum:

[GriNGo]

freefall: an excercise in doing upside down characters in upside down compositions - or whatever.

[ICH]

Ehy man, really interesting exercises! Really like your technique. Imho last Velsquez painting need a little more work on the mouth, but, man, great feeling, nice works!

[maxetormer]

man this last one is very very VERY cool, and the master studies are coming along great!!! keep it UP!