Something more about me

Der Gengangte 2

2010-05-08T11:20:00.000-07:00

Another drawing of my DnD Mage.

From

Der

2010-05-04T20:16:00.000-07:00

This is a character from a Dungeons and Dragons campaing I am currently playing. He is a boy Mage with a little attitude. Soon I may upload more drawings of him.

History of Dada

2010-04-27T10:26:00.000-07:00

For my arts history class I had to make a paper about Dadaism. This is the cover art I used for the front page.

Canvas

2010-04-18T21:51:00.000-07:00

Here are some poorly taken pictures of a canvas I am working on. I mounted it myself and this is where my first big painting is going to be concived.

Contrast

2010-04-14T20:22:00.000-07:00

This was an exercise where we had to make contrast by color, size and luminosity. I took some pictures in the park and the whole idea was to transmit the loneliness I felt back then when he left.

Working with Illustrator

2010-04-14T19:57:00.000-07:00

Illustrator will always be a pain in the ass for me but the outcome is always really cool. This are some of the things I have been working on for Digital Creation class. The first two are edited painting from Gustav Klimt and the third Is my own.

More Design Basics

2010-04-14T19:45:00.000-07:00

All of these are part of my design class projects. Each of them solves a specific exercise that I think its pretty obvious.
I have been trying out Picasa 3 lately for all my picture indexing needs and its really awesome. Althou their blogging functions work really great, they were a bit hard to fully understand from the begining. I hope that from now on I will be uploading more of my work.

Design Basics

2010-04-13T15:14:00.000-07:00

Scarce and inedible

2010-02-24T12:51:00.000-08:00

This is an image altered in Photoshop for my digital creation class. Is part of the series called "No es comida". In this image I tried to imitate the technic perfected by Caravaggio called tenebrism.

Wires

2010-01-04T09:06:00.000-08:00

Wires

I am trapped in a world of wires
Where everything conects
I let my soul travel
It everything affects

I am lost in this perfect universe
Wich this wires connect
Things brought by my mortality
Sins that this world reflects

I stretch my hand into eternity
To grab what once I lost
I bring sounds and noise
Unafraid of what it might cost

For everything is in balance
This world of wires will make me pay
It will brake something inside
Scars that will ever stay

I wrote this poem in October 13 2005. And today I read it again and realized what I meant back then. My life came to be what I had expected.

Copy the copy

2009-12-21T12:16:00.001-08:00

Lately I am trying to copy images I see from Magazines or Newspapers.

Pencil

2009-12-18T19:00:00.000-08:00

Back to the old pencil today.

This is supposed to be a Mage for my upcoming Dungeons and Dragons campaign but I think it looks more like a thief.

Someone asked me to draw a star for a tattoo or something. This is one of my attempts.

Even more bits

2009-12-16T15:42:00.000-08:00

Uploading some more of the stuff I made.

Pointillism

Bits of Art

2009-12-16T05:33:00.000-08:00

This is a bit of what I have been doing this semester. I havent uploaded much because everything I have done this semester so far has been for some class or another, but now the semester is over and I am free to post anything.

This is the urinal I made for Painting class. After the teacher saw this she told me to look up "The Fountain" by Duchamp. It seems the guy made quite a disturb at the beginning of the 20th century with this. So I was no Maverick then? Ohh well.

This is a portfolio I had to make myself to hold the artwork for engraving class.

This is the "before" picture of one of my engravings and below is how it turned out after the print.

This is all part from a series titled "Money Isn't"

This one is called Money isn't food.

There are a bunch more, some of them got stolen, some of them I gave away.

Cosas que no he perdido

2009-08-29T08:59:00.000-07:00

Inventario:

Algunas nuevas canciones que me pusistes en tu carro.

La pulsera con que llegastes de España y tiene tu perfume.

Unas fotos que te robe, pero me regalastes.

Cada uno de mis dibujos que tienen algo de ti.

Algunos de mis besos con tu nombre escrito.

El sentimiento de que no te vuelvo a ver.

Everything new but just the same

2009-06-19T21:24:00.000-07:00

I left Danny last november or so I thought
but in the truth it was HIM who left me.

up and away.

He took the last rocket into space up,
I wish to take a rocket somewhere like a moon
of Jupiter. Been reading "The Hitchhikers Guide To
The Galaxy" so Ive picked up a couple of good tips to
travel space in a cheap way. If you loose your way in
space write me and I may get lost as well. Better than
staying here.

I've been engaging in different activities lately and in the next
few weeks I will start college... again. Now I am older
and wiser but everyone else will be younger and crisp. So
there is great need of good coffee to be able to compete with the
new bastards that are so damn full of vivacity. My life has been
upgraded a lot recently. New technologies are at my disposal and
staying on top of the tidings of the world has become an addiction.
I hope this new knowledge can save me from senility when college starts.

Yo como si no me...

2009-04-28T21:09:00.000-07:00

Si, tu eres tu,
Tu eres tu;
Lo dices mas y me cansa.

Tu, con el ligero canta'o,
con la mantequilla.
En tu mano la mierda de ron barato.

Me lo dices y te digo que no.
Me pones el culo en mis manos
y quiero lamerte la espalda.

Me acuerda cuando cantabas odas a la vida.
Cuando amanecíamos en erecciones.
¿Como conviertes tiempo a algo diferente?

Pero si algo reconozco de la lluvia
es que cuando encharca jode.
No me quiero volver a ensuciar.

Aunque tu seas tu
y yo soy tuyo.
Yo siempre como si no me...

...como si no me enamoraras.

I have been feeding my brain

2009-04-11T09:30:00.000-07:00

Lately I have haven't been drawing much cause most of the time I've been reading news about everything. But specially on economy and world news. Ive been watching stuff from every angle and meditating on what it is to come.

This is a very good Ted talk from Juan Enriquez posted on TED.com

This documentary is called Zeitgeist Addendum it is about the economy and why it is the way it is.

Away From Keyboard

2009-03-30T11:35:00.000-07:00

I have been doing too much lately, haven't got much time for myself that meaning time sitting in front of my computer. Ill update some artwork tomorow.

Here is some old stuff for the meantime:

Going to print

2009-03-25T09:07:00.000-07:00

This Friday I have to hand in the Art Portfolio for Art School. So I am setting up my best and cleanest art so far to hand them in this Friday. So here is a sneak peak at my portfolio:

Chasing cars

2009-03-23T09:34:00.000-07:00

My car has been busted for over a month now and I don't have any money to repair it and I am still paying 400 bucks a month for the loan of the darn thing. I've been thinking too much about cars lately so it was no wonder I ended up drawing cars these days.

I didn't expect that drawing vehicles would be so hard. Well for me it is.

Dog chasing a cat? My god! I have no originality. Hah.

Inked

2009-03-20T19:58:00.000-07:00

Ive been experimenting with inking this whole week. I am used to drawing in pencil so using markers is kinda new to me. I don't have the ability to commit errors as I did with the pencils so at first I was kinda reluctant to use them. Then I got used to the pens and now I feel comfortable inking with them.

With the pens I have to find ways around the errors I make or just live with them. They also make everything look more crisp and relevant than the pencils did. I will keep on practicing until inking becomes natural to me.

Here is some of the stuff I recently made:

While drawing this I noticed how much Old San Juan has influenced me. I really love the place its like a part of who I am.

This I colored yesterday, this was one of the drawings I made March 16 while running some errands.

Micro pens and micro pains

2009-03-17T21:59:00.000-07:00

A rushing pain thru my hand and then some blood. My right hand had been cut by a falling monitor. When I woke up this morning it seems I stumbled with one of the monitors in my room and it hit my hand very hard. I couldn't draw the entire day and I couldn't work because I am a waiter and to be able to hold stuff is part of the job. But that gave me the time to get some inspiration and ideas from the web. I stumbled upon a blog from a female artist named France Belleville. She makes some really impressive drawings with some Pigma Micron markers. So later when my hand got better I got into some experimenting and it was quite fun.

I am also experimenting with something called Tiltshift photography in photoshop but It seems the picture I had was too blurry or something because I wasn't able to get the effect right. Tiltshift effect causes certain things in a picture look as if they where really small like in a scale model, you can view a tutorial here. Maybe tomorrow I will go out and take some pictures so I can practice this effect.

Sick in the road.

2009-03-16T16:27:00.000-07:00

Today I had to run some errands. I spent most of the day sitting in a waiting room drawing. I was really sick but I had to wait so I decided to make some drawings to record the day and this is what came out.

I was feeling very sick, should have been in the hospital instead of some office waiting.

I think witches remind me of medicine for some reason. Maybe I just need a potion to get better.

My senses where are messed up today.

I had to wait for like 5 hours and I was so damn hungry, I had to survive on junk food.

You meet the weirdest people in the bus.

At the end of the day I just felt like shit. I think this is self explanatory.

Taking from the world

2009-03-14T08:42:00.000-07:00

Yesterday morning I went to Old San Juan again but this time I took the bus. I had some fun taking pictures and fooling around with the camera and here are some of the highlights I wanted you to see.

This is the place I fell in love with someone for the first time in my life.

This is a small hidden park I found by the art school, I liked the way It looks like a miniature maze.

I really liked the design of this pier.

I was kinda bored so I took some pictures of me at the bus station.

This is some of the local graffiti I thought I could take some ideas from that.

This is just some random chair that was laying in the middle of the street and all the cars where running over it. I wanted to capture the chair's pain. hah.

Something about Fear

2009-03-12T13:40:00.000-07:00

Today I tried coloring something for the first time with colored pencils. I've always used Photoshop to do any coloring and I discovered I was afraid of coloring without it. So I decided to use Fear as the theme of the piece to be colored.

I like fear, it gives me a goal. To conquer my fear becomes my finish line and I can see the path in front of me more clearly once I know what is that wich fear.

I used to fear clowns. They look weird and shady hiding under makeup and costumes. But in this drawing it looks like the weird clown apparition is afraid of the human as well. Sometimes we don't realize that what we fear might fear us back in return. Looking at things from a different perspective helps me destroy my preconceptions, erases the felling of fear and gives me a better understanding of the world.

This drawing comes from a children's story I am making about a Starcatcher. The Starcatcher colects stars that people wish upon and puts them into his jar. In this scene the skeleton man (wich represents fear) is trying to persuade the starcatcher to give up his stars but the starcatcher will protect them and won't give into fear.

Daily commute

2009-03-11T08:53:00.000-07:00

Today I joined Thousands of Puerto Ricans in the morning daily commute. I don't usually drive in the morning since I work the night shift but today I had to go and hand in the papers for Art school. I knew in advanced that I was going to be bored like fuck so I brought my camera along that way I wouldn't feel as annoyed and the awesome thing was that it worked. I actually enjoyed my day trapped in traffic which I usually hate and would rather much prefer to kill myself with a pen than actually doing the drive.

I was kinda bored so I started making funny faces at the camera. This seems to be some kind of signature face I am always end up drawing.

The morning traffic

This is where I went to high school, looks like a jail doesn't it? No wonder I turned out like this.

This is the landscape I will get to see each day when I get out of school.

This building reminded me of our colony status. A Mc'Donnalds in an old Spaniard building.

Work and more work

2009-03-10T18:07:00.000-07:00

I am so damn tired today. I worked a double shift and I still did't make enough money to pay the bills I have due. I work as a waiter and I survive on tips... that is when the clients have money, which lately they don't have. I hate this monetary system and the way it all works. No matter how much I work and how much effort I put into it I still can't make enough money to feel financially stable. I am trying to get into art school and I will need a huge budget just for the supplies and I am not even counting the cost per credit.

Ohh well... I guess I will figure something out, life must go on.

Here are some sketches that remind me of work.
This I made to represent how in our jobs we must try to keep things running while staying in the same place. It doesn't make much sense to me, we should be working to move forward. It all ends up in a weird blur in my head when I try to think about it.

This drawing I made about my clients, they look like that sometimes.

Why do fat ladies think that they can treat waiters like shit? I don't know why but most fat ladies in their mid 40 that come into the restaurant will treat me like crap and expect me to be polite to them, as if I am some kind of slave or brainless robot that must obey them.

Anger

2009-03-07T20:55:00.001-08:00

This morning I woke up feeling kinda cranky. I made a sketch and it showed a lot anger and noise. After I finished the bad mood had lifted and I felt totally different. Sometimes I get mad and I don't think much, end up hurting people someway or another. Its good that I can channel emotions into comical drawings and weird sketches so I can stay in focus and not loose control like I used to.

This is the one I made this morning

I got furious at my boss the other day.

Sometimes screaming really hard when no one can listen helps me stay under control.

Something about Madreric

2009-03-06T20:48:00.000-08:00

I have a series of drawings of a character. Its the medium I use when I want to look at myself from a third point of view. The character resembles me. It has my fears, my innocence, my passions. This character lives in a world where reality and fantasy collide and its greatly influenced by everything that happens to me. I think this series of drawings are a result from the crash of my adult self with the kid that lives in an unreal world that I am.

This one I just painted today

Its all about sex baby!

2009-03-06T18:15:00.000-08:00

Lately I have been drawing some explicit sexual stuff. I have named the series Grotexo. I do not usually draw about sex, but this last few weeks I can't think about anything else. It has been a few months now since my last relationship and for a time I thought I was better off alone. Maybe It's time for me to get back out there... or maybe I am just a freaky bastard who likes this kind of stuff.

This I drew today, kinda freaks me out.

For some reason this also reminds me of Pepsi Cola (maybe some pepsi cola subliminal message?)

This is about sex exploited in advertisements.

Some Gnome and Space

2009-03-05T21:45:00.000-08:00

I did a sketch of the Garden Gnome I saw at Giselle's and painted one of the drawings from my pocket sketch book.

Kicked some ass in Street Fighter

2009-03-05T18:26:00.000-08:00

Today was my second day off and I was looking foward to play Street Fighter 4 since yesterday. So I went to Giselle's to play with with Gibran and Julio in the ps3. I rocked with ken after a few failures.

Opening this

2009-03-05T18:07:00.000-08:00

Opening a blog again. Basically the same as always. Just a lot of stuff about my life and what I do everyday.