Baby monster in mohican

This is the first digital work I post in my blog and one of the few finished digital pieces I have and I am happy about.

It's been almost a year since I got my first digital drawing tablet (a wacom bamboo). It was one of the best presents I've ever got (thank you guys!). But during the first few months of using it, I came to realize that I was starting to forget how to draw traditionally. I mean this is the great danger with computers, generally. They can kill creativity if they're used in the wrong way. You can draw amazing stuff with photoshop and a tablet. But there is nothing you can't draw with traditional media. Nothing can compare to a pencil and a piece of paper. And, of course, if you don't learn how to draw traditionally, you definitely can't draw digitally. So, at present, I mainly work with pencils, pens, inks, markers, color pencils and pastels, and only use photoshop occasionally or as an enhancement tool.

Anyway. This is a baby monster in mohican (that's why it's in the title, you see). I drew this under the close supervision of my cousins. They are 6 and 9 years old and they're really fun. We all enjoyed this one.

The pencil sketch shows professor Flavios. He is a very quite man and a great thinker.

Anatomy studies #2

I keep working on face anatomy. Today the menu has lips, noses, chins and some ears. The last one is a half-finished sketch of a friend. It failed completely. I am really bad at life drawing, so I need to work on it.

Anatomy studies

I was planning to post earlier this week, but, well...unfortunately I got really lazy. Anyway, I won't let this happen again.

Here, I have some anatomy studies. But, before you take a look, let me tell you a little story behind them.

During the last couple of years I've started to get into human drawing a bit seriously. I was trying to capture human beauty, especially the beauty of the female face and body. But my sketches really sucked! I mean they kind of suck now, too. But I came to realize that I miss the basics, the alphabet. And that is human anatomy. It was like trying to play Mozart without learning the notes and everything else, first. So I grabbed the book "Art Anatomy" by William Rimmer, which is a book I highly recommend. Its anatomy sketches feel like they have been taken from a Da Vinci's sketchbook. And I started my anatomy studies. Of course, I start with the face and its composites. So, here are some of my sketches.

And something more complete for the end. This is the poor servant Ruth.

Inception

I can't believe it's finally done! There have been months since the day I decided to build my own artwork blog. And it wasn't finished till today. The truth is, nowadays, making a blog is pretty much like making a coffee. It's that easy. But not for me. Because I don't drink coffee. Ok, seriously. What you see now has gone through hundreds of changes. I mean the template, the colors, the fonts, the menus, everything. And now, I'm finally happy with the result. So let's get to work!

This blog, is going to be more like a sketchbook or a visual diary, both with drawings and thoughts. I will be talking about my influences, my ideas, my techniques, my difficulties, about art, fairy tales, music, history, politics. No, I'm joking. I won't be talking about politics. Anyway, I will be more than happy if you share your thoughts too, and if you give comments and advice, because definitely I'm no master. I'm just a student. Ok, now I'm being boring.

For this first celebration-post I'm uploading some recent pencil sketches that appear to be some of my favorite ones.

No more talking for today.
Enjoy! There's more to come!