9 Illustrations of Ents - Lord of the Rings

These sketches made with graphite pencil on paper took me 1 hour each to draw. That was the main goal, only 1 hour to come up with an idea and draw it down fast. It was undoubtedly very hard. Ideas that work great in your head don't always make a good transition to reality.

There where originally 13 sketches but I left 4 out because of their low quality.

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The Legend of Zelda - Majora's Mask Collection Fanart

This is a collection of the main characters from Majora's Mask that I decided to reinterpret, the final work will compose of 7 illustration made with graphite pencil on A4 size paper. The illustrations are:

- Link
- The Skull Kid
- Deku Link
- Goron Link
- Zora Link
- Happy Mask Salesman
- The Fountain Fairy

When finished, all original illustrations will be available to purchase from my Etsy shop.

More details about the process of each illustration will be added soon.

Zelda Link in a Dungeon Fan Art - Acrylic on Paper 29x40cm

I was trying out some experimental techniques these past months, because that's how one fucks up and starts to learn. But in this one I decided to just go with the traditional Academic technique that an old master told me, and follow the rule of "shadows are thin, light is thick" as he said. This rule together with the temperature juxtaposition of colours gives the illustration a three dimensional effect, meaning that you can feel the depth and the space the elements are occupying. It's really hard to appreciate it on this photograph, mainly because colours and tones change a lot with any picture taken from the original, and secondly, Blogger decided to reduce the tones and quality from my original photograph.

Link's face is based of a picture from my little niece. It's certainly not her at all, but her expression in that photo just got stuck in my head for months. She has a very mischievous smile for a 2 year old child, it reminded me a lot of Junior from the 1990 movie Problem Child.

The painting had to have an 8-bit element to it as a reminder of it's NES roots. I went through various items from the game and the one who became the most meaningful whas the key. It oppens new paths to new and unknown places and was also to give a sense of continuation.

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Super Mario Fan Art - Graphite Pencil on Paper 29x40 cm

Super Mario and the exploding turtle shell. I love his right nervous eye. It took me about an hour to draw this down.

 

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Super Mario Satire Super Pedro - Acrylic on Paper 29x40 cm

Super Pedro is heavily inspired from an illustration from Cristian Pérez Bolton. In his illustration there is this crazy kid yelling to a decapitated Santa, angy at him because he got a Polistation instead of an Xbox 360. The Polistation was a popular video game console in the 90', a cheap alternative to the NES but that looked like the Sony Playstation.
In the illustration he drew a Super Mario look-alike on the Polistation box that he named Super Pedro. I laughed so hard when i saw it, just because it looked so bad and cheap.
So one day I started to sketch different Marios until it got more and more R-rated.

One of the first things that I had in mind was that this would be a pirated version of the original, so instead of having racoon ears and tail, it would be from a rat. The penis nose and face came from a combination from a Ren & Stimpy episode and the movie Nothing but Trouble with Dan Aykroyd, where in both of them a very disgusting character had a penis for a nose.

The original sketch represented a horny Mario, very perverted, with an erection under his pants. It was not include in the final work because it felt too unnecessary and bloated, although it looked funny.

Final Work

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Megaman / Rockman Fan Art - Acrylic on Paper 29x42 cm

Probably my favorite video game character from my childhood. As a kid I used to spend hours in my bedroom drawing Megaman bosses and stages, making explosion sounds and filling the paper with lines that represented laser battles until the paper was a mess.

This design was only intended to be a sketch, but it started to escalate when i decided to add some colour just to see how it would look like, I then continued on the lights and shadows until i ended up deciding that I would have to give this the treatment it deserved.

Not two days ago I disassembled a computer that I was planing to fix. The motherboard was exposed so looking at it gave me the idea for the background. The planets where added later to give the background a feel of depth. There are also some space backgrounds in some stages, but I can't remember which
ones.

Background, background! I spend a week looking at it and occasionally retouching it, being very meticulous. Another week was dedicated just to the helmet repeating the same process, looking at it, making small changes, leaving the room, coming back and so on.
This is the first painting I worked with using a mirror. So what's the deal with that? when reversing a drawing or painting it exposes all the flaws, I don't know why this is but it helps to anticipate and correct the errors.

Final Result

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The Man at the Moon Painting - Acrylic on Canvas 81x65 cm

Not untill I got to the half part of the painting, I notices that I had borowed greatly from Caspar Friedrich's The Wanderer above the Fog.
In high school, after learning about the different art tendencies of the eras, technically the Renaissance was my favourite, but the Romanticism struck me emotionally. There has always been a Romantic influence in all of my works.

The way I started with this painting was a different as usual. I use to begin monochrome with a very watered down Ultramarine Blue. This technique is very slow, so I decided to try out another one that is faster but as effective as the old technique. This one consisted in directly defining the colours the painting would have from the beginning, in the old one the colour was one of the last things to define.




After a couple of days I hung the painting on the wall but not satisfied that it was really finished. So I just decided to continue working on other paintings until I could figure out what was missing in this one.
After a week had past I went back to the painting and started to accentuate elements from the background and the foreground, and worked the contrasts which made a huge difference. It's subtle, but but it gave it a personality.

The final result

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