Did a symmetry sketch of this young lady a few weeks back and decided to redraw her in photoshop. She reminds me of a young Lady Sensei. Anyway, fun.
Dig this? Check out my "Collage of Characters 2020-2022"
Showing posts with label character design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label character design. Show all posts
Jul 6, 2023
Apr 27, 2023
Art vs Artist 2023
Been awhile since I did one of these. I tried to quickly pick some recent drawings , projects, or paintings that I like. Some of these are client work, but some are personal. Top to bottom, left to right.
2. Alejandria Fights Back/ La Lucha de Alejandria by Rise Home Stories Project/ Leticia Hernandez-Linares
4. Character from We Are Yoga/Somos Yoga by Jill Guerra
5. Me
6. Illustration for In Dance Magazine
8. Cover of my book Fresh Juice/Jugo Fresco
9. Dr Muriel Petioni-Blk history month
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Apr 12, 2023
Character 169 - Fairy Big Sister
Just did this one of a fairy while doing a symmetry exercise in Isaac Jadraque's class. Came out fun! So here you go.
Dig this? Check out my last Collage of Characters (2020-2022).
Apr 11, 2023
Character 168 - Revisited
I was just taking a character design class on how to push your poses by Tony Bancroft and one of the assignments was to take an old pose (2011) and redraw it. I really like how this came out.
In the new one, I was trying to put more of a curve in his pose. I wanted it to feel more 3/4 as well. Not straight on, and with some weight in his feet. Anyways, you can always improve! And thats what I'm trying to do.
Dig this? Check out the last Collage of Characters 2020-2022
Mar 17, 2023
Character 167- Rough bboy
Just messing around trying to loosen up listening to Lee Quinones.
Dig this? Check out my last Collage of Characters
Jan 2, 2023
Character 166 - Picture me cruisin
Here's a new self portrait for the new year. I pictured myself cruisin in a futuristic go-kart! One that hovers. Happy new year to you and yours. Trying to keep rollin with the changes. Every few years I do a new one to keep my website, blog, etc fresh. You'll see this new image on all the tings.
A few close ups...
The previous character before this was Mama Peng
Dec 13, 2022
Nov 11, 2022
Character 165 - Mama Peng
I was vibing to a Greentea Peng song and thought it would be cool to paint her as a mama and the performer she is. If you're not familiar with her, check out her music and her videos. She's a talented genre blending artist from the UK who I discovered through the Colors YouTube channel back in 2019. If you dig her music, whats your fav song? Mine is "used to" and "dingaling".
Dig this? Check out my Collage of Characters 2020-2022
and this painting of Rocky Rivera
Nov 8, 2022
Sketchbook pg 3
Here's a few pages from my last sketchbook for 2021-2022. Just finished this pad boy a month ago or so.
What's a sketchbook page? A sketchbook is a great place to play, experiment, and practice. Been keeping one with me in one form or another for over 25 years. Some books are just for letters, some are for landscapes, some for writing down ideas, some for client work, and sometimes I mix them all up.
This page is from my most recent sketchbook tour. Check it out here
Dig this? Check out sketchbook pg 2
Apr 28, 2022
Character Collage 2020-2022
What up fam, wow its been two years since I uploaded my last character collage. Back in 2020 I was a new dad again, and then the pandemic hit! I have still been sketching, drawing, and painting but lord it was rough balancing the kids at home, my work, and life. So here are a snippet of some of the characters I made over the past two years. This is the 9th time I've uploaded a collage of these over the past 13 years or so. I started making these as a way to practice character based artwork for storytelling, and I still love to do it. Always practicing to see improvement.
Left to right, top to bottom: 1. Word? 2. Bruce Leroy (Last Dragon) 3. Neighbor 4. Sketchbook doodle 5. Laura Charles (Last Dragon) 6. Hammer 7. Hmmph 8. Motorcycle 9. Sketchbook doodle 10. Deb Never 11. Crate Digger 12. Sketchbook doodle 13. Judging you 14. Spikey 15. Pink Dread
You can see the previous collages here too:
Apr 26, 2022
VIDEO -time lapse Bruce Leroy character
In case you missed it, heres a video showing the painting process for Bruce Leroy from The Last Dragon. Here's the post I made about 3 characters from the film. And here's my last collage of characters.
Apr 20, 2022
Inspiring Artist - Ami Thompson
I believe I came acRoss Ami's work through Pinterest. I keep a board of inspiring characters and saw her work recommended to me. WOW. So much raw energy, emotion, design, color, and mood. I love her work-all the excitement and danger, the strong female characters, and the carnage I believe some of these characters could cause if we were living in Ami's world.
I'm sure you'll recognize these cats from Avengers.
Ami has worked on a bunch of films such as Raya and the Last Dragon, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Mutafukaz, and she is currently working on the Maggie Kang directed Sony Pictures film "K-Pop: Demon Hunters" which I can't wait to see!
Here's an interview she did with Bobby over at Schoolism.
If you get a chance go follow Ami Thompson on Instagram. She doesn't post a ton, but when she does its dope.
If you missed the last inspiring artist, check him out here: Zeke Peña
Before that I shared some work from:
and
Apr 13, 2022
Throwback- Characters from The Last Dragon
Yo, if you're a fan of 80s films check out this trio of characters from the classic 80s cult film The Last Dragon.
Trailer link
The film was released in 1985 and featured Taimak, Vanity (rip), Julus Carry (rip), Mike Starr, and a young Ernie Reyes Jr!The director Michael Schultz also made Colley High, Car Wash, and Crush Groove! And the brother is still working today. Sadly we lost both Vanity and Julius who played Sho Nuff, but even three decades after its release folks like me still love this film produced by Barry Gordy and written by Louis Venosta.
Back in 2016 I painted sho Nuff from the film:
And this year I decided to paint both Laura Charles (played by Vanity)
and Bruce Leroy from the film.
Check out this time lapse video of me painting Bruce Leroy using ink and watercolor.
2020-2022 collage LINK
Apr 12, 2022
Character 164 - Bruce Leroy (Last Dragon)
Ok switching it up again with a time lapse video of this one. This right here is Bruce Leroy, or my version of the actor Taimak from the great 80s film "The Last Dragon". As I stated in the previous post w/ Ms Laura Charles I loved the film as a kid and still love it today even w/ its campy or corny parts.
If you dig this, check out this one of Laura Charles aka Vanity (RIP).
Did you see my last collage of characters? Here it is.
Character 163 - Laura Charles (Last Dragon)
Yup, had to come back with Laura Charles aka Vanity from the Last Dragon. I painted this piece of Sho Nuff several years back and thought it'd be fun to do a few more from the film. RIP Vanity.
If you saw The Last Dragon, whats your fav line from the film?
Did you catch the last character My neighbor
Collage of characters? Here it is.
Apr 7, 2022
#tbt-Characters from "Stand and Deliver"
I loved the film Stand and Deliver as a kid and still think it's a ground breaking film showing Raza of all kinds learning and studying mathematics. Instead of feeling foreign to math Jaime Escalante makes you feel like you were born to learn it. "You burros got math in your blood" Edward James Olmos says in the film. For a large group of Brown people who were kept out of high paying jobs, building generational wealth, and power by design-learning calculus was and still is revolutionary. It doesn't solve everything by any means, but Jaime's legacy lives on. Have you seen the film? Whats your fav part?
Check out these other characters:
Ana Delgado- The Nerdy math wiz
Angel from Stand and Deliver played by Lou Diamond Philipps
Tito-rocker/ladies man
Wanna see my latest collage of characters? Check it out
My name is Robert Liu-Trujillo and I'm a kids bk author/illustrator from the Bay Area. Peace!
One more, here's a sketch of Jaime Escalante
VIDEO: Timelapse character
Theres no sound on this one, (i'm working on it). But check out this time lapse of my last character if you missed it. Character 162.
Here's a collage of characters from a few years ago
Mar 22, 2022
Character 162 - My neighbor
Here's a video showing the painting process
A few details:
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