Banana Mural

So I work at Banana Republic.   I know its not an art job but...I gotta pay the bills.    

But they paid me to do a painting on the wall in the break room.  I came up with about 3 ideas and they chose wich one they liked.  Here it is and my process of how it went.  I used only wall paint from benjamin moore.  It was not the easiest to work with but hey it got the job done.  Tell me what you think.  This took me about 10 hours including all the prep and final touches.  Enjoy!

This is what it looked like before.  

After!

More boxers

I am really enjoying drawing boxers.  Drawing them gives me a feeling of empowerment and strength.  Boxing is  a brutal sport and yet it takes a physically strong and a mentally strong man to become one.  Not only must they train for more strength but also more speed and more "armor"  knowing that their bodies will also be taking a beating.  Only in competition is is a boxer content.  I will bring to you as many drawings of boxers as I can in the future.   And maybe share some things about my father.  

For now here are some quick sketches. 

Figure with the quickness!!

3 Minute poses in pencil. Then after i Inked them and added a gray tone.




Today was, quick study Monday, I got to squeeze in for a small portion of the session. The model was Great so i pushed what i could to try and use force in my drawings.

100th Post!!

Hey Guys I know its been a whole month since I have posted anything. And I just want to say that I am extremely Sorry! I have really been swamped with this my new character design Job at Autumn Moon Ent. I Really wish I could show the Fun characters that were working on...but I guess everyone will just have to wait till the game is out. Sorry!

I took the time to do some drawing for myself and just for the 100th post celebration, I have Given my blog a new look.

So here are some drawings that I have done. Some just fun, some to show the way that i go through my design process.

I really wanted to make this post special, because it is the hundredth post, but mainly to make up for the lack of them in the last month.

Enjoy...
Fabian !





This is the final Image. Its just a quick ruff painting.. no more than an hour in PS. I really love to draw boxers, most of the reason is because my father used to be a professional boxer...yes he was on ESPN, but aside from that there are so many great characters that can be drawn especially with beat up mangled faces. Meatheads!

Here is an inked version I did, just to tighten up the drawing a bit. I didnt use it for the color but just as an afterthought. Good Line quality is something I always try to acheive.



This is my sketch that was pretty ruff... it took me a while to get the legs how i wanted them. hence the eraser smudges all over the place.
Here are some ruff faces and expressions of ideas i had for boxers. I like most of them, but the one I finally chose is the one that stood out to me the most.
Here is an updated color comp for my short that I am working on...yes its still in progress!
And Lastly, a girl from photo reference, really fast in pen

Ruff Stuff

Here is a couple quick drawings I did at the quick study workshop at the AAU. They only took a few minutes. One is partially constructed and the gesture is there but the scanner did not pick it up. The Character drawings are ones that I had done a while back and just found again.... Sorry about the bad quality the scanner I used is not working too well...Ah well, you get the picture!
GO Draw!
Fabian

Kid Stuff... for Kids

I wanted to do some sort of panel scene. So i did a few design of kids then I inked them and Here are The kids and my one panel that I came up with. These only took me about 2 hours to draw, ink, complete and post.

Joe Weatherly Workshop!

So I set up a Joe Weatherly Workshop this weekend for myself and some students from the Academy of art in SF. First day we went to the Oakland zoo and the second we went to the SF zoo. It was a great 2 days and I learned a lot. Here are some drawings that i thought were alright to post. The first day we concentrated mainly on Gesture and a bit of construction. The second day we focused on construction and getting volumes and proportion correct.
Tell me what you think...

Dk by FM

Heres a caricature of my other roommate and great Friend Darryl. He enjoys Peanut Brittle!

A quick Digital Exercise - -

Sometimes Drawing For Projects can get tiring... Heres A quick digital Exercise I did to help my speed and comfort level drawing in Photoshop. I Usually Draw things out in my sketch book and then scan them in, but this time i left the sketch book out. Heres what I came up with. Some are good, some are bad but eh... take a gander.