I’been working on some concepts for a fantasy comic book. So, I did many characters and scenarios to find the ideas for the concept. here are few of them. As you can see, the proportions keep changing and also the small details on the “style”. Either way, I like to draw for a few days until I find the ones I like.
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Concept art: Medieval Fantasy RPG town
Concept Art
I been working on many drawings inspired on a RPG fantasy style setting. I have a few characters that I’ll post later and also a few setting elements like these buildings here. The idea is to do rough sketches to play with the different architectural elements and to find the definitive look. I’m still on that. I can see this buildings in a real RPG iPad videogame!
Concept art: Space Dog
Concept Art
Here are a some concepts that I did as a development for my Space Dog cartoon character. The idea is to do a short story to show those cute characters interacting. I already did the first page and soon I’ll post the rest, when is finished. Here you can see the main characters (so far); Space Dog, the commander and a cosmonaut cat. Also you can see that I changed the dog original design a little. I got rid of the googles and played with the costumes. Also he doesn’t look exactly like those ilustrations for children’s books that I did. Oh well, I like to experiment with the style sometimes.
Promo Illustration: Kids playing music for guitar lessons
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This illustration was made as a gift for my mom’s birthday, because she is an acoustic guitar teacher. With a nice typography we can transform this poster into a full promotional that can be hanged on different places. It was a fun piece to do, but somehow difficult. The guitars and the kids’ poses where done a few times until I got them right. Either way, at the end I painted some color effects and a few musical notes to enhance the drawing. here is the full illustration and a few sketches:
Children illustration: Space Dog
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I was working on a couple of children illustrations for my portfolio using the first character that I did for my 365 characters project. The idea behind was to show how science concepts can be presented to kids in a colorful and fun way using sci-fi and cartoon elements. Also I’m working in a few pages comic samples using the same concept and a few new characers part of this “space dog” universe. For now, hope you like the illustrations.
Ancient Egypt: Editorial children illustration
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This is a piece I did for my current editorial portfolio. Wanted to work with a historical setting so I choose the Ancient Egypt theme, with many workers close to the Nile, during the wheat harvest. It took me a while to finish it because of all those details, but it was worth it. I used most of my research that you saw on this post, when I designed many egyptian characters. Also it took a while to find the proper look of this egyptian fishing boat. Here are also the color key and composition rough and some warm up character sketches.
Lucha Libre Ilustration: Blue Demon Tribute
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Here it is a cool retro style illustration that I did for a tribute gallery for the Lucha Libre legend Blue Demon on 11th anniversary of his death. The event was held on December 16 of 2011 in Mexico City. There was art of many other cool artists and Blue Demon Jr was there to talk about his dad. It was a really fun piece to do because I was able to watch some movies and posters about the legend as a research. I included many of his most famous enemies, like the werewolf, the intergalactic babe invaders, some zombies and the brains from hell. 
Artwork made on the ConComics convention 2012
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Here is some artwork that I did on the two days of the ConComics event. People went by my table and saw me drawing those . Also, I got to chat with many people interested on drawing and comicbooks who asked me a few questions. By the end, it was a fine convention and I made new friends on the way. The first artworks are about Yomba, a character of mine who was created for a mexican comicbook that I made with some friends. I want to work on this story in a near future so I practice a little bit with the character. The other art is a fanart of Ryu from Capcom’s Street Fighter. I used him to show some of the drawing (structure,etc) and coloring process that I use.
Rick R-D at Tour ConComics Guadalajara 2012
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This past weekend I got the fortune to share space with many great artists from México on the Tour ConComics convention at my city. Also, many friends of mine went to say hello, so I got time to chat with many of them. Also, I was selling sketches and a bunch of my comicbooks.
I was thrill to see that many people attending to the convention, something I didn’t saw in years.
Also, I meet many people interested on drawing, comicbooks and manga and I got the chance to interact with them!
Thankyou all to went to say hi to me! Anyway, here are the pics:
Book illustration: Perdeliquium
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Here is the finished illustration done for my friend Emilio Mejía and his cool project Pedeliquium: A book series based on a previous comic book created by him and a few cool friends, including me, back in the day. He took all the story background he wrote and translate it into a impressive book. I have to say that the story is very well done and you’ll have many surprises in it. I got the fortune to work on a couple of illustrations for chapter four, the Sorrows’ chamber, where the main villain is getting his dark powers. Very cool chapter, by the way.
About the art, I wanted to portray the main character with a strong attitude in front of the Aj-sheut, the dark spirit who wants to destroy him. You may remember the egyptian spirit concepts from a previous post. This is how he ended. Also, if you see closer, I worked the entire drawing with pencils instead of inks and then applied the colors. It has a different feel, more organic, I think.
Character Design Concepts: Egyptians
Character Design
Here are a few character designs for a couple of illustrations that I’m working on. The idea is to draw a few scenes of the life on the Ancient Egypt so I did a little research on the subject. Then worked on different type of characters as warriors, slaves, writers and women so I can get the feel for the project. Right now, one of the scenes is about a bunch of slaves working the wheat near the Nile and the other is about the Egyptian gods. I’ll show you more work later.
Character Design Concepts: Egyptian Spirit
Character Design
Here are a few concept designs, in a sketch quality (bear with me), for a character that is part of a illustration I’m doing for a book’s friend. The idea is about Aj Sheut, an egyptian powerful spirit who is at the commands of the owner of a sacred book. I did an extensive research of images and whatever I can find about the ancient Egypt and with that I started to sketch the character. You may notice that some elements keep coming on each version, like the long faces and the Horus’ eye symbol, that is very important on the story. At some point I did a face based on a chacal’s cranium, because of the character afinity with the god Anubis, but I ended liking the human faces more. I did a few more versions trying to incorporate some egyptian motif. I would show you an advance of the illustration on a future post.
365 Characters
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There you go. It has been a full year since that first character. It was a great experience and also a challenge for myself. I started the 365 characters project because I wanted to generate fresh content for my blog regularly and also because I wanted to grow as a cartoonist.
It started back in February 2011 when I was working with my pals on an animation studio. There we talked about videogames and animation and many cool things and that fueled my ideas so, at some point, I really wanted to start something bigger than before.
Anyway, I still have lots of work to do related to this project. I’m starting a huge poster with all the characters (some have been asking, thanks a lot!) and a couple of side projects. Also I would be working on this site to fix a few things and more content. Thank you for reading and for all your nice comments and support during this year.
365 Heads Monster
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Well, here it is my final character for the series. He is a powerful monster chimera with lots of things to teach if you are there to listen. Anyway, it was a really cool experience, and lots of work too. I want to sincerely thank you for reading my blog and for the kind comments on my facebook, twitter and here. It has helped me a lot to keep going. So, well, it feels cool to finish something.
…One more to go.363 Elephant of Troy
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This big elephant is a playful and very noble. He just wants to play with his new army friends. They are trying to teach him how to enter in the enemy’s city without making too much noise, but he is not getting it. Still, he lets them play hide and seek on his mount. The Trojans can’t sleep with all the noise they are making.
362 Protective Minotaur
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Here it is a brave minotaur warrior swinging his sword to protect the little chickens from the evil goblins. He just wants to have peace on the magic valley without somebody eating somebody, that’s all. Anyway, fantasy concepts are always very cool.
361 Movie Director
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Movies are almost a new thing if you compare them with other type of art. Still, there is a huge legacy made by all those people who made those classic films. This cartoon motion picture director is really happy to do his part on the industry. He hopes his movie becomes a huge success so he can make many more films in the future.
360 Ugly Cowboy on Pretty Horse
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The wild west is a tough place. You need to be prepared for anything that the life sends you, even if is some horrible decease or the gold fever. On the other side, even if most people doesn’t have manners, there is not a rule that says that you can’t bathe yourself almost every week. The same with your horse. This cartoon ugly bandit knows it.
359 Mister Flame
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This cartoon small flame has been fighting the shadows for a lot of time. He and his friends just defeated the evil and freed their homeland but now they have a bigger quest; to defeat the shadows from the nearest kingdoms. His advantage on the battlefield is he can start up a fire pretty much anywhere, that bothers the shadows a lot because they hate fireworks.