Year? 1980

Hello Everyone!

Sorry I' haven't been too good at posting new or better said, unknown things I've done in the past.
Here's one of those. This is one of the first pieces I ever did for publication. Back then I used to work in pen and ink directly on the paper! No previous sketches, nor pencil work. If things got messed up, I used to start over in anew piece of paper. Of course I've grown up and don't do sill stuff like that anymore! : )
Mr Francis Ford Coppola the way he looked back then.
In other news, this is just a minuscule part that will be in the book of my work I'm preparing.

Damnac.

Wishing you all Health, Work and plenty of inside Peacefulness in this brand new year.
Here's something different. I used to do comic strips ages ago; came up with different characters. One of them is this one here: Damnac. A very angry guy who used to get upset very easily. I did 6 pages for a humor magazine while at the university, but never pursued it at a more serious/professional level. Comics is a whole different/intricate ball game and I always was too much into Caricature.
Hope you enjoy.

Couple more of those sketch pages I did years ago. Again, don't get tired of saying it, great exercise.
Some of my colleagues requested to see more of these, so here they are.
Hopefully I'll be posting more and different things in the next days.

Proteins Illo.

Oftentimes I get assignments that require more generic people in a certain situation with backgrounds and stuff. They are fun to do and this is an example of how I handle those jobs.

Ronald Reagan

Hi again!
Sorry haven't posted anything new lately but it's been a bit hectic on many fronts. Anyway, wanted to show you this drawing I did a couple of years ago; a client called up asking for a reprint. I really enjoy drawing faces from different angles. I wish more people in general would have pictures taken from all sorts of views so that our work gets a bit more exciting than it already is.

Mr Terry Belinger

Mr. Terry Belinger contacted me to have his caricature done. I was missing doing these in graphite on paper so the assignment came at a good moment. Thank you for a moment of fun and for allowing me to publish your picture in my blog so that I can share this with others that follow my work.

Exercise

This is something I used to do years ago and did for quite a while. Pretty good exercise not just for drawing faces, but bodies, movement, clothes, hands, etc. It's great for observation. Using b/w newspaper pictures was a delight and after a couple of drawings the hand would move with a nice flow and easiness. I recommend it strongly.