Barbarian Example 3

Here's another Barbarian with ample weaponry.
And here's the rendered product.

Sketching at the Zoo

Here are some sketches I did at the zoo a little while back. The turtle was the most cooperative of the lot but that's the trick to sketching living things. When you're ready to sketch the subject at hand you have to make a mental snapshot of the image in your head and sketch it down asap! I was able to put tones here and there when I was satisfied with the sketch.


All images copyright 2008.

Some Cartoonage'

Here's a happy fellow I drew during one of my waiting room visits(refer to 'Barbarian Example'). I didn't think much of him at first but he seems to grow on me as the days go by.














These silly squashes are toony portraits of myself and my newly begotten wife laura. We were married in Santa Barbara on the 31st of August this year. We love Halloween time so I thought of doing cool little clip art thingies for Laura's blog.

All images copyright 2008.

Getting Down to Buisness

Well, here's my first blog thingie. I'm both exited and clueless on how to effectively wheel a blog page but I do have a lot of plans for it so y'all be patient with me if you can.

Basically, I want to use this page as my digital portfolio and a place where aspiring artists can possibly learn something about what I do as well as learn from people that visit my page through comments and directing me to sites I haven't been to yet.

I also have plans for a website in the near future for visiting people to possibly post their work for all to see as well as some of my animation buds to show off theirs (plug, plug), forum on whatever and to teach some drawing how-to's via podcast.

I know it's not a unique sounding site but I want it to be a comfortable, inspiring and, hopefully, fun place to be. But, for now, we'll start with my baby step blog and see what evolves from here.

here's to the future...........................Mario.