the kick, push...

I PROMISE im not a poser... for those who know me best know that back in my late middle school years and a bit through high school, instead of drawing i would skate my balls off. hahaha. i dedicated time, blood, sweat and a bit of bone marrow to skateboarding... and deep inside there is a part of me that wants to hop back on my Blind deck and fly off some stairs...so i dont want dudes coming up to me on the street calling me a "poser" and all that- yall can all get the clenched drawing fist! haaa, j/k its all good. 

 but theres a huge issue with me getting back on my board- once you dedicate your life to drawing you become extremely lazy and inactive... hahaha. so now i just draw other people skatboarding!!! yay!

hope you enjoy!

-OPMC   

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i have to admit, even when drawing cool concepts and fat people in various poses, i can still get a little board at times... so after a few hrs of sketching and creating, i decided to pull out a rendered pic of our good old friend El Nino (srry for never adding the "~" thinggy :D). ive never done anything with this type of background before and i must say ive grown quite fond of this "paper bag"  backround tecnique... i think you all will be seeing more of it from me.another different thing about this pic is that i didn't fully ink it like i would normally do.. i kinda just let it flow this time and set up my vectors free handedly. but im digging this way of doing things... please let me count the ways:

1. its MUCH faster than inking and coloring.

2. it gives me that rough "sketchbook" look that i utilize in so many of my pics.

3. its MUCH, MUCH faster than inking and coloring...

"ahh El Nino... its sad that im going to part ways with you once your animation is compleated... but thats ok... youll always have a special place on my blogspot..."

"I LOVE YOU EL NINO"

Haaaa, hope yall enjoyed this one as much as i did!!!

-OPMC

  

Oooohh Snap!!!

That rite folks, its a Fat boy sketch!!! hahaha. but seriously i love drawing overweight people just as much as i like drawing El Nino. i think its something about the gut that make me have a good time... yeah, the fun is defiantly in the gut. nevertheless i drew this fellow as a concept to be associated with El Nino... can you see the two  interacting??? would their personalities clash? would they be good friends? or what if El Nino slept with the fat guys wife? WHO KNOWS? its not my story, i just spit out the sketchy, sketchy goodness...as you might be able to see, im still missing a sketch on this page... i was thinking of a good pose that would fit this guys personality... possibly eating? farting? laughing at someone else's expense???  even I dont know what the next sketch is gonna look like. what do you think? 

-OPMC

sketch it up.

another concept pic. This one was done straight on, in this paticular position for better modeling purposes. i threw in a face close up sketch for fun and to add a bit of commotion. The character El Nino has been extreamly fin to draw so far and it seems like time flys when im doing any type of concept involving him... its not everyday you get the opportunity to work on something this fun... hahaha.  

 

Its been a Looooonnngg time...

wow i haven't been here in a while- i apologize for not keeping the page updated... :/ lots o' school work, lots o' homework, lots o' tests- lots o' stress. dayum!!! but i love that crap; and do you know why???? because it makes my mind explode with thick, juicy imagination juice for yall fools to let ooze over ya pupils. so enjoy- let ya eyeballs soak up my goodness and dont fgt... place a little on your tung and tell your friends about your favorite local artist... The Original Pencil MC...

so these few sketches that you see in this particular post is a concept character that im working on for a friends short animation... the final product is going to be modeled in 3D along with a kick ass 3D environment, props, and the whole nine... ide love to tell you all a bit about the story but no one loves a spoiler... :P 

 

The best ride ever...

i often find myself fascinated by the workings of the human mind and how it can differ so completely when introduced to gender. how is it that something soo fun and entertaining to one sex, can be a complete bore to another. or how is it that in the same situation, while both doing the same things; one gender can be completely incited by a thought process while the other is the latter? 

whatever- just hop on, its time for a muthatruck'in  piggy back ride!

a late night sketch.

its late. i figured ide get in a quick sketch before i went to sleep... when it gets late like this i start getting all sentimental. thinking about women... not specific women but  the female form in general. i admire the female form... hell i admire females .their all like walking masterpieces. so unknown. so mysterious yet so inviting. nurturing but quick to chastise im not sure if anyone looks at a women the way i do. or if anyone can. if anyone would want to for that matter... nevertheless; i bring you all a late night sketch... 

goodnight. 

shock to the system.

what ever happened to my main man Static shock? Maaaan, i remember waking up early on saturdays to catch this guy zooming across my front room tv screen with a big bowl of Fruit Loops planted in front of me. i was  11 years old then. Static shock was my HERO. Virgil and i both kinda had the same hair styles at the time and i felt like i could relate to him.  i dont hear that much about Static these days... this guy gave me sooo much inspiration.hell, he still does. even to this day- i still consider him my hereo.

thanks static.  :D

this piece is still a work in progress, im thinking about adding Rubber Band Man in front of static but im still working on a good position for him... also looking for a good environment to put them im (given my limited canvas real estate).  cant wait to finish. there will be some more, refined Static concepts up soon.    

work in progress

OK. this ones after i added various layers of different colors all less than 75% opacity... i usually end up adding about 4-5 layers and shading over with a thin layer of the base color to hide them a little, then do it over again to keep the layers deeply imbedded. i think that makes a big difference.... - but yeah that's all i have for now ill be posting progressive pics as soon as there done.  keep posted for the newness!!! thanks all.

In most of my pics I start off with my base color less opaque than this one, so im changing up my style and work flow... Im sure the end product will look a bit different form my other works.  
havent visited in a while so i thought ide come back with some work in progress pics. Had this idea in my head for a long time and actually started sketching out a couple concepts in class before i decided to move it to photoshop. Unlike most of my pieces, this ones going to have two characters interacting together. ide like to start showing more diversity in my art so ull start to see my art looking  more busy with more going on. hope you all like! 

I woke up hungry as hell this morning... my stomach was eating itself.  

so lately ive been switching things up and doing more traditional style art using a wacon tablet... i think im going to start working more in acrylics too - get some of my work on some canvas's. its been a while sense ive actually drawn on something other than photoshop soo its about that time to start getting bact into the whole trditionl art scene. got some shows that i wanna start entering too. but until then ill keep doin my thing in photoshop... besides, i love my tablet too much to ever leave its side... :D

So its been a minute since ive visited the page... my gosh soo much has happened.Not in a literal sense; I mean, I haven't changed physically, I haven't quit school or anything... but mentally ive been in a whirlwind. 

sometimes i feel like my world is enclosed in an hourglass u know? like time is constantly a factor, like i cant just live, draw and do me.... i find myself thinking thoughts like "if i dont draw today its gonna be too late to do it tomorrow..." . no mater how you may interpret that; its incredibly difficult to deal with when its in the forefront of everything you do...my mind can be great at times. allowing a perfect harmonious relationship between the two of us and an infantile imagination... but at other times,  it becomes so enclosed that i feel like im incarcerated within it. i feel trapped within a world in which I created. the sanctuary of my own design quickly becomes a penitentary... i can never escape it. i learn deal with it. i struggle to rearrange my views of things and make sense of the ethical decay that invades my sanctuary like a cancer. and i do... long enough to pop out a couple of sketches  before the warden locks me back in.my creativity leaves abruptly... i hope the key never goes with it...