No time to draw.. :/

So it's been rather difficult to develop comics lately, seeing as i'm creeping on the end of the summer semester and trying to move to my new place. But in the mean time, here are a couple sketches from my sketchbook. Down bellow are two drawings I did about 2 years ago.

Firestarter.

Drawing inspired by the Pixies song "Monkey Gone to Heaven".                    Amy Pond floating in space. Doctor Who Sketch.

I love working with shadows. You can do so many different variations all resulting in a different picture. All invoking a different emotion.

These two I did during my first art class in college. I was just learning how to work with contrast properly, and I wanted to these two drawing to display the extremes; the darkest darks and the lightest lights. That's why part of the drawing is left with simply the outline of the figure.

Go see the new Batman!!

On Friday night I saw "The Dark Knight Rises" and it inspired me to do these two drawings. I'm still not as comfortable with ink as I would like to be, so it seemed like a great time to practice it. Hope ya'll like them!

... Also, go see the movie. It was incredible!

The Penguin.

Here is the progression of my Joker drawing. It took me a while to get the eyes right. Eyes can be a tricky thing. Either they come out exactly as you want them to, or you draw them 50 different times until you end up with something you maybe like. I got lucky. After 30-some times I got these, which I was really content with.

Lines

When I was young I was obsessed with lines. Long wavy lines that I could manipulate in order to create a real unique drawing. Most of my drawings back then started out with a few lines on a page which I could then develop into a drawing. I feel it is a great exercise, specially if you're working on perspective; start with going into a vanishing point or two, and create something surrounding the lines. Here are some line drawings I was able to find since I last moved.

The two above I started by drawing two lines down the page. The one on the left has the lines incorporated into the drawing, and the one on the right I used the lines simply as a guide for there to draw in order to guide the eye into the page.

In High School I started playing classical guitar. I drew this in Colombia, after my  Dad gave me his old guitar. I couldn't play too well at the time so I figured, "why not draw it?".

On a larger note, I was obsessed with surrealism. This could have been for two reasons; either I listened to too much Pink Floyd at the time, or I watched Fantasia too many times as a kid. Who knows...

Sketches and Old Art

New Art coming soon! for more frequent art posts, check out my tumblr http://daysicantremember.tumblr.com/

For now, here are some drawings and sketches I have done in the past.

First Angry Buddha sketch i ever made.

Sketch for an upcoming Comic.

Drawing I did for the school newspaper before UT game in 2010.

Drawing of the Faun from Pans Labyrinth by Mike Mignola. I really look up to Mike and his art work, and so decided to practice inking with this drawing of his.

Drawing of The Crow I made for one of my friends.

DC's Firestorm.

Welcome To Angry Buddha Comics!

Nuclear Snowman

Hello Everyone! And welcome to my new blog! I am really excited about this blog, mainly because it is my first. In this blog, you will see various art works and stories I come up with, as well as comic ideas I have been developing for the past couple of years. The guy you see above is a snowman I often doodle on things when I'm bored, and you will probably see him around from time to time. His story has a rather somber tone to it. His life before he became as he is now is unknown, but how he became this way is where this story begins. On a rather beautiful morning in January, John (John is his name) woke up to find that during the night, a snowstorm had taken the liberty of reshaping his yard. As he looked out his window that morning, his only desire was to see what wonders the white fluff outside had to offer. He hoped into his boots, wrapped himself in his snow jacket, and ran out the door, almost forgetting his gloves. "Don't wanna get frostbite now, do we?" he said with a smile on his face. But his eagerness to explore this new terrain blinded him from an even graver terror looming over the dark horizon. As he rolled around in the cold snow, John had no idea that at that very moment, a nuclear war head was preparing to explode in the sky, precisely above his home. Maybe it was that his excitement manage to fight back the radiation, or perhaps it was like being in the eye of a hurricane; since the eye of the storm is always the safest, why cant this be the same for nuclear weapons?. Personally, I like to think his love for the snow around him caused his consciousness to cling to that very thing which he so loved. As he sunk into the snow angle he was forming, John opened his eyes just in time to see the explosion above him. "A most beautiful explosion it was really" he thinks now, but we all know he couldn't have been thinking that at the time. None the less, he survived. Many people that morning around him were playing in the snow that had decorated their yards throughout the night , but no one was left to accompany him. Now, transformed into a half skeleton half snowman, he rolls around the land, looking for some company to pass the nuclear winter. His journey begins here, but where will it end?