Happy Birthday Benton!

Benton Connor was a classmate of mine at CalArts. He's working at Cartoon Network right now, which I think is a perfect fit for him. I remember he gave me a little tour of the studio and showed me his office(and on the way there saw the office of another CalArts buddy, Cole Sanchez) ........One of Benton's giant wall sized corkboard's  was lined with sticky notes, aka storyboards for the next "Marvelous Misadventures of FlapJack" episode, where he and his cubemate were diligently at work. Benton is  also a really cool guy. 

Check out some of his films!

See his work!

@ Panda Express

My sister playing with the most gorgeous rose I've ever seen.

Olive Garden

Fast Faces.

Needed to draw caricatures so I pulled out a magazine.

Inspiring video of Pascal Campion who shares his thoughts on art, storytelling, and fear of sharing your work.

Inspirational Artists: Pascal Campion from Onyx Cinema, Inc. on Vimeo.

Bottles and a Fat Warus.

Arist Block

I had artist block. So to push through it, I drew about having artist block. Problem solved! The color palette was different originally and didn't like too much. So I decided to limit the colors. It was a good challenge.

GIRAFFE!

Mr. Giraffe!!  This was a birthday gift for a friend.

I found these little mini canvasses at a College Bookstore for $1. Yay! I figured if I was doing a giraffe, he wasn't going to fit all in one square. I sketched out the giraffe first on the canvas and then painted the flat colors on each one. I think I did two coats for each square.

I used Liquitex Professional Acrylic "heavy body" paints. This is the second painting I have done with these and I'm LOVING them! Above are my paints in their water soaked palette container, to keep them moist. I was tired of using cheap, 87 cent acrylic craft paint, though it works fine. It's just too watery and runny. I figured I should finally make the switch and boy I'm glad I did. As one art teacher described the paint, "They're delicious!"

I thought the background of the blue, red, and green squares looked to plain, so I decided to add some abstract patterns in the background. I was thinking of African art when I was doing this.

You can see the buttery-ness of the paint. He's a happy lil ol' giraffe.

With amazing neck-elongation powers!!

The finishing touch. RdLA for my name, Ricardo de los Angeles.

Wisconsin Trip

Just came back this week from Wisconsin. I was there a month, took pics, sketched alot and went to Chicago aka Gotham City. Below are some pics I took of Gotham....heheehe.