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Anime Drawing of a Victorian maiden circa 1850
This is one of my many cute maidens in pretty dresses. Since I was little, I used to fill up my notebook with crude renditions of maidens in cute dresses. None of these notebooks survived the moves. Now, I finally have enough space to have something that resembles an artist studio. My house has an extra room that we ended up turning into an office, slash studio. I rarely hang out there because the lighting there is rather weak. It is mainly for storage purposes. The light is pretty strong in the main room of the house. I get plenty...
Candy Cane Spanish Girl circa 1652
It has been quite a while since I did image blogs. In this website, I am trying to focus on my own work or whatever. The originality of my website is a must, for serious reasons or whatever. Anyhow, I do not need to go into detail about my process. I am just trying to enhance your shopping experience or whatever. Everything you need to make an anime drawing like this one can be found here. The pens are Staedtler. The small lines were made with a Prismacolor pen. I used it to draw the skin. The main coloring was...
Cake Spanish Girl circa 1650
This is another one of the cute dresses I drew. In Spain, during the baroque period it was common for princesses to dress like today’s modern date cakes. I went through a lot of trouble in rendering the small details. I also added a little bit of makeup on the maiden. I had just gotten some pastel pencils, and I wanted to try them out. The pastel pencils were Derwent, as well as the pencils I used to decorate most of the dress. The pen sections were drawn with Staedtler pens. The skin lines were drawn with a Prismacolor pen....
Tea Time
I drew this a week ago. It featured a scene from my book. I am in the process of jazzing it up, in order to publish it. Sure, the writing should speak for itself. However, pictures are worth a 1000 words, as the saying goes. Anyhow, the scene depicts a weird dream of the protagonist. He dreams of all his brothers and sisters. It is a way of keeping in touch with them, like one of those psychic connections. Still, they are separate enough not to feel each other’s pain. Well, I am putting too much though into explaining their...
Much ado about Colombia
It has been quite the number of years since I visited Colombia. It seems to have changed quite a bit. I visited Cartagena with some fellows that were mother’s friends. We no longer hang out because of reasons. I think they secretly hated us because we were Cubans. The people from the US treat Latinos like one homogenous group. However, we are all different. It is like saying that the Americans are the same as the British or the Australians. Having the same language is not enough of a similarity. People rarely bond just because they speak the same tongue....