I like Hooks

This is the re-design of the old sailor from one of my pitches called A Sailors Tale. i love playing with curves and sharp edges when I'm designing a character. I'm going to draw some more using this technique. You gotta love that UPA style.Aww and this handsome fellow is for the short I'm currently working on right now called MONSTER P.D.: All Monsters Attack. It takes place in the future with a 1940's style thats why he's wearing the paper boy hat.

Miguel

Run Android Run!!

miguel

VENOM!!

Venom is one of many of my favorite characters in the Marvel universe, simple design but with alot of attitude. One thing I fell in love with about this character is that T-rex jaw he has. Freak'n awesome!!!




Here's the breakdown of Venom.
1) I sketched him out with a purple Prismacolor col-erase pencil, then I went over it with a .7 led mechanical pencil. I did'nt like the head I originally sketched so i drew another one in a post it note.

2) Once I'm satisfied with the sketch I import it into Flash and start tracing the sketch in my whack-ass wacom tablet using the brush tool.

3)Then I dropped in the color for his suit into the line layer. Then I selected the color, copied, deleted it on the line layer, added a new layer under it and placed in place the color. And I added a gradient.

4) Added shadow.....then I took a shit.

5) After my Mud Butt, I added the white on his spider symbol, eyes and added teeth.

6) Finally, I found a bloody tampon and used it as my background.


Hope this helps, and thanks for stopping by buddies!!!
-MIGUEL

My Blog Turns 1

Man! Time sure does fly. I just realized that I started this blog a year ago so I had to update!! so here it is. that's my blog giving me the middle finger for not updating that often my first year. But i will update more this time around... or ill try!

-Miguel

Meet Rook

Hey gang! I know I havent posted in a while but I'm super busy with my Monster P.D. project. Good news, Theirs going to be more 3d backgrounds in the short. woot woot. cant wait to show em to you. Anyways heres the new and final design of Rook. I gave him holding lines and to sweeten him up I borrowed a texture from a Jose Agreda ilo. love his stuff.

R.I.P. Heath Ledger

As a kid i would always steel my dad's newspaper, and after reading the comics I would trace most of the pictures with a pen, and then hang it on the refrigerator. Today, to warm up before a big session, I'll pick out an image from the web and trace over it in Flash.

Two weeks ago I picked Heath Ledger in all his Joker glory, but I never finished it. I heard the tragic news of his death from my gf Cristy. I couldnt belive it, but after browsing on a few tabloid sites I was convinced. So when I got home i decided to finish this piece, in honor of a great talent that was taken too early in his carreer.

RIP Heath Ledger

1979-2008

Fresh out of the oven!

So I'm done with finals...kind of! i have 1 left and I don't have to turn it in till the beginning of next quarter. but other than that I'm done! Anyway' I just finished these two monsters for my short, their really detailed...well for me they are, these two probably took about 3 hours, from research/sketch/to finish. Hope you guys and gals like them, and let me know what you think about it. thanks for stopping by.

This first one is a Namor-ish One-eye Giant Mermaid man who is leading the attack from the sea in my short.When i first did this sketch i did it without the beard, but somewhere along the way i added it.

Alright this one took me a while. This is the Giant Ass Turtle from the previous post. That design on his back is Aztec and he has a giant hand print on the shell, and that's from the main villain...MANO PELUDA!!!!! that's it for now, ill post some more goodies soon!

Giant AsS Sea Turlte Monster

hey fellow bloggers! SOrry for not posting enough, i know no excuses, but I've been working on my short and i gotta finish it b4 i graduate. Ive been a bad blogger, and i promise im gna do my best not to do it anymore. oh and im on finals so ill do that after im done with that. in the mean time heres one of the monsters for my short. You should check out the blog if you havent already. thanks for stopping by. and you'll see more of my art soon

My Production Bog!!

what up peeps!

Just wanted to let you know I started a new post for my short I'm working on at school with a bad ass dope ass cool ass awesome ass hairy ass gangster ass crew. woot woot. so check it out yo!



http://www.monsterpd.blogspot.com/





In the mean time here's a zombie version of yours truly! oh and the whole crew will be on the short as zombies too! so thats a sneak peek at me at all my zombie glory! arghhh

Showing sum love

Heres my Tattooed Sailor-Hero, hell to the yeah, still gotta add colors to his tats.

THis is a Super Pyrate, originally he was going to be a Super Nazi but its pretty much played out. so Super Pyrate is better.

Heres the Papn-the narator for my short!

Sc. 1 characters. They open up the shot with a huge bar fight!

Close up of the rumble! ouch

thats it for now i gotta go fail my classes now!

-Miguel Puga 2007

Heres a sneak peak at what im currently working on , among other projects and trying not to fail my classes!! hope you likes.

The logo came out pretty cherry but i might change the font to something more cartoony.
This is part of the first scene in my short. Where the main characters are introduced. Its a bar inside a tug boat. I was going for a more darker mood for this piece, but then i remembered i hate dark rooms in cartoons. So i muted the colors a bit to fit the flash back scenes.

Heres a close up of some of the pictures on the wall. There all of the hero of my short. The tattooed Sailor and his victories and tattoos. my fav. is the one on the bottomleft hand corner, he has a tattoo of Peter Parrot from the Tex Avery short 'I Wanna Be A Sailor".


And this is one of my instructors over at A.I. His name is Mike Williams, and he was in the navy so i thought i would put him in, hes going to be in the bar fight scene. hope he doesnt mind.

Thats all for now, i gotta play catch up with my school work now, but ill be posting more bgs, and charcters later. hope you guys dig my doodles. and thanks for stopping by. asta luego

finally a new post!!!

I just finished this at work like a minute ago. its part of a poster im working on for Oddbot. But yeah ill be posting more soon. ho fo sho'...........happy todd???

Posting Dont Pay For My Froot Loops!!

Hey fellow bloggers! Ive been super busy with school and my new job at Oddbot, as a Assistant/designer/ storyboard artist. Its fun and the artist there are the tits! Im learning new things everyday, thanks to Chris Hamilton, who took me under his wing and for giving me a chance. hes a hell of a guy and one of the best bosses Ive ever had. Shout outs to Todd Oman whose skills are off the roof! A lot of inspiration at that studio!

Anyways heres my flash animation, Monster P.D., that I finished in 15 hours. I got best of quarter for it, but I think it was mostly for design and not animation. Its still work in progress and its going to be 100 times better, and longer when its done in March!



This one Im doing for my Advanced Animation class that I have this Quarter.Its an animatic and I got the dialogue from "Liar Liar". Ill post it up when its done.







Till next time kids!!

HA!!!!

SORRY TOO BUSY TO POST MY ART BUT HOPE THIS KEEPS U ENTERTAINED!!!!!

Watercolor Fun!!!

Hey everyone! Here are my first Water color paintings ever!!! I did the one on the right tonite over at Pricillas Coffee Shop. I think im just going to stick to digital. I suck.

Wolverine!!!

Hey peeps Im Back!! I drew this wolverine last nite at Pricillas Coffee Shop in Burbank, and I threw some quick color on em in Photoshop. Its a rough piece that I plan to finish. I was thinking of doing a post of my favorite Marvel heroes, so heres the first one. Ill have the rest up later. I'm still tweaking them up. Alright hope you guys dig!!

ps. My coloring sucks!

I heart Bg's

You gotta love those Terry Toons!!!

Anyhoo! These are some old Bg's I did in 2005. I have a thing for back grounds, I love doing them, and its a shame that I never even show them off. I know i havent posted any new drawings up. I have tons but I dont feel ready to let all 3 of my visitors see them. But I'll post up eventually. And thanks for those who still stop by. Gracias a todos y nos vemos muy pronto!

oh and i did some changes to the blog... hope you guys wont mind, and I also added some awesome artist to my links. kick ass

I know, I know, sorry for the lack of post but Ive been slaving away with my finals. Ill be done next week on wednesday. After that, I'll fill up this baby with brand new doodles, paintings, doodoos, and my 3d character animation final. And by the way, thats my sailor up there. I finally found a face for him, youll see plenty of him too. Peace out. and thanks for stoping by.

FREDERATOR BLOG

I wanna give a thousand and one thank you's to Steve Levinson, who posted some of my art in the Frederator blog, and said some awesome things about me and my work. Thanks Steve, I really appreciate it man. I really do hope i get to work with the guy too! His art is kick ass too, i dunno why he would waste time on my blog. Check out his latest cartoon here http://www.aceandaqua.com/

http://newtoons.frederator.com/post/3920

my friend andy

My buddy Andy!!! I was bored and I drew him.

he's going to hate me for this!!

FREDERATOR!!

Hey yo! check it out its Robo-week at Channel Frederator! If you havent heard, Channel Frederator ROCKS!!! SO I submitted an old robot design, and i guess they liked it...yay for me.
To check out my robot click here http://newtoons.frederator.com/post/3951. You guys should check out Jeaux Janovsky blog, its packed with lots of fun drawings, and really cool designs, I dig it, so should you !

HELP SPREAD THE FRED!!!

HARD SUIT !!!

Hey bloggers check out what my school mate/buddy, Joseph King is doing on his production blog!!! Its really Cherry cant take my eyes off of it, and cant wait to work on it too! To check out his production blog click here http://hardsuitproduction.blogspot.com/. its tons of fun!! woop woop

And Joseph: Give me something to contribute to your short!!! turd

This is for the kids!!

This is for my girlfriend's elementary. I re-designed their schools mascot.

Hope the kids like it.

Colored sailor

My buddy Alexis Picar inked, and painted my sailor during class. It came out pretty cherry!! I still need to tweak the design but he still did a pretty awesome job. well done piggy. And i signed him on to work on my short...but he doesnt know yet, heh.

"A SAILOR'S TALE"

WHAT UP FELLOW BLOGGERS??

So today during class, I was "so-called" meditating, but I usually draw or think what I want to draw. But any who, as i "meditated" i came up with this idea for a short,where an old sailor is telling his story of his younger days to some kids(but in a twisted John K way)and as soon as I saw the images pop up in my head i wrote them down, then a short while after i drew them. Im still working on the story and the character designs, but I want to do this short fast, maybe in a month and a half. wish me luck.

This is the old sailor, messing with different costumes and what not, but I

like his design, so I'm gonna stick with it. I still dont have a name for him, maybe

you kids can help me with that.

Ahh and this is the same sailor, but in his younger days where he fought Nazis, Giant Squids, Spies, Dinosaur's, Giant Samurai robot, and other fun stuff. As you can tell, still work in progress, I really dig his torso, but I still havent found the right arms or face for him. But the one thing he is going to have is all those tattoos!! Yay for ink!!

My inspiration

My beautiful girlfriend Cristy
I love you baby! she keeps me drawing.

Animation

This is a short animation I did for my Character Animation class, using Maya, i got Runner up for this sucker...woop woop. Okay so the assigntment was to do a 60-90 frame animation in the Warner Bros. style, and giving the ball personality. hope you all dig it.




I did this 2 years ago, or maybe 3, cant remember.It was my second time animating, so thats why its pretty crappy. enjoy.

LOOK CLOSER

If you look closer you can see my faces in the skulls eyes, middle of flowers, and the most obvious the teeth. I had fun doing this, and plan to do some more just for fun. And ill like to thank everyone who leaves me comments, thank you, you keep me drawing.

WOOP WOOP New post

Instead of taking notes in class I draw... God I hope I

picked the right major!!

I draw naked girls on my notes!!!

I was on a Greaser/ Biker dood mood yesterday.

ITs the bull from Bully for Bugs -directed by Chuck Jones


one of my many characters...Detective ROOK

Blah...more old stinky stuff

Aztec short I still plan to work on...someday...maybe tomorrow?

this was done over 2 years ago, i suck at colors