Mata's Art Blog

The Sexy Librarian Pin-up

2010-01-19T00:45:00.000-08:00

The pin-up of the Aussie born librarian.

Seducer001

2009-11-23T20:18:00.000-08:00

A speed painting that took 4 hours to do. A scanned drawing and painted it in Photoshop.

Spartan-058

2009-11-02T15:55:00.000-08:00

Spartan-058 in her Mjolnir "V" variant EVA armor. Got inspired from the Halo Universe.
Spartan-058 is also known as Linda. One of the thirty Spartan II's that fought in the "Fall of Reach". I'm doing more research to figure out her armor, then I'll finish the drawing off in painter and photoshop.

Color study

2009-07-26T23:07:00.001-07:00

Nothing more than a color study.

Lucinda Kali

2009-07-15T12:44:00.000-07:00

It's your basic classic pin-up. A scanned drawing using both photo-shop & painter. I was in downtown when I noticed this young Indian woman who graced in my path. Besides that she smelled great, dressed sexy, and noticed she had this reddish-brown healthy glow to her skin. I did a quick glance for a full three seconds, and memorized what she wore--- get as much visual info. Then quickly draw a "character" of her. Her pose is totally made-up.

But she didn't have the red dot on her forehead(called a bindi, by the way). I used it to sell the idea that she's Indian, I don't know if it's a good I idea or what? When I goggled the bindi, red means she's married, but I also found out it acts like a fashion accessory. Sometimes a jewel of some sort is used as well. I like using red, but if it's inappropriate to us please let me know.

Mall kids

2009-02-27T10:00:00.000-08:00

I went to a local mall to people watch. Good thing about mall's that it attracts all sorts of people and to check out the street fashion, which nowaday's is a bit retro, like a mix of 70's, 80's, 90's I think. Just character's of people, as you look closely you can see that I used graph paper, cuz I forgot my to bring my sketchbook(Frac'in sin!).

If anybody's curious, I used a red color-erase by prisma and outlined using 2B graphite. Got question and comments? Let me know.

creature feature

2009-02-27T09:58:00.000-08:00

The creature page! These are quick sketches while riding the bus to school while listening to slow jams(don't know why?). Listening to Rhianna or Ericka Badu or baby bash inspires the worst creatures I can possible think of (lol). Also I get more inspired out in about then at home. Home is like the "black hole" of creativity, sucks the life out of me.

Starting from the top left: Is the wendigo, parasite spider, fallen angel, sexually diseased hell-commando, tauran from the forever war, revamped Frankenstein characters, an ogre at the bottom.

Organ Meat

2009-01-09T11:39:00.000-08:00

“Organ meat” was a person who committed suicide by jumping off high places. It will haunt a location where he perished only those who will commit suicide. Organ meat is a type of fetch, an apparition the appears before someone dies. Before suicide it appears and vomit it's organs, hence his name.

A scanned drawing using a combo of Photoshop and Painter.

Sweet dreams...

Irena Zaric

2009-01-09T11:37:00.001-08:00

The character I illustrated is based on a book called “Pretty Birds” by Scott Simon. Her named is Irena Zaric. Set during the siege of Sarajevo, Irena and her family are brutalized and chased out of her home by Serb Para-military. In order for her to survive she steals from the dead to buy food, dodges bullets in her own home, risk her life to contact her best friend. Under the tutelage of rogues and heroes, Irena becomes a sniper.

According to the book, her uniform consist, from head to toe: Irena covers her head with a dark ski mask, paints her surrounding eyes with shoe polish to cover her exposed flesh. She wears a shemagh, Arab headdress (not mentioned in the book). I thought it would be a nice design element. Adorned in a mechanic's coverall as her basic uniform. Black gloves, again to hide most of her exposed flesh, except for her trigger finger, nail painted in purple (favorite color.). Wears a simple military belt, to carry extra ammo and food. Also fitted with Russian inspired combat boots. Irena's rifle of choice is the American made M-14, used during the Vietnam war, and still in use today. Chambers a 7.62mm round, kept nicely packed in a 20 round magazine. She also tapes up metal parts that can rattle and make noise, especial her rifle sling, in order to maintain noise discipline.

I painted her using a couple of software packages using Photoshop and Painter. And of course the illustration started off as a drawing. And then scanned to Photoshop.

Tabitha

2008-12-03T23:11:00.000-08:00

Again the green goddess graces the blog. This took awhile to finish, about 10 hours total, but in the back of my mind, I feel I haven't finished her yet. Oh by the way, Tabby started out as a sketch on the Nintendo NS (as you can see the example above). What should've done is create values ruffs to speed up development, but I jumped the gun. Her tattoos are the pacman symbol. near the small of her back is the "Leo" birth rune, and on her arm is a tat I just made up.

Lee Cayuga

2008-12-02T23:37:00.001-08:00

Lee Cayuga, a another resident of Sucka Free. A 19 year old freshman from college, she lives in the Engleside district. Her and Joan Natoma are part of a series of Pin-ups located at Sucka Free. A scanned drawing, using a combo of Photoshop and Painter.

Joan Natoma

2008-11-19T20:04:00.000-08:00

Joan Natoma, age 20. Born in Sucka Free City. She's a Taurus as you can tell by the accessories and tat on her chest. On her arm is the horned heart. She resides in the heart of the Mission district.

Welsh

2008-11-19T19:46:00.000-08:00

The Character "Welsh" was created after watching Women's Beach Volleyball during the 2008 Olypics.

Meso American Priestess

2008-11-18T15:46:00.000-08:00

She is a Meso American futility priestess, before Spain's conquest. Her attire isn't based on historical fact. During my research, I found costume's related to that period. It's just a mash-up of ancient Central American attire.

Psylocke

2008-11-18T15:42:00.000-08:00

I'm a fan of the Xmen, So I painted Psylocke in her old-school uniform. I'll paint more characters whenever I'm in the mood.

Tabby

2008-11-18T10:29:00.000-08:00

Tabby is this gothic chick I always wanted to create. I used Painter 10 and Photoshop for final touches. I want to create a series of pin-ups based on this character.