#Copic

Nostalgic of Puerto Rico

I have been missing my homeland. I was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico but moved to the states five years ago. I don’t regret...

Sketching on both sides

Today one student told me another professor had taught him that he should never use the left side of his sketchbook. It is the second...

Garabateando #6 @iupi

Last Saturday our sketching group Garabateando.com went to my Alma Mater, the University of Puerto Rico; it is affectionately called...

Sketchcrawl 31: San Juan, PR

I only could sketch for a couple of hours, as I had a class, but my industrial design students joined me at the end of the class and...

Virtual Paintout- Japan

Here I used my son’s Faber Castell Manga Shojo set and my Copic markers; I am really enjoying sketching this fast and loose. *edit: LOL@...

Ode to Hideous

Could somebody PLEASE incorporate Aesthetics 101 into Engineering Curricula? When an otherwise beautiful landscape is completely...

Experimenting with Copics

Last Saturday Prof. Leytham lent me his Sailor brush pen so I could try it. It is designed for Japanese calligraphy, which brush can...

Overcoming my fears

Well, today I did my first sketch of a non-blob car as an adult. I decided that it was time I overcome my fears and start practicing...

Are markers obsolete? I don’t think so!

Back in school I did most of my renderings with colored pencil and airbrush. I only used markers very sparingly, they were expensive and...

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