Bored Sketches Again

The Terrahog! A large boar creature mainly used as a caravan beast of burden. Capable of carrying immense loads for vast stretches of the harshest environment, though the skin on the Terrahog's hide is thick, it is not impervious to all travel roads. Preferably they should be used on long flatland's or overgrown wood paths, and not advised for rocky or unpredictable terrain.. Their tremendous size makes even the most simplistic maneuvers a chore, but in a strait ahead charge, no beast can go farther or harder than the Terrahog! Momentum is always in their favor, preferably the male's for their large, solid bone tusks easily topple most obstacles. Though their tusks may be terrifying, they're only real purpose is to dig for truffles and other vegetation to coincide for their hefty herbivore diet

And then a doodle of a devious space renegade. More on him later I guess, if I can think of anything to do with him. Until then, he's all speculation.

Tribute to My Long Hair

My long hair in all its true to life glory, as an ode to its gawk-full-ness. The time for short hair is approaching fast, and I think a simple before and after picture wouldn't do justice to its name.

Here's to you long hair, thanks for keeping my neck toasty, my ears invisible, and my forehead constantly irritated.

Beanie 13

I did this for a friend of mine; originally it was sopposed to be an updated version of "lil us" but it turned out as an actual portrait, true to their character. I enjoyed working on this, making the waterlike look on the biggest jellyfish. the highlight on the creature, the clothe's shading. All fun to do! In fact I enjoyed creating the creature the most, and I've named his species "Sauradon" which literally means Lizard-Lizard. So much fun that im inclined to actually draw him again just for the sake of working out what exactly he is! Even I dont know!

Thats not to say you shouldnt expect more friendly drawings in the future, I'm totally geared towards all personal projects right now. So keep your fingers crossed!

Regularly scheduled updates are on the way! Tell your friends!

Bad Weather Inspiration

I've kinda been in a bad spell of art recently. Maybe I'm distracted or just not properly inspired, but I'm trying my best to worm my way out of it. Lacking updates didn't help because I really do want to keep this an up and current thing, but I think I need a niche of some sort. I think that is something I need to stumble upon on accident if its ever going to work right I guess. I'll work even harder to keep this updated with something worth while though.... I need a haircut....

Gold Fox Tail

Back in the olden days of 2008, I was among the swarm of graduating teenagers who where eager to set out into the world and yada yada blah. I was fresh from school and had 6 months until I started college. It was fitting to go out and get a job, and by pure accident I was accepted to Disney Land where I was stationed in Tommorowland, building Lightsabers for kids and convincing them that batteries didn't exist.

The Experience in and of itself was life changing, although I only worked there for upwards of 9 months before certain situations led me to leave the happiest place on earth. During that time however I tried my hardest to create a web comic for myself that would explain or depiect the trial and tribulations of a Lightsaber Salesman, alas it was the exact opposite! It was SOOOO disorganized and random, but it was me in a nutshell. Topics from me at work doing.... work-ey things to situations in school and whatnot, it was more like an autobiographical comic if anything else. Back when making webcomics was COOL, MAN!

The name was just GoldFoxTail, as was my alias, and each person Ive tried to explain the meaning to, develops each time over the years. Gold Fox is a derivative of Silver Fox, a nickname the nurses gave to my father while he worked in the Long Beach Hospital, Gold is also my favorite color (yellow, amber ect...) and the fox is my favorite animal, due to its influences to me as a child (Fox and the Hound, The Court Jester, Milo & Otis ect...) In high school I wore alot of Fox Rider Co. brand clothes because I love motorcycles and the like, and the jacket I wore most often was a bright yellow Fox Rider hood-tee, which is featured in almost every picture I draw of myself. Its a persona that sort of developed and stuck, but I've come away from the yearning of an alias or nickname. I am me, in my name. But my name is as featured, GoldFoxTail.

I wanted the comic itself to be a daily Autobiographical comic that I wanted to update everyday, but I am no good at updating my internet things though, and in two years I only posted 15 of them, the last of which took place recently. I have no further plans to seriously take on the series again, but what with all the free time I'll be having recently, It's not such a bad idea. Time will tell. I cant compete with all the other webcomic artists anyway, I have neither the drive nor the commitment to put myself out there like that, and so was GFT15 (which is actually 14, because the 12th was made without the comic top).

Good times.....

Anatomy Studies of Muscular, Skeletal, and Pose.

SPATULA!

Delightful filler until I get my Anatomy assignments uploaded.
When I doodle, I doodle with SPATULA!

Color Harmonies

I was going through an old sketchbook and found a good example of color harmonies!
From top left ===> bottom right :

Monochromatic (Blue)
Complementary Contrast (Yellow & Violet)
Primary Triadic Contrast (Red, Blue & Yellow)
Analogous Harmony (Violet, Blue-Violet, Blue, Blue-Green, Green & Yellow-Green)

That class was only fun because I had a friend in it with me (which is usually a kiss of death for one of us)
but Color Theory is permanently engraved in my brain. No matter of therapy can remove it!

The "LiL uS" Project

LiL uS (with a lil I and a lil U):
This was by far one of the most fun personal projects that I wish I had completed to my hearts content. I had initially started it via Myspace with a few personal friends of mine, offering to compose for them a small caricature based off of reference or preference. I started it the 1st of June 2009 and worked on it for well over a month, inviting anyone I could as the time went on allowing a gracious month preparation. I however bit off more than I could chew, with a character sheet of over 25 others (not including myself).

I did what I could within the remaining spring break, however the next term of life drawing and concept character design harshly crippled the stylized "LiL Strokes" of the piece. So much so that when I returned to this project 3 months later for its completion, the newer figures (other than the presented 6) looked completely different and did not fit in with the progress I had made in June. Several times I halted the project, and several times I gave it the green light, but in the end it was always the first 6 that where truly "LiL" style.

The cause of style amnesia was mainly because the figures where not composed through Adobe, but a smaller, cheaper, and easier to use program at the time known as Paint.Net, that is tremendously more pen-pressure sensitive than Photoshop.

I really want to complete this piece, but what with all the spontaneous friends I tend to acquire and eventually lose to various reasons, to take written in requests again would kill me but I'll never rule anything out!

Recovering from the Flu -- Robert Reyes

Welcome to my Art Blog! An Artsy Bio

Welcome and thank you for stopping by! First off I would like you to take the time to fill out the poll featured on the main page, so that I can find out just where exactly people are paying attention, I would greatly appreciate it!

Moving on, for those of you who don't know me (and even those who thought they did) my name is Robert and I am an aspiring artist out of Southern California. I do primarily live in Los Angeles, but I do attend an art college (AIOCOC) in Orange County where I am one year into my Bachelors for Media Art and Animation

I was born and raised up to my 13th year in a small, tightly knit town that was really only found on map because of the rail-way that went through it, and the freeway that couldn't avoid it. Growing up I realized early that anything that was anywhere was nowhere near this little town, and if you ever looking for anything at all the answer was simply "Go that way, out." This engrained the smallest seed for everyone who seemed to stay there too long, to get out! Leave! But for me I had more reason than anyone. As a child I saw just how unsuited I was for the reality school bestowed upon me.

Growing up, every kid always had the same dream: Blah blah blah, discover something. Blah blah blah work with animals, blah blah space this, blah blah fireman that. I couldn’t take that easily, and in truth I never did. I wanted to create something, to add something to this world! I didn’t want to prove a theory, or discover some kind of rare bug, I wanted to make something I could be proud of. Trust me, when one half of science class wants to be scientists, and the other half wants to marry a scientist, you want nothing more than an art class, a luxury. Until now.

After leaving the small town behind I took to high school in Los Angeles where I found out just how much I had to offer, the ideas I had to share, the murals to paint, the stills to life, and not only in self discovery. I saw the world at its most diverse, not where the only difference between me and next kid was the hair color and last name! I've experienced the nature of American freedom in ways I could never back where I was born, and for that I am truly thankful!

But I digress and before this post becomes too much of an eyesore, I'll cut it short.

In future updates, my traditional or digital art will be posted for viewing for either entertainment or critique or even both. My thoughts, feelings, inspiring daily events, as a true blog!

I am condensing my fan base from those who followed my year long comic series on Myspace, and those who I usual on Deviant Art, as well as my close friends and fans alike from Facebook, where I mostly frequent. Welcome to everyone who followed me here, and once again I urge you to answer the poll on the main page, as well as sign up on blogger so that your comments are recognized as more than anonymous.

I will link updates via Facebook for easier notification, FYI :p

Thank you once again, and expect future updates soon!

Robert Reyes