A scene from Matt de la Peña's book Mexican Whiteboy

At Ideate High I am reading Matt de la Peña's book Mexican Whiteboy with two other classmates. I did this drawing last night of an intense scene where Danny and his sister Julia meet their mother Wendy's boyfriend for the first time. He tells them she is moving for the summer to San Francisco to live with him and brother and sister are shocked. Randy lives on Russian Hill with a view out his window to Alcatraz. Danny refuses to go and wants to try to find his real Dad who is living in Mexico so he stays with cousins in National City. Julia decides to go to San Francisco but is heartbroken and they hold hands to comfort each other.

My first pastel portraits

After life drawing that one time I decided I wanted to try portraits using pastels. The one on top is for a school assignment and the other two were for fun.

Life Drawing

This past Friday I had my first experience with life drawing at a workshop for our high school at San Diego City College with an amazing drawing teacher Wayne Hulgin. These are my quick 1 minute gesture drawings and one where we had a 10 minutes. It was fun and I want to do this again and learn more about the human figure.

Imaginary Monsters

Two new Summer drawings

Hanging out in the basement drawing this Sunday morning.

Recent Drawings

Anakin Skywalker giving out a toast with Dark Guinness.

Adult Santiago R. Lopez and his pet hawk, Davy Crocket.

A Jawa and Tusken Raider unmasked.

Santa's Life Cycle

MONSTER DISEASES

At our school we did class reports on diseases and I learned a lot. Today I was thinking that diseases are like MONSTERS so decided to develop my own characters to go with them. My plan was to infect the MONSTERS with their own diseases-take that!

Some of my summer in Mexico drawings and adventures