Frida Querida by Sandra Vargas

My tribute to an amazing artist and passionate woman, Frida Kahlo, who transformed her suffering into colorful pieces of art.

My original illustration was made using colored pencils and digital painting. Art prints, postcards and more accessories featuring Frida Querida are available through my shop and also here.

Frida Querida

© Sandra Vargas. All Rights Reserved.

The new guy

This guy showed up in my sketchbook lately.

Diana Koehne

October Sketch 2012 - Week 4

Week 4 of my project October Sketch 2012 ! This week I have explored more watercolor and ink ! From now I showed you 80 pages of my sketchbook ! To see them all go to my website at : http://stephanelauzonillustration.com/2012/10/26/october-sketch-sw-4/

PLUS – The contest continue with my Fanpage on Facebook (http://tinyurl.com/9jfnqva). 

Sketchbook + Contest

Say hi to the OCTOBER SKETCH 2012 !! Youpi !

All October I will share with all my sketches about portrait studies. I say ALL so the good and the bad experimentation ! This week, you will see 20 pages of my sketchbook and about 75 faces !

PLUS – I start a contest with my Fanpage on Facebook (http://tinyurl.com/9jfnqva). If you become a fan, you could win a digital sketchy portrait from me. How its works : Every 10 fans, I will pick (randomly, of course!) a fan and draw his/her Facebook ‘s photo. The style will be the same as the sketch of the October Sketch. If you win, I will ask you if I can use your photo as model and to thank you, I will send to you a digital copy of it. You could use it as a new profile picture or on a blog, tumblr… Me, I will do a gallery on Facebook and on my website of all the winner.

Of course, I do it for fun and share with people who love illustration. You will understand that I couldn’t give you any compensation of any sort. I’m sorry !

I invite you to see more sketches at : http://stephanelauzonillustration.com/2012/10/02/october-sketch-1/

Thanks to welcome me !

Hello everybody ! 

I'm so happy to be a part of this great blog.

My name is Stephane Lauzon, I'm a French-Canadian illustrator from the area of Montreal. 

I'm specialized in editorial illustration and portrait. 

You can see the rest of my work at stephanelauzonillustration.com

If you have any questions or comments, I will be happy to share with you all.

You can follow me on twitter too : @slauz

See you soon !

Stephane Lauzon

stephanelauzonillustration.com

GreenDay © Stephane Lauzon 

Kurt Cobain © Stephane Lauzon 

Sleep at work © Stephane Lauzon 

The Man Who Draws Buns

He steadies the little hardbound book on his leg, putting pencil to paper on a page between the next and last—naturally.

Squinting, he continues, drawing anything that comes to mind. Partridges in profile, a disheveled rake in platform shoes, and of course, buns—many, many naked buns: The buns of fantastically stubby, balding men whose walking-on-air leaps of joy so perfectly showcase a certain golden doughy confidence, the viewer's given no choice but to share in at least a bit of what they have... by the pound, after pound—fancy, fancy freedom.

So jump, my gelatinous friends! Jump!

[To view Bryant's buns, click here.]

A Genius in Her Habitat: Professor Alexa

As mentioned in a previous post, my illustrious über woman of a sister has once again called on me, and this time for her portrait. Since she's in the field of education, immediately I wanted to make a picture of "the learned scholar in his den" variety, only this time it'd be "in her den." Holbein's terrific portrait of Erasmus was used as my jumping-off point.

Of course it was only natural I put beakers in the background. What's an important person without beakers? An incomplete important person—that's what I say.

Anyway, we can all hope to one day have such a cute den.

But until then...

Jew of the Week: Maimonides [ה]

～PROFILE～

Rabbi / Sage

One of the greatest Torah scholars of the Middle Ages

Drew from Aristotle to inform his study of the Tenakh

Bench press record: 425 lbs.

Wikipedia Bio

[To see past editions of Jew of the Week, visit Owen's blog, Winning the Polyglottery!]

Jew of the Week: Richard Lewis [ג]

～PROFILE～

Comedian / Black Belt in Hand Wringing

Arguably made up the phrase, "the ... from hell"

The "old friend" in Billy Joel's song, My Life

Wears a Nehru jacket to bed

Wikipedia Bio

Website

[To see past editions of Jew of the Week, visit Owen's blog, Winning the Polyglottery!]

Atom Egoyan for Lucid Media

Charlene Chua illustrated Canadian director Atom Egoyan for the cover of Lucid Media film magazine. The cover is accompanied by a black and white fullpage illustration within the magazine. For more please visit Charlene Chua illustration - blog.

Portrait series - Mr. Devil

This is the first of a series of portrait-like character I'm creating on Cinema 4D.

I ask them to pose for a second in front of a backdrop - here I was lucky enough to get this really cool looking Devil, and he even gave me his autograph.

R.I.P. Corey Haim 1971-2010

I just drew you, man! It's strange it had to end this way—no one should die so young—but thanks for the memories. You were awesome in Lucas, and back in the day, every teenage girl had a poster of you on her wall. My prayers go out to your friends and family. May you rest in peace.

And just as I titled my piece, the toast bears repeating: L'Haim!

L'Haim!

• Question I: Prior to this picture, have you ever—ever—seen an artist's lovingly detailed interpretation of beloved teen icon Corey Haim?
• Question II: If so—which isn't at all possible, outside of '80s teenage fan art—was the name of the piece a play on the Jewish phrase, "L'Chaim"?
• Question III: Isn't this why Owen's paid the big bucks?

Answer Key: I. NO, II. NO, III. PERHAPS

[For more on Owen Schumacher, visit his blog, Winning the Polyglottery!]

Two New Portraits and a Set of Zed-Heads

Hi folks! Here's what I've been working on lately - as the title says, two new portraits and a set of zed-heads (zombies).

First up: Robert Shaw as Quint from Jaws - one of my all time favourite characters.

Second: Faye Reagan. If you don't know who she is... it's probably better that you just leave it at that. If you do, right on. *wink & smile*

Lastly: I was bored at work again recently so I zombified customers. I really should add two more to finish off the pic.

Well, that's it for me for now. Hope ya digs!

Joey Ramone (I Want You Around)

I suppose I'm a disciple of Andy Warhol right down to the indecision. I started out thinking there'd be only one of these, but sometimes when you're tinkering with the colors, you'd prefer not to choose. (In fact, I like looking at them side-by-side, don't you?)

Anyway, these're for you, Rose. Gabba gabba hey!

[For more on Owen Schumacher, visit his blog, Winning the Polyglottery!]

First illustration 2010

Here is my first illustration of 2010 ...... indeed.

Kanye West Illustration

Portrait of Kanye West.

The General and His Wife AND The General and His Mistress

Come take a closer look at some of the details on my blog.

Hello everyone! I'm new here, and as my first post I would like to share with you a Darth Vader portrait I recently did.

This is for Josh Frost's book "100 Ways to the Dark Side."

You can check out more of my work at:

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blane - rest at skate session

10" x 10"
oil on illustration board

created for the stoked sessions l.a. fundraiser show.