Art of Mike Hernandez: 2013

Friday, May 10, 2013

Throw-up Calendar: Part IV

The last installment, featuring October, November, and December.

What's to become of all these girls? I very well may publish an actual calendar in the future. But for now, they're all online for your gawking pleasure.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Throw-up Calendar: Part II

The next installment of calendar girls. April, May, and June.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Throw-up Calendar: Part I

Here's a fun little digital series I did for a future "throw-up" calendar.

What is a throw-up, might you ask? It's a grotesque parody of a pin-up and its subject matter; the anti-pinup, as it were. In this case, the victims are the twelve months of the year.

Our first installment features January, February, and March.

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Let it Sno

Another advert design, this time a vector two-page spread for Nestle Sno-Caps, circa Feb. 2013.

...What? Those are good.

Udderly Unbreakable

Here's a straightforward one-page advert designed for Hefty bags. Done in the ol' pen & ink with gouache combo, Jan. 2013.

Friday, April 26, 2013

And here she is - or here THEY are. This was my submission for a contest hosted by the John Fluevog shoe company to design an advert for their latest line of shoes - the Kitschy Kitschy Boom Boom Liz. And as it turns out, this one was the winner.

Be sure to look for it in one of several prolific magazines, coming very soon!

Drawn traditionally with pen & ink and coloured digitally - March 2013.

Monday, April 15, 2013

In God We Must

What do you mean "frivolous government spending"? She needed that boob job.

Pen & ink with gouache, Dec. 2012.

Sunday, April 14, 2013

There is No Need to Be Upset

Done originally for an article about the excessive rage issues in this country. I might have enjoyed this a little more than I should have.

India ink and gouache, Nov. 2012.

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Hair

A tall quickie inspired by the great George Carlin's "Hair Poem." Couldn't you tell?

Pen & ink with gouache, Oct. 2012.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Mimeland Pin-ups

Here are some excerpts from a "pin-up" series I did summer of 2012. The goal was to see how many bizarre ways I could interpret the concept of a female mime.

It was also an opportunity for me to have a little fun creating traditional watercolour backgrounds for a digital piece.

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Vector Bootysheep

These were among my first experiments with vector art, circa fall of 2012. I began with these basic templates before expanding them to a few other themes.

Halloween, for instance.

Or Thanksgiving.

I like these guys, so I might do some bigger stuff with them later on. Vinyl stickers, perhaps...?

Monday, March 18, 2013

Star Stuff

A tribute to the late, great Carl Sagan, finished on his birthday.

May he continue to enlighten billions upon billions of inquisitive minds with his courageous skepticism and endless search for cosmic citizenship.

Pen and ink with gouache. November 2012.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Negativland

An interpretation - of sorts - of the 1972 song of the same name by German krautrock band Neu.

India ink and gouache with coloured pencil. October 2012.

More Election Nonsense

"Tools with Tools" - an India ink and gouache piece from early October 2012. This was right after the first debate, when it looked like Mitt Romney had Obama locked in a corner. That obviously changed...

Surprisingly, I found that Romney's overly generic features made him very tricky to caricature. I ended up doing a few studies before I was satisfied with something:

And of course, old Mittens is given the swift boot.

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Politics Make Strange Bedfellows

Here's something left over from the 2012 election. That was a lovely few months, wasn't it?

More stuff coming soon.

Done in India ink and gouache. September 2012.