Art of Mike Hernandez: March 2013

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

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.