Old Timey Mugshot

With permission from
Model: Candee Monster
Here is the original: [link]

Thank you very much for letting me use this photo, I really enjoyed painting the model and i learned a lot through the process

I took some artistic liberty and made it look like an old timey mugshot photo.

Hope you guys like it

Old Man Gloom

Concept for a character.
He's a very sad man.

Name taken from the band of the same name.

Inspired after watching a livestream of and he was very insistent, that if you want to do things you cant say "oh i'll get to it" or "yeah i've been meaning to do this" you just DO IT!

NO BLARGING, NO EXCUSES, JUST DO!

Special thanks to for the continued encouragement

Adventure Playground

A poster I did for my friends band. check them out: www.myspace.com/advplayground
I also created their myspace page layout

Social Blonde Hair

Two posters i did for my friends in an AWESOME band, check them out, i also created their page www.myspace.com/socialblondehair

Hyphen Magazine's 6 Year

I want to start of by thanking Hyphen Magazine for allowing me to participate in this amazing event and give a shout out to my friend Andrea for refering me to this event, and Lianlian for actually setting me up for the event and also Alex Chiu, one of the artists that was there as well, check his stuff out it's really great work: http://alexchiu.carbonmade.com
I was nervous for the first 10 minutes but soon felt relaxed after overhearing people give positive feed back which in turn gave me a confidence boost. i do regret not having some makeshift business cards though :( but it was all fun and i had a blast! There were 2 rooms going at once and the music and whole vibe and turnout was incredible. There was a mini-contest and a fashion show of what looked like lingerie by Vintage Joy: http://www.ehappyvintagejoy.blogspot.com/ check her stuff out it was really impressive.
What was really cool and i gushed over was a projection on a huge wall with one of my digital pieces and my and Alex's names on it, i was gonna take a pic but was too late :( but still it was bad ass seeing my name on a huge wall. Anyways, I hope to do something like this again soon because it was super amounts of fun, and it was a very humbling experience.

Law of the Jungle

Wondercon 09'

Hana-Chan

Quick drawing done at work....i almost got caught a few times by my boss hehehe

The Collective

Hello, I invite you to come and see my very first mini series "The Collective"

It consists of 3 main female role models and influences, who stand out to me in a very positive way.
Let me guide you through them.

Cuca is an artist from Las Vegas Nevada, born her in the bay area. She has an incredible array of paintings and is very talented, she has exhibited her artwork in galleries before and she first caught my eye several months ago and she has an eye of depicting females quite tastefully and ellegantly. Although I haven't had the opportunity of meeting her in person, I do think that she is a positive role model for any artist out there. I hope to one day meet her and tell her that she is a great artist and I am proud to call her my friend.

Andrea, a all around busy woman who is always working on several projects, from radio dj to youtube channel icon to internet show vj, always on the move and always looking for something big. I met her a long time ago in a math course during a summer at Stanford University when I was in 7th grade, and later met her with mutual friends and have been running into her ever since. I once said to her "Everything you touch turns to gold" I still believe it and she definatley has held up to it. Being on the airwaves and on the internet she has had a great inmpact and influence many in my opinion, if you didn't know, now you know.

Domini, oh Domini, what is to be said about this lovely and brilliant woman? An amazing artist of crafts and the like, she has made her own book, covers, pages and all, a queen of knick knacks and patty wacks, and incredibly talented. She works for a publishing company and designs book covers; if you ever picked up a book just by how intruiging you found the cover and ended up liking the book afterall, that's exactly how domini is, you'll want to meet her because she's so interesting, and you'll never meet one of the nicest women out ther than her. She radiates happy go lucky-ness.

I hope to have captured all of your female beauty and likeness and strength, without women, men would be nothing. "This world would be nothing without a woman or a girl" to quote the late James Brown and he was right, without the strength, power, beauty and softness of a woman, men would cease to be.

I hope you enjoy The Collective, please leave comments and praise, for these women deserve it.

Thank You

-Luis

Merry Christmas from Kuato