tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23522673133135127202012-02-16T01:37:24.329-05:00The Artistic Adventures of Julian TejeraJulian Tejerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17279963832706805259noreply@blogger.comBlogger921100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352267313313512720.post-592026114123487792012-01-25T02:15:00.002-05:002012-01-25T02:15:38.460-05:00

This is just bit of a preview of a couple paintings in the works. The first one is a small head study of my dancer friend Cara. I'm going for a somewhat tighter finish than I have attempted in quite a while with this one and it is currently on the second pass of paint. It is oils on a quadruple primed and blue tinted piece of really rigid cardboard. This second painting is a bit larger,

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In lieu of this being humanity's last year on earth, I am hoping to post more frequently. But knowing me that's probably not gonna happen. Anywho, first three drawings are of a lovely young dancer I had the pleasure of working with back in December named Cara. I didn't really have a clear idea of what I wanted to shoot other than the figure in motion and just get some good poses of a dancer.

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First is a painting I finished a few months ago of my neighbor Monique. It started off as a full body painting but I didn't like or feel that the body was necessary. It didn't add anything to the image so I just cut it out of the board. Right now it needs a final varnish and to be completely cut out.This next one is my first drawing at the saturday portraiture class at GCA. Our model was Ana

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Here is a second dancer drawing I just finished up. Enjoy :)

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So I took one of those 4 sketches and blew it up to a somewhat finished drawing. I'll probably do more youtubing and sketching to familiarize myself with the movements. Ideally this will allow me to recall the fluid grace of the dancers from imagination and make it easier to pose the model :) Enjoy!

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I have all but disappeared off the face of the earth. SO much going on right now and not enough time to accomplish everything I want to do. This will be the first post of my current whereabouts and artistic doings so stay tuned. There's a lot I'm up to :) I'm starting a series of paintings depicting dancers and ultimately it will culminate into a narrative series... hopefully. It may take a

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And hit like! The more people hit like through that link the more counts go towards my painting's popularity. I'm not looking to win the popularity contest, but if I can get as many hits before the end of the month it'll certainly feel nice to know people are actually looking and liking my work. I'm trying to get my stuff out there as much as I possibly can (and afford, entry fees are killin'

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I participated in the Employee Art Fair this past weekend at the Montclair Art Museum, sold a drawing (it's always great when you sell work) and was able to socialize with a lot of my fellow artists outside of the work scene. This morning I received an email from one of the other artists who I'm happy to call a friend and coworker, Matha Kelshaw, with a link to the blog of someone who visited

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Went to Dorian's open studio on saturday after months of not going. Have to say I'm incredibly happy with the outcome. Going back next weekend to finish it up. I'm putting some close-ups as well so all the painters can scrutinize every stroke I made. Have to say this was the most fun and successful painting I've done from life in years. Small world too. The model's name is Cecily and she

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Hello all. I am happy to say I have completed my largest painting yet. And while not that large in comparison to some really large realist paintings, this is big for me. It is 36" x 22" and I have plans to just keep painting larger. My posts will probably remain infrequent for some time to come as I finish up some portrait work, of which I plan to paint large :P Anyway, this is a painting of

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It's been a while. Not going to talk too much today. I have a lot on my mind that needs sorting but here is my latest portrait in colored pencil and watercolor. There was some watered down acrylic use in this one as well as Prismacolor Color Stix. I definitely want to play around with them some more. It's 20" x 30" and the model is my neighbor Monique. She modeled for my painting class with

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A while ago I posted the block in for this painting. I loved how it looked so much and after the advice from several friends I decided to leave it very painterly. All I did was finish the hands and do a few touch ups on the face. Enjoy :)

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I probably have mentioned on my blog at some point in the past that my best friend passed away 5 years ago on March 7, 2006. It was a hellish time for myself, never mind the tumult of pain, anguish, and suffering his family felt. I had always wanted to create an image that would make me happy as an artist and at the same time memorialize Danny. Yesterday was the Danny Wust Scholarship Fund

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Here is the finish of my portrait of Alex. Learned a lot with this technique and i want to explore it more as a means to an end as well as an underpainting. I don't think i have patience working so large with pencils, so I may be doing smaller images in the future. Nothing larger than 16 x 20. Covering large areas of the same color becomes really monotonous real fast, especially since with

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I've been gone from the blog scene for some time now. Busy with work and portfolio and all that jazz. Here are two progress shots of my current pieces that I'm actually having fun working on, which is something I haven't had the pleasure of in quite a long time. The first one is for a class I'm taking at the Yard School called Realist Painting. I think I may have mentioned the technique

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I have a few projects going on in the studio that I'll be finishing up before I show anything on here. In the meantime I've decided to write about art books that have made a mark on me and how I create. As artists we gain insight and inspiration by looking at the work of other artists, past and present. Websites are great, but I personally love having a physical, tangible source to look at

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I opened up an Etsy account. I wanna try and sell my stuff. There'll be mostly smaller pieces, studies, etc and a few larger pieces for sale. Here's the link and I'll post it on the size somewhere.http://www.etsy.com/people/Painterificationenjoy

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I have been very absent from the blog this month for many reasons, namely that I haven't been making any art. There has been a lot of introspection and figuring out what I want to do with my art, portfolio, and career. So art was put on hold. I finished up a few commissions that have been lingering in my studio for a while and I've done a few sketches here and there but nothing major except

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Last week I got the urge to just stop painting and start drawing up a storm. Like, make finished pieces using only drawing media. So with that in mind, I browsed the wealth of stock photos on deviantart for something that would pique my interest. I found an image by Marcus Ranum, of mjranum_stock (I strongly suggest looking him up on deviantart) and created this quick study.It's actually a

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So this weekend I spent a good portion of my time medicated, fighting off a dastardly cold that decided to infiltrate my body at the worst possible time. Despite it's best efforts though, I still managed to get a lot of work done. I finished up a smaller painting, brought my cigar self-portrait to the final stage, and put the finishing touches on my final colored pencil/ink wash drawing. I'll

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So I have woken up sick and it took every last bit of energy and motivation to bring my laptop up from my studio to make this final post. I woke up 2 hours later than I anticipated, sleeping through both alarms, and I justified a 40 minute nap just half an hour after I got up. Suffice it to say, I don't think I can work up the mojo to start a whole new painting for First Friday Self-Portrait...

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I want to take the first few lines of this post to commend those dedicated bloggers who post something everyday, whether it be a simple drawing or an academic undertaking. James Gurney and Stapleton Kearns come to mind, among others. I don't know how you do it, but I thank you!To keep things rolling, lets just jump right into the first artist I want to talk about, Richard Schmid. Anyone

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Today's palette post will deal with two artists from the past who, more than any other artists, influenced me in my art. First off I'll talk about a French bourgeois gentleman by the name of William-Adolphe Bouguereau. He was born November 30, 1825 and died on August 19, 1905. In his day, he was much sought after by wealthy patrons for his idealized depictions of mythological and biblical

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So to finish off what I started yesterday leading up to my palette, I'll list off the colors in the in which they appear. Here's the image again as a reference:I'll list them and explain certain groupings as I go. Initially my palette was just all the colors on the outer edges starting with white + yellow ocher (a color that no longer appears on my palette). The reason for the ridiculous

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Hello all! It has been over two weeks since I last posted, but things have been pretty busy on my end. This week I'd like to delve into matters pertaining to the artist's palette. Every aspiring, and even professional artist is drawn to the color choices used by masters past and present. Our curiosity leads us to experiment with various pigments and over time this develops into a very

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Today's post will have a few images in lieu of my lack of posts throughout the week. First I'll show a drawing I did at Dorian's house a couple weeks ago. It was done with Pan Pastel and graphite on hot press watercolor paper, about 12" x 16."Second, and most importantly, I finally finished a painting that I had started in August. You can see it in the early stages in a previous post http://

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So I decided that every first friday of every month, I'm going to post a self-portrait. It may be in the form of a fully realized painting, a one day oil painting, a quick sketch, drawing, whatever. So to kick start this whole thing, I painted myself yesterday over a previous failed self-portrait. I blocked it in quickly the night before after finishing up the day's work on a portrait

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Sorry for the delayed post. I'm behind two, hehe. This is my second stab at Pan Pastels. Love this stuff! Model is Marisa who I have used before and is probably the most recognizable face in my work. Good friend, great model! Enjoy!Here I lightly mark in her gesture and proportionsBlocking in larger massesContinuing to refine, did her face in pretty much one shot no looking backClose up of

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To keep with my proposed plan of updating the blog three times a week, here is my Wednesday post. Alex Piccirillo is an art instructor at the Yard School of Art where I work (part of the museum) and has been there since before the museum took it over. He is also a celebrated Master Pastelist and all around amazing individual. You can see some of his work here:http://www.gallery51.org/

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I'm going to try to update my blog at least three times a week, M-W-F preferably. Sort of following the posting model of Paolo Rivera. This is mainly in my attempt to make this more of a serious art blog with information and what not instead of just personal ramblings. So for today's post I'll give another step by step demo, this time chronicling my first drawing with Pan Pastel. If anyone

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Hello all. I don't think I've mentioned it before on the blog, but over the summer I undertook a time consuming process to cleanse and sun-thicken my own linseed oil directly from cold pressed, unrefined flax oil. The benefits, you may ask? Well commercially sold linseed oils dry slower than snails crawl, they're chemically refined, and they just don't really compare. The home-made

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Tonight my mom's best friend Carmen passed away after a battle with liver cancer. I didn't know her very well, but the few times I met her it was evident what it was about her person that resonated so strongly with my mom. They met thru a real estate transaction when my mom sold her a building a handful of years ago. This very unassuming, humbly dressed, down to earth woman shook the very

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A shot of my studio as it looks now, with a big peg board installed on the far wall. Helps me work on multiple images at a time, thus freeing up both my easels and my drafting table for other works. Plus it covers up that gawd awful green! The rest of the images are things I've been working on for the past two days. Its been an incredibly productive 48 hours. The nude with the pink galxyish

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Alexandra (the nude) is a helluva great model who I intend to use more frequently in the upcoming months (if funds allow). I'm actually working on a painting of her right now that will be done soonish. The portrait was from one of Dorian Vallejo's life drawing sessions about two months ago. It was a terrible evening where nothing came out right. I must have gone thru like 10 sheets of paper

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These are a collection of images i have created in the past 2 1/2 months or so. The drawings of the female model (Liz) and the loose painting of lady in the red shirt (Michelle) were all done at Dorian's house and his workshop, respectively. I included the finished White Rose self-portrait and a close up. Also a white pastel self-portrait done on an abstracted acrylic base. And a life drawing

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So I've been getting a lot of portrait commissions in the past week and am strongly considering going that route. In the coming months I'll be updating this blog with the pieces I complete for clients as well as personal works to add flare to what I can offer as a portrait artist. The first drawing is a self-portrait I did a couple weeks back that is currently hanging on the wall at work for

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So I've been keeping moderately busy with art. I began experimenting with copper as a ground. Its very interesting. Initially I prepared it using liquin impasto after sanding it down a bit for some tooth. I painted my brother Andy. It came out really nice and a lot of my fellow coworkers and artists thoroughly enjoyed it, even have a tentative commission! However... it was pretty much

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This is the last of the blog art dump. The skull is what I'm currently working on in my studio. Its an actual human skull I borrowed from work. There will probably be like two or three more paintings done in different angles. Primarily its being used to better my drawing/painting abilities from life, especially since I don't have a model readily available. After these I'll probably set up a

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So I decided to become an abstract artist. I'm dropping representational painting to do abstract works of art that will probably sell faster and for more money. Plus it comes from a deeper place in my soul, combining my love for texture and impasto oil painting and the... I'm just bullshiting you. I made these as a base for future paintings. They're backgrounds pretty much. Its also an

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Art Dump part one. No I haven't been lazy or too busy for work, just too busy to post online. First is a little snap shot of my studio space. Second is a small 8.5 x 11 oil on canvas board using a photo form deviantart that i'll have to link to eventually, just know its not my photo. Did it in a night. Third is a just a piece of canvas paper that I used to practice eyes and eventually just

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So I failed in terms of taking progress shots of the painting in its acrylic stage. Got too fed up and impatient with the medium and just jumped into what felt comfortable, oils. I discovered that acrylics do make lovely random backgrounds though, and with a lot of water and splashes you can get some pretty interesting things going on. So here it is so far, still have much to do.

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New drawing I finished on monday. Doing something I've never tried before, hopefully it doesn't bomb completely! Attempting watered down acrylic a la Sam Weber and Eric Fortune. I was originally going to just do a face, but thats just boring. So I added some branch thingies in the back... meh still boring. Been reading a lot of greek/roman mythology lately and have always been fascinated by

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Shoulda posted this one a while ago, but this is a drawing of my cousin Lauren who sat for me several weeks ago. It was in the midst of drawing her from life that I realized Damn! I need to get better at drawing faces from life! So, sadly, this was finished with a photo. BUT I'm really happy with how the drawing came out anyway. I have a Rubens copy and muscle-overlay that I'll be finishing

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It has been very long since I've posted anything on the blog. I've been doing a lot of thinking, and as some may know courtesy of my ramblings on facebook I am planning to go for my masters at the New York Academy of Art, assuming they accept me. So here's painting number 1 for portfolio prep. Lots of juicy painterly brushstrokes. Started using stand oil mixed with turp, more stand oil than

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I want to focus on animal anatomy for a while, just to boost my understanding of comparative anatomy and be able to bang out wicked looking creatures. So I started with these two pages and there'll be more to come. I was just looking to understand the relationships of the forelimb muscles, and finding similarities and differences. Before I did these I use to draw a bicep in most of my animals/

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Polar bear was done 3 1/2 hours on monday night. Tiger 3 1/2 hours tuesday night. Both of them are oil on prepared cardboard. I have a lot of free time at work in the evenings those two days, so I figured I'd start making good use of my time there by painting. In my studio I'm never motivated to do these kinds of things since I just want to work on the good, meaty stuff to get a career.

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Its done enough that I can post it online. But I want to tweak it some more traditionally so that its show worthy for the Spirit Gallery show. So I won't be doing a third painting as I need to finish this one, but I will put in a third piece that is a very nice, finished drawing. Huzzah!

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Here is a progress shot of my Princess of Mars painting. My goal is to block in all the figures to the same levels as the central thark by the end of saturday. If I can manage it by friday, even better. Then I'll have all of next week to finesse the details and fine tune things, even though next week will be hell at work. Also here is a sketchbook page of a head and hand study for a painting

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This is the image I really had wanted to work on at the Master Class but was too afraid. I really didn't enjoy working on the composition I had so I felt that for my mental health it would be better to scrap it and start this one. I'm going to transfer it to canvas today and begin painting tonight. I am so much happier with this and I have a reeeeeally good feeling about the turn out for this

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These are the sketches and final comp for my Master Class painting. I'm still working on it and I hope to have it along with another painting done by the end of July. I'll have sketches, ideas, studies, and other smaller things to post throughout the month as I'll be planning a lot of my summer art while I paint. Without further ado, here are the finished drawings of John Carter, Dejah Thoris,

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Better quality photo of the finished painting.

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I was told last Wednesday I could submit art to the faculty show. Great! I thought. Then SHIT!!! I had nothing I felt proud of showing off, or that could display any skill in my working medium. So I started this painting. The drawing had been done for several weeks. Many milestones in this painting. First and foremost this is the first painting I am proud of working on since I graduated art

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Yes, a finished painting. Albeit its only 5x7 inches, but a painting's a painting. Its the head study from the last post. Clayboard grows increasingly more forgivable the more one adds paint to the surface, but it still manages to dry fast. There's a little smudge mark that got on her near the corner of her lip, I'll paint over it so its presentable. But this is the finish. I'm really happy

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Just a small 5x7 head study i'm working on. I'm going to finish it tonight at work. Its on clayboard which is a pretty interesting surface to paint on. It sucks up all the moisture and oil from every brush stroke I put down, which is really annoying. But the upside of it all is that its pretty dry to the touch within a couple hours. I did almost all the color work last night from about 11 to

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I work the front desk at the museum from 5-10 in the evenings now. With all that time leftover and nothing to do except for the occasional classroom change, I use this time to draw. Tonight I flipped thru an issue of Aperture, found a really intriguing photo by Sybille Bergemann and proceeded to copy it into my sketchbook. This drawing is the kind of drawing I do that makes me sad I can't

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These are a few of the better pages in my moleskin that I started a couple months ago. Some hands and random poses montaged on top of each other, some figure drawing, portrait, armor design and my first good phoenix. The phoenix has like 6 pages devoted to it, sketch after sketch, study after study. This is final working design #1 that I am happy with.

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So i uploaded my newly designed web page to the web. Its a bit boring and kinda conservative, but at least it looks professional in comparison to the color fiesta I had before. Its the same name as before, tejeraillustration.com i have to fix one link, the apollo and dionysus painting, as it is a bit on the non-working side. In paint related news, I spent about 4 hours working on the

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I'm still working on my second Bouguereau copy as well as my grandfather's portrait. I've been slacking for a while but I'm back in the game and really motivated. I want to finish a couple things before March ends to have ready to show at the Illustration Master Class in June. Here's the Boug copy of "The Abduction of Psyche" as well as a 3 hour portrait I did in class tuesday night. The Boug

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This is the copy I mentioned before that I was working on. I spent about 10 hours on it. I posted the half way finished version a couple days ago, its here again for further comparison. Looking my finish next to the actual piece, which I downloaded from artrenewal.org, I still see a lot of mistakes. HOWEVER... there are quite a few landmark milestones as far as my painting application and

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Fun fact: Stick your oil palette in the freezer. THe paint stays fresh longer, doesn't skin over, and is ready to use the next day and can stay wet for a loong time. How did I figure this out? Well I read Terese Nielson's blog, she mentioned keeping it in the freezer as a way to keep it fresh. I, for some time, had been keeping my palette for my intermediate painting class in my car all week

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Hello hello hello! So 2 posts ago I introduced some sketches and a sketchbook finish render for an idea of a girl coming out of a flower. Here is the final drawing as well as the painting after 2 hours last night (stage 2) and then how it looks now after painting for about 6 hours on and off today (stage 3). I even got a name for it, and I might be inspired enough to write a short story or

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March 8, 2009 at the Montclair Art Museum, the kind folks who gave me a job, are having a momentous and utterly extraordinary opening. The Wyeths: Three Generations will have over 60 paintings, drawings, etc from N.C., Andrew, and James. Its bound to be a spectacular event and I'm hoping that any illustrator who lives anywhere within driving distance of the MAM will be able to make it out.

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The initial sketch evolved in my sketchbook a couple months ago, inspired by a stock photo from deviantart. It sat in my sketchbook, just waiting for me to use it. So finally, I dug it out, redrew it in my other sketchbook and fine tuned it, making it pretty. Then I thought, gee... what on earth can I possibly do with this drawing to take it from the page to a painting? So I spent a few days

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No art posting today. The Conan painting from the last post is going to be scrapped and started anew. I'll finish this one more for practice to get skin tones and fire and background, etc. After the fantabulous criticisms of Donato Giancola and Todd Lockwood, two phenomenal illustrators of the fantasy/sci-fi genre, I've decided to start the subject from scratch and make it 100 times better

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Here is Conan in its current, about 65% done phase. I just need to finish his arms, his head, the severed head and some armor detail that'll be added in, as well as the middle ground. I need to figure out that middle ground. His head and helmet won't take very long since its already blocked in pretty nicely. I'm adding a gauntlet to his arms because it looks better than a plain arm. His

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I'm open to criticism from anyone even if you hate my work, I honestly don't care what you say as long as there is merit and knowledge behind your dislike. Just don't be an ignorant idiot like this anonymous moron named "The Hand of God" and leave me comments as unenlightening as this critique:"WOW THIS SHIT BLOWZ ASSSSS, like holy damn son....damn this shit sux.p.s. holy shit this painting

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The good part of a painting I'm doing for Primordial Traditions :)

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Anthony Apesos was my painting teacher in my last semester in art school. I fine tuned almost everything I know about oil painting in his class and learned so much more as well. Maybe its because he was my teacher that I held off in buying his book on artistic anatomy titled "Anatomy for Artists: a new approach to discovering, learning, and remembering the body." I've read or skimmed about 20

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So i'm in a Conan binge, reading the original stories that Howard wrote. Conan of Cimmeria is an interesting guy I tell you what. So I decided, as a fantasy artist, to do my first Conan piece. Now bear with me here. This is a very simple, portrait-esque image of him. My goal for painting is to shoot for a Rembrandt warmth and glow, using very earthy colors and impasto strokes and glazing and

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For anyone in the NY/NJ are, tomorrow the monstrously talented Tony DiTerlizzi will be present with co-creator and author of the Spiderwick Chronicles Holly Black at Book World in West Caldwell, NJ. They have a new Spiderwick coming out, which should be exciting, and Tony recently came out with another children's book written and illustrated by himself called Kenny and the Dragon which is

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Of the lady in the water with magical lines drawing. Also thought I should mention I have made a plan to create 4 new pieces of art by November, in time for Illuxcon.

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New drawing. Feels like its missing something. She needs tattoos or jewelry or something. Any ideas?

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Its an interesting debate when someone criticizes another artist's work with zero merit to his claims, and contradicts himself trying to explain his own art. He says Dan has no creativity or imagination since he works solely for commercial purposes, ignorantly say the artist just painted a photograph without even so much as researching the artist in question. This coming from a "professional"

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Here is a painting I have been working on for the past week or so. I've trashed my old approach to painting as I've learned from looking at some of my favorite painters that over blending flattens things. So she has 0 blending. The tree is in its final rendered form after two previous renderings that I didn't feel captured the tree I wanted to paint. So...feedback is welcome.

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So its been a few weeks since i posted anything on here. Don't know who has been keeping up, but doubtless you have been upset by the lack of work posted. If you read in the last post, I said I have begun drawing in a new technique, I guess you can call it. I don't know why this particular approach has drawn me but it allows me to stay realistic but not be so confined by the minutiae and the

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But i've been drawing like a madman these past three days. I got bored of the way i draw. To those of you, if anyone other than my friends even read this, who don't know my style I tend to be very technical. And I've found that it just hasn't been fun to draw that way anymore. Its tedious and boring and monotonous and yea I do it very well, but I kind of want to get away from it. So I

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2 hour portrait study of my mom last night. If you saw the previous posting of this it was blurry...this one is not. enjoy, leave comments.

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I painted some more heads last night. I started and finished one of my friend Sara Tobias in an hour and a half and the next head of my buddy Jordan Maltais I worked on for half hour. Also heres the finished portrait of Jamierose. Enjoy

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Haven't posted in a while. In lieu of the recent Illustration Master Class I partook, the biggest crit I received was that I need to practice painting heads. Boris stressed this above all. So...to listen to the man responsible for making me change majors to just illustration, I started a painting of my lovely girlfriend Jamierose. In 2 1/2 hours I got here, to this point. Those of you who

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New drawing for Ancestral Folkways Magazine. This is the Norse god Tyr. Finished it today...waiting for the moneys. Woohooo

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I'm proud to announce that the first incarnation of tejeraillustration.com is now up and running and ready to be viewed by all. I'm going to be doing lots of editing to make it more exciting and a bit faster. So stay tuned everyone.

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This is the finished Grandpa Wizard 2 drawing. I'm starting the painting process with an acrylic underpainting for fast drying action, then over laying oils for the finishing touch. Plus finished oils just look prettier :P

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Although none of this is really "new" per se, its new on blogger and my blogger audience. So I hope you all enjoy this. I'm including a better, color corrected version of my midnight ambush piece as well. So...enjoy everyone. Cheers!

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This is in regards to the galaxy dude post where I had no idea what to name it. And after discussing with my buddy Joe Baron, decided on "And on the first day..." Huzzah!

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Another portfolio piece, courtesy of yours truly. I had my good friend Sara pose for me and after many failed thumbnails, this one came to fruition. I think it paid off, no? The colors are much truer to how I painted it than what I showed in a previous post. God bless John Dolan and photoshop.

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I need a title for this work of art. I don't know what to call it right now. Theres so many possibilities. If anyone has any suggestions, or a starting point for me, that would be grand. In the mean time, here is the image. Enjoy :) Cheers!

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And by the way...come next thursday, May 1st, to the senior fine arts BFA exhibit at the Porter Gallery in Cambridge. It'll have awesome work by three very talented artists, including my lovely girlfriend Jamierose. It should be a sweet show.

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Howdy all. These are some creature sketches I've done at random points throughout the semester. The origins behind each is equally entertaining, but I need to get to work asap and finish up a painting. So their back stories will be minimal.this is my first guy. He's based on an Axolotl which is a type of salamander in Mexico. Look it up. A neat bug...nuff said.And this last one is based on

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This is it folks! These three paintings I'm about to show you are the last three big paintings I have to finish for my portfolio to graduate art school. Its scary. But this week is going to be spent entirely on completing these paintings so I can make pretty prints to put into my pretty portfolio. So without further wait, I present my final three biggies. 1. Grandpa WizardThis painting is a

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So this is my first good art entry in my new blog. This was my big breakthrough painting of this semester. This pretty much just shows my regular process of art making from sketch to finished drawing to final painting. The finished piece consists of an 18x24 inch copy of the original mounted on masonite and painted in oils. I tried, for the first time, to not render everything. So the dude

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Hello all. I've been sucked into the internet vortex phenomena known as blogging. Right now I have no idea what I am doing, but to baptize the blog I'm writing this. Later on, as I figure out this stuff, I'll post art, photos, and other bits of random awesomeness that happens to be around me. Until then, cheers and all the best.Julian "El Cubano" Tejera

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