The Lord of the Rings

Hi Friends! This is a painting I did in one of the classes I teach. From a Liv Tyler's photograph, it took me three hours to paint it, from blank canvas to the painting you now see; no pencil drawing underneath. The purpose being the organization of the planes and proportion of the face. See you next post!

My New Website

Hi folks! It's been a while since my last post. I'm working on a couple of projects at the same time which is preventing me from updating my blog (also preventing me from sleeping, eating, going out, and everything else [somebody bring me some food pleeeease!!!!!]).
But I (somehow) found some time to build my new (and definitive, I hope) website/portfolio.
You can check it out at: http://www.rgillustration.com/ . See you there. And don't forget to sign my Guestbook! Cheers!!
PS: expect new image posts here soon.

My Studio

Hello friends! I thought it would be nice to share with you some details of my studio. It's a very light place (don't be mistaken, I took the pictures at night), with large windows, well ventilated. The only drawback are the sunny days. Sometimes it gets hotter than hell!! But even on sunny days it's a very pleasant place to work. It's here I spend most of my hours, mostly at night and weekends. If I have a large drawing to do I use the bigger easel. If it's too small I will use the smaller easel. Well, that's it. Welcome to my studio!!

On this picture you can see my main easel (I have 4). It's a big, sturdy, heavy, stable easel that holds canvas up to 3 meters high. At left, my table with my (clean) pallete, a selection of my brushes, paper towel, paints; laying on the back of my easel are some canvases and panels; at right another (smaller) easel I use for sketches and smaller paintings.

This is a close up of my table, and you can see a couple of books I'm using for reference, my Palmtop (where would I be without it!), and the cable tv control (where would I be without it!!).

Ricardo Guimaraes' Illustrations

Hello friends!! I'm glad to announce that I just published 8 of my (portfolio) illustrations at Castle Magazine #11 (September issue). It's a wonderful German online magazine about Illustration, Art & Design. You can download it at http://www.castlemagazine.de/ (pdf). It's free, so what are you waiting for!!

Wild Wild West

Things to Come

Blue Light

Long time and only sketches! Well, this one is (just) finished. I hope you enjoy it!

Wierdos

More wierdos from my sketchbook!!

Discovery

You never know what you may find!!

Geeky Sketchbook

Here's another one from my sketchbook: a few head studies from imagination. See ya!