I made a birthday card for my sis

My sister, my brother, and I LOVED animaniacs. We watched it religiously. Also, my sister and I broke my brothers arm when we were little by deciding to throw him over a couch while still holding on to his arm. Naturally, for my sister’s birthday, I decided to combine both memories in a card. Love ya sis!

Wonder Woman Pin up Cover

I decided to go ahead and not only ink but also color the Wonder Woman sketch I did a couple weeks back. It felt so good to be working in colors since lately the majority of my time has been spent storyboarding in black and white. I think I might go back and change some of the black ink lines to color but for now Im just going to leave it as is. I did the whole thing in Illustrator CS4, which in my opinion, is the best illustrator yet. The new pen tool, the blob tool, and the new gradient tool have me sweatin this program majorly. Highly recommend it. Also sorry about the annoying watermark but I think I might start doing it with my work from now on. A fellow illustrator on twitter was unlucky to have someone swiping his art and making money off of it on a stock image website. Grr... so now my paranoid self is going to stamp my work with a big fat CAICEDO ILLUSTRATION. Take that bitters!

Archer and his paddle...and Lana

I did this sketch back in December of last year as an homage to the classic superman panel when he meets Lois for the first time. Except in this version, Archer likes paddles.

Manchester United's Wayne Rooney

Im a Manchester City fan but there is no denying the talent behind this man. I did this illustration for one of my co-workers who happens to be the nicest Manchester United fan Ive ever met. He was nice enought to get me some City gear which included the most beautiful scarf I have ever owned. So as a token of my appreciation here is the sketch and final illustration. I changed the drawing a little right before I colored it so the rough looks a little different. Also , im now thinking of doing a whole series of City players in the same style.

Wonder Woman for Radical Axis Sketchblog

Here's another Wonder Woman I did, this time for the Radical Axis Sketchblog! A bunch of us from the studio participate in weekly sketches where we pick a character or characters to sketch by the end of the week. It's a great way to see everyone's distinct approach to iconic characters. Peep out the rest of the sketches by the truly talented group of people I work with: Radical Axis Sketchblog.

Random doodles

Just the randomness I found on my comp.

World Of Imagination 3

I signed up for the APW Gallery show in NY entitled "World of Imagination 3" back in the fall of 09. I had planned on doing 5 pieces for the show but because of work and other duties, I was only able to do two. I then proceeded to mess up one of the two pieces I did which, as you can imagine, left me kicking myself for trying to experiment at the least opportune time. On a positive tip,I feel like the piece I got in was the most effective of the two in conveying my idea for the pieces. I wish I could have done more but I'm happy that I was able to get something in. This is the sketch and the final I turned in.

Wonder Woman

I been drawing waaaay too many dudes lately. Just needed to sketch out a female and start practicing some female anatomy, which I definitely need to do more of.

Old Iron man sketch

I found this sketch I did last year of Iron man. It's a little old but I though I'd post it anyways. I'm no longer going to have a sketch portion in my website. I'm going to leave all my sketches for this blog from now on, and hopefully also include more "behind the scenes" looks at some of the pieces I do.

Its been a long time...

Story boarding is fun but it has completely consumed me. Now that I'm starting to get a better grasp of time management, I'm trying to get back into working on revamping my site and portfolio. In the meantime here's some digital sketches, done daily for warm-up, and combined for your viewing pleasure.
Also, peep the self-portrait and the Archer (FX) sketch i did in my style. Archer's coming in January!

Archer on FX

Here's the promo that has been airing on FX for the new show Archer. I'm one of two storyboard artists for the show. Some of the beginning is part of the pilot episode for which I was still working on as Illustrator. I helped out with the turtleneck sequence by drawing the bodies and the duffel bag, including the zip line scene. Can't wait to find out the premier date to announce it to the world!

Bigger version here.

Collabo' #1

For those that may not know, I work at a studio in Atlanta that is FILLED with talented artists. So many artists in such a small space (sort of) that all our creative juices makes the place get hot as hell. Literally. I'm blessed to be working amongst all these other creatives and I've decided that I would start going around and hitting people up for collab work. I did this sketch of beast boy, which I've sent off to get inked by a co-worker, and now I'm anxiously waiting to get it back at a whole nother level. Ill post the inks when I get them with a link to the artist (if they permit) and hopefully pass it off to another coworker for the color drops. Im thinkin this lil' collab-projects idea of mine is gonna turn out hella interesting and hopefully kick some major creative juices into hyper-drive.

Digital Sketchbookin'

Drawing all week at work on the nice and spacious Cintiq has rekindled my love for my ol' school wacom tablet at home. Im starting to sketch digitally more, trying to layout my sketches as i would on a physical sketchbook: in the most random and weird ways. I guess that's reflective of the spurts of creativity. Also, im trying to leave the little thumb nails and doodles that also appear on my actual sketchbooks. I think there is something to be said in all this digital sketches vs. physical sketches dilema, but I think that's another blog post for another day.

Character design

These are some sketches of the character design for a 3 page sequential story (more of a teaser) that im doing for my comic book portfolio. Looosely based on a younger cousin of mine.

Wolverine plus random heads

Random sketches from the sketchbook. Plus wolverine is just fun to draw. My sketchbooks consist mostly of him and spiderman