Joshua De Leon

another Hour

2012-02-20T15:34:00.000-08:00

Quick 1 hour

2012-02-19T14:38:00.001-08:00

drawing after work

2012-02-18T19:20:00.001-08:00

WORK IN PROFGRESS!

2012-01-23T19:41:00.000-08:00

Drawing after work with Elie Dagher

2012-01-16T19:35:00.001-08:00

Doodles before & after Work...

2011-12-30T22:50:00.000-08:00

Doodles

2011-12-12T09:00:00.000-08:00

Doodles after work....

"Record Kid"

2011-09-26T16:52:00.000-07:00

Music inspires me....

"Gangsta Cumbia"

2011-09-19T21:02:00.000-07:00

Inspired by Anibal Velasquez "Mambo Loco"

"Ali Baba"

2011-09-13T21:35:00.000-07:00

Inspired by Louie Ramirez "Ali Baba" album

"Psychedelic Goes Latin"

2011-09-05T17:22:00.000-07:00

Took advantage of this day since I didn't have to go to work and made this...Inspired by the Lebron Brothers

"Smoke Break"

2011-08-07T20:00:00.000-07:00

So I've been busy at my new job over at Lolapps as a 2D/Concept Artist, that I have not been able to update my blog. So today I decided to take a smoke break from work and do this quick little character....Hope u dig it

"2011 AAU Spring Show"

2011-07-04T22:48:00.001-07:00

Here are my pieces that got in the 2011 Academy of Art Spring Show...And I'm happy to say I received 2011 Best in Sketch Book Category and Runner-Up for "Best in Show" for the Illustration Department....

P.S. The show is up until August 15th, so if you get a chance to go, do it...There's a lot of amazing work....

ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY
1849 WASHINGTON STREET (AT VAN NESS)
SAN FRANCISCO, 94109

"Jaz's Gift"

2011-06-21T21:00:00.000-07:00

This is a birthday gift for my niece Jazlyn... I got my inspiration from my good friend Erwin Madrid and the well known Mary Blair....

Un Marciano Monstro

2011-06-16T11:56:00.000-07:00

"Sesame Street Monster Mob"

2011-06-15T08:06:00.001-07:00

"Sesame Street Monster Mob"

2011-06-14T15:27:00.000-07:00

"studies"

2011-06-07T14:54:00.001-07:00

quick thumbnail paintings about 30 min. each

"Los Hermanos Culturistas"

2011-06-03T09:33:00.000-07:00

"El Misterio"

2011-06-02T09:12:00.000-07:00

"Zanu" the quarter size human being

2011-06-01T14:35:00.000-07:00

"Le Freak"

2011-05-31T22:07:00.001-07:00

"La Pinata"

2011-05-30T15:49:00.001-07:00

Hmmmmmm

2011-05-27T16:38:00.000-07:00

Sailor

2011-05-26T23:01:00.000-07:00

tonight's practice

"Firme" frisco style

2011-05-24T20:28:00.000-07:00

tonight's practice.....

"Taxista"

2011-05-23T20:57:00.000-07:00

doodle for the night...

"Give it Back"

2011-05-22T20:17:00.000-07:00

Poor Robot...

2011-05-21T11:56:00.000-07:00

"El Pink Toro"

2011-05-20T12:42:00.001-07:00

"El Samurai"

2011-05-19T10:00:00.001-07:00

Today's doodle

2011-05-18T14:57:00.001-07:00

"Otro Doodle"

2011-05-17T21:11:00.001-07:00

"El Matador"

2011-05-17T13:56:00.001-07:00

Today's doodle

"El Barbero"

2011-05-13T10:01:00.000-07:00

Another digital doodle...

"Rain, Rain, go Away"

2011-05-13T10:00:00.000-07:00

A digital doodle...

A quickie

2011-05-10T19:19:00.000-07:00

One more doodle for the day....

Doodle

2011-05-10T15:45:00.000-07:00

another photoshop doodle...

"Doodling"

2011-05-08T20:15:00.001-07:00

another digital doodle...

Another Digital Doodle

2011-05-08T16:35:00.000-07:00

Just practicing on photoshop....

digital doodle

2011-05-06T13:06:00.001-07:00

I redrew this in ps, practicing drawing in photoshop...

"Digital Doodle"

2011-05-03T13:41:00.001-07:00

Another quick digital doodle...

"Digital Doodle"

2011-05-02T21:48:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick digital doodle....

drawing for illustration

2011-05-01T18:40:00.000-07:00

Here's a drawing that needs a minor fix for it to be ready to paint....

"Let's Boogaloo"

2011-04-28T14:15:00.000-07:00

Here's my latest, aside from drawing... Inspired by listening to some "Latin Boogaloo"

"Drawings"

2011-04-26T09:10:00.000-07:00

another small batch of drawings off my sketchbook....

More random Dibujos (drawings)

2011-04-25T10:29:00.001-07:00

A couple more drawings off my Le sketchbook....

"Dibujos" (drawings)

2011-04-09T11:51:00.000-07:00

Here's some more drawings off my sketchbook....

"Los 3 Borrachos" Oh! y un Gato

2011-03-30T11:59:00.000-07:00

Digital done in Photoshop.....

Drawings

2011-03-24T17:08:00.000-07:00

Drawings from my sketchbook....

Drawings

2011-03-20T18:15:00.000-07:00

Here's a couple of drawings in my sketchbook...

"Happy St.Patrick's"

2011-03-16T19:53:00.000-07:00

"Sweet Soul"

2011-03-12T09:40:00.000-08:00

Studies/Sketches

This illustration is inspired from listening to oldies during the winter break....
Digital done in Photoshop

"El Vampiro" work-in-progress

2011-01-25T10:08:00.000-08:00

Here is something I'm workin on...Before school starts
Music is my inspiration most of the time, so for this digital piece it was "The Re-vels" The Deadman's Stroll

"Illustration"

2010-12-30T10:53:00.000-08:00

Here's my last post for 2010... This is a freelance illustration for a pin-up model

"Characters"

2010-12-28T12:18:00.000-08:00

Early Sketches

Early Concept

Here's a closer look at the characters... Plus some very early stages of development

"The Jazz Kid" Visual Development

2010-12-26T23:35:00.000-08:00

Characters: Beto, Don Carlos, Hector (left to right)

Here's some work I did for the story "The Jazz Kid" by James Lincoln Collier... This was for my Drawing for films class... This is my first attempt on creating a world that doesn't exist, so it was a learning experience for me... I took the story in a different direction though... I put more of a Latin Jazz feel then a traditional jazz setting... My inspiration came from listening to early Latin Jazz music to early 60's Boogaloo... So I used a lot of references, from old latin records, documentaries such as "Our Latin Thng", old New York pictures, Latin musicians such as Willie Colon, Johnny Colon, Bobby Valentin etc. just to see how they used to dress in the early 60's, also how they used to do their hair...Anyways, I had a lot of fun in this class and I learned a lot...I'm taking it again this spring semester but now I have more of an understanding on what to do, so I hope I can develop the visuals better now that I understand more...

There's more work that I will post later, I Hope you like what you see

"El Gordo"

2010-11-30T16:23:00.000-08:00

Here's a digital painting I did for practice today...

"Vector Ranflas"

2010-11-27T10:56:00.000-08:00

Here's a sneak peak of an assignment I'm working on for one of my classes... All done in Adobe Illustrator...

"Vector Art"

2010-11-15T22:29:00.000-08:00

Here's some artwork from my Vector Art class.

"El Gato"

2010-11-13T23:17:00.000-08:00

Say Hi to "Don Sapo's" friend "El Gato" with his bottle of milk...

"Don Sapo"

2010-11-09T09:58:00.000-08:00

Meet "El Sapo" I hope you enjoy him as much as I enjoyed painting him....

"Digital Practice"

2010-11-04T16:15:00.002-07:00

Here's another digital painting I did for practice, It's based on a painting from my quick studies class. I kept it very simple and sweet just so that I won't get really into it due to my other homework... Hope you guys dig it

StUdY

2010-10-19T12:23:00.000-07:00

I need to paint more more more and more......Here's another digital study based on a sketch I drew a while back....I need the practice...

"PhAt KrUiSeR"

2010-10-14T11:29:00.000-07:00

Here's another digital doodle for the day....

"HoMeGiRl"

2010-10-13T00:01:00.000-07:00

Another late nite digital doodle...

"cAr HoPpIn"

2010-10-12T00:26:00.001-07:00

Took a break from my homework tonight and decided to do this digital doodle that my brother suggested me to do.....

"Drawings"

2010-10-04T21:26:00.000-07:00

Here are some drawings that didn't make the cut from one of my illustration class....

"El Rey de Latin Soul y El Boogaloo"

2010-08-29T10:55:00.000-07:00

Here's another inspired character study of the King of latin Soul and Boogaloo...
Mr. Joe Bataan...

"sWiNgiN gUitAr"

2010-08-26T21:22:00.000-07:00

I'm a big fan of Django Reinhardt and while listening to his music, it hyped me up to do a character study of a jazz guitarist and Django was my reference of course...

pRaCtiCe, PrAcTiCe,prAcTicE....

2010-08-17T14:04:00.001-07:00

Here is another digital study off one of my character designs....

aNother WorK iN pRoGrEss....

2010-08-10T11:07:00.000-07:00

Here is another painting i'm workin on....These are just studies for practice on photoshop...

wOrK iN pRoGreSS!!!

2010-08-09T17:27:00.000-07:00

Here's a work in progress of one of my digital paintings, this painting was inspired while listening to Enrique Olivarez Y Los Vampiro's, Al's Place...

LiL dOoDlEs

2010-07-10T09:57:00.000-07:00

Here's a couple of studies....

"2010 Best Sketchbook" and W.I.P.

2010-06-15T11:55:00.000-07:00

I picked up my award the other day for having the best sketchbook... It's cool to have won it again, although there were other great sketchbooks at the Spring Show...But I wanted to share it with you...I've been busy practicing on my digital so sorry if I don't post as often but I'll try my best....Here's what i've been workin on aside from other paintings...Hope you guys dig it, it's still a work in progress

"rObOt DeSiGnS"

2010-06-09T11:04:00.000-07:00

Here are some robot designs that I've been playin with in my sketchbook......

"Gorilla Auto Body Shop"

2010-06-07T09:42:00.000-07:00

This is a design I made for Carlos's Gorilla Auto Body shop over in Richmond CA, where they can make your custom paint and body dreams come true...To check out his work go to
http://gorillaautobody.blogspot.com/ He does amazing work.....

I used photoshop to paint this character, hope you guys enjoy it...now back to work

"vAluE StUdY"

2010-06-03T00:30:00.000-07:00

This is a value study for a digital painting I'm gonna be workin on this summer....

"mY bIkEr GaNg dEsIgNs"

2010-06-02T10:31:00.000-07:00

These are some studies of bikers in my sketchbook....

"wE've GoT tHe jAzZ"

2010-05-31T21:58:00.000-07:00

I was listening to a Tribe Called Quest "we've got the jazz" and got inspired to draw this on my sketchbook....

"oTrO dIbUjO" (anotha drawing)

2010-05-30T18:40:00.000-07:00

Here's another drawing from two months ago...

"dRaWiNg"

2010-05-29T00:15:00.000-07:00

Here's a value study that I drew on my sketchbook a couple of months ago....

P.s. be in the lookout for more posts during the summer....

"2010 AAU Spring Show"

2010-05-28T09:21:00.000-07:00

Man! So i was very happy to get two pieces up at the 2010 Academy of Art University Spring Show....There is alot of incredible illustrations over at 180 New Montgomery...So if anyone is gonna be in the city, you should definately go check out the artwork....The artwork will be displayed for the next couple of weeks, so take advantage..These are the two pieces that got in, my sketchbook drawings and an oil painting illustration, I hope you likes...

P.S. shout outs to Robert, Petur and runner-up Emerson for their great sketchbooks and to all my Fine Art quickstudies pals!!!! Last but not least my whole family for the support, Specially my future wife Marbelly for putting up with me, cause I am very difficult...my beautiful daughter Jocelyn....My mom and dad, sister and brother, I couldnt do it without your guy's help....

dRaWiN

2010-05-26T21:06:00.000-07:00

Now that I'm done with this Spring semester I'm back to drawing on my new sketcbook...So I would like to start it off with a drawing of Bill....along with it, is a youtube video of the song "Can We Pretend" my fav. song of his...

pAiNtInG

2010-05-26T12:29:00.000-07:00

This is a oil painting that I did for my quickstudies class... I'm not happy with it but I still wanna share it with you... I still have lot's to learn...I would like to give thanks to Carlos from the Royal Jokers for letting me use his pic in order for me to do this painting.....

"Los Dibujos De Joshua De Leon"

2010-05-21T12:26:00.000-07:00

Los Dibujos de...

By Joshua De Leon

Book Preview

This is a 40 page book I made for my Clothed Figure 4 class final...It's all figurative work...If you're interested in purchasing the book go to blurb.com ... Thank You for the support and I hope you enjoy it....

"La Vida Loca" digital practice

2010-05-12T10:36:00.000-07:00

This is a digital study and I actually like how this one turned out....Practice, Practice, Practice....Taking quick studies at school has really showed me how to approach a painting, so thank you Tomutsu.....you are the man!!!

"rAnDoM" 2 sketchbook drawings

2010-05-07T10:05:00.000-07:00

Be in the lookout in a couple of weeks, as I will be postin alot more since my spring semester is almost over.....but for now here's 2 random sketchbook drawings...

"Digital Practice"

2010-04-30T10:13:00.001-07:00

Sneeked in some time last night to practice on photoshop....My colors were inspired by San Francisco's murals around the Mission District....

"aNoThA sTuDy"

2010-04-21T08:01:00.000-07:00

I've been lining up some studies for some digital paintings I'm gonna be workin on this summer....and this is one of them....

"dIgItAl StUdY"

2010-04-12T16:22:00.000-07:00

Practicing on my digital, sneekin in time to practice on photoshop....Here's a value study for a personal illustration I'm workin on....It's gonna be all digital baby.......

"Che's MeMory"

2010-03-31T13:51:00.000-07:00

This is a painting I did for my quickstudies class...It's a painting of a 53 hudson...This piece is called "Che's Memory" because the car use to belong to a frisco native homie by the name of Che but sold it a while back....I've always been a fan of oldschool rides espeacially bombs, that would explain my cartoony car illustrations...Anyways, Che is part of the "Royal Jokers" and they have one of my personal favorite blogs...Their rides are just plain dope...So if you're in the mood for some sweet, low, rides, check out their blog at http://royaljokers.blogspot.com/

P.s. I would like to thank Che for letting me use his picture in order for me to do this painting......

"WiZaRd sTuDy"

2010-03-29T18:52:00.000-07:00

This is my homework for clothed fig.4, we needed to use a drawing from class as a reference to do whatever u wish.....All I did was a character study of a wizard, I'm honestly not really happy with it, but it's great practice for when I start doin my digital illustrations...

"Amylulita" from New York

2010-03-26T15:48:00.000-07:00

So I sent two sketchbook drawings to a dj named Amylulita out of New York, for a mix that needed artwork, nothing fancy, jus two kool cats jammin...Amylulita did all the work, all I did was just supply her with the drawings and I think the banners came out kool...The mix is called "Pinche Pompadours" - 50's/60's Rock n' Roll & Rockabilly in Spanish and English. Listen to it on her blog http://amylulita.blogspot.com/

"oLd aSs dRaWing"

2010-03-24T20:43:00.000-07:00

An old sketchbook drawing that I drew about 7 years ago.......

"sNeEk pEeK"

2010-03-23T18:39:00.000-07:00

Here's a sneek peek on a project I wanna do during summer break....these are just sketch studies .....

"Old Ass Drawing"

2010-03-22T15:15:00.000-07:00

So I went over to my parents house today and I found a couple of old drawings from highschool...I was 16 when I drew this

p.s. it's a drawing of my lowrider tricycle (69 Schwinn frame)

"dIgITaL sTuDy"

2010-03-12T16:49:00.000-08:00

Practice, Practice, Practice.......A study off one of my sketches....

"sOul KiTcHeN"

2010-03-05T08:12:00.000-08:00

This is my hw for clothed fig.4, got inspired by Dj's Shadow + Cut Chemist "Product Placement" mix which I really enjoyed.....For those who know about the "Product Placement" tour, should understand this piece....
Digital painting in photoshop

"dOOwOp"

2010-03-04T20:24:00.000-08:00

Got a chance to draw....and added a gradient to it, on "ps"