So, I’ve been swamped, and  have no idea how I am functioning, but I managed to finish my Yoka custom for the Yoka show taking place at Designer Con in Pasadena, CA. Click here for more details: http://www.vinyltoynetwork.com/#at

Here are some wip shots of my custom, hope you enjoy.

-Lou

Oh yeah, and here is my contribution to the Concrete Immortalz show hosted my Phetus

Hello World,

Welcome to my new blog spot, this is where I will share all of the projects I am working on, whether it be paintings, toy customs, or sculpts. I plan on keeping this fairly up to date, so check back often. 

So lets start my 1st post with a painting I just finished. I will show you all the steps I went through before reaching the final. 

the sketch I started out with:

a study of the painting, just to get a better idea of where I wanted to go, this way I would work out the kinks and not worry about ruining the final:

I wanted to take it further and make sure I had the lighting correct in the final so I built a quick sculpt as a reference:

After many long hours I finally finished this piece, or at least I think its done for now.

(sometimes paintings beg for more paint):

Hope you enjoyed this post, and I look forward to seeing you here again soon.

Thanks,

-Lou

We’d like to welcome illustrator/painter Lou Pimentel into the VPEast fold as our latest guest blogger. Recently releasing his first production figure, Lou will be updating us on everything else going on in his busy life as a student/artist. You can follow his posts at lou.vpeast.com