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Peruvian. LA based. Work by Milo Basa.
In “MONK MODE” (aka hiatus because of big project) 👾
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2. Raph - Aggressive & Sullen. .
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7 years ago

Who’s your favorite Joker? Joaquin? Heath? Or another? 🤡 Both sticker packs avail in store. .
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7 years ago

Hey guys 🙌🏼 Four years ago, I started working on a series of designs reimagining iconic artists as superheroes, but after a week or so, the project fell through, leaving a myriad of unfinished sketches behind. Now, years later, I decided to, not only revisit the old sketches, but expand on the concept. After taking some time off from social media, I decided to work fully on this project, and come up with something fun. With 30+ designs in the works, this is just the beginning.
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POWERS/ABILITIES
Energy manipulation, waking nightmares, telekinesis. Can turn others’ fears and powers against them. Mastery of magic. Control over nature. Can inflict others with pain — as if their bones were breaking, all at once. [more on my Patreon]
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The Seven Luminaries is a fictitious team where iconic visual artists are reimagined as Animated Series/RPG superheroes, supervillains and everything in-between, with inspirations drawn from comics, movies, anime, video games, and shows across the ages.
Project was originally conceived in 2017.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely on purpose 😏
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NFT coming soon.
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#nft #nftart #artwork #arthistory #nfts #nftartist #rpgcharacter #videogameart #dccomics #marvelcomics #theboys #visdev #theumbrellaacademy #frida taken in Los Angeles, California by @eyedrip

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5 years ago

Start with one person.
Steal from everything around them.

For THE YELLOW SOWER, I took Vincent van Gogh and reimagined him as a superhero straight out of an X-Men-esque universe.

🌻 1. FIND THE NAME
Don’t invent one from scratch if the source already gave you something better. The Yellow Sower comes from one of Van Gogh’s paintings—and conveniently sounds like someone who could either save the world or destroy it.

🎨 2. TURN THEIR WORK INTO A COLOR PALETTE
The yellows, greens, blues and pinks throughout his suit were pulled from palettes I associate with Van Gogh’s paintings. Instead of just making the costume look like a Van Gogh, I wanted his art to become the visual language of the character.

🧠 3. TURN SOMETHING PERSONAL INTO THE POWER
Rather than giving him a random ability, I looked at Van Gogh’s struggles with mental health and flipped the idea: what if his mind wasn’t his weakness, but something terrifyingly powerful?

The Yellow Sower has extreme psychokinetic abilities—telekinesis, astral projection, energy manipulation and even the ability to warp reality.

♾️ 4. LET THE POWER DESIGN THE COSTUME
His helmet isn’t decoration. His abilities are so powerful that it acts as a psychic dam, keeping excess psychokinetic energy at bay.

That gave me the oversized helmet, the infinity symbol, the obscured eyes—and ultimately his silhouette.

The trick isn’t designing from nothing. It’s realizing you almost never have to.

Name. Color. History. Personality. Contradiction.
Pick a few threads and keep pulling until they become a character.

What artist would you turn into a superhero next?

#characterdesign #drawingtips #vincentvangogh taken in Fairfax District by @eyedrip

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a month ago

Dynamic posing isn’t just about pushing anatomy—it’s about controlling how energy moves through the entire drawing 〰️

1. Find the main line of action.
Before worrying about anatomy, find the biggest directional sweep through the pose. Push everything around that line—it’s the backbone that gives the drawing its initial sense of movement.

2. Use contrapposto + accent lines.
Avoid letting the shoulders, hips, knees, head, etc. sit on parallel angles. Tilting them against one another breaks stiffness and creates a much more natural rhythm through the body.

3. Let the composition reinforce the movement.
The pose doesn’t have to do all the work. Tilt horizons, backgrounds, perspective lines, and other compositional elements in the same direction as the action to make the entire image feel like it’s moving.

4. Force the spinal twist.
Push the relationship between the head, ribcage, and pelvis. A stronger twist through the torso creates tension and lets the movement travel through the entire body instead of making the limbs feel independently posed.

#drawingtips #posingtips #characterartwork taken in West Hollywood, California by @eyedrip

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2 months ago

RIP Yayoi Kusama. ❤️

Years ago, I did a series where I reimagined some of the world’s most notable artists as superheroes. Kusama was one of them.

Looking back at this drawing today, it feels especially fitting. Her mind was always her superpower. She took the way she saw the world—dots, repetition, infinity, color—and built entire universes out of it.

I was lucky enough to experience her work in person in NYC some years ago, and it was genuinely life-changing. There are artists whose work you admire, and then there are artists whose work changes the way you understand what art can be. She was the latter for me.

97 years, and she continued creating until her final days. What an extraordinary legacy to leave behind.

She’ll be deeply missed ❤️🍄♾️

Rest in infinity, Yayoi Kusama.

#yayoikusama #yayoikusamaexhibition #character_design taken in Yayoi Kusama Museum by @eyedrip

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2 months ago

Dynamic poses aren’t just about making characters bend more — they’re about creating movement across the entire image. ⚡️

A few things I keep in mind when building an action-heavy composition:

1. Push the line of action.
Find the main curve running through the character’s body and exaggerate it. Straighter, symmetrical poses tend to feel static; strong curves and diagonals create energy.

2. Avoid parallel limbs.
Vary the angles of arms, legs, weapons, clothing, etc. Overlapping and opposing angles make the pose feel less staged and more like you caught the character mid-motion.

3. Let the composition follow the action.
Here, the characters, weapons, and energy trails all create diagonals that pull your eye through the fight. The environment/frame should support the movement — not fight against it.

4. Use negative space intentionally.
That empty space between two characters is part of the composition too. Give the action somewhere to travel instead of filling every inch of the canvas.

5. Push silhouettes.
Zoom way out (or fill your characters completely black). If you can still immediately understand the pose and action, you’re on the right track.

6. Think “moment,” not “pose.”
Instead of asking “What cool pose should I draw?” ask: “What happened one second before this, and what happens one second after?” That little shift makes action feel like it’s actually moving.

What’s your go-to trick for making poses feel more dynamic? 👇

#drawingtips #characterdesigns #starwarsart taken in Fairfax District by @eyedrip

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2 months ago

When I’m designing a character, I try to think beyond “does this look cool?” and ask what every choice is communicating.

1. Silhouette first.
If you filled the character completely black, would they still be recognizable? Exaggerated proportions, clothing shapes, weapons, hair, horns, armor—those big shapes do a lot of the storytelling.

2. Build around a visual hierarchy.
Give the eye somewhere to land first. Here, the skull, flower-like collar, and sweeping weapon create the major focal points, while the smaller details reward you for looking longer.

3. Repeat shapes with intention.
Sharp fingers, jagged fabric, feathers, branches and the long angular limbs all belong to the same visual language. Repetition makes even a complicated design feel cohesive.

4. Let contrast create personality.
Cute + creepy. Organic + artificial. Soft flowing shapes + sharp skeletal ones. Contradictions can make a character feel much more specific than sticking to one aesthetic.

5. Use props as storytelling.
Weapons, jewelry, clothing, scars, tools—even the way a character carries something can hint at their culture, occupation, history or personality without needing an exposition dump.

The goal isn’t to cram in as much detail as possible. It’s to make the details feel like they all came from the same person, same world, and same story.

What’s the first thing you usually design on a character: silhouette, face, outfit, or backstory?

#comics #drawingtips #character_design taken in West Hollywood, California by @eyedrip

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2 months ago

Worldbuilding isn’t just what exists in your world—it’s what the world feels like.

A few things I think about when building the visual language of The Beasts of Jangala:

✨ Pick a visual vocabulary. Repeat certain shapes, colors, textures, symbols, and motifs until they start to feel native to your world.

✨ Design everything like it shares a history. Characters, creatures, architecture, clothing, weapons—even background props should feel like they evolved in the same place.

✨ Let color do some of the storytelling. A consistent palette can establish mood, location, danger, culture, or even tell the reader where they are before you explain it.

✨ Make the weird stuff belong. The stranger your creatures or environments get, the more important it is that they follow the same visual rules as everything around them.

The goal: build the aesthetic until someone can recognize Jangala before they’ve read a single word.

What’s your favorite tool for making a fictional world feel like its own world? 👀

#comics #arttips #indiecomic taken in ArtCenter College of Design by @eyedrip

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2 months ago

5 steps to creating more interesting characters ✍️

1. Start with the silhouette.
If you filled your character completely black, would they still be recognizable? Play with height, proportions, posture, hair, clothing, and shape language before worrying about details.

2. Give them one thing that feels “off.”
Perfect is usually boring. An oversized jacket. Tiny glasses. Impossibly long legs. A crooked smile. Push one feature just past what feels normal.

3. Think in contrasts.
Big + small. Sharp + soft. Cute + intimidating. Elegant + messy. Contradictions create visual tension—and visual tension makes a character interesting to look at.

4. Let personality change the design.
Don’t just draw what they wear—think about how they wear it. Sleeves rolled up? Shirt perfectly tucked? Shoes destroyed? Jewelry carefully arranged? Design choices should tell us something before the character ever speaks.

5. Exaggerate, then pull back.
Push the design way too far. Bigger hair. Longer coat. Worse posture. Sharper nose. More ridiculous proportions. Then dial it back until it feels believable. You’ll usually end up somewhere much more interesting than where you started.

The goal isn’t to make a character pretty. It’s to make them specific.

What’s your favorite character design trick? ✍️

#arttips #drawingtips taken in West Hollywood, California by @eyedrip

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2 months ago

“Mando Death Stranding”. Another one from the vault. I just wanted to draw Grogu inside that capsule carrier tbh 👾

#themandalorianandgrogu #grogu #deathstranding taken in West Hollywood, California by @eyedrip

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5 months ago

Drawing from 2019. Prophetic much?
#themandalorianandgrogu taken in West Hollywood, California by @eyedrip

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5 months ago