Crystal Nadine Huguez

It's Me! John K drew this for me:

I went to a toy convention this weekend in Pasadena. This is an awesome caricature that John K. did for me. Kool! ...sigh, I'm already used to being drawn silly like this...

Aaron's Gift

I have made a few of these as gifts for friends, but put much more effort into this particular shadow box. It was fun and a tedious project. The backgrounds are done with gouache. I am familiar with watercolor and gouache is sort of like it, but opaque and chalky. I recently started working with gouache to learn how to paint animation backgrounds with it. I am very interested in being a background painter. I also used mixed media, paper, fabric, clay... for each skeleton I used wire, and clay that i had to bake, and paint. This took a while...

Pastel Painting...

Monsters are fun! I really need to do more. This is pastel on paper, 12 x 13. I had so much fun with color, although I'm not too comfortable with pastel, yet. I used a cheap Halloween decoration that I found at Michaels for reference. Fun!

This portrait is just as scary as the above. This is what happens with sleepy drawing at all hours of the night.

More Portraits

This is done in watercolor 16 x 12. I love watercolor, no matter how frustrating it can be. With this portrait in particular, I had lots of fun with the eyes and hair.

This is oil on canvas, 14x16. In this painting I'm trying to get more conceptual, because in all of my past figure paintings I usually stick to the photos I work from. All my past paintings were also large and slow in process. With this one I tried to work fast and small, and not be so up tight, have fun with color. Im sorry if he looks familiar.