Jeremy Enecio

Neil Patrick Harris

2012-02-01T13:47:00.001-08:00

Another celebrity portrait! The wonderful Neil Patrick Harris. Note the wedding band lovingly worn on his right hand. :)

Venus

2012-01-23T22:16:00.000-08:00

A small drawing of Venus. 11x9

Marion Cotillard

2012-01-22T01:10:00.000-08:00

Another portrait! The French actress, Marion Cotillard.

Stephen Fry

2012-01-14T12:56:00.000-08:00

A portrait I did for fun of my hero, Stephen Fry wearing Oscar Wilde's fur coat.

A.Q. Khan

2012-01-05T11:07:00.000-08:00

Here's a piece I did for the January/February double issue of Playboy magazine. It's a story about Abdul Qadeer Khan, a Pakistani nuclear scientist, accused of selling nuclear technology on the black market to countries like North Korea and Iran. Art director: Cody Tilson

detail

Tatsu

2011-09-25T22:27:00.000-07:00

My piece for the Breath of Embers show at Gallery Nucleus. Obviously I went with a more eastern approach as I have always been fascinated with the look of a serpentine dragon.

acrylic on paper, 15.5 x 20 inches

EDIT!
The shots that Gallery Nucleus took of this piece are way better than the ones I took.

SALE!

2011-08-03T13:02:00.000-07:00

Hi guys! This week, prints in my online store are buy two get one free! Just tell me which one(s) you'd like during checkout. :)

jenecio.com/store.html

Tell your friends and enemies!

Doll

2011-08-02T16:33:00.000-07:00

A little illustration about sexual tension between a man and a woman.

Acrylic + Digital Experimentation

2011-07-27T11:01:00.002-07:00

Sneak Peak III

2011-05-25T23:49:00.001-07:00

A new drawing I started today for the show. Fifth piece, and first male of the series.

Sneak Peak II

2011-05-20T22:53:00.000-07:00

Here are a few more previews of some work in progress for the group show. Just crappy phone pics for now.

Sneak Peak

2011-05-09T12:22:00.001-07:00

Here's a sneak peak at two of the paintings in their drawing stage for an upcoming show at Nucleus Gallery. These will be shown side by side as sort of a diptych. Human embodiments of Flora and Fauna.

Satyr

2011-04-06T15:20:00.000-07:00

A bit of a companion piece to the Nike drawing a few posts back. This is my take on a satyr. I just LOVE ancient mythology.

JAWS Tattoo Design

2011-03-31T13:09:00.000-07:00

Here's a tattoo design I did for a friend of mine, Peter Harp. He's a big fan of the film Jaws and wanted to pay tribute in the iconic compositional style of Drew Struzan's movie posters. Depicted are Chief Brody, Sam Quint, Matt Hooper, Ellen Brody, and Mayor Larry Vaughn. I will post the tattoo when it's done :)

Print Giveaway Over!

2011-03-28T20:43:00.000-07:00

I've gotten a tremendous response for this print giveaway, and I just want to thank all of you who commented and retweeted. I read every last comment and they really mean a lot to me, seriously, you guys rock. Well, here are the 4 winners of the giveaway (2 from blogspot and 2 from twitter), hand-picked by the robots at random.org!

J. David McKenney (blogspot)
Rin (blogspot)
tessahime (twitter)
civilmouse (twitter)

Congrats guys! Please email me at jeremy@jenecio.com as soon as you can, so I can get your mailing info. Unfortunately, if I don't hear back from you by April 1st, I will have to pick out another name :(

And as promised, the new store on my site is now up and running!! Check it out here!! And spread the word! Please? :)

Print Giveaway!

2011-03-22T06:22:00.000-07:00

Hey all! I have been revamping my online store and getting it ready to go live. So to kick it off and to thank you all for your support, I am doing a print giveaway! I was inspired by my friends Kali Ciesemier and Sam Bosma who recently did giveaways of their own.

I will be giving away the four prints above. For size reference, the "Tribal Tech" print in the center is 13x19 inches. All you need to do is leave a comment on this post and you will be entered to win. You can also retweet my twitter announcement (@jeremyenecio) to enter. Doing both will double your chances! Also, make sure you follow me on both ;)

I will draw four names at random on Tuesday, March 29th, one week from today. Check back for the list of winners next week! Once the winners are picked, I will be opening the new online store on my site, so make sure you check that out as well!

Good luck!!

Nike

2011-03-16T20:56:00.000-07:00

Just a drawing I did for fun. This is Nike, the Greek winged goddess of victory.

I'm on Twitter!

2011-02-22T18:41:00.000-08:00

Finally! It would be really neat of you to follow me on there for updates and such.

http://twitter.com/jeremyenecio

I'm also planning on doing some sort of print giveaway both on the blog and on twitter very soon. I was inspired by Kali Ciesemier and Sam Bosma, and it looks like it would be fun. Check back soon for more details!

Terrestrial Disguise

2011-02-03T20:35:00.000-08:00

I realized I haven't touched inks in quite a long while and I thought I'd give it a go today. The drawing was a quick sketch I started during a sketch night at Jared Fiorino's place.

Joanna Newsom

2011-02-01T12:48:00.001-08:00

Played around some more with these textured brushes and decided to do a portrait of Joanna Newsom (I'm surprised it's taken me this long to actually do a portrait of her). For some reason, whenever I think of her, I see the colors pink and gray. Her music is much more colorful, yet the association is there in my brain whether it makes sense or not. Brownie points if you can name the constellation around her neck!

Doodling

2011-01-25T12:53:00.001-08:00

Played around with some brush settings in Photoshop (not something I do often) and started having fun with the dual brush. Loving the subtle textures i'm getting out of each stroke.

Tribal Law 2

2011-01-23T20:18:00.000-08:00

Hey guys. So this post is pretty late due to the fact that I decided to have an extended stay in Baltimore, spending time with my brother who was moving to the Philippines (he arrived safely there yesterday). Once I got back to New York, I jumped right into refurbishing this piece with fresh eyes.

I really did rush to get it onto the blog before leaving for Christmas. Definitely a lesson learned there, but I am very glad for all the feedback and critiques that lead me to this point. It's most definitely still open for criticism, so don't hold back. Hope you enjoy it.

Tribal Law

2010-12-22T19:54:00.001-08:00

This is something I've been working on sporadically in between jobs. It's sort of a companion piece to the Tribal Tech image I posted not too long ago. I decided to finish it or at least get close to finishing it before I head back home for Christmas. I think I'm happy with where it is right now, but I do look forward to tuning it up when I get back to NY with fresh eyes. Happy holidays!

Old Man

2010-11-08T18:54:00.000-08:00

A sketch I did this morning in charcoal and pencil. 11 x 14

Sex and Violence, Round 2

2010-11-06T15:14:00.000-07:00

I decided to go back into this one and mess around with colors. Decided to go for a very simple graphic look, with some lightly rendered areas for emphasis. Been getting a few questions as to whether or not I would be turning this into a print, so feedback is more than welcome before all that happens. Hope you like it!

Perfect Chemistry

2010-09-25T01:31:00.000-07:00

A piece done for the cover of the 2010 Directory of Illustration brochure. This year's brochure theme was "Perfect Chemistry." The large gold central atom was meant to be cut out to reveal the 28 on the next page, or for the 28 to be printed 0vertop with some sort of special ink. You might notice the composition is somewhat odd because the right half will be the front cover and the left half will be the back cover.

This was a lot of fun to do. The challenging part was getting the lighting to feel believable even though it's coming from everywhere.

detail

Lovecraft

2010-08-29T22:28:00.000-07:00

A small piece I did to promote an upcoming group show at the Nucleus Gallery in LA. The show is a tribute to the horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft. Cthulu is Lovecraft's most well known character, and I thought he would be the perfect iconic image to introduce the show. Apart from this, I will be doing another, more substantial piece for the show as well. More details here.

acrylic on paper, 11 x 14

progress shots

Tribal Tech

2010-08-21T19:14:00.000-07:00

Growing up, I used to draw nothing but fantasy themed art. Not elves or unicorns, mind you, but monsters, warriors, tribal cultures that don't exist, etc. This week, I thought I'd have a go at nerding it up a bit, and getting in touch with my fantasy roots. It's been quite a while since I've gone anywhere near this subject matter. Hope you like it!

some details

Mario Gomez

2010-06-21T11:40:00.001-07:00

Three pieces I did recently for the July issue of Men's Health Germany on an article about German soccer star Mario Gomez and his workouts and training regimen. They wanted the images to depict Gomez being tackled and pulled by six defenders from other teams. Those defenders are Rafael Marquez of Mexico, Rio Ferdinand of England, Fabio Cannavaro of Italy, Lucio of Brazil, Pepe of Portugal, and Carles Puyol of Spain. To anyone from those aforementioned countries who read this blog, please don't hate me!

I felt that painting the defenders' skin red would keep their presence in these images from being too literal. I wanted it to imply that he's sort of fighting through his inner demons and interacting with figments of his imagination as he trains.

Joanna Silvestri

2010-06-21T10:20:00.000-07:00

Here is a piece I did for the July issue of Playboy magazine. It's for the short fiction "Joanna Silvestri." The story had very soft imagery, with an almost nostalgic feel to it, following an aging porn star as she revisits her past. This was a lot of fun to do, and probably the most pleasant art direction I've ever experienced.

I am super excited to be a part of this magazine. It seems nearly all of my illustration heroes have been supported by Playboy at some point in their career. Artists like Frank Frazetta, Yuko Shimizu, Phil Hale, James Jean, Sam Weber, Tomer Hanuka, Marcos Chin, Gary Kelley, Kent Williams, Robert Mcginnis ... all artists I attribute to greatly influencing my artistic development. It kind of feels like joining a club. The big boys club (plus Yuko)

detail

A few of the preliminary sketches

A Mute of Hounds

2010-05-30T23:24:00.000-07:00

A small piece I did for a show at Gallery Meltdown in L.A. to benefit the dogs of Downtown Dog Rescue. A majority of the dogs they rescue are pitbulls or pit mixes, so needless to say, I jumped at the opportunity to help out. The markings on this dog are modeled after my own pitbull.

Acrylic and colored pencil on watercolor paper

Uglies

2010-05-24T20:39:00.001-07:00

Thought I'd put these up on the blog today. While the rest of my fellow man was watching LOST, I was working on a piece for the show "A Mute of Hounds" at Gallery Meltdown in LA. Busted out the acrylics, completely skipping the watercolors. I decided to mess around in my sketchbook while waiting for paint to dry (I really need a blow dryer). I think they look funny.

Real updates coming soon.

More celeb portraits

2010-04-20T01:49:00.000-07:00

So I promised I'd be doing more of these, but never got around to it. Here are a couple more for now. Next up, I'm definitely thinking Brad Pitt because he is just too undeniably cool. Maybe Bea Arthur as well.

Grace Jones
My favorite eccentric from the 80's. Super model, actress, singer, artist, muse.

Carl Sagan
Who doesn't love this gentle spirit? I first learned about him years ago in science class, yet he's been popping up a lot lately.

Curiouser and Curiouser

2010-04-17T23:25:00.000-07:00

This is the piece I did for the Curiouser and Curiouser show at the Gallery Nucleus back in February. I chose to illustrate Alice eating the two sides of the mushroom, as prescribed by the hookah-smoking caterpillar. I wanted to model Alice off of Alice Liddell, the little girl Lewis Carroll wrote the book for. Done in watercolor and acrylics.

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A close up of the caterpillar's face.I couldn't find my pallets...

Men's Health

2010-03-25T02:52:00.001-07:00

I've been meaning to put these up on my blog for a while now but somehow have not gotten around to it. They were done for the January 2010 issue of Men's Health Germany. The article was called "Volle Power Aus Dem Verstärker" which translates into full power from the amplifiers. It was about motivation for exercise, and the power of different types of music for different work outs. The first one was a double page spread, and the other two were single page spreads. Photographs from Dietrich Halemeyer.

These three images will also be in an upcoming issue of Men's Health Korea.

On an unrelated note, if you'd like to ask me questions anonymously, feel free to leave them on my formspring and I will try and answer all of them. Started it a while back, but have recently regained interest in it. Go wild!

Sex and Violence

2010-03-15T21:33:00.000-07:00

A few days ago, my brother and I were having a conversation about the idea people have that the reason there is so much violence out there these days is because of violent video games and movies. We both felt strongly that this idea was absurd and that those who go on the air to spread their faulty logic don't really have much interest in human psychology or child development. This got me thinking, and soon I was visualizing scenes in my head of violence, drugs, sex, and all the goodies your parents wouldn't want you to see on television. I didn't go to any extremes though, instead, going for more of a representation of the violence to come, like a standoff in an old western film.

Mostly, this image is an exercise in composition (as well as my personal contribution to world peace). If anything, I'm just glad I had some time to do a bit of personal work. As of now, I'm not sure where I will end up taking this piece; whether I should render it and add texture, finish it off with flat colors, or maybe just leave it as is.

I sketched directly into photoshop with this one.
Here's the finished line work. I just noticed a few lines that are missing, like the Native American's left upper arm...

And here it is with a little bit of color, trying to adopt the flats technique I learned from Sam Bosma. I fidgeted around with the hue/saturation and ended up liking the...well, flatness of it. I will play around with it, and see how far I can go with rendering.

Larger image to show details

100 Heads for Haiti

2010-03-03T01:56:00.000-08:00

I was recently asked to take part in a charity exhibition called 100 Heads for Haiti held by Spur Design here in Baltimore. Basically, the exhibition will consist of floating heads on a white background. It will be held on April 10th, and each of the heads (by 100 different designers and illustrators) will be sold for $100 each. All proceeds will go to Doctors Without Borders.

watercolor and acrylic, 7 x 9

Zombies in Love

2010-01-29T01:37:00.001-08:00

This February I'm participating in a show entitled Zombies in Love at the Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, CA. If you know me, you'll know that I absolutely adore zombies of all kinds; slow ones, fast ones, magical ones, rabid ones. So needless to say I was super excited when I was asked to take part in this show. Here's my piece for it, done in watercolor and acrylic.

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honeysuckles

Celebz

2009-11-26T11:36:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I noticed I haven't done any portraits in quite a while so last night I had the urge to draw some celebrities I found interesting. For me, when doing portraits, the feeling of exultation or of utter despair is determined solely on whether or not a likeness is achieved. And having not practiced in months, I had a bit of difficulty. Nonetheless, these were still really fun to do. I definitely plan on doing more of these, and I've got a small list of names I'd like to draw.

Stanley Kubrick

Yoni Wolf

Tilda Swinton

Terry Richardson

Spike Jonze

The RGB

2009-11-18T14:29:00.001-08:00

Here is my piece for the Secret Service show at Rotopol Press. Due to my schedule as of late, I ended up doing this digitally, although I still found ways of experimenting and having fun with it, playing up the camp factor, hahah. Check out Sam Bosma's kick ass piece on his blog.

mooo

2009-09-12T18:30:00.000-07:00

A drawing I did as a birthday / going away present for Martin Kau, a great friend and artist.

2009-09-07T13:59:00.000-07:00

http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr

I think this is one of the coolest things ever. If you haven't seen it, you should definitely check it out. It's a site conected to Flickr that lets you choose colors from a swatch and tons of photos with that color show up. But unlike the color swatch tool in the google image search, you get to mix and match multiple colors. You can get some really beautiful arrangements of thumbnails too.

2009-09-06T01:03:00.000-07:00

Hello! For the past week or so I have been revamping my site completely and I'm proud to say I'm liking where it's headed. A much cleaner and simpler look than before, and also, it looks the same in all browsers (i think). With my old site, I would cringe whenever I had to look at it on a friend's computer or in a different browser. It should be up and running in the next couple days for sure.

In the meantime, here are a couple of sketches.

Versus

2009-05-30T15:04:00.000-07:00

This next Friday the 5th of June will be the opening for the Versus exhibit at the Wind up Space in Baltimore. I will be one of about 15 artists participating. Please come out and see the show if you're in the area!

Here is my piece. I think the show title for it will be Wrath Vs. Serenity. Haven't come up with the real title yet. This was a lot of fun to do, and I hope it shows. I used some reference for this one, which made the process a lot smoother. I will definitely be doing that more often. Watercolor on paper, 16 x 20.

A couple progress shots.

Jab Strong Fierce

2009-04-24T19:15:00.000-07:00

So tomorrow is the opening for Nucleus Gallery's Jab Strong Fierce show in L.A. I was invited to submit a piece for it, which I was super excited about.

Here is the piece I did for it, depicting Dhalsim and Fei Long. Watercolor and acrylic, 18 x 24. Just trying to have fun with it.

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In other news, the new and improved Illustration Academy site is now up, with tons of awesome images and videos. Check it out! This past summer, I did an art trade with George Pratt with the Hester Prynn piece I did during Academy. I was watching a podcast of George Pratt doing a demo, and saw the piece lovingly placed in his work area. Do you see it? I've sort of been imagining it under a pile of papers somewhere in his storage closet. I must say I was very flattered and humbled to be a part of his collection. Thanks George!

Spectrum

2009-03-20T11:24:00.000-07:00

I thought I'd make a post to thank everyone for their overwhelming support and congrats. Recently, I found out I won a gold medal in this year's Spectrum annual. I've been getting a lot of emails lately, and they all mean a lot to me! The piece that won the gold was the koi fish piece I did while at the Academy last summer.

Now, I'm just waiting to see if any of my other entries (4 in all) made it into the annual. Good luck to everyone else who entered as well! Saw some damn good talent this year.

2009-02-25T18:41:00.000-08:00

On Monday I went to Dr. Sketchy here in Baltimore and a good time was had by all. Also, I saw Annika there for the first time since the Academy last summer. The model was Lady Vile, who was awesome and definitely gave us some great poses.

This one was for the first contest which was to draw with our opposite hand (my right hand). Martin and I were both chosen the winners and got free shots. It was pretty exciting, and definitely a nice way to start the evening, especially since it was my first time at Dr. Sketchy.

I'm definitely gonna try and go to every class. It feels great to finally get some life drawing in again.

Weekend Sketches

2009-02-23T22:17:00.001-08:00

This past weekend, I went and bought myself a bunch of new art supplies, which in turn got me all amped to do some new work. I started a self portrait in oil, which I'll hopefully be posting soon, as I get further along. I also did a couple drawings.

Also, digging through some older stuff, I found a pencil drawing I did while at the Illustration Academy in Florida last summer. It's an illustration for the story The Tortoise and the Hare. It was sort of a secondary piece for a double-assignment week, which explains its unfinished state of being. Not sure if I'll go back into it or not. I kinda like it as is. Anyway, thought you might like to see.

more powdered graphite

2009-02-04T15:20:00.000-08:00

Hey you. I did this the other night in the cold with that good stuff they call powdered graphite. There's still a lot of experimenting I've got left to do with it, but it's incredibly fun. Especially switching back and forth between dry and wet. I'll try and post some illustrations soon enough, but for now, I hope you guys enjoy this! Added some quick washes of color in photoshop.

Portraits

2009-01-26T16:20:00.000-08:00

Here are a few recent sketches. I've gotten back into drawing faces again. Faces are just something I've always been interested in. These are portraits of no one in particular.

This one has some tones added in photoshop

2008-12-08T21:18:00.000-08:00

Thought you guys might like to see this. Something I dug up from my last year of mica when I took a screenprinting class. I desperately want to do some more screen printing. So much fun. I took a less serious approach to the work near the end, and did bright, colorful pieces, as well as t-shirts.

4 color screen print on paper 11"x15"

2008-12-08T08:01:00.000-08:00

I saw 'Let the Right One In' last Thursday, and I'm still thinking about it to this day. Such a beautiful work of art. If you haven't seen it, and it's playing in a theater near you (not sure if it is anymore), you should definitely go check it out. And no, I haven't seen Twilight..

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Also, a friend has recently reminded me of this scene from 'Coffee and Cigarettes' featuring the amazing Taylor Mead. Now I can't stop watching it.

Art and stuff coming soon.

2008-12-07T16:15:00.000-08:00

Just a couple sketches for now. Been trying to experiment with powdered graphite lately. It's definitely something I'd wanna get into more. The last one is done completely with the stuff.

Young Grasshopper

2008-12-01T19:10:00.000-08:00

Hello, what's poppin! I've finally made the transition to a blogger account for my new work. I'm hoping to post as often as I can on this thing. Lately, I've been getting quite disenchanted with livejournal and its ugly advertisements. Here's my old blog if you're interested.

This is something I'm currently working on. It's sort of a large scale sketch loosely based around the idea of the "sensei" and the "grasshopper." I need to invest in some lights and a tripod.

Graphite on 22"x30" Rives BFK