Illustrator. Always willing to do TRADE with those who strike my visual interest.
Drawing session would last 1 1/2 hours at the most. No nudity required.
Process:
I usually do 3-4 quick sketches (5-7 min. each), then take a picture each pose, which I will use later as reference to finish the drawing. If we do nudes, you will have the option to put on your underwear for the photo. Nudity is never required, but it is preferred. In Exchange, you keep the original sketches or I could do a mini-photo shoot. Check out the album "my photos" (
http://www.modelmayhem.com/list/133399) to see my photography work.
Miguel has consistently been a prolific artist since graduating from Otis Parsons school of design in 1987 with a BFA in Illustration.
Miguel is a Los Angeles - based portrait and figurative painter, muralist, printmaker and illustrator. Miguel incorporates expressionist brushwork and a saturated palette in celebration of the classic latin tradition. His experience as a stylist, designer and a dancer, contribute to the making of every image. Miguel’s accomplishments as a photographer informs the way he creates paintings and prints. When not working from life, Miguel begins by shooting his own photographs on the street, clubs, in studio and elsewhere. Whether working from life or photos, his pieces always create an intimate connection between subject and viewer.
His art has been exhibited throughout the U.S including - Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Alaska. Miguel has created murals for the Los Angeles MTA, and bus ad campaign for LA County Office of AIDS - AIDS/Living Responsibly campaign. Miguel’s work is in the collections of LACMA print collections, Laguna Art Museum, Watts Towers Arts Center, University of Austin, TX, and Fine Arts gallery Museum, Chicago.
Miguel’s clients include - Genre, Flaunt, Guess Jeans, Forest Witaker, Tom Skerritt, Davis Factor, Luis Barajas and Jim Turner. Miguel has been the recipient of the 2001 CSW Artists of the Year, 2000, 2008 and 2010 WEHO Awards/Artist, 1998 VIVA Arts Award and the 1992 VOGUE/SOTHEBY’S Cecil Beaton Award.
Miguel’s artwork has been published in LA Times magazine, Blue, Chicano and Latino Artists of Los Angeles, and Saludos Hispanos magazine.Artwork: LACMA, Self-Help Graphics, Couturier Gallery, MTA, Hollywood CRA, Savoy Jazz, Celebrity Portraits (Jimmy Smits, CCH Pounder, John Leguizamo, Danny Glover, Lilly Tomlin, and many more). Exhibit extensively with the TomofFinlandFoundation.org
Models I've Drawn/Photographed: Look under the list "Model Alumni"