Pablo Not Picasso

Pablo Rivera. Animation/Illustration student at SJSU. I like piña coladas, getting caught in the rain, and fish monsters!

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Illustration done shortly before the semester began again. This one was blocked out in Photoshop, and then finished in Procreate while traveling. Consequently, I have a process video of all the rendering out of the various elements within the scene. I also included the color and lighting thumbnail I used as a guide, as well as what all the layers looked like before they were rendered out.

My main love with art is creating spaces and showing how light affects things within a scene, so throw in some dinosaurs and I’m in a happy place~

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Some ceratopsians! Did these over a few days at the end of the year; I wanted to explore some of the cooler and odder looking species!

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Quick Dilophosaurus bust! I’m in the midst of exams at uni and I just desperately wanted to paint something for myself! Included the process vid for anyone that’s interested. I focus at first on painting more in a neutral lighting so as to focus on designs and the overall structure, then I use adjustment layers like overlay, soft light, and multiply to add lighting and shadows. I always take time to just paint by hand at the end and adjust things manually, as I’m finding more and more that digital layers alone can’t make the kind of color and value adjustments that I’m looking for. They’re great for blocking things in, but you still have to put in some work at the end!

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Three more beasties from dinovember! A carnotaurus, an ankylosaur, and a spinosaurus!

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Hey!! Your Atla travel posters are amazing and I would love to buy prints of them. Do you have a redbubble/etsy or somewhere else I could buy buy your prints? Thanks and again your art is amazing ❤️❤️

Hey! Thanks so much for your interest, I’m sorry I didn’t check my inbox in forever and failed to see your message- for now, I have the prints available through inktale https://inktale.com/pablonotpicasso

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One of my first intros to nature came from watching BBC documentaries of animals in their native habitats, just existing and chilling without human intervention. The idea for this painting had been floating around in my head for a while, and its my attempt to mesh my obsessions of dinosaurs, painting, and wildlife documentaries!

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Some sketches done for Dinovember! I never have enough time for this challenge, so this year was also about exploring faster workflows! We all have different reasons why we got into art, and I’m realizing more and more that some part of me just wanted to get better at painting dinosaurs!

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Some travel posters inspired by Avatar: The Last Airbender! I’ll be at Silicon Valley Comic Con this weekend selling these as prints as well; Artist Alley #145! EDIT: Sold out of the prints at the con, but I made them available online here: https://inktale.com/pablonotpicasso

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Reblogging because the Netflix show was announced with the original creators helming the project! I’m so excited!

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Its been a minute! I gotta remember to keep updating this site-thank you so much to everyone who takes the time to follow my work on here, you are all far kinder than my forgetful self deserves! Here’s a painting finished recently, inspired by all sorts of dark fantasy, from Dark Souls to a podcast called the Singing Bones. For the Dark Souls fans, there’s an easter egg not so subtly put in here, for everyone else, this is a reimagining of a classic fairy tale setting!

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Feathered Rex speedpainting! I’ve been loving the work of Ryan Carlson and trying to pick apart his process.

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Visiting my parents back in Florida! Took the time to go out and paint some local scenes and local fauna.

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Snow raptors! To continue the theme of practicing lighting situations using prehistoric animals! For all the paleo-fans out there, feel free to write me with suggestions of animals and an environment to depict them in!

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Hey do you mind at all if I set your atla travel posters as my phone background?

Yeah, go for it! Thanks for asking, but I'd be totally fine either way!

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Re-uploading this piece as the colors were a bit too washed out.

A painting done in Procreate over the course of a few flights- looking out at all the clouds made me realize I don’t make enough cloudscapes, plus prehistoric life is the bomb!

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A few more paintings from mermay that I never shared on here!

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I just wanna say that ur Ember Island Avatar themed poster brings so much peace to me. Every time I look at it, I can almost feel my heart sighing. Sori if that doesn't make sense. I hope one day I'll be able buy it. Also, do u plan on doing any Korra themed posters? I reckon does would be lovely too. Hav a great day.

Oh gosh, that’s so incredibly touching to read! Thank you immensely for taking the time to let me know how much you connected with the piece; it’s been insane seeing the overwhelming response online to these posters!

I’m planning on doing a second group of posters, focusing on locations from Korra and a few more from the Last Airbender that I still want to visit, so it’s great to read that you’re interested in seeing those happen! Thanks so much for writing!

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Thanks so much! I’m so excited!!

For sure! Thanks so much for being interested!