Portrait of Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh has always inspired me. Here I interpret his self-portrait by experimenting with a compartmentalised, contoured and delimited style through the treatment of line and blocks of colour.
Technique: Marker pens and black ink
Support: Sketchbook. 80 grams.
Size: A5. 5.8 × 18.3 in. / 21 × 14.8 cm.
Date of creation: March 2017.
Original work by the author: David Lopera Gómez.
Portrait of Mark Knopfler singer of the rock band Dire Straits.
Technique: Pencil and ink.
Support: Sketchbook. 80 grams.
Size: A5. 5.8 × 18.3 in. / 21 × 14.8 cm.
Date of creation: July 2018.
Original work by the author: David Lopera Gómez.
Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci.
Do you know about expanded drawing? It is nothing more than changing the medium used to paint, the support where it is done or the instrument with which we paint. Here I used a spoon and coffee to draw my version of the Leonardo Da Vinci portrait.
Technique: Traditional painting. Spoon and coffee.
Support: Canson paper. 200 gr.
Size: 11.7× 8.3 in. / 21 × 29.7 cm.
Date of creation: December 2021.
Original artwork by the author: David Lopera Gómez.
Portrait of Freddie Mercury. The show must go on!
Technique: black ink.
Support: 80 gr paper.
Size: A4. 21 × 29,7 cm / 21 × 29,7 cm.
Date of creation: 2018.
Original work by the author: David Lopera Gómez.
This is my version based on a beautiful fanart by Stanley Artgerm Lau of Gatsu, character from the manga Berserk created by the genius Kentaro Miura.
Technique: Marker pens and black ink
Support: Canson paper. 250 grams.
Size: A4. 21 × 29,7 cm / 21 × 29,7 cm.
Date of creation: September 2019.
Original work by the author: David Lopera Gómez.
Portrait of Axl Rose, lead singer of the rock band Guns N’ Roses.
Welcome to the jungle!
Technique: Pencil and ink.
Support: Sketchbook. 80 grams.
Size: A5. 5.8 × 18.3 in. / 21 × 14.8 cm.
Date of creation: September 2019.
Original work by the author: David Lopera Gómez.
We are getting closer and closer to modifying our genetics, extending our lifespan, and even modifying and “improving” our human conditions through science and technology to become something else, transhuman.
Vanitas et Transhumanitas is the version of a transhuman that I have imagined. Perhaps, this being has wished to eliminate his or her face by believing that he or she has a beautiful skull, and has wished to keep his or her body obese or neglected as he or she has preferred to devote himself or herself to the contemplative life and the enjoyment of gobbling food without the need to have a limit… artificially he or she can keep his or her body “unhealthy” as it no longer matters to be healthy in order to live many years.
What do you think this transhuman is like? What other modifications would you make if it were in your power?
Technique: Walnut and Bleach applied with brush, cane and nib.
Support: Canson Montval paper. 300 grams.
Size: 19.68 × 25.59 in. / 50 × 65 cm.
Date of creation: April 2022.
Original artwork by the author: David Lopera Gómez.