Favorite Love Story- Ricardo Lopez Ortiz

The Terminator

Guy travels trough time in order to save girl from killer robot, who is also from the future. While protecting her, he falls in love and fathers the future savior of mankind.

Perfect.

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- #NoFilter

In order to truly connect with the ones we love, we must put our guards down and let them in. Showing ourselves for who we truly are.

Tim Paul - Ricardo Lopez Ortiz

I give you Ricardo Lopez Ortiz, done two ways! 

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Chris O'neill

Hey guys, here's 2 drawings of Chris O'neill. Better late than never, right? I've never met Chris but all I can say is that his work is superb!

I had a lot of fun this month trying to come up with different ideas everyday. Though my schedule got thrown out of whack towards the end and I wasn't able to keep up. I really enjoyed this project and every ones work. Some fantastic stuff was posted by everyone!

Cheers!

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Love Song Shuffle

 The song that came up for me was Fools Rush In by Elvis Presley. When I heard the line "When we met, I felt my life begin" the first thing that popped into my head was a seed sprouting. So I went with that :)

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Mating Rituals

Thankfully I never shared a room in my college days. So I never ran into this.

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Mulder and Scully

Need I say more?

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Odd Couple

Here's one of my favorite "Odd Couples" Don Quijote and Sancho Panza.

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- I Love my dog

This my dog Sasha, she can be a real butt head sometimes. But I still love her.

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Freestyle Sunday

My lovely girlfriend on the subway ride back from work. I think I captured her exhaustion :)

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Tainted Love

Hey guys, really sorry that I haven't been able to keep up lately. Having a 9-5, plus getting some Illustration work on the side doesn't leave me with as many hours on the day as I would like. But I'll catch up!

In the meantime here's some tainted love.

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Corto Maltese

This is Corto Maltese, a character created by the amazing Hugo Pratt. Corto is a sea Captain adventuring during the early 20th Century. He is a "rogue with a heart of gold", reminds me a lot of "Mal" Captain of the Serenity in Firefly. Corto instinctively supports the disadvantaged and oppressed. His adventures are fascinating and easily rank at the top of any must read Graphic Novel lists.

 If by chance you happen to run into a copy of his adventures buy it immediately as they are pretty hard to find in the U.S. You will not be disappointed. Though don't buy the latest English translation of "The Ballad of The Salt Sea" it's just complete butchery of all time classic book.

I <3 Corto Maltese!

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Freestyle Sunday

Here's an Arrested Development piece I'm working on for Freestyle Sunday.

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- A Face Only a Mother Could Love

The Lion of Natuba is character from Mario Vargas Llosa's "The War of The End of The World". He was born deformed with very short legs and a gigantic head. He walked around town on all fours, with his large head and long hair. Because of this people called him "Lion".  He was incredibly brilliant and taught himself to read and write. Even though he would read and write letters for everyone in town he was never accepted.

He was almost killed by an enraged father after the Lion had expresses his love to his daughter. He was saved by The Caunselor(A man with a Christ like following) from then on the Lion lived the rest of his days in happiness next to his savior.

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Horacio Quiroga

Here's a portrait of Horacio Quiroga, a fantastic latin american writer who excelled at portraying mental illness, hallucinatory states, death and the supernatural. His book of short stories "Stories of Love, Madness and Death" is incredibly dark and tragic. I highly recommend it

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Love is a Battlefield

Here's Spider- Man at the scene of his greatest failure, the Brooklyn Bridge. Where his girlfriend Gwen Stacy is hurled off the tower by the Green Goblin. Spider- Man manages to catch her with his web shooter, he pulls her up thinking that he has saved her. But the whiplash from being caught in mid air has snapped her neck and killed her...

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Gatchaman!

When I was around six years old every Saturday morning consisted of my sitting in front of the T.V and watching Gatchaman/G-Force/Science Ninja Team or whatever other name the show's had over the years. Depicted above is my favorite character from the show, Joe Condor/Dirk Daring (depending on translations). Second in command, a deadly sharp shooter with the eyes of an eagle, nerves of steel and overall bad-ass.

Words cannot express how much I love this show!

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Love At First Sight

A different kind of love at first sight....

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- I Love Bernie Fuchs

 Bernie Fuchs is one of my all time favorite Illustrators, so I decided to pay him a little tribute by copying one of his drawings and adding a little bit of some month of love flare. Enjoy my feeble attempt at connecting with a true master.

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Free Style Sunday

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!?!? Guess I am from these Sunday doodles.