"Shades" - an illustrated look at the famous glasses in pop culture history!

After many months penciling, inking, coloring and designing, my new book "Shades" is here!

"Shades" is an illustrative look at my favorite glasses throughout pop culture history. From the 1933 "Invisible Mans" Motorcycle glasses to the recent tortoiseshell frames worn by "Harry Hart" in the "Kingsmen, Shades captures the gnarliest glasses inspired by my love of films and tv!

As a young shy kid, it fascinated me how sunglasses made people appear so confident and nigh invulnerable. I wanted so badly to be as cool as the characters I saw on tv and felt that a pair of shades would do that for me. Thats what started me collecting all sorts of unique glasses, and as an illustrator, inspired me to draw what made these characters so special to me.

Thats always been the intention for “Shades”, to capture the confidence a pair
of glasses gives a person, the same way I saw these characters in this book as a
kid. I hope you all enjoy the art as much as I did drawing them, it was a lot of fun re visiting these great characters.

If you'd like to see the book in it's entirety, check out my online portfolio MrMauro.com

order your copy via Amazon!

stay Rad!

Mauro

Order a copy of Shades for yourself!

MIB3 Men in Black 3 poster by Mauro Balcazar

Hi, I think it's fitting for me to end, possibly, my Men in Black related art thread with a psychedelic inspired poster for the 3rd film. I've drawn as many characters and retro aliens as I could find. I really love young Agent K's look. it's like a cross between the Mad Men era and the Andy Warhol scene mashed up. really bright colors which i try to never do, but it was fun. enjoy!

The Men in Black New Yorker Cover circa 1969 by Mauro Balcazar

What can i say?

I am a huge fan of the New Yorker covers and every month I look forward to the amazing art they use on their covers. I always wanted to do a New Yorker cover, and came up with a cool little idea about what it would be like if we did make contact, a la, Men in Black, in the 60's. How awesome would it be to have the New Yorker capture this moment in history on their front page cover? I hope you guys like it, i had a lot of fun drawing this and i think it's one of my favorite Men in Black pieces to date that I've drawn.

I added a variant version of the art as well, can you spot the easter eggs i've drawn in there? little nods to the MIB universe and even the cartoon. enjoy!!!! :-)



Enjoy Humans. - Mauro

Men in Black the movie poster by Mauro Balcazar

Hi,

May I present to you fine folks my lovingly created poster for the first Men in Black film. I'm a huge fan of this film, and I wanted to capture the fun I had as a kid seeing this film for the first time and putting that energy on Paper (albeit Digital)

From beginning to end this film was a fun experience to see in theaters and because of the props, story, and most importantly the creature/fx, firmly resonates in my head till this day and continues to mesmerize me. I've tried to draw in some of my favorite characters and scenes from the film and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did drawing it.

cheers Earthlings!

If you'd like a print, just shoot me an e-mail at agliarept@aol.com

Here is a link to a larger version of the image to use for your Desktop/Iphone or whatever intergalactic device you may be using.

http://tinyurl.com/77jac6l

MIB poster pencil layout done!

I think this is it.

I've tried to draw every single important, to me, in the Men in Black movie as possible. I love this film and want to give it a great poster for people to look at and enjoy. It's designed to fit inside one of the Oval chairs like in the film :-)

Hope you guys dig it, if not, I can always Neuralyze you!

New Poster in the works. Men in Black!

Have had this in my head for a while, finally have time to do it. quick pencil layouts and planning where things go. here's a sneak peak.

Men in Black: Nikola Tesla Arquillian Royalty

Phew,

been meaning to finish this puppy months ago just never got around to it until last night,(2 am) lol. Here is the 3rd in a series of Famous people from History who just happen to be Arquillians from the MIB series. Hello Mister Tesla!

Men in Black Drawing #6 Einstein is out of this world

Well

I love me some Arquilians, and it's a no brainer Einstein could have been one :-)

Here's my little vintage photo of the good Dr in a leisurely break at his office. enjoy.

Men in Black Drawing #5 The Worm Guys love the JAVA!!!

hehe

I've always loved the animated series of the Men in Black. the stories, designs, and animation are pretty top notch and carried the same tones of the movies. However, a huge improvement was made on the worms, and there personalities have stayed with me when doodling for ages. Here they are in there animated form as they appeared on the show years ago. These guys are addicted to the Java!! gotta have it!!!!

Men In Black drawing #4 Baby Redgick I am not your father

haha always loved this scene from the first film. Nothing like getting baby puke on your first day on the job. haha Good ol' Agent J and Baby Redgick Jr! enjoy!

Men In Black drawing #3 First Contact

Always loved the photos shown briefly in MIB 1. the ones with agent K handing the aliens flowers. wondered what it would be like seen through the lens of Ray Bans. liberties have been taken and thought I'd play around with a wash of colors. very flat and dull colors to make it look a little retro? hope you like. :-)

Men In Black drawing #2 Steve Jobs is an Arquillian.

This one is one of my favorites. might be a recurring theme through out this little art project. We all sorta kinda knew Steve Jobs was bringing us some cool gadgets and now we know why. Arquillian technology for the win!!

Men In Black art run!!

Decided I really want to start drawing a lot of artwork inspired from the Men in Black series.

Here is drawing Number One. - Mauro