Customer Reviews

Just Bloomed

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

These are mostly drawings that were done for adult magazines. The are not crude however. Most of them are artful and a teasing, with only a couple being erotically suggestive. And that is about all it is, suggestive. There is nothing in here that could be termed obscene.

Most of the drawings come across as figure studies. Very well drawn figure studies that communicate a feeling or an upbeat emotion of the figure drawn. The 5 stars is for the art of the beauty and the beauty of the art.

It does not get any better ...wholesone yet very sensous to erotic. The best is the expressions are so wonderful casual yet intimate which I found to be rare and a refreshing tribute to the female gender.
If you like this, which I can not believe any reasonably normal healthy person wouldn't you will like Natural Beauties and the websites Domai and Met Girls.
I would think "God" intended the respectful appreciation of the female character and form to be something of this nature.

I had a drawing done of me by this artist and was EXTREMELY pleased.. the likeness was INCREDIBLE.. this book is also incredible... this is one talented person.

While not bad, I was a little disappointed.As I was looking for a new perspective on painting the nude figure, I thought there could have been a few more examples,but clothing can tend to become cumbersome when one is trying new outlets in watercolor andalso difficult to capture.

Lopez has put together a truly lovely set of pencil drawings and watercolors. He has a wonderful sense of what makes a figure enticing. Above all, that includes the happy expressions and poses of the models - they really seem to love posing, and love being seen as beautiful. Pictures generally consist of the model only, often with a bit of un-frilly lingerie being set aside, but no exotica. One unusual feature stands out, though: Lopez's frequent choice of very young-looking figures. That work has appeared in magazines with titles like "Barely Legal," so sensitive viewers may want to think about whether or not this suits their taste.

Only four stars because the models and poses, however lovely, tend towards a sameness.

--wiredweird (reviewing Vol. 1)

Nice bit of pretty girl artwork of Playboy caliber, sometimes they aren't even naked. Includes water color (see the cover) and pencil sketches. Good artist. But overall not much more variety than most other sources: all white 18-25 year old young ladies. Nice enough for a nude art collection.

Boris is right on target with this one. I highly reccomend this book for nude artists. the drawings in this book are the way nudes should be done.

I liked the first volume a lot. It was full of great drawings and paintings of lovely, happy models. They were all beautifully done, pinup-sexy without being crude. I hoped that JB2 would be more of the same, or maybe more advanced work along the same lines.

Well, almost. This is just the pencil drawings, without the watercolors that brightened the first volume. Many of them tend towards the dark. The white/black balance would have been a better match to African or Indian features, but didn't really suit the European features on all but one of the models. Depilation was rampant, as in the first volume - normal fuzziness suits me just fine, but smooth isn't a bad look. It exaggerates the youthfulness that Lopez prizes, but Lisa (p.42) was just a bit much. And there was something else that I just couldn't put my finger on --

-- until I saw the drawing of Monica (p.37). That showed a real failure to maintain proportion, with her right hand grotesquely enlarged. No credible foreshortening could explain that distortion. Then, when I looked more, a few other drawings showed similar oddities. Was Kirsten (p.40) actually chubby - not a bad thing, necessarily - or did she suffer misproportion as well?

This looks like what was left over after Lopez's notebooks were picked over for the first JB. He should have quit while he was ahead.

--wiredweird (reviewing Vol. 2)