artist: Armando Huerta

Armando Huerta Arellano was born on May 1969 in Mexico City.  He studied until 1993 at the Universidad Autonoma Metroplitana.  Young Armando learned color theory and the use of the airbrush, but never illustration nor drawing of the human figure.  Everything else was self-taught.  Most of his technique was the result of copying many of Sorayama's paintings.  He followed the step-by-step way to make paintings that were usually included in the end of Sorayama's books.
  
He drew pin-ups from 1993 - that is also the year when he learned to use the airbrush.  He worked for Playboy magazine and Coca Cola until 1995.  Armando would like to inherit the legacy of Sorayama.  If he can't be the best pin-up artist, he certainly hopes to be the most popular.  He would like the first ship on Mars to have one of his pin-up girls on the nose, like the second world war airplanes.
  
In addition to Hajime Sorayama, his other favorite artists are H. R. Giger and Gil Elvgren.  More of his works can be seen at armandohuerta.com.