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Knives Up - Coloring!
Lo!These are not actual colors! These are mere mock-ups, done by yours truly to pass the pages to our dear colorist, Jason Wordie, without needing to write long and excruciating e-mail explaining what exactly I was trying to relate with the ways the map, or the hand, or the seagulls are drawn. In a sense, every time I do it, I see my basic coloring (be in tones, monochrome, or limited palette) as an extension to the lineart - give you more information on the shape, the texture, the depth, the to...
Something really really cool (pt. II)
(continued from HERE)Well, 20TH CENTURY MEN #4 with my variant cover finally just got announced!This book is a really special, one-of-a-kind creation to emerge from Western comics (drawn - as is the case with most of best American comics - by an INCREDIBLE Eastern European talent). I wish it best lucks in the tough world of direct market publication, and I am very proud to become a little part of its legacy.Also, coloring it was a proper riot! Maybe even bigger pleasure than inking it, which is ...
BOOK OF THE NEW SUN sketchbook pt. IV
Kelau, The Sword of the Lictor, Man-Apes(Kelau are supposed to be a sort of Northerner barbarian type-warriors, but I thought it was fun to imagine them as possessing pretty advanced technology)
⊃∪∩⪽ - God Emperor Leto Atreides II himself!
A bit early in the series, I know, but this here chonky boy signifies (hopefully) my inevitable return to the series. Gotta finish that Messiah, and then do a few Children drawings, too!Designing and drawing Leto is one of those challenges we artist looove to take on. It's why we sit our asses to do projects like the zine, really. And I've been itching to finalize my take on him, even since I make this little sketch:
BOOK OF THE NEW SUN sketchbook pt. III
The Green Man, Hipparch, Jonas
Hellboy: Strange Places (commission)
Haven't had one of these for a while, too, eh? ;)
NZ-666 Kshatriya commission
It's been a while since we had one of those, huh?
BOOK OF THE NEW SUN sketchbook pt. II
Dorcas, Erebus, Father Inire(Yeah, we've pretty much covered most of the cosmic/chthonic forces of BotNS in first two entried! :D)BTW, no matter how hard I try to double-check everything, I still make the goofiest of mistakes:
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Possible future zine cover? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Something really cool, too (pt. I)
Worst summer to be alive, pretty decent summer to be working
BOOK OF THE NEW SUN sketchbook pt. I
And so... It begins!Azlabo, Baldanders (with Dr. Talos!) and CumaeanI gave Dr. Talos a sort of Astroboy 'haircut" (for obvious story reasons), and it endlessly amuses me.Anyway, I hope you know (and love!) the book series, and will enjoy the ride throughout the books the same way you enjoyed my Dune visions! (which, don't worry, are far from being over)
Goro Akechi (Persona 5) commission
You know what? Japanese videogames characters are very fun to draw, and I keep forgetting it. So, never hesitate to ask me to draw characters from games like Final Fantasy 9, 12, or maybe, like... I dunno, just spitballing here!... Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha series?
Kirby's Forager! Commission!!
God, I LOVE doing these!Also, on a slightly less cheerful note: money are getting really, really tight, so (contrary to everything I was hoping for in the end of last year) I'm returning a few commissions slots to the menu (2 slots for $25 tier and 2 for $50 tier). If you want, you can do an annual pledge, and cut yourself a whole year of waiting. With 2 months being discounted, annual pledge of $25 gets you a regular A3 commission, as usual, and annual pledge of $50 gets you a really fancy ...
Iron Giant commission
Lovely opportunity to draw this gentle giant in my favorite environment
Knives Up - scrapbooking II
Continuing from here (good grief! Can you believe how glib and depressing I was BEFORE the war started?!!)No new Knife pages to show yet, but here's something fun - more pages from my big Protector/First Knife sketchbook! I blurred some "spoilery" text mostly for fun - don't think that any of you would've wasted your time actually trying to real my scribbles XD(Fig. 1 - can you find all the plastic phone Garfields on this page?)So yeah, I'm sketchbooking a lot, and I'...
Full Metal Alchemist commission
Phew! That was a fun one! <3 I continue my march of drawing characters from every single favorite anime of mine thanks to my cool and patient patrons.Btw, rendering Alphonce's armor exactly the way I wanted to felt like quite a challenge in advance, so, to avoid getting mired in it right in the process, I actually went a tiny extra mile and did a pre-final "study" of how I wanted it to look. I guess I'm getting a sort of intuition for my own shortcomings, huh!
Amazing Spider-Man Annual page recreation
My take on a pretty intense Ditko page!
Something really really cool (pt. I)
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SW zine: K-2SO
Controversial opinion: Rogue One is 3rd or maybe 4th best Star Wars film ever
The Mad King (original character commission)
I rarely agree to draw "OC" commissions, but DnD characters are pretty fun to design!
Illustrating books. A whole library of them, actually!
Help! I'm addicted to running tiny sketchbooks, and it keep influencing my future work! :D
SW zine: Sebulba
Your favorite pod racer! (with his signature look of superiority)
SW zine: Rey
And she goes together with the Old Luke from before!
SW zine: Week III
( with an early release for my favorite Zine Perpetuators! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) )Rey! Sebulba! Chewie! K-2SO! Exactly halfway through the sketchbook, whoooo!
Lone Wolves and Cubs
"Four Ogami Itto and Daigoro, Jeremy? Four? That's Insane! "Happened to have two of these pieces almost back to back on my list, so here we go! <3
Cantata Month - Character Art sketchbook
(Phew! Been a while since we had a video here, huh?)Done in the same format as my Dune sketchbooks (mostly because I was hired to work on the game thanks to my Dune sketchbook!) this series of drawings almost felt like a hobby project instead of a proper boring job. And I guess that's what made it so easy for me to work on?Makes me wanna have a Cantata zine printed, haha!
MAGNUM OPOSSUM 2022 (download!)
Following the announcement -Download PDF version here or CBZ version here (although current version of CDisplayEx is probably gonna have troubles with showing the grey color on those pages, for some reason)- and enjoy!
MAGNUM OPOSSUM 2022 (announcement)
The other day I had a huge epiphany about how much I love making and printing zines, and naturally, the very same evening I was already putting together a new zine.Of course, there's no chance of printing the book anytime soon, but at least there's a digital version...Which includes 44 pages of my best selected artwork from 2020-2022 (but it does not include the artwork that is aimed to be published in other zines ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°))The zine's PDF will go live for all $5+ patrons here...
