Asterix Warm Up Sketch

MudMan Sketches

Ok, this month I was bit complicated.
I'm involved in several projects, Promised, a comic serie which I'm working with Christopher Mc Donough and the idea is to make 3 issues to begin with, the whole thing is going to be a longer series of 9 issues, keep tuned!!! More info here: http://evolvecomics.com/

Right now I'm working on an 8 pager for Lord Magnusen (http://clockworkchap.tk/). A short comic story set in Uruguay in the 40's that we are going to present for a contest at the Uruguayan Association of Comic Creators (AUCH - Asociacion Uruguaya de Creadores de Historietas). It has to be ready for January 30.

And I have an 5 pages pitch done for another project, a comic story the idea is to make 3 issues, but I'm not going to talk too much about this project because is still in development, more about that later.

The last news is that I will be participating too at the Dark Horse contest to make a real awesome Conan cover, besides Conan is one of my favorite characters from my childhood and I'm really excited about the new take on the new Conan series by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan.

The last thing I want to do, or better said what I'm planning to do is a webcomic, a weekly webcomic. I will be updating all this information in this blog, so keep tuned!!!!

In the meantime I did this two sketches based on the Mudman Character, published by Image works and created by Paul Grist, really I like the book and Mr. Grist's style, really nice and clean style. Highly enjoyable.

If you want to know more about his stuff, here you have this link:
http://www.weisshahn.de/kane/

and if you want to follow him in twitter:
https://twitter.com/mistergrist

Merry Christmas reading a lot of Comics!!!

No Jet Pack - Pre Launch Art

A new webcomic is being launched, and I was invited to make a pre-launch art among several other artist. I must say that I felt honored  being considered to make some prelaunch art. 

So I did this drawing, I hope everyone likes it.

The webcomic is written by my friend and colleague Magnus Von Tesla and the art is made by Federico Taibo.

here you have the link for the first day of this webcomic

http://nojetpack.webcomic.ws/comics/13/

and there you can see others artist who made pin ups and sketches to celebrate the launch of this webcomic. I hope the best for this two colleagues and friends in this new endeavor.

Now go and read it!!!

:-)

Comics Should be Good Contest

Two weeks ago there was a call for artists at the blog column Comics Should be Good CSBG) from the Comic Book Resources (CBR) blog.
I was told by some other friends and colleagues, that it was a good opportunity for receiving some exposure, so I decided to give it a go, they chose a theme and people send proposal via twitter.
Then they gave us this proposals, we have to choose one of them and make the drawing for this week.
They will vote after two weeks who is the best, and the 2 artist who gets more votes will stay and a third will be an alternate artist.
The first week the theme was convert a famous person or comic character into a villain or a superhero.
I chose from people proposal (there were more than 100 different proposals)

I chose Winnie The Pooh as a villain, I decided that Winnie would be a nice Joker.
Here is my entry.

The second week, the theme was to choose two characters who never teamed up before and draw them.
From the blog readers proposals I chose Lobo with Hellboy.
The thing is this time if was more difficult to me to finish the drawing, so I couldn't finish it on the weekend as I did the first week. So I I took the drawing with me, and I continued drawing on the subway trying to finish it on tuesday night, that this was the end of the deadline. Tuesday at midnight.
I took it to my work, the thing is that I showed the drawing to my colleagues graphic designers at the company where I work, and then I left. When I was going home, I realized that I forgot the comic at my work table, If I went back to the company to look for the drawing then I will miss the bus to New Jersey (I work in New York but I live in New Jersey) and I will be too late at home so I really was very sad. And I thought that was it, I won't be participating in the blog.

But something come from inside me and told me, don't quit. I took a piece of paper I had on my work bag, I took my pencils that I always carry with me, and I began to draw and draw, I even inked it on the subway and on the Bus going to New Jersey!!!!

I have to adapt my style of drawing, cause the bus was all shaky, there were movements every moment, so I decided to do a shaky style kind of the one we could see in Simon Bisley stuff (of course not as good as his :-)

But well, finally I ended and I sent the drawing on time, here it is:

Here you can see my entries:
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/12/08/the-line-it-is-drawn-try-out-week-2-group-3/
There's a link on my entry which takes you to my first entry (the one of winnie the pooh as a villain)

If you think you liked my drawing, please click on this link and vote for me.
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/12/08/the-line-it-is-drawn-week-2-all-7-groups/

Thanks in advance!!!
If I'm selected I will be drawing my entries at the blog thinking about all of you!!!
:-)

Thanks for your support and for visiting this humble blog!!!
Your opinions and comments are very important for me, thanks for keeping me pushing and pushing to improve my art!!!

Mouse Guard Post

 

Sketch Challenge done for Ten Ton Studios Forum, this week Mouse Guard!!!!

You can find more information about this character created by Daniel Petersen at this website:

http://www.mouseguard.net/

Atomic Robo and Harry Potter

These are quick sketches all done for the #TwitterComicCon at Twitter. If you ask me, I will just tell you that you have to use that hashtag and you will be in the Twitter Comic Con sharing sketches, lectures about #makingcomics, virtual stores, cosplayers pics, etc...  and funniest thing of all is that you can do it from your home, work, while commuting, from your kitchen, room, wherever you are with a  smart phone, pc, ipad, iphone, whatever... you just need a twitter account, this are some sketches...
This one made for @Naminational, an awesome artist, you can find her at twitter or go to visit her deviant art here:
http://naminational.deviantart.com/

This is the sketch:

 

Hermione and Harry was really the second sketch for the Con.

The first sketch done for the #TwitterComicCon was for the awesome lord of several kinds of art known as @LordMagnusen he is a writer and has really good stuff all around the internet, blogging, podcasting, making comics and participating in forums, etc. You can find info about him at his one of his blogs

Or at his facebook page the Clockwork Chap

https://www.facebook.com/clockworkchap

He has another blog where he dedicates his time to "dissect" comics, it is really fun:

http://thedissector.blogspot.com/

And don't forgot to visit Atomic Robo website :-)

http://www.atomic-robo.com/

Weekly Sketch Challenge - Cloak and Dagger

 

Sketch made for the weekly sketch challenge at Ten Ton Studios. You can also participate and improve your drawing skills!!! It's fun :-)

Here is the link to the Ten Ton Studios Forum Weekly Sketch Challenge!!!

Weekly Sketch: The Sixth Gun

 

We have a kind of unofficial challenge at the Ten Ton Studios forum called The 1 Star Theater Challenge. 

It is a challenge that it was created just to have some fun and to have more things to draw in between of the Official Sketch Challenge at Ten Ton. This is more informal and we keep making jokes, just a way to improve our skills and to have a more relaxed challenge than the official.

This week one of the members and founders of this challenge thread (Brav) proposed to make a Sketch of the Comic Book Series published by Oni Press "The Sixth Gun".

To be honest, I didn't read the series, but looking for reference for the comic I found that it really looks very interesting and the art is really awesome. 

I just need to read it, so let me tell you that this comic is going directly to my pull list for the next week for sure.

:-)

Here is the info about the comic series if you are interested:

http://www.onipress.com/series/sixthgun

And if you want to know about the authors, here you can find info about the creator Cullen Bunn, here you have his website

www.cullenbunn.com 

And more info about the artist, Brian Hurtt. Here is the link to his website:

http://thehurttlocker.blogspot.com/

The thread at Ten Ton will be open the whole week, so you will see more art posts in the days closer to this next weekend.
:-)

Shanna The She Devil