Now

Hello, I just finished drawing Heroism Potion.
It still needs all the work of shading, lightning and the dialogues are still to be added, it should take a couple of days, I hope it's all done before Monday.
After that I'll make some illustration and in the meanwhile I'll be shaping up some new stories, I'm thinking about making a longer one, with a character I sketched up some days ago and with other crazy characters.

I can't show you anything about that, but I may be uploading some character sketches in the following days.

Where Am I?

Here's a little update on how I'm going with comics and other stuff.
I'm not going as steady as I wished I was, after finishing Dream Fortress I wanted to take just a little breath, to recollect energy and make some considerations, review some flaws and try not to remake them in the new comic I'm working on.
Then I wanted to start some new illustrations as well, so I sketched some things more than I did while coloring Dream Fortress.
I'm planning to have 3 comics completed before mid-September, along with at least 4 new illustrations, it's gotta be hard so I'm trying to make the whole comic-making process a little faster.
The new comic is storyboarded and most of the pages are already drafted and ready to be developed; I hope I'll be done with full b/w pages early next week, wishing to have the full comic done by mid-August.
Here's a picture of how first page is coming along, I already tried some shortcuts for coloring on this page, I just gotta see it done to see if they really work as I hope they do, but until now they seem to work pretty well.

That's it, I'm back drawing now, I've got a splitting headache and other things on my mind. So it's like working in a trance, a strange one.
I'll be back next week for a couple of post of books, or artists, talk soon!

Update

Hello, I'm almost done with drawing the comic, I sat at the drawing desk days and nights and I think it's going to be complete these days, next week I'm starting to colour it and post every page once it is done.
In the meantime I'm also going to start some new illustrations and draft out something for upcoming new comics, I'm going to have at least four comics ready before September, plus new illustrations and stuff.
Stay tuned, more updates soon, ciao!

What's That?

Could it be the first page of the infamous comic I've been talking about for a while?

 

You betcha! I'm working on page two today; it's gonna be a six-pages story, I think I'm going to start coloring the first one tomorrow. I'm really excited about how it's coming along. Updates soon, ciao!

Alive!

I'm back at last! I've been really busy during past weeks so I had little time to draw or update anywhere.

In the last couple of days I finally got back at the drawing desk; the illustration I'm working on will be an occasion to recover some things from older works; I'm planning on introducing some lettering in it to express the sounds, something like a one panel comic.

The figures are 99% complete, I gotta start making the background and refine some things here and there.

Here's a small peek at it:

Other things are in the works, new posts coming soon! Ciao!

In Color

Found some time to start coloring the drawing, yay!

 

Guess it's time to buy a new camera, this one has one foot in the grave.

Next One

Hey, not much time to draw lately.

I'm feeling a little frustrated about it; I got lots of ideas to draw but time to do it just flies away; hope it'll be more in the next weeks.

Anyway, I got some pictures of the drawing I'm working on now.

 

I think this one is going to be crazy.

The gardener one was cool to draw but it wasn't much psychedelic so I have mixed feelings about it, hope this one gets to be a stunner.

Talk soon, ciao!

Gardening

So, good weather is finally back, to celebrate its arrival I drew a lush forest around Zeta Zero Zap's Royal Gardener.

I think the drawing may be ready around tomorrow or wednesday; I got some things to do before focusing on it exclusively.

Here is how it looks so far, my camera makes some color look overly fluorescent, kind of like it.

 

Have a great time, ciao!

What I'm Up To

Here's a little update about new works.

The remake is only one thing I'm working on right now; I started a new illustration a couple of days ago and I'm already coloring it. I hope I can complete it around Monday.

Here's a sneak peek:

Then, I'm readying everything for the short comics I talked about, I'm thinking about some general, fixed points to develop further.

Since I'm rather new at making comics, expect a quite long time before I can show anything.

For blog matters, I'll make some more artists' posts; next ones are about a Japanese and a British artist, curious? Keep following here and you'll find out who they are.

Ciao!

Remakes

Hello, these are tough days; we're all worried and saddened for the events occuring in Japan; I wish that Japanese people may recover fast from the tragedies that struck them, and that they will eventually rise stronger than before.

And let us hope that what's happening now will be a trigger to stop using nuclear energy as much as possible.

I'm preparing for Bologna's international book fair; I'm going to bring a portfolio with as much works as possible and exhibit a couple of works; I will meet international publishers so it's a great job opportunity.

I started drafts for a couple of illustrations, wishing to complete it by early next week.

Here's the almost done line drawing for the remake of an older drawing, the one popping out of all the pens in the photo.

It's more a redesign, rather than a simple remake; I wanted to update the character with symbols and elements I'm using lately, making it a little more psychedelic and somehow jodorowski-esque.

Then, big news, I'm almost ready to start a small comic, nothing more than 4 or 8 sheets, with a weird, surreal story. I'm setting the highlights in these days.

That's it, now I'll be drawing a little more.

Talk soon, ciao!

Almost There

Hey, I found time to go on with the drawing; there isn't much to do before it's good to go for coloring; I just wanted to post a snippet of it, I thrown another character in it; it's a guardian Smokey, something like the Holy Smokes from another illustration, and he/she/it is supposed to save the young lady from the Cyclops' grasp, will he/she/it succeed in the perilous task?

 

I'm going to start coloring it as soon as I can, hope it will be done in a week or so. 

Today it's Chrome's Planet Strike time, enjoy! Talk soon, ciao!

New Steps

So, I found some time to proceed a little further with the new illo; not very much, but unfortunately things will be like this for some time.

I'm posting it, hoping I'll be able to show something more this week; I just gotta make the background then it's ready for the markers.

 

I'll try and start another one soon, I got an idea floating around my head and I want to fix it on paper as soon as I can.

And as usual, here is a link to a favorite song of mine, this time by Sun City Girls, enjoy!

New Illustration

So here's the almost completed line drawing for a new illustration; I just gotta figure out some things and then it's ready for the markers.
This one will have a background because I just got to start drawing them  without procrastinating or I'll make the whole series without them.

Talk soon, ciao!

Drawing In Progress

This new drawing is still untitled,right now it may look like a little malicious, but once it's done, you'll see why she's in that particular position. =)
I hope to be able to complete it soon, I'd like to end this year with at least five or six drawing for the series, maybe more if I work really hard on them.

Looks like things may start move faster now, with exhibitions and publications; I'm looking forward January because I'm going to Paris to visit Moebius' exhibition, I will be like a kid visiting Disneyland!

See you soon, ciao!

Clash Of The Holy Smokes!

These are some sneak peeks at an illustration I'm working on, I'm almost done coloring the characters, then I'll start the background.
I'm going to make a smaller serie of illustrations this time, previous one had 27 of them, and I want to remake some of them to fit in these new line of works.

As usual it's a heavy paper A4 sheet, smooth surface, colored with Copics.