Monday, July 26, 2010

Son of Dawn



I'm currently working on self publishing an online graphic novel (yeah, like, finally there will be something good to read in this blog). The tentative title is "Son of the Dawn", or "Son of the Morning Star"....something like that, I'm still not sure...
The drawing process has been a hard one..I confess I'm not really consistent with my character's appearances and also drawing the story that I want to tell requires a lot of drawing "whatever , whenever" so there's no chance of tricking, or cropping the shots.
I'm going the whole way with the drawing process: I sketch, I clean up and then I trace everything again in illustrator, I later add textures and color correct in photoshop...
The main character at the top title of this blog was created that way.
The story itself is complicated, but it involves a mystic force responsible for the creation of the universe, a family drama, an African civil war conflict and a reality show series of a racing Derby. "Lot's of crap rolled into one thing will surely make an interesting story" was my thinking, hopefully you guys will like it...

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Artaud Final

Couldn't wait

Artaud progress 2...


More on the previous illo: It was done fully digital, tracing and coloring everything on a wacom intuos 4 tablet. All sketching and finals were done on photoshop CS5 with no traditional "pencil on paper" planning whatsoever. I'll post the final when it gets printed! Enjoy looking at some of the processes in the meantime...

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Artaud progress 1...

Illustration for literature magazine Los Suicidas #5 (The Suicidals). Issue five's theme is madness, and the above illustration is accompanying an essay on Antonin Artaud. Keep posted for more progress.