AWARD!

The past weekend, the third book of OZ received an award on the first Festival of BD at Lyon. To say it in four words: great city, very nice people, and this beautifull gift. Merci beaucoup! :)

NOCTURNA

Actual poster for the animated movie Noturna (more info about this film on previous posts of this blog).

Mr. Gosta Janson (MDV book)

Character reference page for Mr. Gosta Janson.
Dedicado a Yacin y Tirso! ;D

MDV Characters-1

First attempts I did for the characters in color. Not actual art of the book (but close) :)

Ink&Color test.

This is one of the ink tests I did when I was thinking on doing my next album that way. This is the main character design, but please don´t look at his huge ear! :P Thanks for all the support received.

"Mère des Victoires" -Machine Designs.

Designs for my next album: "Mère des Victoires" (Ed. Delcourt).

Original Art for Sale

The Galerie Daniel Maghen has some of the original artwork of the books "Le Magicien d´Oz" for sale (originals are all A4 size). You can visit the website here:
http://www.danielmaghen.com/Default.asp?Action=Auteurs&AuthorId=290

Saludo al Sur

La revista argentina Imaginaria ha publicado una entrevista del amigo César Da Col. Un saludo a todos los amigos lectores! link----

http://www.educared.org.ar/imaginaria/17/6/fernandez.htm

Chroniques de Sillage 3

Another of the illustrations you can find into this book (in stores this week).

Self-promotion?No shame?...of course! :)

Have a great new year everybody!:D
Here ,some storyboards from the last book of Oz, the volume 3 that is going to be released this week in France. This part of the process is where I find more fun, as it is where it´s decided almost everything after the script, and you can feel you are "creating" something.

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Oz3 preview

You can take a look at the first 5 pages on the editor´s website:

http://www.editions-delcourt.fr/previews1.php?id=1280

Inmortal!

This is a drawing/tribute for a making-off book of "La Chronique des Inmortels", a great german comic-book based on the novels of Wolfgang Hohlbein, with a script adaptation by Benjamin Von Eckartsberg, and the excellent art of Thomas Von Kummant.

The End?

The last week I finished the volume 3 of this books of OZ. It´s a strange feeling when you have been involved on something that deep, where you have put so much of yourself, and it arrives to the end. Maybe I should say "sad but proud"...Anyway, from here I would like to say thanks to all the people who has been supporting and encouraging me during the hard work, starting with my dear friends David Chauvel and Thomas Ragon, who have been so great that have made of this work something really special ; and let me say a big thank you to all the people at the forums of "Artbox" , "Catsuka" ,"CafeSalé" and "Naimoka" for being so nice and warm. And of course to all the people visiting this blog, near 68.000 visits from the begginning until today, and from many, many countries that I´m really impressed (And when I think I wasn´t sure that this blog would be a good idea!:-D). Thank you so much!
Now is my time to have a little rest and prepare the coming projects (don´t ask! it´s a secret! ;P) . I´ll keep posting here all what I can. It´s a pleasure!

Chroniques de Sillage

This is one of the five illustrations for the next album of "Chroniques de Sillage" ("Sillage" is a succesfull series of sci-fi BD´s in France by the hands of Morvan and Buchet, Delcourt Editions).

Character Design

Randall Sly has made me an interview for his interesting blog, focused on knowing better the works of character designers of the animation industry. Please take a look here:
www.characterdesign.blogspot.com

"Le Magicien d´Oz" Tome 3 (sneak peek)

You will have to wait for this book until next year (I´m still working on it) , and I thought it could be a good idea to show you a little something. Also I don´t have the time to make and post new skecthes of anything alse, and don´t want this blog to be dead! :)

More "Libertadores" roughs.

I would like to have time to make more sketches, but now I have plenty of work. Solution? Again, old stuff... :P
Thanks a lot to all the people who comes to visit my blog and put their nice and encouraging comments.

Inking

Time for another page of sketches (of course this is not a "real" page, I cut the ones I like from different pages and put them all togheter on a single page to show).

Sketches again

More skecthes (old and new ones mixed), playing with different brushes, markers, papers...