Yulkukany- 3 rough pages

Pages 4 ,5 & 6 of the new book. The rest of the 54 are also finsihed and I´ve recently started the coloring stage.

These pages lack some FX´s , so just for you to get into the mood, add some rain, some trees waving by the wind and some misty lights at this night scene. Yep, it looks better!! :D

Concept Art

Color concept art for the book Yulkukany.

¡ Una falla en Valencia !

Me he quedado de piedra al recibir mail de mi amiga Susana (seguid el link a su magnífico blog) : en las fallas de Valencia de este año hay una version libre de algunos diseños del comic "El Mago de Oz"!! Pero mejor que os lo cuente ella, que para eso se lo ha currado muchísimo , como siempre. Un abrazo enorme, Susana!! :)

http://trazosenelbloc.blogspot.com/2008/03/personajes-de-el-mago-de-oz-de-enrique.html

PD: Si alguien puede aportar más informacion, fotos, etc. será bien recibido. Todo lo que sea! ;)

Yulkukany- Miscellaneous Characters

Elianor Mise Yukinde

She is one of the main characters of the comic book I´m doing now. You can call her simply "Eli". ;)

It is coming! (updated again!!!)

http://www.editions-delcourt.fr/catalogue/bd/la_mere_des_victoires

(sorry ,I don´t have a better resolution pic of it with the logo)

UPDATED: On the BDGest website you can take a look at the first 10 pages. Follow the link: http://www.bdgest.com/prepub.php?ClickV=1&IdPrepub=334#

UPDATED AGAIN!!!-------- 20 pages.
Another way of taking a look at the pages of the book, by the editor´s website:
http://www.editions-delcourt.fr/feuilletez/feuilleter.html

Le Manoir des Murmures (PIN-UP)

A pin-up for the recently released book of the mighty team Muñoz-Tirso-Montes, "Le Manoir des Murmures". Link: http://www.humano.com/manoirdesmurmures/
Enjoy ! :)

The Plague

I´ve been playing with inks recently, doing some research for this project about a brigade of dwarfs.

MDV-Another page...

Dedicado a Mr. Carlos Ruano ;)

Cats

Just an excuse to say hello again, and give many, many thanks to people and friends visiting this blog. :)

Aqua-doodles?

This is a bunch of doodles made from time to time , testing a box of aqua markers, color pencils and pentel fine markers. Just to be some time in front of a real paper after hours of computer work.

SKETCHTRAVEL: THE TRAILER!

Here is the link to the video of sketchtravel. What´s that? Just play the video, and follow the links on my previous posts and my own link section. They also have made a beautifull wood box to keep it! O---o

Hugue honor for me to be part of it, as you may understand.

ENJOY! :D

http://www.dailymotion.com/Geraldraws/video/x28jrk_sketchtravelofficial-clip

Chroniques de Sillage 3 (again)

Another of the illustratiosn made for the book "Chroniques de Sillage 3 " (see previous posts). This one introduced the greatly stylized story of the spanish artist Pedro J. Colombo.

MDV- Action!

Some "action" panels putted togheter to show the progress of the book.

MDV- Eva Anderson

Introducing the female main character of the new book.

MDV- Half way...

Now working on the color of page 33 of the new book, just in the half way to finish it. This is one of the panels of that page, one I enjoyed a lot to do.

Oz goes USA!

Hello everybody! I´m really glad (excited!!) to announce the release today of the "Wizard of OZ" book on USA, published by Image:

(http://www.imagecomics.com/blog.php)

This is a design of a character from the second original novel of Baum´s Oz, that I did for a kid´s book, a kind of roleplaying game book.

Happy holidays, my friends!

The Sketches are moving!

Thanks to Pierre Alary, who introduced me , and Gerald Guerlais , who gently invited me to join it, now I´m honored to be one of the "Sketch Travel" guests.
You don´t know what is all about? Please, take a minute to visit the site, as it worths the time:
www.sketchtravel.com

MDV- 3 steps again.

This time a little panel showing Mr. Kataoka Raijuro, the main character.

MDV- First panel

This is the first panel from page 1. Big enough? ;)

MDV- 3 Steps

-Storyboard, rough line and color stage. -

Sweet dreams

Hi! Back from holidays! How are you?...That bad? hum...
Well, well... This is a "brush-test" I did some time ago, directly on Painter. The model was my cat "Manchi": she was sleeping on my legs during the process!!

Holidays

The 62 pages of the new book are ready to be colored. Here is a sample of some, mixed with storyboard pages, and a fun provisional logo.
Now is time for holidays (for me that means working on another place ,sigh!), so this blog will be really boring during some time.
Have nice holidays everybody, and see you soon!

MDV-ink&color test 2

Another test done some months ago before start working on the pages of the book.

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...

"El Cid"´s storyboard panels.

These are some panels from the storyboard of the spanish animated movie "El Cid" (Filmax Animation) . Excuse me for the chaotic order of the panels , although they are not in narrative order anyway. I put only the ones I liked to show by now.