Isla Sin Sonrisa

Mañana lunes 25 sale a la venta en castellano el nuevo álbum ! Para celebrarlo, aquí va una ración de storyboard de las primeras páginas del libro. :)

Sketchtravel ...at last!!

A week ago I was in Paris on a special meeting for the Sketchtravel book:

Gerald Guerlais, one of the heads starting the project;

Marc Aguesse, the man behind the matrix Catsuka;

Aurelien Predal and Mailys, the young talented artists who bring me the book;

Ben Fiquet, another all-terrain artist ,and my friend Victor Maldonado, one of the creators/directors of the Nocturna movie, also playing the role of camera man for the event. ;)

I wouldn´t like to enter in many details, but if the event was great to meet all this people, the chance of having the book in my hands was something out of this world. It´s really impressive to see the original art of all the people involved on it, and you can bet the responsability of beign the next one to do his part gives your hand a burning shake. Unfortunately I couldn´t work on the best conditions (nearly 8 in the morning, hotel room, after 10 hours of a stomach disease ...) , but it was a pleasure to do it anyway.

All my best luck fort the next artist, the amazing Juanjo Guarnido!

(and if I could tell you who will be on the next pages you wouldn´t believe me! Plenty of big names ...)

"L`île sans sourire" THE TRAILER !!!!

My beloved brother has gifted me this beatiful trailer for the new book.
(a french version will be available soon at the publisher´s site)

------------Millones de gracias, Victor!!! :)))))) --------------------


Please, go take a look to the rest of his work at his own company: DRACMA 3D.

-------------L ´ÎLE SANS SOURIRE---------------

That´s the final title for the new book, "Island without smile". This is the cover art, and you can see a preview of the pages on the publisher´s website:

http://www.drugstorebd.com/bd/l-ile-sans-sourire-9782356260550.htm

Release date: May 13th.

More news soon!

Best Wishes!

Entrevista en Trazos

Los amigos de Trazos en el Bloc han publicado una entrevista que me hicieron este verano.
http://trazosenelbloc.blogspot.com/2008/11/entrevistamos-en-trazos-enrique.html

Espero que pueda interesarle a alguien más que al bueno de Corominas. :)

Totoro Forest Book

A glorious copy of the book arrived today on the mail. A beautiful gift for those who had the chance of take part on that great event. And hope you all can enjoy it soon, as the rumors say that some important editors are showing interest on it. :)

Yulkukany Color

The same rough pages from a previous post. The book is going well, I´m on the color stage at page 24. Still 32 to come , though...

Lacrima Christi

----Too much time without updating this! Sorry... (thanks Towbson, I didn´t realize)-----

This is a panel from one of the pages I´m working these days, for the next SkyDoll Collective titled "Lacrima Christi". More info about it on the "fathers of the creature" blogs: mighty and misty Barbara Canepa and soul tortured Alessandro Barbucci . :-B

Totoro Forest Project ( updated: BLOG! )

Again thanks to Guerald Guerlais and Dice Tsutsumi, I´m involved in something great: an art auction to help saving a forest. The forest that inspired Mr. Hayao Miyazaki to make his masterpiece "My Neighbour Totoro": the Sayama Forest !!

Everything is better and fully explained on the oficial website : http://totoroforestproject.org/

And this is my part on it. Watercolors and markers .

UPDATE : There´s a blog created to bring fresh news about the show and many curious things and profiles of some of the artists involved.

http://totoroforestproject.org/tfp_blog/

The tickets to attend the show have been sold out in less than 48 hours! Woah....

Corominas Art

Pin-up made for the upcoming art book of the great spanish artist Enrique Corominas: an elegant compilation of his covers for the books of G. R. Martin.

http://doriangraybd.blogspot.com/2008/07/el-arte-de-cancin-de-hielo-y-fuego.html

Lions

Lion designs for a TV commercial.

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.