This scene unfolds at the Salon du livre de Québec, so the last panel shows the Québec Parliement in the background. There was no freezing spell there, but it really happened at a similar event!
This comic page was done with my Intuos tablet and modified on Manga Studio. It is no 27 in the Splendors and Miseries of the Signing Table series, the French version here. And yes, it was snowing when I drew this comic…
Many thanks to Jack Ruttan who translated this page from French!
For 2014, here is this fresh comic page, scanned at 600 dpi, resized to 300 dpi, then retouched in greytones. It will be the first page of Honors Road, a science fiction manga, from my own Gardeners universe. (It will be published in French and English). It is always a challenge for me drawing sea shore, especially the foreground shallow water.
On the last day of the year, I set myself time to draw comics. Allan Watts suggested to think about what would you like to do if money was no object. Drawing comics is my favourite activity. It helps me crating or re-creating new worlds, and adding to the collective imaginarium.
And this is valid for all fields. Reading, sciences research, music, or even contemplating nature in silence feed our imagination.
Here are two artists-bloggers I discovered recently: Melanie Gillman, who make a good use of color pencils. And I visit the Zen Pencils blog, by artist Gavin Aung Than. The artist draw cartoons from inspitrational quotes.
My good 2014 resolution : each month, I will choose a graphic artist website and give a small amount (5$, a large gourmet coffee)in his or her Cookie Jar.
Artists, musicians, writers, even the more popular among us, do not accumulate great riches. Bottom line-seeking companies, even the most successful, now frown upon paying the artists and even steal their work when they can get away with it.
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Despite the freezing cold, I wish you all a new year filled with joy and creativity!
Posted in Art, Comics, Society
Tagged Alan Watts, artist, Comics, Gavin Aung Than, manga, Melanie Gillman, New Year, Science-fiction
Sometimes enthousiastic fans do not know how their original story sprouted in their minds…
For this Halloween special, a comic originally published in a Zombie Commandos from Hell, a comic series by Stéphane Dumais. Zombies are really popular, there are various zombie races, and there’s even a training application for runners!
It is a rather amoral comic, because the poor zombie guy actually bought a comic book, so he was nicer than most straight fans!
Happy Halloween everyone!
Tagged art, Bookfairs, Comics, Halloween, Signing table, Stéphane Dumais, Webcomics, zombies
Hitch-hiking may be cool, but somewhat not without dangers. A sketch I did a few years ago, featuring my best friend and I, upgraded. The two troopers boarding the AT-AT are our husbands (and die hard SW fans).
To everyone, I wish a happy and creative New Year!
This is page 32 of my current graphic novel project, Wind Mistress, the story aof a young girl in the super-gardener’s civilisation, set in the Chaaas Universe. Worked by ink and pencil, grey tones added with the help of my trusty Intuos graphic tablet in the GIMP 2.6. I had to cut a lot of my contour lines while editing the panels, as the finished page breathes more easily.
Last year has been filled with projects, as I published three science-fiction novels at three different publishing houses! Le Projet Ithuriel, the last book of La quête de Chaaas, and Mica, fille de Transyl. So my current Webcomic, Otaku Ladies, (a trio of young women computer geeks) had slowed down!
This is a sketch that I did yesterday evening. It is a glimpse of my upcoming SF comic Wind Mistress, featuring a young girl named Adalou. The result may look a bit pale and dreamy, but I boosted the colors after scanning the original drawing !
Drawing a ponderous aquatic creature was a challenge. The oriented light rays help giving the image its depth and placing the volumes.
Posted in Art, Science-fiction
Tagged aquatic monster, Comics, drawing, Science-fiction, sketch, YA science-fiction, young girl
Echoes of a Sunday artist 