From an ongoing SF project, Wind Mistress, page 43, pencils. Last page of 2015!
Set in Chaaas’ universe.
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This Saturday, October 18th, The Mississauga Central library is holding a Science fiction Spectacular Bookfest!
SF authors Rob Sawyer, Marie Bilodeau, RC Wilson, Tanya Huff will be doing presentations at the Auditorium. Robert J. Sawyer recently received a Lifetime Achievement Aurora Award from the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association.
I will be onsite with fellow local authors, exposing (and selling) our works at the Atrium. All my 15 novels and 10 graphic novels will be there, in French and English. Signed books are all in the 5$-10$ range.
I’m proud of being a SF author. Below are a few of my recent titles from the Sunday Artist Studio imprint.
The Mississauga Library has most of my novels. Get a glimpse of my SF universe. The full series (La quête de Chaaas) will be available at a discount.
Two books from the Jules-Verne saga, another YA science fiction series.
Here are two “standalone” SF novels…
WHERE: Mississauga Central Library, 301 Burhnamthorpe Rd W, Mississauga, Ontario
WHEN: October 18th, 10-17h
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Tagged art, Author visits, Chaaas universe, MIssissauga Library, Robert J. Sawyer, YA science-fiction
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!
Do you remember the comic page rough draft in blue pencil shown this spring? Now here is the same page finished, inked, scanned then digitally toned in shades of gray.
This is an excerpt from my graphic novel Maîtresse des vents published in the issue no 7 of the magazine science fiction and fantasy Nexuz3 (edited by Gérard Lévèque) that just came out. Nexuz3 is available in various bookstores in Quebec.
There aren’t so many SF&F comic fanzines published in French, so this one should get a fair notice in the field. All the other participant artists are quite talented : their works are well worth your support!
The page you see needed less working of the grey tones, because I did not daddle too long to ink my blacks and whites. I took several frames off, making the panels “breathe” easier over the page. The “degraded” filling tool in my Gimp 2.6 software proved useful to give a sense of depth. The ocean in the first page is another example.
In the second panel, I decided against putting a grey filling in the kite… the speed lines and shadows were enough. I am beginning to get the hang on manga dynamics, but a long way from a mangaka’s nimble hand…
You would be surprised to learn that I used only one layer through the whole process. Managing the layers in Gimp has proved unduly complicated. I rather use the “darken only” option of the paintbrush to lay my greys without erasing the blacks, and the special selection tools for the degraded colors effects.
The more observing among you will remark that I clipped off some of the rock outcropping in the last panel (with the two characters sitting on it). I also moved the kite a bit along.
Wind Mistress (a working title, I’m not sure how the English version will be titled. “Kite Mistress” sounds good, too), takes place in my space-faring civilization of super-gardeners, several years before the Quest of Chaaas cycle. And, yes, I will have it completed and translated before the next TCAF, promise!
With all that work, I have missed the Fan Expo 2011 in Toronto. At least, I carry on other works, like my Otaku Ladies webcomic.
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Tagged art, art technique, Chaaas universe, Comics, fanzine, Gimp software, graphic novel, Michele Laframboise, Nexuz3, Science-fiction, shonen manga
To celebrate the official arrival of summer, here is another pencilled page, with the blue hues darkened after the scan. Yes, it is the sequel of a low-tech SF story aimed at young adults.
You may note the little black ink trait on the top panel. This was a little accident happening on the last Free comic Book Day. Fortunately, a little post-treatment with Gimp will make this smear disappear.
I kept the horizon line at the same level in the two first panels, to give a sense of continuity. There is still some detail to clear up on the interior backgrounds in the two last panels. Interiors are the hardest to draw for me.
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Tagged art, Chaaas universe, Comics, graphic novel, manga, Michele Laframboise, pencilling, Science-fiction, YA science-fiction
A satisfying comic page, appearing soon in the SF&F Nexuz3 Magazine.
Kite Mistress, intro page
On the green Luurdu planet, a young Chh’atyl girl dreams of becoming a kite mistress. Obstacles, both biologic and social, lie in her way…
She is exercising her belly’s deteriorating muscles: “Once again!” she grunts.
The magazine Nexuz3 is published by Gérard Lévèque, in Montréal. The story is set in the Chaaas universe.
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Tagged Chaaas universe, Comics, Kite mistress, manga, Michele Laframboise, Science-fiction
Echoes of a Sunday artist 