Gangster types!

-More website stuff! detail and all included, like in the serious places...

-Otro de la web! No da tiempo a mas estos dias... aunque esta pieza sigue siendo una de mis favoritas.
Un saludo!

Yeah yeah...

...I know this one is in my website but, what can I do! no time to do anything new these days.
It must be three years old, and done as a portfolio piece.

Renaissance Faire

Boy that was fun, the Renaissance faire at Irwindale (right at the Santa Fe Dam recreation area) was packed with people from all sorts of reanactment type associations and a definitely dedicated audience.
Medieval Tournaments, all sorts of medieval and renaissance commerces and shops, people in character with their beautiful period costumes...
I have to say everybody was really nice and willing to give all sorts of information about the period they were representing and everything else you were curious about.
I nearly finished a whole sketchpad there, of which you can see three samples in the next three posts.

Mr. Don Tartaglia

Mr. Mattschibler

Mr. Andrew Johnson Mac Colin

More life drawing, what a surprise!

No time these days to come up with new "fancy" stuff. Old is the word!
So, here are two more life drawing type exercises.
'talk soon.
M.

Classic comics

Our friend 'Anguloagudus' has this blog called 'Comics en extincion" (please, see link).
I have to say I'm a regular visitor as it is a pleasure to see pages of all these masters in a row, just for anyone to click on them and see them in detail.
He has everything from Jesus Blasco, to Victor de la Fuente, Alex raymond, Jean Giraud, Frank Robbins and so many others. Worth visiting!


Habeis visitado ya "Comics en extincion" de Anguloagudus (ver link)?
Vale la pena. Un buen repaso por algunos de los mejores periodos de la reciente historia del comic.
Saludos.

By the way

Here is the Sketchclub drawing I did last week. For technical reasons I just can't post it up at its propper blog right now, so here it comes.

Ah waddaheck!

Enough 'comic book nostalgia' type thing for now!
Here is an oil painting I did ten days ago. Out we went: Noelle, Tang, Christian, Katrin (did I spell everyone right?) and myself to the beach with our oil painting tools.
I know it's not what you guys have in mind for a beach, but I swear the water thing with sand and all that was right behind me.
I just didn't happen to have a proper wide landscape canvas on me, and the way things were I didn't feel like painting the beach in this more regular format. So, here is a building.

Hasta la vista

I will have to think now of what to do with this blog as it was originally created with the sole purpose of the publication of this improvised comic book adventure.
There will be the follow up story at some point, although this might take a while.

It's been lots and lots -and lots- of fun, and a unique oportunity for me to develop something completely personal as I had'nt been able to do in many years now... and why not, also a little frustrating whenever I realized that my availabilty to the project was not enough to guarantee the continuity and momentum this kind of story required (things of 'life broadcasting'!).

In the meantime, thank you all for being such great sports and for your interaction and comments all along, and here comes a little something 'Miss-you-know-what' asked me to put together for all of you!

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Tendre que pensar ahora sobre el futuro de este blog ya que lo cree con el solo proposito de publicar esta historieta improvisada. Habra segunda aventura, aunque esto no sera cosa de dos dias.

Me lo he pasado demasiado bien con esto y ha sido una ocasion fantastica de hacer un trabajo total y absolutamente personal por primera vez en mucho tiempo. Tambien ha sido un poquito frustrante a veces cuando he visto que el tiempo que tenia disponible para ello no me bastaba para publicar con la continuidad que una historia asi requiere. Cosas del directo.

Mientras tanto, muchas gracias a todos por el interes y los comentarios, y aqui viene una sencilla despedida que "Miss-ya-sabeis-que" me ha pedido que publicara para todos vosotros.

And 38.

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37

Last page on Monday!

La ultima pagina este lunes!

-"Si es un 'Jack in the box' (como se dice esto es castellano? es este juguete que consiste en una cabeza, generalmente de payaso, que salta con un muelle al abrir la caja que lo contiene...) te mato con mis propias manos."
"Has venido para que te lo devuelva?"

-"En absoluto"

-"Realmente te lo has ganado... Lo abriste ya?"