The Things We Do

 

 

These are a couple of panels from a new Ray Murphy comic I finished recently. The story is a loose adaptation of a chinese fairy tale, and I made it for a fairy tale-themed German-Chinese anthology project.

Sous vide Weekend Flash

i hadn't drawn a whole comic strip with actual words for years, so i had a try, and did most of this in one day. i hate the sound of my own writing, so edited out quite a bit of text from the rough version and even now am thinking up schemes to do away with most of the text remaining...ha, but talking about it does not make it any better!

Falling

Cover of a new sketchbook. Inspired by the damned souls falling into the pit by Roger Van der Weyden, Dirc Bouts and the like.

Off with her head!

A collaboration between Alkbazz (on the left) and myself (on the right). Which took me three eternities to finish, i must admit. Nope, i'm not too happy with how my part turned out. But you can't win every time...

Pánico en el parque

Highly Toxic Mutant Collaboration

Just recently created this pretty little chap along with Mark Landauer - you can see more of Mark's work here

The streets of 's-Hertogenbosch, 1482

A panel from chapter two of my Jheronimus book. The protagonist in search for source material for The Garden of Earthly Delights. One might think of medieval towns as riddled with just narrow alleys, but this is not the case in 's-Hertogenbosch, judging from how the main streets have not changed according to old city maps. (There were more canals than there are now, however)
My confidence about the colouring grows. Steady as she goes...

 

gosh it was forever ago Zeke asked if I wanted to join this blog, and it's really about time I said hello with a few of my drawings. I don't know where to start so I just grabbed whatever came to hand. If this is of any interest to you, maybe you would like to have a look at my tumblr which I'm trying to develop a habit with at the mo.

The jolly pyromaniac

An oldie from the days I was doing my Thank god it's Ugly anthology. The face was drawn by my pal Matthias Giesen. I did the rest after it had been sitting in a drawer for over a decade.

They hang pigs, don't they? pt 2

... In fact, it's a beautiful day for a hanging!

Continuing colouring my graphic novel on Hieronimus Bosch. I'm in chapter two now. Crowds are an important element and pretty difficult. I don't want them to end up as one brownish slush, but not too brightly coloured either. The bright blue sky I'm also still a bit doubtful about, despite my sardonic opening line. It does not quite fit the colour range I had chosen.

It would be tempting to pick colours from Bosch's paintings directly, but that is a bit weak IMO. And they are quite diverse anyway. The Garden of Earthly Delights is quite fresh-looking -in contrast to the semi-grisaille of The Wayfarer, for instance.

The exectutioner is a detail not to be missed. No black hood or studbelts - that is something out of modern day cartoons. In old images, you won't find any in that stereotypical garb. They were obliged to wear special clothing connected to their dishonourable profession, but this would be local. I could not find out what was the costum in s-Hertogenbosch around 1500, so I picked something yellow-ish. Yellow being the least favoured colour and connected to Judas and the Jews, of course.

new linocut

I recently visited my friend Marc Brunier-Mestas who gave me some good lino, so I'm cutting now everyday... sometimes it's like you're not inspired but at the end it's only a matter of missing good material!

Semi-digested THING

¡Gooooooooool!

My contribution to the book “Chasing Posada” a tribute to José Guadalupe Posada and his relationship to the city*.

*This was drawn before Islamic State’s started their cowardly and bloody ad campaign.

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Six visages

ZIGENDEMONIC - FLAME AND ASHES

2014 - As a Parallel Program of MANIFESTA 10 - European Biennial of Contemporary Art

St. Petersburg’s Street Art Museum is holding its first exhibition - CASUS PACIS / MOTIVE FOR PEACE.
Especially for the exhibition ZIGENDEMONIC has painted a small room, where you can get if you walk down the stairs.
On the walls are depicted in recognizable decorative manner, terrible events that gripped the country this year - people are dying, spilled blood, broken body everywhere, flames and ashes.

www.zigendemonic.com  /  zigendemonic.blogspot.com

The colour of mud

Started colouring the pages of my graphic novel on Bosch (160 pages!)

A few minor changes on this one, which i had done as a test some months before.

Antonin

Preforming a little black celebration & what I've been working on.

SIN CITY

26 hours of drawing. SIN CITY. finished. 2x3m size. Acrylic markers only. Vilnius Street Art Festival. #shaltmira#vilniusstreetartfestival #streetart #blackandwhite 

DAY 3 - 8 HOURS 

DAY 1 - 7 HOURS <......................................................> DAY 2 - 11 HOURS. 

Hotwire Paranoid Reader

"The Paranoid Hotwire Reader" appeared in Hotwire Comics # 2

Sous vide #1

Black and White, 60 pages, A5

Cover : Nuvish

Drawings : Gaspard Pitiot, Eric Demelis, Mattt Konture, Nuvish, Caroline Dahyot, Shaltmira, Hui Zheng, Jo 99, Dominique Lucci, Delphine Cadoré, Hanna Chroboczek, Adrien Fregosi, Alkbazz, Zeke Clough

Texts (in french) : Danielle Tolédano, Gaspard Pitiot, Alain Bouillet, Hui Zheng, Louis Doucet, Eric Ferber, Laurent Briet, Armand Dupuy, Cédric Demangeot, Jean-François Massol

5 euro (+ postage)

They hang pigs, don't they?

Another public execution scene from my book about Jheronimus Bosch. Animals would be hanged in medieval times, for al kinds of antropocentric reasons. It goes back to the book of Leviticus. (arguably the most bloodthirsty, psychopathic part from the bible)
In one source Bosch was described as the Elias Canetti of his time, observer of irate crowds. That was one of the best things i read about him.

another home tattoo

FuFu News

Hey everyone, sorry for the long absense.
Stuff has happened in the meantime, locations have changed, drawings have been drawn.

As some of you know I've moved to Portland, Oregon with my family a few months ago, which means I share one territory with Sean now... although, the place has been so thouroughly overtaken by him and his PORKfaced goblin hordes, raping and pillaging everywhere, I mostly stay safely hidden in my basement apartment, scribbling away on various projects, only daring to leave home during dusk and dawn.

As usual, I've been doing the odd RPG illustrations here and there, some in black and white...

 

illustrations for "The Islands of Purple-Haunted Putrescence", by Venger Satanis

... others in color:

illustrations for "Splittermond", by Uhrwerk Verlag

Last but not least, I've just finished drawing a short comic which will soon appear in the second issue of Captain Berlin, written by Jörg Buttgereit.

Here are two sample pages:

Well, that's it for now. I'll try not to take so long until my next post.

A patchwork of mini paintings

 Some more snippets of my research on Hieronymus Bosch. This print of The Last Judgement by Allart Duhameel was likely done after a model by Bosch. Duhameel was working as an architect as well as an engraver. The two men must have been good friends, as they have borrowed elements of each others' work.

But my point here is not to prove that they have done so, but that Bosch's paintings were often like a patchwork of mini paintings and that this was common practice around 1500 AD. In this print, i found a detail that was repeated elsewhere. Somewhat to the right at the foreground, among the many funny-looking monsters, a little guy is leading a parade while making a phallic*) gesture.

The same guy turns up at the feet of Saint Christopher on another print by Duhameel! Without the flag and the dragon's tail, but it's the same character.

It's now easy to imagine Bosch and his family collaborating on their paintings by piecing together several designs and sketches, in stead of the cliche'd situation of the master who designs everything and then leaves the boring bits to be painted by assistants. 

Many elements from The Garden of Earthly Delights look like intials from manuscripts anyway.

One problem i am still left with is how paintings were copied on a different scale. I suspect some sort of pantograph ('tekenaap' in Dutch, or 'drawing monkey') was used, but the official reading is that it was invented roughly a century after Bosch's death.

*) Possibly the sign of Asmodeus, but not sure about that. 

GRAVE III BlackOil

Just did a new book from GRAVE series, which is linoprint only. I spent lot of time on cutting previous ones, for this new one I cut rather quickly but spent more time on layout. I tried doing a perpetual book, where you can turn the pages whatever wait you want to obtain various apocalyptic landscapes. Funny to do & almost working well!

I can't post all picts here so go see on http://alkbazz.free.fr/spip.php?article143