Phone Doodles 2

Hey everybody, I recently moved back to Berlin after an intersting and eventful year in Portland. Sorting out my stuff I found a bunch of new telephone doodles which happened mostly while talking to my friends and family overseas.
As usual I don't even recall doing the majority of these.

 

 

Wrestlenomicon

Hello, Ducks! Been working on a pretty big project for me- maybe not in scope, but in quantity of work needed. It's a wrestling card game involving creatures from the Lovecraft mythos, oddly enough. It's fun working on, but I need to do 120 card illustrations (less than halfway done with that) in addition to cover art and card design, which I've already completed. The first two decks are for Cthulhu and Hastur. I don't know much about these types of card games, but I gather that each player gets one deck and then they challenge each other card to card.  Anyway, here are some of the illustrations, which are intended to be comical.

   "Organ Donation." I think they actually expected more comic book-like artwork, so I kind of overdid it style-wise. I'm allowed to use pretty simple backgrounds, though. I'm not sure that the gutted creature in the background reads so well, but I guess it's okay if people notice that only upon closer inspection.

"Nuke to the Ass." There's a lot of butt-related humor involved in these cards. 

   "Glomp Stomp." For some drawings that involved cities, I used cities from all over the world, to show that Cthulhu was an equal opportunity demolisher. I'm still not good at making monsters look huge, so I need to work on that. Just desaturating the color and making them look faded (in this case, more blue) in the distance doesn't seem to do the trick, but it will have to do for now.

 Oh! And Fufu- I heard that my brother, Paul, got to meet you at the Cthulhu thing in Portland! That's great!

Did you mean: extreme capitalism?

Working on a new series of drawings on the theme of "extreme cannibalism". 

This is a study for one of them, to see if it would work when i use a brush in stead of markers. It doesn't. I suspect brushwork evokes a kind of naturalism that is at odds with the medieval skewed perspectives and anatomy, which is a more symbolic way of drawing. Isolated details look OK in this technique, but not the whole picture. Lesson learned...

Collaborations

One from me and Gaspard



Three by Gaspard, Eric and myself

GG Lenin

I feel a Labour Day coming up...

Printing linoleum

I took some delay on printing linoleum plates for some months, so I spent 2-3 days printing these... I was in use to not print all, like for a 10 copies prints i did some and wait for selling to make more... Bad habit! So now everything is fixed! This also means there's no "10 copies" but a bit less (between 6 & 8). The other one step to follow rules is to make a certificate to get tax reduction, but I can't certificate my own activity as an artist, so what's the matter ? ;)
All these printed on Fabriano Rosaspina (except one on Ingres d'Arches) with etching ink, properly signed & numbered

Work in progress end of April

 Posting these and owning a lightbox has taken the edge off a bit. Now if only I could force myself to draw more. Part of the way this is inked is to make the more important bits easier to see in the lightbox, but not every inked part will be in the next version.

Local news

Working on a record sleeve. The lettering takes a lot of digital fiddling about before it starts to look right. I can have it done in full colour, but i think it's best to keep that on the minimal side as to avoid ruining the graphic approach it has sofar.

This is for a local music festival that takes place in my neighbourhood, always in the month of June; the organiser is a good friend. After several editions it's time for a collection of recordings!

UNWELT cover

So here's the final cover design for the comic I mentioned in the previous post.

UNWELT inks

Here are inks of the cover and the interior cover for UNWELT, a little book which I'm putting together: a collection of Lovecraft-related work of mine. The CthulhuCon Portland is coming up, soon, and with a little luck I should have some ready in time for Linework

 

Unleashed the... uh... that think

Yet another and probably last fantasy stuff for some time, I'm a bit bored of that so i'll make something different now!

Assatanass -12

99.9% fin! "GOD OF DRONES" aka Corvette

Young Juliette

(Inspired by De Sade)

Happy Easter 2015

recent painting

Here's a painting that I just finished.

God Of Drones %99

(almost) Fantasy Art 2

I was about to make a new fantasy classic but I get bored so I choose to complete these skulls with abstract lines instead...

Manticore

A two-legged manticore. I want to do a series of small lino cuts of similar creatures.

Dante - cartoon

What We are, You Will Become

A bit of a mess, this one is. Let's see if a good colouring can save it.

Fat Free Morals Dept.

Metal!

Hey EBD

Sorry for not posting! I did nothing special for months, except this little drawing... I'm invited on a big event in august, a metalmusic festival, so I am supposed to work onto that (as this one). But I got submerged by other projects : workshops, bookfair, exhibitions here in our place or somewhere else, books to be done!I really feel that I need time for myself but this won't happen for a long time as far as i can see...

Well, stop complain! I did something really great, which my very first work for a vinyl release! So proud of this! I made it for wellknown Le Petit Mignon Berlin based label owned by Staalplaat boss (Crippa & Zeke know about that!). Music is one side "H" from ZamZamRecords London, ambient waves, and other side duo Hedoromeruhen (Government Alpha + Ichiba Daisuke!), kind of perverted folk song. I took model onto Possessed "Beyond the gates" cover with its nice fold out system : you got one drawing and by opening you got the same drawing, and so on til you've got a full 35x50cm drawing!

info label here : http://staalplaat.com/fr/print/hedoromeruhen-h-alkbazz-split

Pain in the neck

A short eternity ago my friend Marcel Ruijters informed me about this blog and FuFu Frauenwahl invited me to join - thanks again for that! I am a cartoonist from the Netherlands.