Second part of the Cazorla trip

First, we got lost in a small road, but found people (too) willing to assist ...



Finally, we found out that carrying just one CD on a long trip is not a good idea. Specially if it is Amaral :P

And this was last year trip to Cazorla ...

I did these during a short trip to the mountains last year with some friends. Things were ... interesting, as usual.

First, Ana -the only one of us who cooks really well, offered herself to be in charge of the food...



Then, we just went to the market and tried to follow her list very, very literally ...



More to come sometime soon :)

The devourer of suns

I rather prefer Dark Phoenix from the comics than from X Men last stand. Famke Janssen is good, but the script lacks that cosmic thing I liked so much. So, let's put both things together ... step by step.

First things first, I need a drawing that looks like Famke Janssen's Phoenix. At least a bit, I hope. I did this in Photoshop and then passed it through Illustrator to filter my shaky pulse :P



Now I give flat colors to the BW sketch. Mostly red, you see :)



Now, for a bit of depth, shadow and light layers above the colored thing



We need a nice, cosmic nebula, so I just used a radial gradient from orange to black and a Clouds layer in Overlay mode to get this. I removed the borders to blend them into the background also.



An Phoenix is all about fire, you see? I just adapted the well known tutorial about how to write letters on fire to a white mask of Jean's contour. It's not as flashy as text, but it does the trick.



Of course, the sun devourer needs a supernova, so I went for a very simple tutorial on planet exploding which basically uses the same technique than the fire and introduced some modifications of my own.



Ops! No visible fire with all those explosions and such. And it took me a while to get there! So I change the layer mode and ... tadaaaaaa



Here is a link to a wallpaper size version, in case you like it :)

Beware of Phoenix!

Something old I found and scanned. Ecolines and black ink :)

Death and Mucha

A favorite painter of mine and one of the nicest characters in comicbooks all together:

Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

Nope! It's Clark Kent in tights! Specially drawn for my cousin Blanca ;)

And ... yep, more Buffy

They are currently airing season 2 in TV2 Spain, you know :)

Buffy season 8

I just thought that I have not so many comicbook sketches here ..
Wolves at the gate (on-going Buffy series), two tries with a cover actually including wolves and ... Dracula!! :P Could not make up my mind, feel free to comment which one you prefer and why ...

Today is Buffy day ...

Or, rather, Dark Will's day. I just finished reading the newest Buffy episode and decided to do this ...



... and then, even though inks were pretty thick, I went into color (very smooth)

Batman rulz!

More specifically, Chris Bale rulz!! One of my favorite actors, ever!!
I'm back from Mexico and posting again :)

Ooops! I forgot about the last two pages ...

This is it, the end of my Tomb Raider comic, just moving into the opening scene of the first game :)
Hope you've liked it!

Tomb Raider comic (pages 7-8)

Almost done with the comic! Next pages link to the first game :)

Tomb Raider (pages 3-6)

Three more action filled pencil pages about Lara's origin ... :P

Tomb Raider intro, pencils (pages 1-3)

This is as good as any other day to post the original origin of Lara, pre-films and everything. In the first TR game, it is told how her plane fell to the Tibet mountains during a school trip and she managed to make it alive into a village some days later. I just took the basics from Gary Whitta's script and did this. Feel free to give your opinion.

I found this in my old hard drive today ...

And I still like them :)
These are a couple of very young Lara Croft drawings I did back during the first game to make a comic on the small adventure of her origin she tells at the beginning. I borrowed Gary Whitta's script (with his permission) and did the full 8 pages (a personal record) and even inked it and all! Maybe I'll upload the pages here some day :)