... and a couple of older Xena sketches

Found these ones on the hard drive. They are a bit old, but I have not really improved that much either ...

She was Xena, a mighty Warrior Princess forged in the heat of battle ...

And, instead of Greece, she roamed north New Zealand, mostly Bethells (west of Auckland). Believe it or not, most locations in the show where actually filmed in a few hundred of square meters that are easy to spot if you travel to Bethells beach, an amazing, large sandy beach which is almost empty with respect to european standards. This one, I did there, in my notebook.



Close to the beach, there is this huge dune where many episodes start or end and, for example, Xena and Callisto fought and chariots raced in the second episode. Plus behind the dune there is the lake that appears in Mortal Beloved or at the end of season 3.

And my best NZ shot: Piha beach

If I ever get lost, you can probably find me here ...

Just to upload something original ...

These are a couple of quick sketches I did in Pahia Bay, New Zealand, on the Waitangi day. There are a couple of traditional huts in the place and people dance haka and celebrate understanding between the kiwi and the maori (and the rest of the population, I guess). The huts were full of amazing carvings and I did what I could to capture a couple of them in my notebook. I could not capture the red blood color, though, but it had to do ...

Just a shameless copy of Mignola's Atlantis ...

... to practise inks, basically.



And, guess what? a plain color is ok for this type of inks

... but with less clothes

I knew that the film had a certain appealing :P

Beowulf looks like Boromir ...

I watched the film yesterday and I don't know about the guy who is supposed to play the role, but the main character looks just like Sean Bean to me ...