smoke signals

Warm-up sketch, sending out my usual smoke signals.

Paco

Monster

I did this quick sketch based on a monster character from Gustavo Duarte's new book while I was waiting for a panel we would do together this weekend in São Paulo.
Having a panel and a signing session back home in the same week of Comic Con in San Diego made it just a tiny bit easier for us to miss the convention for the first time in 17 years. Both the talk and the signing were packed and Bá and I love to talk to the fans, and we were happy we could do it this weekend.
Back to work now. One of the reasons we skipped San Diego was to work on the new books, so let's get back to them.

Angoulême 2013 - books and watercolors

It's not every day that we travel to France, so we decided to take some of our more independent publications to sell at Angoulême. Since Atelier, our latest mini-comic, is also in french, it was a perfecy fit.
Look for us any time we're at the Urban Comics stand (most afternoons from 2pm to 6pm) to check it out.


We'll also have a very limited amount of watercolor girls, which are only found personally with us during conventions and festival.

   

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Nous nous voyons lá-bas!

Girl with glasses

Watercolor video

Five steps of one of my latest watercolors in a video I made for a brazilian site.
Enjoy.

Tree study

Les Femmes

For the international womens' day, I made this sketch on my notebook.
And because women are a infinite source of inspiration and mystery.

Hello, kitty girl

Every girl loves her Hello Kitty bag.

Dynamic duo

Cute

A little cross-eyed, I guess, but still cute. Cute enough, and fun enough, for a warm up exercize. I wish every warm up doodle would come out like this one.

The first girl of 2010

I know, I signed the wrong date. It happens.
Happy 2010.

Paraty sketches

We had some time to sketch during our weekend at the Festival in Paraty. No pressure, no worries, no plan. Drawing is fun, you know, and some times we can forget that part.

Figure Drawing.

FAT.

If you thought drawing the strong Spaceboy was hard, try to make the fat one. It's even harder to make it look as cool as the way Bá draws it.

Faces

Looks.

Watercolor studies is about all I have time to do these days besides drawing our awesome new comics. It's a good break from the daily routine of the pages, and a good way to warm up as well as cool off.

When

Watercolor drawing.

Sometimes I forget what we can draw while listening to somebody talk. Given the right tools, it's amazing how freeing these "loose" drawings are. Every artist should try it at times, in bars, in school, at conventions.

The "capture the moment" kinda drawing sometimes says more about you than about the person you're portraying.

Improving

A doctor has to always be studying, updating his technique, his knowledge. He's gotta be at the top of is game. On that same basis, an artist has to look to other techniques that might enrich hi work somehow.

I'm taking watercolor classes. Not that I see myself making painted albums like the Europeans do (those crazy bastards), nor even do I want to change my "I LOVE BLACK AND WHITE" style. I just always loved watercolors and I think it's the technique I'd like to use if I were to do something hand painted.

After lots of exercises and getting to know the colors a little bit, I decided to dare making a real drawing.



I didn't really like the results, but it showed me all the things I still get to improve and that it's not as simple as it looks. But I'm not in a hurry. One thing I learned already, watercolor is for those who can wait till it's time to do it right.