Artefacts of Branly

More sketches from museums of Paris. This time it's from the awesome Branly museum. I think this museum is as awesome as the Louvre. Really, you have a lot cultural objects from every locations of the world. It's beautiful and very inspiring !

So I used the same process as the one I used for the Louvre sketches:  I used a technical pencil filled with black ink, and also a Pentel brush. I added watercolors at home, helped by photo refs I took. 

Nowadays I'm working my gouache skills, so stay tuned !

The Lions of the Louvre

Since  mid-October, I decided to fill 9 watercolor paper sheets with objects from the Louvre. The museum is doing "nocturnes" every wednesday, and close at  9:30 pm. Few people, ancient objects fulls of history under every windows, that sounds like perfect conditions for sketching !

 So I did some sketches from random objects I found in my walkthrough and, as you can see, there are a lot of lions in the museum !

I used a technical pencil filled with black ink, and also a Pentel brush. I added watercolors at home, with photo refs I took with my phone.

Stay tuned !

Where's the deluxe version ?

A little fanart of the movie 'Drive'.

The movie is really beautiful, and the soundtrack is perfect... But I was a bit disappointed by the story. Maybe because a lot of people told me the movie was 'perfect'....

I drew the whole driver, here is his face = )

And here is a track of the terrific OST : 

Stay tuned !

The Villains

As long as I m at my parent's I can't work on big illustrations without my light table, so here are some other doodles. I'm in a mood of drawing bad guys, so here they are !

-Femto-

From 'Berserk', by Kentaro Miura.

-Akuma-

From the Street Fighter games !

-Gôda Kazundo-

From the second season of 'Ghost in the Shell : Stand Alone Complex'. Such a very good anime, watch it !

(Dunno about you, but this guy looks very creepy for me )

-Ami-

From Naoki Urasawa 's best seller manga, '20th Century Boys'.

I will be back with bigger things next time ! Stay Tuned !

Oh and I almost forgot : Happy New Year ! =)

Ahoy Cap'n !

Last week I discovered that I can refill my black Pentel brush with a big bottle of black ink, which is crazily less expensive than the Pentel cartridges. To celebrate that, I did a bunch of pirates, arrrr ! (and I'm always experimenting watercolor textures in photoshop)

Stay Tuned !

A nightmare on Elm street

Another Wes Craven movie poster, with the famous Freddy Krueger in it = )

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The Hills Have Eyes

I'm actually doing old movies posters. Here's the first one : 'The hills have eyes' by Wes Craven. I'm of course speaking of the 1977 version of the movie (They made a remake in 2005, or something like that).

Also here is a little doodle I did for  friend, fan of the movie. It's one of the bad guy in the movie : Pluto (performed by Michael Berryman. Such a cool face he has ! ). It's watercolor on smooth paper. 

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Screw the World

I was not really in a good mood when I did this illustration. I'm just tired to see people screwing everything for making more money.

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The Dandy Birdies

My buddy öckto challenged me on a theme : the dandy birdies. They are birds, but they're also dandies.

So here they are, pigeon, raven and duck !

 Black ink with watercolors on 300g watercolor paper.

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Tyrion Lannister, son of Tywin

It's been a while since I want to draw a character from 'A Song of Ice and Fire', by Georges RR Martin. It was hard to get rid of the image of Peter Dinklage, who is great in the TV show, so I tried to get close to my first impression of the character I had in the books. But well, the result is very close to Mr Dinklage... I will try to be more original with the other Lannisters. Yeah, because I want to draw the whole family now !

I wanted to draw Tyrion in battle suit. I don't know why, but I was influenced by the Blackwater Battle. My first idea was to draw him when he's wounded, but I decided to save the dynamic scene for his elder brother. So finally, I decided to draw Tyrion before the battle, in his tent, finishing to suit him up.

So Here are some compo thumbs. I choose the middle one, more easy to catch the whole bunch of details ( the helmet, the wine and books, the girl).

Some colored thumbs, pretty similars. The final is a mix of the 2 last ones.

And then the illustration...

Stay tuned !