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Traditionally posted over the last days of the year ;-)
First of all I managed to complete nearly half an Inktober this year, so behold the better results:
Roasted - and it totally is, isn't it?
Drooling - a classic Hungarian cartoon character lost in the opium bars of Bangkok.
Now, some doubleheaders: cruel & whale - fanart from Craig Thompson's Space Dumplings.
Precious & star - a little LOTR foolin' around.
Expensive & weak (I think)
Last, but totally not least, my Season's greetings for this year. Another fanart of the lovely Laureline, original paperwork a Christmas present for a very dear friend.
That's all for now, I hope to give you a long due Corvin update before the new year.
... right before September ends. First of all, a spontaneous one. You doodle a head, then end up with a rooster-headed Napoleonic soldier. It happens -nothing out of the ordinary.
And now, for the fanarts. Firstly, another Valerian - the male protagonists of the classic French sci-fi comics you have already seen here, along with his female counterpart, Laureline.
Let's move on to another one of my favourite graphic novels, DC: The New Frontier by the late Darwyn Cooke. A heroic supporting character Captain Nathaniel Adam from the U.S. Air Force.
And then, our very own Wonder Woman, living it up on Paradise Island. This was a bigger undertaking, as you can see from both the inked, and the final, coloured version:
And now, Inktober is about to commence again, so stay tuned!
Gosh, those updates used to happen a lot more often. Though I do not post every newly done page any more, as I'm saving those for the follow-up to the overly successful printed book I published two years ago. Here's a peek of the latest finished page, anyway:
The good news there is only about five more to go, so there is a good likelihood of Corvin Issue 2 premiering at Budapest's end-of-year comics fair.
The likelihood is even raised by a real strict new editor on board :-)
The main antagonist will feature a lot in the issue to come, and he also has a special ability to look sharply and disapprovingly. So let's pin our hopes on this reinforced Strict Department now ;-)
I.e. drawing for money - yessir! Back in May I was asked to make a cover picture for a life coach's Facebook page. It was a fun little job.
I'll keep it brief this time, and just show you the three main phases of work:
The first sketch, just to make sure I got right what the client had in mind - the first two panels resemble a well-known meme for a reason.
Final penciled version, cat curling up in a harmonious position.
The end product as it now appears on the Facebook page, inked and lettered with logo and artist's signature.
Let me know if you need a similar one ;-)
Though it may not be exactly kicking, I have made a few drawings this year, and been working on my Corvin comic too. Pity I get to update this blog so rarely these days...
So, let's see the miscellany this time around.
At first, a little idle sketch, just for fun. Giacomo's (i.e. Casanova, the famous 18th century ladies' man's) jakuzzi. Why? Because the two words alliterate. B O O M.
Next up, another fun one, started completely spontaneously. These doodles can turn out rather well, though it is not easy to recreate and elaborate them in a more conscious manner. Anyway, here is Sulejman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, juxtaposed against my sketchbook, and a Will Eisner fanart made by the very talented Canadian artist, Scott Chantler.
Now, some more serious efforts. i.e. fanarts of one of my current favourite comics, the French sci-fi classic Valerian and Laureline. First, male protagonist Valerian walking in a door in the second book of the series, called The City of Shifting Waters.
Then, the biggest effort in this post, female protagonist Laureline trying to make sense of a certain situation in Book 7, On The False Earths.
Lastly, the most grim one topics-wise, a strip inspired by the outcome of Hungary's elections in April. I drew this right before going to a big protest in Budapest, attended by roughly 100,000 people who thought it was not right that the governing party seized a 2/3 parliamentary majority once again by getting only 48% of all votes. The last panel is quite wishful, I admit that.
I have to concede that 2017 was an all-time low for this blog in terms of output. I totally wanted to at least finish it creatively in the last days of the year, but my laptop thought differently and required some repairing. But hey, at least 2018 starts soon enough here too :)
Anyway, last year's Inktober (FYI http://inktober.com/) was a raging success as I managed to draw each daily topic (and rolled two into one only twice :)
Let me show you the better ones:
Swift - the Roadrunner
Divided
Underwater - heavily influenced by a page from Darwyn Cooke's: DC - The New Frontier
Crooked - who else but Count Ulrik, Corvin's superbad villain
Screech - hopefully speaks for itself
Run - some Will Eisner influence here
Mysterious - indeed, isn't it?
Fat (birds don't fly :D)
Filthy - a real urban swine :))
Cloud - so much about reading comics in the garden...
Furious - drawn on the day when Liverpool FC suffered its last defeat to date (just for the record).
Trail - lagged behind the schedule with a couple of days at this point.
Juicy - bite me!
Blind - what ya were all waiting for, a Corvin-Morcheeba crossover!
Squeak - a nestful of squeakers
Climb - good-old Gandalf on the go, as usual
Fall - it (almost) always rains in Blade Runner
United - Corvin's protagonists, with influence owed to Valerian and Laureline
Mask - lat but not least, a Hungarian-style Guy Fawkes, saying roughly "That's All, Folks!"
