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  • Throwback Thursday

    Conceived as an ancient scroll, this ”book” uses an old belt, inks and acrylic paints (no memory of how I made the cardboard roll). Most…

    24 November, 2022
    ThrowbackThursday
  • Throwback Thursday

    Back in… oh God… 2008… I had a blogspot. And on there I used to post stuff I was doing at uni, and personal projects,…

    17 November, 2022
    ThrowbackThursday
  • Le Bal des Douze Princesses

    The book is at the printers, it should be done by the beginning of August :). So I thought this might be a good time…

    25 July, 2019
    Comics
  • Work in progress

    It’s almost…. gasp… February. HOW? I spent most of January planning 2019. It seems to be the year of the comic book, with the French…

    19 January, 2019
    Comics
  • Saturday Sketches – Inktober 2018

    Week four. Who knows, maybe next year… I can plan ahead and… make an actual graphic novel? Because, it turns out, no matter how little…

    29 October, 2018
    inktober, SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches – Inktober 2018

       Here are all the images from the second week of Inktober. Enjoy!

    23 October, 2018
    inktober, SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches – Inktober 2018

    And here you have – week three. Am I unreasonably proud of myself? YES I AM.

    23 October, 2018
    SaturdaySketches, inktober
  • Saturday Sketches – Inktober 2018

    The first week of inktober came and went  and I did it, I did it! These are fake comic book pages from a novel I…

    6 October, 2018
    SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    I may or may not be gearing up for Inktober…

    30 September, 2018
    SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    …the last of 2017 :)

    30 December, 2017
    SaturdaySketches, Illustration
  • Saturday Sketches

    And now for something… slightly different, I guess. Aromanian costume Various Romanian costumes, south of the country.

    3 December, 2017
    SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

      Two inking versions for the same drawing. Kyle Brushes and bodiesinmotion.photo , as usual.

    12 November, 2017
    SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    How do you learn to ink digitally? There must be some secret rules French comic artist pass from one generation to another… Well, anyway, here…

    4 November, 2017
    Comics, SaturdaySketches
  • Visual Playground – Day4

    The fourth day was Lettering Day with Tobias Hall. I must admit I was dreading this a bit – I am an amateur, mostly because…

    11 August, 2017
    Illustration
  • Visual Playground – Day2

    The second day was Mattias Adolfsson‘s workshop. Photo credits: Cătălin Georgescu He always seemed to me like a person who has waaaay too much fun…

    9 August, 2017
    Illustration
  • Saturday Sketches

    Some Occidental costumes, for a change. I also have a costume tumblr  – it can be found here: https://imaginarycostumemuseum.tumblr.com/

    18 March, 2017
    SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    More costume study – English (1600), Ottoman(1870), Polish, Greek, Georgian, Macedonian and derivations. Does anyone know where I can find a costume history with some…

    5 March, 2017
    Resources, SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    References from bodiesinmotion.photos And the brush for the first image is one of Kyle T. Webster’s art markers.

    25 February, 2017
    SaturdaySketches
  • Sketchy Saturday

    I am unreasonably proud of these… My obsession with Romanian folklore has turned into an obsession with Balkan culture – and here we have an…

    11 February, 2017
    SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    … guess what, end-of-the-week drawings are back. This time, some sort of research for some sort of webcomic that might someday happen. Maybe. Based on…

    14 January, 2017
    SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    26 November, 2016
    SaturdaySketches
  • Inktober – Week 4

    And the last of Inktober 2016 – most of them are Elis Island immigrants.

    1 November, 2016
    SaturdaySketches
  • Inktober Week 3

    October 22 Kurd October 21 Kurd October 20 Bosnian October 19 - Armenian October 18 - Armenian October 17 Ottoman October 16 Ottoman
    22 October, 2016
    SaturdaySketches
  • Inktober Week 2

      Here we go, the second week of inktober. References from old photos of Constantinopolis, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Othello, Colin O’Donoghue as Hook, my garden…

    15 October, 2016
    SaturdaySketches, inktober
  • Inktober Week 1

      So, here’s the first week of Inktober 2016! Pentel brush with Ecoline wash, references from Camillo Balossini, Ida Wyman and ”Elizabeth, the golden age”…

    8 October, 2016
    inktober, SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches – Inktober

    I’ve never actually done an Inktober before (… although I claim that Karel Líman counts as one, since I’ve spent October 2014 doing that). But…

    1 October, 2016
    SaturdaySketches, inktober
  • Saturday Sketches

    Today is (mostly) black-and white day! Turns out I didn’t save the photo ref for this one :(, so google images can’t help me with…

    17 September, 2016
    SaturdaySketches

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