"Sammy Sado Friend"

My collaboration for "Sammy Sado Friend", project of my friend and colleague Chester Greenbag from Greenbag Toys.

Patreon!

Hi! Just started my own Patreon account! I'll be talking about my new personal comic and explaining a little of what it's about. I'm working hard and slow in it, so any little support will be a huge help to complete it and finally publish it! Anything will do, a like, a share, even tell your mom! So check it out, and I hope you like it!

LINK!

New Year!

Just wanted to wish YOU a great new year 2016!

Let's hope this new year will bring new and exciting projects for everyone, and success for those that have already started!

Cheers!

"Trimurti"

Concept art for a personal project in the works.

Portrait

A gift from the junction of the heart with both cerebral hemispheres, for my dear Rocio Leonela.

Check out her DA gallery here.

Prometheus

The latest study/exercise I've been doing during 2012, unfinished. It is based on the painting by Heinrich Fueger. I've selected the colors and done the drawing by observing the original picture, without using digital tools. Let's see what 2013 brings.

From sketch to finished page

The original idea was to do a comic book page in a realistic drawing style.
I started to like the rough sketch, so I decided to go for a more expressive and experimental style.
Inspired by Skyrim.

Studies

A study based on a Da Vinci painting.
Not completely accurate at this stage, but the exercise has served its purpose.

A study on The Joker, unfinished.

New Page

Here's a comic page I've been doing lately, inspired by the video game Crysis 2,
simply to try a new style and to expand my gallery (no profit intended with the use of the characters).
But, Crytek... maybe interested in a comic? ;P

Exercising...

Process of a narrative exercise I did recently.
The idea was to take a page from an author who inspired me and reinterpret it and draw it in my own style.
I took an example from the great Mike Parobeck (1965-1996) from his work on "Batman Adventures".
This page will be on display this year in the local event "comics' week" (Mar del Plata, Argentina).

New workshop space & poster!

Hi everyone,

this is another poster for my drawing & comics workshop, this one takes place at the "Centro Cultural Héctor Oesterheld" (writer of the popular comic book El Eternauta). So I came out with the idea of representing the character in different drawing styles.

Enjoy!

Just drawing...

A new illustration in progress, this one is conceived for an exibition.
More details coming soon... hope you like it.

A new year coming

Another year is passing by, a pretty good one for New Concept Comics.
A very busy year I must say, "the year we made contact", with lots of projects done, and others that continue for private clients from India and the US.
I'd like to thank my family, friends, writers and employers for their support, and also I'd like to thank all of the blog visitors from all over the world, to all that came to me with work offers, and to all that came with great comments and critics.
I wish a great new year and a merry christmas for you all.

See you on the other side!

NC

Tests

This is some of the latest stuff I've been working on: several tests for different projects doing pencils, inks and colors. Everything it's drawn by me except the toon style, which I only colored.

Practicing, practicing, practicing...

This is some of the new stuff that I've been preparing during the last days.
I've been practicing several styles and reviewing and polishing some aspects of my artwork. So, these illustrations end up being some kind of 'rehearsal'.
More illustrations and sequential pages are on their way too.

The Batmen

I've been working on a few sketches, testing some styles and stuff. Classic B&W style and modern, animated style.

H. P. Lovecraft

I've been painting one of the pictures of the Master of Horror, just for fun and exercise.

Sketch

Hi there. This is just a superhero sketch I did for fun some days ago. Has been a while since I draw something in this style (for a work), so I want to keep exercising it.
Ok then, I'll get back to the drawing board!

About the process...

Hi there, I thought it'll be cool to show the process of one of the pages from 'Tiny Life left'.

First I receive Nick's scripts. They're different to what I'm used to work in comic books. They're like a text, divided only by paragraphs (which may contain a bunch of pages) and chapters.

My first task is to give comic book format to it, dividing the text in panels and pages, and then I start with little sketches for all the pages. For the first book every chapter had to be divided in 20 pages, but in left I have no limit for that, so there's more freedom to work on each scene.

With Nick's approbation on the sketches, I start drawing. When's ready, I scan the page and send it over to Nick. Then, he gives me comments, suggestions, corrections, or new ideas.

Whenever a change in the pencils is done, I usually take a picture of it and send it to Nick instead of scanning again the whole thing. Then, before sending a package of 10 pages to him, I correct some more details and changes.

For example, here we have Jed and Fred playing they're infiltrating an enemy alien spaceship. In the first try my interpretation of the script was this:



Then, Nick told me that he wanted to visually show their imaginations on the page, so a spacesuit to Fred was added, and laser pistols to both of them. This idea was insinuated in the script, specifying that the backgrounds change at some moments. But here the changes were on the characters, as happened in a previous page that I made them look like robots, but that wasn't specified and fortunately Nick was ok with that. In this case I decided to show these extra elements whenever something fantastic appears in the same panel:



Something else was needed for Jed, he still looked 'normal' holding only a pistol. The solution was this:









So, this is my pretty simple explanation of the process behind the pencils, basically this is the way we work together with Nick in every page. Most of the pages don't need so many changes as this one, only those pages where a new idea comes up or there are many specific things that Nick wants to show.

You can always visit The Official Tiny Life Website to follow the advance of the books closely.

Tiny Life out in December!

Hi everyone, as the title says, Tiny Life will be out in December in Trade Paperback format which includes the first 5 issues, please check the official site for more information and cool related-stuff, such as Podcasts by the creator Nick Jones and 'behind the scenes' material:

Tiny Life Official Site

Tiny Life is drawn by me and everything else (Script, inks, tones, letters) is done by the creator Nick Jones.

Enjoy!