Melvin Frohike - experimenting with ink washes

As I was trying to take my head of programming for a short while I decided to draw a sketch of one of my favorite X-Files characters, Melvin Frohike, and experiment with some ink washes. As it turns out, layout paper is not that good for ink washes :'(

Ellen Page - Ganço's commission

My good friend ganço asked me to draw this picture of Ellen Page. It still a work in progress. I hope he likes it.

V Crow quill

As the pincils of this skech were not as good I was expecting I decided to experiment with my good, old, crow quill. Promise to myself: I'll learn how to use it properly..

Vanesa

This is a piece I promised a good friend some seven years ago.

Telematic Society #0 - Cover Sketch

While waiting for a painted cover for Telematic Society #0 I've done this sketch. It is a montage of the main characters of the first story arc: Isabela, Ormilo and the Mayor.

Another Quickie -- Nei Rufino... again

As I'm spending more time writing than actually drawing I've decided to do a few quick A3 drawings in order to keep practicing.

This is another one of Nei Ruffino.

Chasing Amy

Chasing Amy is one of the best movies about love that I've ever seen. It's not an romantic comedy, it is not even a true romance as it portrays real relationships and the mistakes that start them and that put an end to them.

Here is another sketch. As the other Chasing Amy sketch, the original for this one is now proudly owned by Guilherme Silveira.

Just posting something..

It's been a few months since I posted anything in here so I decided to shuffle my "deniable" pile of old sketches. This sketch lacks depth, texture and even a overall unity. But, as my policy for 2008, it is done and shall be posted if nothing else is eligible.

Kira Nightly as Guinevere.

Billy Mack and the spirit of post-modern christmans

I feel it in my fingers
I feel it in my toes
Christmas is all around me
and so the feeling grows

It's written in the wind
It's everywhere I go
So if you really love Christmas
C'mon and let it snow

You know I love Christmas
I always will
My mind's made up
The way that I feel
There's no beginning
There'll be no end
Coz on Christmas
You can depend

You gave your presents to me
And I gave mine to you
I need Santa beside me
In everything I do

You know I love Christmas
I always will
My mind's made up
The way that I feel
There's no beginning
There'll be no end
Coz on Christmas
You can depend

Coz on Christmas
You can depend

It's written on the wind
It's everywhere I go
So if you really love me
C'mon and let it show
C'mon and let it show
So if you really love
C'mon and let it
If you really love me
C'mon and let it
Now if you really love me
C'mon and let it show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWjl80WFBzY

Rock & Roll

Every once in a while we may find a movie that is not lost in preconceived notions of what kind of story is marketable but is, in it's own way, true to a less idealized world, closer to home even though it is still fiction and works really well at that.

Prey for Rock & Roll is this kind o movie, as well as "Chasing Amy", "Dark City", "Leaving Las Vegas", "THX-1138", etc. It first called my attention years ago, when I watched it on TV, and it still gets me every time I watch it.

While "Chasing Amy" and "Leaving Las Vegas" are, in their own unique ways, love stories, "Prey for Rock & Roll" is a movie about dreams, about the quest to achieving what we crave for.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-VcwC0Atk0

Amber goes political - Bad Vista Campaign

It's been a while since I've posted anything around here so I decided to do a quick sketch, which turned out not to be so quick. Here we have Amber, Tombs's daughter, wearing a Bad Vista t-shirt. In the original picture she was wearing a stylized rabbit but it seemed more interesting to embed her with some of her father's ideology.

A few character sketches

Below are a few character sketches for the upcoming comic book Telematic Society that I've been creating and writing for months now. I recreated the whole concept from scratch less then 6 months ago and now it seems to be developing better and faster.

Inking exercises

I've picked up a few pencil drawings at deviantart in an atempt to master the damned nib pen. As far as it went, until now, I've managed to get better acquainted with it. I is not as easy to handle as the brush yet but I'll get there.. sooner than later I hope.


Princess Leia - Pencils by Mike Deodato Jr.


Nightwing and Huntress - Pencils by Marcio Abreu

Friar Tuck - Fooling around with technical pens again

As the title says: I've been fooling around with technical pens again. It is just a quick sketch and really lacks... almost everything but as I've posted before: I'll post anything I do, does not matter how bad it is..

Alive

I've always felt that this song describes that postmodern feeling of loneliness that I've felt most of my life.



ALIVE
Chasing Amy

Written and Performed by Joey Lauren Adams


I'm feeling nothing
But all alone
Just missing someone
I don't even know
But until I find him
I'll wait patiently
Just feeling nothing
Inside of me

And where are you baby
Where can you be
Why aren't you here
Loving me
'Cause I wan't to kiss you
And make you feel right
I want to lay with you
all through the night

I wanna feel passion
I wanna feel pain
I wanna weep at the sound of your name
Come make me laugh
Or Come make me cry
Just make me feel
Alive

And so I wait
For that glorious day
When the one I dream of
Comes my way
And when our lips touch
so tenderly
I know I'll feel something
Inside of me

I wanna feel passion
I wanna feel pain
I wanna weep at the sound of your name
Come make me laugh
Or Come make me cry
Just make me feel
Alive

-Joey Lauren Adams

Download Alive.mp3

Super Sexy Girl

It is what her shirt says.. check it if you need.. This one is to my cousin Elisângela. Left her face to ink for last, as it is been a while since I brushed anything and messed it up by not being able to follow the pencil lines. Maybe some other time I'll give it another try..

Caroll

Following my debian-pr, or gud-br-pr some call us nowadays, sketch series in which I've already drew Tombs and Althaser, I've now done a sketch of Ana Carolina Comandulli, better known as Caroll on the #debin IRC chanells at the OFTC network.

Converted Scott McDaniel's site to docbook and pdf

I've always liked Scott McDanil's work and his tutorials at his website. Since the site anoyed me I've decided to convert his tutorials to docbook and generate the it's various output formats. For now I'm publishing a pdf of the content at.

• PDF


• DocBook

Bird Watching

I've been experiencing with technical pens for the last week and this is my first sketch all done with it, no brush or dip pen. It is unfinished but I do not believe I'll ever finish it so I'm just posting it.

The two guys in the picture are Alan, an english bird expert, and Juarez, the president of Eco Education at a natural park in Itapoá, Santa Catarina.

[WIP] Nei Ruffino - update 2

Done some hatching and crosshatching using a tecnical pen (rotring 0.3). There are some good parts but the overall sketch I'm sure I blew. It looked a lot better on pencils.