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2 pages from the graphic novel that is currently brewing besides the Zelda zine. Catching a rhythm with color at last.

Color is always really challenging for me, and always feels so daunting, specially when it comes to the first pages. This project is really special and the want to get it “perfect” can fill one with doubts. I found myself doing minimal color changes, that were barely noticeable to the first batch of pages instead of advancing just for fear of screwing it up. I figured that if i kept down that road I wouldn’t be able to stick to the planned schedule. Now I’m finally able to not be so hard on the results and focus on going forward despite the doubts.

But lets tell you a little more about the characters!

The lady in blue is Severine, a young girl who as an amateur naturalist has a small collection of specimens at her attic. She’s noticed that some of them are gone, the salamanders in particular. Usually is her little sister, Elisa the one that messes around with her stuff, but the little demon insists in her not being the culprit this time.

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Last illustration I did of these two didn´t click and came out too dark on print. Drew this one right afterwards, and squeezed some time yesterday to finally add some color to it.

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Sneak peek of one of the chapters of the Zelda Zine. This one is kinda body horror relate, it was a lot fun to draw :D

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Thinking about adding a couple of pages to the Zelda zine with these two…

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Since Howl and Sophie have a son named Morgan in the books, it would be funny if little baby Morgan picked up some of Howl’s bird mannerisms. Like, imagine Sophie prepares to feed baby Morgan, and he does the baby bird thing where he just sits with his mouth open waiting for a spoonful of food.

I didn´t know they ended up having a child in the books ahaha. I kinda picture the baby as a human-bird hybrid . This hole theory reminds me of Sacred bodies comic by @sticksandsharks in which a bird like species is featured. There were a bunch of baby bird like creature stickers from that going around tumblr a while ago. They were super cute, that´s how I picture Morgan looking like.

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I’m not sure if you still do Howl’s Moving Castle art, but imagine if Howl ended up getting soaked by rain in his bird form, and then when Sophie dries him off with a towel, he ends up poofing up and looking like a silkie chicken

Lol that´s a very good idea, I´d love to turn that into a short comic at some point, thank you for sharing it! it immediately made my brain go berserk, so much so that I scribbled a rough storyboard for it. It´s very rough and quality is trash, but it´s better than nothing. Reading order is left column of pannels down, then right one.

Merry Xmas!

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Hello there, opening page and first colored one from upcoming graphic novel. I struggle with color so any suggestions on how to improve on this would be very appreciated. Also Happy holidays to you all!!

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When you chew on gf books and she’s not happy about it ✨

Zelda zine update: Inking is all done finally, there’s some line weight issues to tweak and add greys, it going to take a while, but it’ slowly moving towards completion

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After 1000 months finally "finished" coloring this thang

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Happy halloween everybody!!

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Halloween themed thingy that ended up being fall themed

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Randomly saw a pokemon joke with cheese and a mew around here but I didn´t save so I can´t reference it, but anyway the idea came from that XD

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Behold the blue elf...Also finished x-men 97 it was a nostalgia tsunami in best possible way

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Slowly finishing pages for the zelda zine. Changed the ending and that means extra 17 pages to get done. So here you have a sneak peek of one of the “stories” in which is fitting to say how the turns have tabled

Even though the stories are basically just silly nonsense I wanted to have a satisfying ending that binded all of them together, thus the change

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Howl´s moving castle illustration with weird texture due to Glaze tool.

Crazy to think this movie is 20 years old!!

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Been working on this silly joke. I wanted to make a zine out of it, but I donno anymore. The watercolors seem to have lost a lot of saturation while scanning.

What you think? a) Ok or b) throw it into the fire right away

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Zelda zine inking. This is a page from a what if of sorts. What if link was the one teleported to the past...he´d enjoy the food regardless I guess