221 | The Christmas Three

A new artwork! I know it's been a while, and yes, I'm not dead. Lots of moving parts in my life these few months have prevented me from actively drawing much (for example, I've moved back from Montreal to Paris!), but it's gotten better and I'm back at it. There have been some new stuff uploaded on the comics site though, so go check it out if you want to see more of my universe or are just finding it out !

I've been wanting to draw a Christmas illustration basically since I've had the blog but it never seemed to work out quite as I wanted to. This is my fourth version of Santa (after this one, this horrible one and this sexy one). I'm pretty happy with this one though, with its little Art nouveau flair. The inclusion of my red-bearded Prince comes from a Christmas-themed short story idea that would involve him and other fairy-tale characters, but I mostly just wanted to draw him again as it had been a while (check out his latest adventures here).

Finally, the ogre character is a legendary European figure called "Père Fouettard", a less demonic equivalent of Krampus, whose role was to punish naughty children by, among other things, giving them coal as gifts. The depictions I've found of him made me uncomfortable (googling him opens a whole can of worms of blackface) so I drew my own ogre-bear-ish version.

219 | Same difference

So, after a couple trials, and migrating to a new site that didn't quite work, I'm coming back to this blog. I haven't really posted anything on my personal sites in a while, choosing to instead invest in easier platforms like Instagram and Facebook, but I always kind of regretted abandoning all the work I had put in this blog for years, even if some of the early works looks amateurish. So I'm hosting two sites, this one for all my blogging ideas and artworks, and a second one on which I've republished every comic I've done since I started college and that I will update with new pages when possible.

216 | Heartrapped

209 | shrooms/eyepatch

...et je continue à remplir mon nouveau cahier de croquis. Merci pour le bon accueil de la bédé de retour du blog ! J'essaye de la traduire en français dès que possible.
The next post (not in another three months, promise) will probably be a new artwork for the Collection, so stay tuned until I find an idea !

 

198 | Pogonophilia

Quick doodle just because it's 12/12/12.

Also, now you all know a new word.

105 | Québecois Lumberjack / Bûcheron du Québec !

UPDATE - April 1st, 2013

I've wanted to update some of the Collection pieces for a while now, and given this is one of the most viewed artworks on the blog, I thought it wouldn't hurt if it looked a little better. So here is the update version of the Lumber-jock.

J'avais envie de retravailler ce dessin depuis un bout de temps, et, étant donné que c'est l'illustration la plus visitée du blog, je me disais que ça ne pourrait pas faire de mal d'offrir un truc plus polissé à ceux qui tombent ici par hasard. Donc voilà, c'est maintenant fait. Je vais sans doute m'attaquer à d'autres illus populaires du blog.

Hope you had a nice Easter weekend !

(click the picture below to see the old version)

Here it is !! The artwork I couldn't manage to draw the one I refer to in the previous post. It's a little more cartoonish than most of my late work, a little like this one. I'm kinda glad cause it realy didn't take me long to draw and I barely used a model to do it, unlike the first trials that didn't give any result. So, what do you think ?

La voilà ! L'illustration que je n'arrivais pas à faire (j'en parle ici). C'est un peu plus cartoon que ce que j'ai fait dernièrement (rapport aux proportions, un peu comme celle-ci) mais j'en suis bien content car j'ai à peine eu besoin de modèles pour le croquis. Qu'en pensez-vous ?