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Old post from 2014, revamped. I like cleaning the house like that!
You can buy this - and many others - to put on your wall at my print shop! Have fun!
So, I messed around with it and finally finished this thing!! You can buy an art print of this (and other stuff also) at my print shop.
Revised version of my old Castlevania poster. This one’s available (with a bunch of other stuff) in my print shop!
So I wanted to practice drawing some action pages - I have been writing a lot and not drawing much. Also I love fighting games, but never really did any art about any, so I did these two Street Fighter V pages with Ibuki whooping Balrog’s ass with her Critical Art. In all honesty, I think these’re some of my best inks so far. What do you guys think? (The inks are traditional, the tones are digital)
Another one I never posted. I made this guy a bit more than a year ago.
Another study, quickly colored.
Another study on style. #inking #hongkong #ink #brush #study #mine
Guys, I’ve just realised I never posted anything related to Zoom!
Zoom (2015) is a film created and directed by Pedro Morelli which contains 23 minutes of rotoscopic acid-colored comics-style animation which I had the pleasure to work in during about 1 year entirely, between 2014 and 2015.
My job went from doing art direction and concepts for the animation itself to drawing most of the backgrounds and coordinating a team alongside animation director Adams Carvalho to get the job done. As you can probably figure out just by seeing the above trailer and images, it was all a blast to do due to the creative freedom we had on the project.
Down below you can see special fx supervisor Marcelo Souza and senior animator Luís Dourado explaining the process in depth, and also check some more animated scenes. Zoom has been nominated to multiple awards since its debut - including Best Visual Effects at the Canadian Screen Awards - and has just arrived on Netflix worldwide.
This is something I did as a gift to a friend, but never posted here. I love this film, btw.
Also, my Spider-man poster, colored. :)
Finally got to color my Symphony of the Night poster. What do you guys think?
Short animation I did for Bossa Nova Studios / Oca Animation in the past month. Pretty fun! It’s the first of a six-part Suzuki New Vitara ad campaign. I also made the paper textures for the 5th film in the sequence, that can be seen in its entirety - along with a full production credits list - here:
My making of the Mayara & Annabelle poster I did last week. Camtasia fucked up the screen recording so I don't have video of the coloring process, just still images. Sorry! :P #digitalart #poster #arttutorial #makingof #comics #artprocess #japan #tokyo #fortaleza #mayaraeannabelle #crowdfunding #catarse #mine http://ift.tt/2f1Hi6C
This is a poster I made this week for a brazilian based crowdfunding comic project I’ve been a part of for a while. It’s called Mayara & Annabelle - the third issue has just been funded - and it’s about two public servers who kick ass working for the Out of the Ordinary Affairs Office at the state of Ceará, Brasil. I gave’em my little spin and put them in the Tokyo Subways, because it looks fun and japanese type just looks so beautiful. I’ll post a making of sometime in a while. If you guys wanna see it for yourselves, visit www.catarse.me/mea3 it’s pretty cool. I also colored their covers, they’re pretty fun to do too.
Spider-man invaded my warm-ups last week. Fabriano hot press 200gr and ink.
I did it as a fake cover or something, hope you guys like it!
Nice character study I made a few years ago but never actually posted.
Writing the Other
Hey, fellow white people who write stories! Pull up a chair. I’d like to have a talk about allyship and writing the other. (Everyone else, go make popcorn. We’ll wait.)
This past weekend, comic books had one of its regularly-scheduled dumpster fire moments. There’s this glorified-D&D-campaign comic book which has received a lot of ally cookies for starring mostly female characters. The white male author took the popular female artist off his book to replace her with his original collaborator, an unrepentant male domestic abuser. Word got out, and then things got really fun on twitter dot com. Best was when the author’s wife popped up to do drive-by mudslinging at other women. Comics!
I think a lot of women involved in the comic book industry weren’t too surprised how this went down. Many of us are suspicious of so-called allies, because this is a story that repeats itself over and over again. An ally writes a fictional female character well, but treats real-life women terribly. Or an ally stumbles and mishandles, say, a trans character, and then they have a little meltdown about how everyone is so cruel to them on the interwebs. Cry it out, white boy.
My concern, however, is that the actions of a few shitlords out there make some other white writers genuinely afraid of centering characters of different races / sexualities / genders in their stories. This happens. But you know what? Writing is always hard, if you’re doing it correctly. Put on your big girl pants and write brown people as the wealthy scientist or the epic fantasy heroine, and/or LGBTQ people as the badass mercenary loner. Or strong female characters™ who never throw a punch or fire a gun. It’s called writing. If you’re not interested in writing the other, that’s fine too. But if you are, please get over your fears and just try.
In order to write, you have to listen. You probably wouldn’t write a book about the CIA in the 1950s, or about American soldiers in Afghanistan, without doing your research, yes? So if you’re thinking about writing a character different from yourself, you’d do your research too, yes? And as any good historian knows, primary sources are the best. Those sources can be anything: blogs, overheard conversations on the subways or in coffee shops, autobio, twitter exchanges, whatever. There is an uncomfortable element to this, that there is in all writing: a great writer is a liar, a thief, and a vivisectionist, and that’s the nature of our disreputable occupation. All I can say is try not to be an asshole about it. Steal does not mean wholesale; steal means mosaic theory of information to create something completely new and unique. Listen does not mean interrogate. Don’t treat PoC and/or LGBTQIA people on social media as your google. If you want people to read over a draft and act as a sounding board, for the love of God, pay them. Even if they’re friends. Even if you’re broke and it has to be just a token: $50. Dinner. You’re profiting off their lived experience; they should, too. Remember that the people you are writing about owe you nothing. Not even the time of day.
(Here is an example why research is great. Author Hillary Monahan discusses the use of sexual assault in fiction from a survivor’s point of view, and why you may want to reconsider using it as a shortcut to show that your villain is nasty or why your strong female character™ is so badass. Research makes stories grow, and I don’t know how to emphasise that enough.)
In order to write, you have to get things wrong. Most professional writers have long since made their peace with the fact that their stories won’t appeal to everyone (if they did, it’s not writing; it’s pandering). And every so often you’re really going to come a buster and land on your face in front of the whole damn stadium. So what then? You get up, dust yourself off, bow gracefully to the people laughing at you and try harder / fail better next time. Again, most professional writers of long standing realise that writing is an incredibly psychoanalytical exercise. You learn way too much about your own subconscious, your own prejudices, your own shortcomings. Sometimes you learn these things as you write. Sometimes you learn them only as the work is being received. But here’s the thing: we all should be continuing to grow as human beings. If you fail, listen. It is not the aggrieved minority’s job to make you a better white person, but it is your job as a writer to listen and learn. And apologise. None of this “I’m sorry if my story was misinterpreted” fauxpology bullshit. There is no such thing as misinterpretation. Just, “I’m sorry. I’ll do better.”
I’ve messed up in the past. (Like, I have said shit like “I don’t see colour” in a forum post. Trust me, if I could go back a decade and smack myself? I would.) I am going to mess up again. Keep watching; I’ll not let you down in screwing up. So maybe you try, too?
And please, please, don’t think of yourself as an ally. We shouldn’t need a special term for “white person who acts like a decent human being”. If you seek attention for yourself as an ally, rather than letting your work speak, you will simply engender suspicion with the very people you are seeking to get pats on the head from. Social justice is actually a pretty crap motivation for choosing ethnicities and orientations of characters. The other really does not need you, white person, stepping in as their great literary saviour. Especially if you are not making conscious choices to work with the very people you write about, eg asking for them as artists, choosing them as co-writers, etc. Ultimately, you can tell the truth of an “ally” by following the dollar. If it all goes to them and people who look like them? Yeah, time to spit in the batter of their next batch of ally cookies.
I know this is touchy ground for a lot of people. I’m interested in your thoughts on this, from writers and readers of any background. I don’t have answers; I just have opinions.