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Latest update about our dossier: this should be the last coloured page, we will draw another couple of them but they will stay in their pencil version.

This one had been very hard to me because of the copious light-spots in the same big panel in the centre, but I am quite satisfied this time and of course the gorgeous ink-work by Sara Cappoli made the whole page look a lot better than the pencil version as always.

Hope you enjoy, while I can finally come back to my preparatory works for a pure steampunk wreck vehicle to be seen soon (or so I hope) on these pages.

The other pages for the dossier are here, here and here

Happy Halloween

A day in advance, but I'm not totally sure I'll have time for the blog tomorrow a very quick sketch to wish you all a happy Halloween.

The latest characters

And we are almost at the end of the line: our dossier is almost ready now, we just need a couple of last things and a good review of the French version of our script and our plot and we'll be ready to run ;)

So, while we are working on the latest details, here there are the character design studies of the left characters. You've seen one of them in pages 1 and 2, the others will not appear in the dossier's finished pages, but they will be drawed in the pencil-version pages we will put in the dossier, so I don't know if we will share them in this blog. Anyway they are still to draw so it's an untimely question at the moment.

Now, here we go, Mesdames et Messieurs please welcome...

Herr Schmidt

You have maybe seen him in pages 1 and 2 even if that was a younger and two eyed version (the first pages of our work are a flash-back).

He is the kick-side of our evil, despicable Herr Moser. Schmidt is not a smart guy but he's totally dangerous all the same.

A little trivia: at first we wanted to make him look like a dear friend of us (as we did with Moser), but we did a couple of preparatory works and decided for something more Zorro's fatty Sergeant Garcia alike and we found a pretty good inspiration in Pollaponk's "No prejudice" music video.

Hinz

Andreas Hinz is the key of all our story: he is the old and slightly mad jail-cell mate of Julien. He is a good guy with a sad story (and a pure steampunk robotic arm) and he is the one whose secrets would put Julien in deep troubles.

Mr K.

No, ok, this is NOT the real name of this character, it's just the way Sara and I call him in our conversations since he his still a character with no name. That is because he was totally unforseen.

There is a funny story behind this character, but, to tell that short, we needed a character for a walk on role and we had a pretty exact idea of how he should look like. So I tryed to make a preparatory work but I wasn't in the mood for drawing feet (that's a part I always hate draw) so I decided to give him a robotic leg. At the end of the day this robotic-legged version looked so cool that our Mr K deserved to become one of our main characters. We worked again on our script and here there is, the only thing he needs now is a proper name. But, no need to tell, he is my favourite character so far ;)

Beautiful ink art is by Madame Sara Cappoli as always.

Page 2

And here there is the last page I and Sara worked on.

That should be page 2, so it comes close after this one.

Hope you enjoy :)

How did I spent last Monday?

That's the answer:

Updates part 2

And here there is another page. Well, actually it's the page number 1.

Hope you enjoy. As usual Sara has made a gorgeous ink work.

This is the third one we finished, maybe you missed the others, please check them here if you're interested.

Talk like a pirate Day

Howdy rabble!
Today is the Talk Like a Pirate Day! It's time to celebrate and get drunk! I had no time for a brand new illustration this year, so I have to repost an old one, hoping I'll do better the next time!

So happy talk like a pirate day everybody and remember: "To err is human, to arr is pirate!"

Sabaton model on modelstorming

Sometimes it happens: I have the possibility of reciprocate Luca's favours: he has always been my historic consultant and I would never anticipate I would do the same for him one day. Instead it happened and I am very proud of that.
I'm talking about his Sabaton model you can see today on his blog. I don't know why, but it seems he thinks I am more expert than him in Sabaton's matters, so I had my occasion to be useful. ;)
So, please, go and take a look to our job, weeeell more his than mine (let's say 90% Luca's and 10% mine but I am happy and proud all the same).

Updates

Still working working working... I came here just to let you know I am still ok, even if not very active on the internet. I will come back soon I hope, in the meanwhile let me share with you the results of those hard-working days.
Here there are page 32 and page 42 in their full colours. At the moment I am working on page 2 while Sara is inking page 1; we will finish them, then another couple of pages more and we will have all the samples we need; then it will be a matter of crossing fingers and hoping hard.
But, for the moment, enjoy our first two kids (as usual, ink art is by Sara Cappoli):

About to explode - finished

As I promised to Four Eyed Monster, here there is the painted version of the yesterday's sketch.



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