neil-gaiman:

This was the cover of the first Metal Hurlant I ever saw. I was — what — 14, and on a French Exchange to Paris and this beautiful magazine filled with comics opened my mind to what comics could be, and the art of Jean Giraud, AKA Moebius, made it so powerful and perfect. He drew different stories in different styles, and everything was beautiful. I bought a copy. I could only afford the one copy, but one was enough.

I couldn’t actually figure out what the stories were about, but I figured that was because my French wasn’t up to it.

I read the magazine over and over and envied the French because they had everything I dreamed of in comics - beautifully drawn, visionary and literate comics, for adults. I just wished my French was better, so I could understand the stories (which I knew would be amazing).

I wanted to make comics like that when I grew up.

I read them when I was in my 20s, in translation, and discovered that they weren’t actually brilliant stories. More like stream-of-consciousness art meets Ionesco absurdism. Didn’t matter. The damage had long since been done.

I met Jean Giraud on a couple of occasions. He was sweet and gentle and really… I don’t know. Spiritual is not a word I use much, mostly because it feels so very misused these days, but I’d go with it for him.

We wanted to work together. I wrote the Sandman: Endless Nights story DEATH IN VENICE for him to draw, but his health got bad, so P. Craig Russell drew it. Moebius’s health improved a little, and he asked if I could write him a very short story, perhaps 8 pages, and make them all posters, so I wrote the DESTINY story in Endless Nights for him. His health took a turn for the worse, and Frank Quitely drew it. And both Craig and Frank made magic with their stories, but somewhere inside I was sad, because I’d hoped to work with Moebius.

And now I never shall.

RIP Jean Giraud, 8 May 1938 -  10 March 2012

El primero fué un encargo hecho en tinta y coloreado digitalmente por mi pareja, el segundo es un dibujo infantil hecho a lápiz de color y el último fue un regalo para mi cuñado hecho también en lapiz de color.

The first one was a commision made in ink and digital colored by my partner, the second one is a drawing for kids made with color pencils and the last one was a gift for my brother in law.

Tres versiones del personaje de mi pareja “Blackat” hechos hace algunos años.
Uno de hace bastante, un chibi, uno en I-no cosplay, uno al estilo Pokemon y otro probando otra forma de colorear.

Three versions of my partner´s character “Blackat” that I did some years ago.
A very old one, a chibi, one in I-no cosplay, one in Pokemon style and another trying a new coloring style.

Logotipo realizado para un artista compatriota que utiliza el seudónimo que pueden apreciar en la imagen.
Fue dibujado a tinta en hoja A4 y coloreado digitalmente en GIMP.

Logo made for an artist that uses the nickname you can read in the image.
Ink on A4 paper and digitaly colored with GIMP.

Este dibujo fue realizado cuando estudiaba en el IPA y consiste en una transformación libre de un retrato de mujer. Está inspirado en el trabajo del excelente artista austriaco H.R.Giger y hecho a tinta y pastel tiza en las zonas de color marrón. Tamaño: 1/2 Wattman.

This work was made when I was studying in the Artigas Teacher Institute. It´s a free transformation of a woman portrait and inspired by the excellent work of H.R.Giger.
chalk pastels and ink on 1/2 Wattman paper.

Bueno, les doy la bienvenida a este blog de su humilde servidor, y por una cuestión práctica de mostrar la evolución de mi trabajo, voy a empezar subiendo algo viejito, de cuando estudiaba en el IPA. Una reproducción de un retrato de Sebastian Bach(que para ser sincero no se de quien es originalmente), mi tocayo y compositor barroco favorito.
Está realizado con oleopasteles en una hoja de 1/2 Wattman.

Well, I welcome you to this blog from this humble servant, and for showing the evolution of my work I´ll start by uploading some old work from when I studied at the Artigas Teacher Institute.
A reproduction of a portrait of Sebastian Bach(and to be honest, I don´t know who is the original painter) my favourite composer.
Oil pastels on 1/2 Wattman paper.