Pandora (before Avatar... or not)

A good friend, Paul Adams, from Vancouver, Washington, sends me a digital copy of Threshold - Mythic Sirens Pinup from Avatar Press. In this magazine, on page 23, is my contribution: a Pandora's pin up.
I posted that picture long ago in this blog, but now I am able to display to a really fucking good resolution . I hope that you enjoy it.
Thanks to Paul!

Pirates boarding!

Another Conan's pin-up. This time, paying more attention to Bêlit. Who is she? In the fictional universe of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Bêlit is a pirate queen who has a romantic relationship with Conan. She is Conan's first serious lover. She appears in Howard's Conan novelette "Queen of the Black Coast". And now, she is here, fierce, asking for boarding an enemy's ship...

Learning to fly

"Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction holding me fast, how
Can I escape this irresistible grasp?"
(Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd)

Third illustration for the magazine...

Didn't see the stop?

Another erotic illustration for the Swedish magazine. This time, a gorgeous police stopping an absent-minded driver. And, yes, the man's face is an homage to Glenn Fabry's cover for Preacher #4 (I've always loved Fabry's facial expressions, so I used it and put the copyright on the t-shirt as a logical joke!)

Hot business

Some time ago (oh, my God: it seems that everything happened too much time ago) I was hired to draw a few erotic illustrations for a well-known Swedish magazine. I drew -and they were published- 6 of them. You have seen one of the bunch here. Now I have found some of them in an old CD. The scanning was not very good, so the reproduction is not faithful to the original. But it is the best way I can show them.

From time to time

Some of you have asked for the illustration from the very first post of this blog without the text. Here it is. Ghost Wolf in all his brilliance and fierceness. The original character design came from Siku, but I felt terribly comfortable drawing him in my own style. I really I like the three-dimensional sense of this drawing. I hope you do as well.

Remembering the Wizard

Jaime Brocal Remohí was one of the greatest spanish comic-book artists. He was one of the very first artists to draw Sword and Sorcery comics. Some of his characters has been the most powerful visions of Heroic Fantasy: Katan, Ögan, Kronan, Arcane, Taar...
I was lucky because I met him in several occasions and we talk about comics, drawing styles and music (he was a terrific rock'n'roll fan). Also, my brother was collaborating with articles in Taar's last spanish edition and I was asked to do an illustration about the character in a special number. And this is what I did... 11 years ago!

A force of nature

Hello, my friends.
I have just seen the documentary on Frazetta, Painting with Fire, and only I can say that the great Frank continues being an inspiration for everyone that wants to draw great art. I have looked for a few drawings that I did after reading the book Icon, long time ago, and I've selected this one that I'm posting now. Certainly I do not want to imitate Frazetta --you know: Frazetta is inimitable. Everything he does, he does terribly well--. I only try to show the very much that his work can inspire and guide to the ones that want to achieve artwork for his own pleasure.

Do I look all right?

This was my very first pin-up for the Anna Mercury's series. I didn't knew the character at all, so I used the typical pose for a female one. Colors, again, by Digikore.

Both lives

Anna Mercury's new illustration for Avatar Press. This time, my favorite of the five I drew. I title it as "Two Anna Mercury's lives". I liked the idea of superposing both personalities of the character. I was so satisfied with the drawing that I it used as cover for my portfolio in the Granada Comi-Con '09.
Again, three versions: the original illustration, the fake cover from Previews, and the colored one by Digikore.

Watching from above

New illustration for Anna Mercury Artbook.
Pencilled half way inked, fully inked and colored by Digikore.
I drew 5 illus for this Artbook.
I'll post them litlle by little.

Brand New Anna

Three moments of an illustration.
First, the rough sketch.
Second, the definitive drawing, with the same concept but changing some details and the whole figure of Warren Ellis' Anna Mercury.
Third, the illustration colored by Digikore (great work!).
You can find this one and other magnificent illustrations of great artists like Richard Ortiz, Facundo Percio, my friend Juanjo RyP or Paul Duffield in the Anna Mercury Artbook edited by Avatar Press.
Don't miss it!

The daltonic colorist

"Another Conan's face" as was published in the #53 of the Spanish edition of Conan the Barbarian.
I really don't know the name of the colourist, but I do not like the way in wich he gave the colors.
There is no depth in the jungle. Rarely I have seen a blue sea serpent and water of green color.
I am sure you can make it better.
The original b/w illustration is here.

Cimmerian's joke

An old drawing, an old joke... and an very old character.
I know that Lobo's joke is previous and more famous, but when I realized this drawing for the cover of a magazine, I could not avoid repeat it.