K. Marx - Meme Wallpaper

1st of an upcoming series of portraits that I should post here and there as part of an effort to spread knowledge and awareness. 

He seemed a good emblematic figure, our buddy Karl, and besides controversial enough to start with (or at least raise eyebrows in any kinda tribute). 

Noam Chomsky points at anti-communism being a religion in NA so indeed you will understand that this is not a popularity contest. 

Fact is, you probably argued somewhere somehow with somebody who thought you should read the guy before talking about his theories or maybe you were the one in the know trying to spread the awareness. 

Reading Marx actually takes you way beyond reading and trying to understand 'the Capital' or 'the Manifesto'. 

It necessarily takes you through reading the theories of his time which were disagreeing with him, such as Steiner (thinker behind anarchism who was at school with Marx and opposing him was the most intellectually troublesome of his enemies).

It takes you through the whole History of the 19th century, from the first Napoleon to the Victorian era preceding WWI. 
From the early corruption of the ideals of the french revolution (Liberty, equality, Fraternity is still the credo but it took every bit of strength to enforce it and it is still far from won) to the wide instrumentalisation of the Military (Bonaparte by attacking everybody kinda made Europe) to the further use of Military Leverage to crush public questioning (the French civil war of 1870, thousands of people were machine gunned down in Paris streets by a returning self-exiled government of financial magnates using french troops they had lost against Germany and had to pay a ransom for).

Reading 'the Civil War in France' (1870-1891)' from which this quote is from depicts a historical situation far different than the Russian revolution. 

One called 'the Commune of Paris', which gave in turn (for worse though) the term 'Communism' so often misemployed. 


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I should  upload a downloadable large print version shortly. 

'Casino Royale the Novel' Cover Reboot

(re-post from my Illustration file on http://cilabpro.blogspot.ca/)

An attempt at the novel cover by Ian Fleming.  

For some reason, none of the published collections never really quite satisfied the fan in me. 

This Artwork will be part of an article analyzing and deciphering the very first of Bond's adventure to be published @:

http://cilabperso.blogspot.ca/

Traditional pencils and Inks + Colors and Inking on CS5.


James Bond, Casino Royale and all terms affiliated are copyrights of their respective owners. This is just fan art. 

Beatrice Yellow Outfit (Kill Bill Commission)

steps to final for B.Kiddo

  Initial sketch for B. Kiddo

B. Kiddo Color Commission 

Traditional Pencils & Inks
Colors and finishing touches on CS5


For this piece, I misfortunately went for a mix design between the indoor yellow outfit and the motorcycle one, which instead of conveying texture and volumes gives to some the impression of saggy breasts or dislocated shoulder (comment from fans).

However, the overall feedback was positive so here it is.

Here is an alternate coloring by Ryan Mitchell (http://ryanmitchellsblog.blogspot.ca/)

B.Kiddo Alternative color by Ryan Mitchell

The work is also done as research for concept product that the artist is working on. 

Beatrice, B. Kiddo, Kill Bill, etc... are all copyrights of their respectful owners. This is just fan art. 

The Flash (Color test 2013)

Linework - Cedric Lab                   Inks & Color - Ryan Mitchell 

Expanding our graphic research for our own comic book, here comes another DC character that I drew and my workmate Ryan skillfully colored.

Paperback Cover on Gunslingers

Research for Heroes of Westerns Anthology Book or Magazine cover (2011).

It could be... Billy the Kid.

Ghost Rider Tribute

A quick sketch and colours for a personal tribute. Interesting character, definitely american (Good/Evil, Faith/Sin, Business deals with Demons and so forth), certainly not deserving the recent cinematographic treatment that it got. 

Follow the character in the Ultimates line from Marvel for one of the character's best recent take. 

Ghost Rider is Marvel Copyrights.   

Childhood Hero n°2 : Robin Hood

Another great Hero I discovered early and influenced my adventures as a kid, like billions over the world.

Robin of Locksley, a.k.a. Robin Hood ou   Robin des Bois as I met him in a 1935 edition of his adventures (spanning from his teenagehood to the wandering days after Marianne's death) when I was 7 years old.

I had met him already but without recognizing it  as the Disney fox version.

 This one is based on the statue at Nottingham, UK.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood

The cinematographic version of the Prince of Thieves came to me as a teenager and until the disappointing Ridley Scott's version was my only other reference to the character.


The character being of folklore background rather than historical, it seemed interesting to represent him for what he actually was, that is to say the English 13th century common word for an intinerant felon with no possession, the bum of his time.




The fact that he traveled, wandered in shadows draping hoods and dark capes gave the appellation "Robehod".

For any historical reference (if any possible) to King John's Reign, see the movie Ironclad which revolves around his signing of the Magna Carta, that very famous principle founding document that tried to limit the power of the King over his People. 
There, John is indeed depicted as the infamous character he surely was, as he tramples over the values and consequences of the very words he consented to sign.
A big difference as we tend to remember him as a "loser" whereas he was actually never overthrown by the merry people of Sherwood. 

Chan Monk (5th century A.D.)

Line work Character design.

The idea came from working hard lines against colours while researching a piece on the famous Shaolin temple in the Henan Province in China.
This dignified man is therefore my humble take on the temple's founder who came from India, met the Emperor and started teaching his precepts in this adopted land.

The original idea though is influenced by those parchment like (desaturated) paintings from the Tang Dynasty (or the idea I get from them):