Liquid's FoxHound Unit - Metal Gear Tribute

    

  

Pencils and Inks on paper 

Editing on CS5 

The whole Foxhound Unit period Liquid snake as they were during the Shadow Moses Incident in 2005. 

Metal Gear and characters associated are trademarks and copyrights of respective owners including Kojima Prod and Konami. 

This is just Fan Art.  

'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. 

Ian Fleming's Casino Royale (Reboot Cast Inks)

"The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at 3 in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high-gambling - a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension - becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it." 

The opening of the book strangely mirroring my own feelings towards the latest movie adaptations, it came to me that they should probably have saved time and money by simply re-adapting the novels and its cold war contents and symbolisms. I shall expend on these ideas and similar articles on my upcoming blog "Stories Within" (http://cilabperso.blogspot.ca/).  

An attempt to reboot the original characters of the novel, set in 1952 in the north of France. The details of the characters are based on their descriptions in the book itself.

Basil & Kratt - Le Chiffre Henchmen

Bond 1st Villain

Bond's best friend

1st Bond Dame

The French Spy (Belmondo Type)

The man himself, 35 y-o at the time of the Novel

Please come and check again later as there will be some more materials about Casino Royale Reboot, notably a prop sheet and James bond's first vehicle.


James Bond and all characters related are copyrights of United Artists and co. This is just Fan Art.

Tribute to GTA: Toni C.

Some linework with basic ink, values and color quick render. 

Rockstar videogames have amazing Character design (writtten and visual materials and methods) that I find very inspiring. 

A hero/protagonist that has to behave so badly must lose some bolts on the path of his career. Here the developpers had visually translated Toni's crazy shticks, like wearing Bruce Lee Game of death costume (not represented here) for a swordfight based mission, the wiseguy costume out of Goodfellas or even the Lawyer one. Here is a quick selection amongst the outfits available that I found original or simply uncanny or witty.  

One of my favourite version of GTA III is LCS with its taxis (and hilarious overall soundtrack), the story, the type of missions, the improved gameplay which were great storytelling feats. 

Toni Cipriani, its outfits and  GTA are Rockstar copyrights reserved.