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.  

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. 

Link (Realistic Reboot Design)

An attempt at a realistic take on Link from Nintendo's Zelda License. 

I made him a little older than usual as well cause I've personally been playing him for about 20 years so he should look older! :) 

Traditional Pencils 

Colors and finishing touches on CS5 

Link, Zelda, Nintendo are all copyrights of their respectful owners. This is just fan art. 

Bilbo Color Commission

Bilbo found sumthin'

A tribute to Tolkien and P. Jackson's adaptation. 

Traditional Pencils.

Colors and finishing touches on CS5. 

steps to Bilbo Final

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.

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.

Joe Musashi - Shinobi III Tribute

The One, the only, Joe Musashi (you could not do more tacky back in the day and that was 1993 on Sega Megadrive, the Genesis name for Europe, for probably the best 2D Ninja beat'em Up of all times). 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epdselGCXkI

for some nostalgic gameplay feedback

Joe had to be part of this gallery.

He has lost popularity over the years due to extreme competition from Ryu Hayabuza, the protagonist of Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden License, and we don't see him very much. There was a shinobi 3D that had nice features but maybe Joe just got old. Or he simply won and retired. 

Joe Musashi, Shinobi III Revenge of the Ninja Master, Megadrive and Genesis are trademarks copyrights Sega corp. 

Ryu Hayabuza and Ninja Gaiden mentioned here are trademarks and copyrights of Tecmo co, Ltd. 

This is just Fan Art. 

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

  

NeDe WaDe (1852-1892), a.k.a Ned Christie

Ned was a famous Cherokee Statesman (back in the days when Oklahoma wasn't part of the U.S. but a foreign land owned, ruled and administrated according to Cherokee Law), an actual senator and advisor to chief BushyHead of the Cherokee Nation.

Perhaps his most moving fiction adaptation (as fair an adaptation in fiction as can be imagined, the Cherokee Nation depiction is very interesting) is the "Zeke & Ned" novel by Larry McMurtry.

Said to have been an exceptional shot (shooting tree branches under the squirrels picking them up as they fell to save meat), this giant of a man (6'7''), after having been wrongfully accused of murdering a marshall, stood up, during what would be remembered as 'Ned Christie's war', in the fort that he built for his home, for 7 long years, against wave after wave of "law" posses bent on capturing him.
He lost an eye in the fights.
The authorities even resorted to bringing an actual war canon all the way through Cherokee Nation and up the mountain to blow him out (but they couldn't shoot it with accuracy) so that they had to dynamite the whole house to finally get him to try and make for an exit.

At which point, they did shoot him down.

He was found innocent of his charges in a 1918 review of the case.

He embodies the rightful, pure struggle of old ways (bravery, honor, self awareness and pride) against the blurred morals of new virtueless moneyminded invaders.


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