"The Silver Hilt" illustrations / "La Poignee d'Argent"

Ouf! Ca fait du bien de le poster, tout fini, ce projet edito!

Class project for a fully illustrated short story.


Title page. The story is The Silver Hilt, by Hungarian author Ferenc Molnar.

once upon a time in a castle...

the alchemist's laboratory
His unfortunate predecessor!



The Count goes a-courting with his silver hilt...

double page spread, original watercolour 40x20cm

Watercolours and ink, Photoshop background for the cover.

Encre, aquarelles, quelques retouches Photosh + stress et sueur. Merci du coup de main au montage, Nina. ^_^

sculptures : autoportraits

self portraits in clay, lifesize, working on emotions: sadness, and smiling.

autoportraits a la tristesse et au sourire, argile, echelle 1.

more of the comic strip / planche BD "jeu d'acteur"

In this page, the idea was to show expressive acting from our characters. Here, my character Vanessa is led to believe that her boyfriend was seriously injured in a fight (... with the guy from the chase scene, a few posts back...), and as she worriedly sets out for the hospital, it turns out to have been a practical joke--in rather poor taste...
Pencil drawing and Photoshop CS2 colour.

La planche de BD sur le jeu d'acteur, ou l'exercice consistait a faire passer un personnage d'une inquietude/frayeur extreme au soulagement.
crayonne, et colo Photoshop.

Painting - Camilla Imperatrix / portrait en pied, peinture

School has us pose in costumes for a full-length portrait session. This is my paint-mate Camille again, in a costume inspired by the Gladiator movie.
Acrylic on board, 60x100cm, approx. 8h

Le portrait en costume (en pied), Camille en imperatrice romaine. Trop bon de rajouter la peinture doree a la fin...
Acryliques sur bois, 60x100cm, environ 8h de peinture en cours.

Happy VS Day!

Happy Victory over Sauron Day!
25 March 1453 of the Third Age: defeat of Sauron and fall of Barad-dur.


Some very silly, old fanart for the occasion. ^_^

Le 25 mars c'est la journee de la Victoire sur Sauron! Un jour ou on assume sa geekitude ou pas. Meme quand on a un projet edito a finir et le DA a commencer et pas le temps de poster des betises pareilles.
Et le Sidaction c'est plus important, bien sur.
Mais bon.

St Patrick speed

I have far too much work to waste time on this sort of thing, but hey. can't be half-Irish without taking a stand at some point. Merry Saint Patrick's Day!

Trop de boulot, ce n'est pas raisonnable du tout, mais bon... a un moment, on est moitie irlandaise ou on l'est pas, hein.
Joyeuse Saint Patrick!
Photoshop CS2, approx 1h... so much for a "speed"...

Death warmed up, aka le projet edito

Yeeeeah. C'est la deche la plus totale. Vive le multimedia.

Je viens de rajouter des liens des blogs de mes petits camarades de classe, ah lala, ca en fait du monde doue de ses dix doigts.

Et Benouy m'a contamine avec "Grace Kelly", de Mika, alors je ne peux que vous conseiller la meme chose. Listen to the happy song!

Murder Mamie - bookmark illustration /signet

(Her book is "Arsenic and Old Lace"...)
Illustration assignment done in class for a library exhibit around crime stories, bookmark format 5cmx15cm, watercolours and ink.
"Arsenic et Vieilles Dentelles" ... Illustration de signet realisee en cours pour une exposition en bibliotheque sur le theme du polar. Aquarelle et encre.