tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76980325903685521882024-03-19T03:57:56.016+00:00Ricardo Bessa IllustrationRicardo Bessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567766343234352430noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698032590368552188.post-79037573857849041462012-11-01T13:30:00.003+00:002012-11-01T13:30:44.643+00:00To the followersSo it seems the time using blogspot is now over! I have moved on, and my new website is over at <a href="http://ricardobessa.com/">ricardobessa.com</a>, as usual, so please update your bookmarks/feeds! Hopefully there's a lot of good stuff to come. I tried to make this new website something I'm really proud of, and I definitely feel like I have something I really like in my hands now.<br />
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Here's to new stages!Ricardo Bessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567766343234352430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698032590368552188.post-76213667333190683232012-08-30T23:24:00.003+01:002012-08-31T22:14:26.200+01:00XIX - The Sun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My contribution for <a href="http://blog.lightgreyartlab.com/2012/07/tarot-mystics-and-occult-exhibition.html" target="">Light Grey Art Lab’s Tarot exhibition</a>. I am so happy to be part of this - each one of the 78 cards was randomly assigned to one of 78 picked artists, and I can't wait to see this thing happening. I got card 19, The Sun (which is totally a major arcana, fyi - sounds rad).</div>
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Actual decks (aw yeah) can be pre-ordered <a href="http://lightgreyartlabshop.bigcartel.com/product/pre-order-of-the-light-grey-tarot" target="_blank">here</a>. On the exhibition bigger prints of each individual piece will also be on sale. All in all - it was worth drawing three hundred sunflowers over this.</div>
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3. Initial idea for my piece for the Tarot, Mystics and the Occult exhibition.</div>
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When I was approached to participate in the <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1706939012/six-seasons-and-a-movie-art-show"><i>6 Seasons and a Movie</i> art show</a>, I felt super honoured (super is the technical term for it, yes). From the likes of <a href="http://www.shoomlah.com/">Claire Hummel</a> to <a href="http://pollums.com/">Polly Guo</a> and <a href="http://www.samspratt.com/">Sam Spratt</a>, these people have been kicking ass for longer than I've been sitting on mine. And it was going to happen in LA! I've never even been anywhere but Europe. So it was a definite yes.<br />
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I hadn't actually watched NBC's <i>Community</i> before, so that set me back a bit - fortunately, I turned out to like it. At first I was going for the usual "turn ensemble cast into something nerdy" approach (it's so much fun!), but then this happened and I just went with it. You can always count me in to make something unfunny.<br />
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Anyway, of course this is enough to convince anyone to go and see it next month - have the address:<br />
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In more recent news, I attended Kapow! Comic Con last weekend and it was great. I had the chance to meet Will Dennis from DC / Vertigo for a portfolio review, and I'm still not sure how that happened because there were four companies there, and I got picked precisely by the one I like the most. Insane.<br />
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To get myself psyched up in the days leading up to the convention, I sketched some super heroes. Because I am that nerdy. This is one of my favourites.<br />
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I am currently working on other things, but those will come later.Ricardo Bessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567766343234352430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698032590368552188.post-63451102443843447602012-03-10T11:36:00.000+00:002012-03-10T11:36:29.044+00:00Katniss<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Katniss Everdeen from <i>The Hunger Games</i>. Day 11 of <a href="http://satellitesoda.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=5529">Daily Draw February 2012</a>. </div>
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My first digital sketch in a long time and one I'm particularly fond of.</div>
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Daily Draw February is an event that happened for the second time this year, courtesy of the <a href="http://satellitesoda.com/">Satellite Soda</a> forums. There's not much to it: you draw something new daily, and post it daily. </div>
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I only heard about it at the last minute and decided to participate - and no one was more surprised than me that I actually managed to keep it up and didn't miss any day! It feels really good as an accomplishment considering my (non-drawing related) work schedule lately. I'm glad it's over so I don't have worry about scanning and posting every single day, but I'll definitely do it again in years to come.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Day 16. We have pretty big iMacs at work.</span></b></div>Ricardo Bessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567766343234352430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698032590368552188.post-8192417357491345902012-03-03T16:35:00.003+00:002012-03-03T16:37:03.058+00:00Florence & the Machine - The Ghost<div style="text-align: center;">
Oh boy! It's been a while. I really should get back on the horse on this whole being a professional thing. My bad.</div>
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I have actually been pretty productive since the last update, but I've been posting everything to my other channels (Deviantart and particularly Tumblr).</div>
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Let's start this off with this <i>Florence & the Machine</i> illustration I did for a <a href="http://www.talenthouse.com/design-for-florence-and-the-machine-secret-7">competition over at TalentHouse</a>.</div>
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It was for a vinyl cover - pretty exciting stuff.</div>
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This illustration was done for a Secret Santa exchange at tumblr, for <a href="http://etherelle.tumblr.com/">etherelle</a>. She likes the video game <b>Shadow of the Colossus</b> and so do I, so it was win-win.</div>
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In other news, my work have been popping up in the nicest places, such as the <a href="http://origin.juxtapoz.com/Illustration/ricardo-bessa">Juxtapoz</a> and <a href="http://www.notcot.org/post/44942/">notcot</a> and places where I can't even understand the language. So thanks to whoever it is that's tipping people off - I swear I'm not paying anyone.</div>
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I have some more stuff to post but I'm not sure if I can/should, so for now enjoy your colossus. Happy holidays, everyone! </div>Ricardo Bessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567766343234352430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698032590368552188.post-24801531455143570522011-12-10T13:58:00.005+00:002011-12-10T17:02:15.451+00:00Ever After - Collected Posts<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="275" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/33443565?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe></div><br />
A collected post with all the illustrations from Ever After. The response to this project has been amazing, way more than I could have anticipated. So because it IS supposed to be a cohesive book, even if the worlds and characters are different and separate, I thought I would do this last thing - a video where you can see the actual object. Many thanks to my friend <a href="http://www.dinglingdonglong.com/">Grace Yu</a>, for holding the book AND lending me her camera.<br />
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Below, the introduction to the project and twelve illustrations. Just click each one to go the the respective post, for the full text and preliminary sketches - and from there you can also navigate to the previous and next page. And don't forget, <a href="http://society6.com/RicardoBessa">many of these can be purchased as prints from my Society6 shop.</a> <br />
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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuMror8nqLPMB0vQzb_KzGMAB6wi0MBlGlbtRHanZs8V2UqRfyEw9aH9hhGpOyDMZx5YE9AN3ms7oOwfdK2Dm-sBfe9JzpMHb0AgAxWLOMnEfqIUfpI8dyNyx9WbzWl_fqsNc3bB_bwDI/s200/12-intermission.jpg" width="140" /></a></div>Ricardo Bessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567766343234352430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698032590368552188.post-9886099265094961872011-12-02T16:32:00.002+00:002011-12-02T17:16:37.143+00:00Prints!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://society6.com/RicardoBessa"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLO_XxeFNrmCTJ9CmPVhXZuusQg-bNcXSxE7HuHB8z3YJwMxU0Hd64IjTBzLLP0hP6cNsS7Ruc5H38qvqaaRbduPtMhq92W-rTslonJfiELguAUTh1x0ljtqZWrtz9Q-kn4HifxwI9Q_4/s1600/prints-announce.jpg" /></a></div><br />
We all know I love announcing stuff with a zany loopsided screen capture. So anyway, I have recently started selling prints at Society6, and <a href="http://society6.com/RicardoBessa">here's where you can find them</a>. Might as well put it in here while I don't make a button to put up there.<br />
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Proper updates will follow soon, hopefully - but for now, some doodles.<br />
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Sketches say the darndest things.Ricardo Bessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567766343234352430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698032590368552188.post-23272251557825215392011-11-21T22:32:00.000+00:002011-11-21T22:32:31.375+00:00The Kwimbles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW9J46Q8AQ7e0TTUPLkc7HRKSh97N0OXozZ63q1oOY9KyIjIs9XwTxS8uZio8_JHO6946Jhvn2OYC2TQG4J8kez_sDBprEV77jkmEYjks4KZZMQ1_Uat7diFWbXj6CLQcVYxhwSc1YT-k/s1600/kwimbles-character-web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW9J46Q8AQ7e0TTUPLkc7HRKSh97N0OXozZ63q1oOY9KyIjIs9XwTxS8uZio8_JHO6946Jhvn2OYC2TQG4J8kez_sDBprEV77jkmEYjks4KZZMQ1_Uat7diFWbXj6CLQcVYxhwSc1YT-k/s400/kwimbles-character-web.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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So, I pitched this for a position as a concept artist for an educational video games. Didn't have much time to make them as finished as I would have liked to, but oh well. Here's a character sheet of sorts, a customization screen and a gameplay screen.<br />
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It ended up not being picked, but I quite like these little guys now. I decided to call them kwimbles - I don't know why, I just randomly thought of the name and will probably regret it in the morning, but that's how you know you're living in the fast lane.Ricardo Bessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567766343234352430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698032590368552188.post-348474996037375872011-11-16T23:05:00.001+00:002011-12-10T17:00:14.022+00:00Ever After - Intermission<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuMror8nqLPMB0vQzb_KzGMAB6wi0MBlGlbtRHanZs8V2UqRfyEw9aH9hhGpOyDMZx5YE9AN3ms7oOwfdK2Dm-sBfe9JzpMHb0AgAxWLOMnEfqIUfpI8dyNyx9WbzWl_fqsNc3bB_bwDI/s1600/12-intermission.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuMror8nqLPMB0vQzb_KzGMAB6wi0MBlGlbtRHanZs8V2UqRfyEw9aH9hhGpOyDMZx5YE9AN3ms7oOwfdK2Dm-sBfe9JzpMHb0AgAxWLOMnEfqIUfpI8dyNyx9WbzWl_fqsNc3bB_bwDI/s320/12-intermission.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Intermission</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Twenty-two years, seven months and four days would pass before he would be able to feel her again.</i></div><br />
And so it ends. The twelfth and last illustration of my <i>Ever After</i> project, and apparently the least clear one since people never know how to interpret it. I have my own version of the story and there's a certain way I wish people would see it, but hey! <i>Ever After</i> is all about interpretation, and if people want to go and think things, I'm totally up for that.<br />
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As usual, a couple of sketches. This was one of those where I had an idea, but I didn't know how to tackle it visually, so I had a bit of a hard time with getting across what I wanted in the early versions.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ricardobessa.com/2011/10/ever-after-anabelle-human.html">Previous page - Anabelle, the Human</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And there you have it. </div>Ricardo Bessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567766343234352430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698032590368552188.post-66832216271622606762011-11-12T00:29:00.001+00:002011-11-12T00:29:32.661+00:00FFIX - Alexandria under attack<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjz0qtsx2ZjJegH7yDOyGAk3AhLckq92wrHDRgp_tw0iaED4i-hLj0RvBL2UpB53t4_E9lnWSpxMuJPxYaim2MGTQW8x_1w07UGOmbKrGYLlp5mDbAhxlIj1nnv5DydTBU6v2BCXaP7_g/s1600/Alexandria-under-attack_web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjz0qtsx2ZjJegH7yDOyGAk3AhLckq92wrHDRgp_tw0iaED4i-hLj0RvBL2UpB53t4_E9lnWSpxMuJPxYaim2MGTQW8x_1w07UGOmbKrGYLlp5mDbAhxlIj1nnv5DydTBU6v2BCXaP7_g/s400/Alexandria-under-attack_web.jpg" width="258" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Alexandria under attack</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">An entry for Tantalus Review Magazine, a Final Fantasy IX zine being put together by <a href="http://zacgorman.com/">Zac Gorman</a>. Might or might not get picked, but I had a lot of fun doing something for one of my favourite videogames.</div>Ricardo Bessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567766343234352430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698032590368552188.post-91191747460740978952011-11-02T14:43:00.001+00:002011-11-02T15:45:39.486+00:00onedotzero_cascade 2011So last week was very intense - I was one of 40 graduates selected to participate in the <a href="http://www.onedotzerocascade.com/">onedotzero_cascade</a> workshop. I had the chance to meet an amazing group of very talented people, create a project with them and (as if this wasn't enough), we had lots of talks and workshops by the likes of <a href="http://www.motherlondon.com/">Mother Agency</a>, <a href="http://kin-design.com/">kin Design</a>, <a href="http://www.onedotzerocascade.com/?p=537">The Guardian Digital team</a> and many others. And later on, we're actually presenting said project during the onedotzero_adventures in motion festival, at the BFI.<br />
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That should be fun.<br />
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Make sure you also check out the <a href="http://www.onedotzerocascade.com/?p=534">awesome talent</a> that was part of this years group. Crazy stuff. I felt tiny.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnaj0XWZt1r23f2a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltnaj0XWZt1r23f2a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo by <a href="http://www.alexnevill.co.uk/">Alex Nevill</a>.</div>Ricardo Bessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567766343234352430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698032590368552188.post-14665666625839539782011-10-23T23:16:00.004+01:002011-12-10T17:07:01.287+00:00Ever After - Anabelle, the human<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBoEk-gEO7jnR1w9Z77w_rkfi6ozJEGBpN9A9ksDYVAUGGHWhhvy0xJJ6rZRVfbDvL173TcTPclPpHh1CsySt0wc5a2Ncx70KSowUUY9dmrYt3ZQHVdSZP27goRxXUkoPIZF42GVGIO9w/s1600/11-fairyqueen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBoEk-gEO7jnR1w9Z77w_rkfi6ozJEGBpN9A9ksDYVAUGGHWhhvy0xJJ6rZRVfbDvL173TcTPclPpHh1CsySt0wc5a2Ncx70KSowUUY9dmrYt3ZQHVdSZP27goRxXUkoPIZF42GVGIO9w/s320/11-fairyqueen.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Anabelle, the human</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>What they couldn't know was that no king would ever be worthy of the Fairy Queen.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Of course I had to include fairies somewhere in my book<i>.</i> This one was, again, one of the last ones I did, and I think I captured a possible narrative better because of it.<i> </i>I also had to do those tree textures under pressure because my schools facilities closed way too early, but it was fun!<br />
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I love you too, Beren Neale Staff Writer. This was such a nice surprise - I didn't actually know about it until my friend called to congratulate me. This magazine was one of my strongest motivators when I was a teenager and it's an absolute honour to be picked for their FXposé.Ricardo Bessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567766343234352430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698032590368552188.post-8591446599937377472011-10-19T23:51:00.002+01:002011-12-10T16:55:35.579+00:00Ever After - So how did you meet?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhotaLzdgkiwy4Uybvz2X2r7p4XtV31gHUTngPyF30HWRrPnEjS-J5PIyfhCpZus7Bukpz32JYpJIW278pee4xt7zVxQx4IuCZS9QEVQ2vla_NkbOfcGqXqRdn51UxMgt7yTY8JN-y_UjE/s1600/10-orgy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhotaLzdgkiwy4Uybvz2X2r7p4XtV31gHUTngPyF30HWRrPnEjS-J5PIyfhCpZus7Bukpz32JYpJIW278pee4xt7zVxQx4IuCZS9QEVQ2vla_NkbOfcGqXqRdn51UxMgt7yTY8JN-y_UjE/s320/10-orgy.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>So how did you meet?</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Tim would spend his Sundays baking pies and teacakes. Rose liked to knit scarves and her favourite colour was lime green.</i></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Ah, an orgy. Not something one gets to draw for every project, but when it happens, it sure happens. I am eternally grateful to my two wonderful flatmates <a href="http://amhuffstot.com/">Ana</a> and <a href="http://dinglingdonglong.com/">Grace</a> who posed for this image - it was both incredibly funny (for me) and incredibly awkward (for them). Worth it!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I must also praise the brilliant mind of my friend Reina who found a surprise Pinnochio amidst the naked bodies. What a pure soul.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1624244560"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>James and Joel</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The letter on Joel's chest was the one that never faded.</i></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">You wouldn't believe the ridiculous reference pictures my friend had to take of myself for this one. Initially I had a completely different idea for the colour scheme (as you can see from below), but this one ended up being the chosen one. Is it bad that I still look at the rejected one wistfully?</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Tallest Tree</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The eighty-seventh time they saw each other, they finally found an excuse to speak.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is definitely the pink fluffy sickly sweet illustration of the bunch. There had to be one!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Love Potion</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>He was the loneliest boy in the world.</i></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">The deadline was looming when I did this one, but surprisingly I still had time to enjoy doing that swirly shiny potion. I do enjoy my swirly shiny things.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>A self-portrait - 2011</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Anyone who doesn't know me now has an idealized depiction to imagine me by! It's also soft and pink.Ricardo Bessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567766343234352430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7698032590368552188.post-71104870831085627922011-10-02T16:27:00.002+01:002011-12-10T16:47:07.978+00:00Ever After - The pond near the linden tree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ6MJyXD74SPj1VEO-MZj-qaEIE8mMH56gF6kCAENsNUNOwraPGdH7lpgZaibrPcoN8yE87C9Dkq1KeGpDnr8m3w_CzFtxFxls-BEYw_CAfelG2xsZrlyZmB96GGOvWbyUVJ8BjszyW9A/s1600/06-swanprince.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ6MJyXD74SPj1VEO-MZj-qaEIE8mMH56gF6kCAENsNUNOwraPGdH7lpgZaibrPcoN8yE87C9Dkq1KeGpDnr8m3w_CzFtxFxls-BEYw_CAfelG2xsZrlyZmB96GGOvWbyUVJ8BjszyW9A/s320/06-swanprince.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The pond near the linden tree</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>People from the village had only heard of the Swan Prince.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">This one was fun! Definitely one of my favourites. I have a thing for swans, in case you couldn't tell from the cover. This one was one of the last ones, and at this point I was really feeling like the illustrations were becoming... more narrative, maybe? They just feel better than the initial ones. I guess that's what you call evolution.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sketch and alternative composition below!</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Abraham's Knife</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The problem with Brigitte is that her heart was too big.</i></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">The last one that I did; this one gave me particular trouble, and I didn't have a lot of time to spend on it. My original idea was actually quite different, as you can see from the first sketch; however, I felt that this would be a bit easier to understand, at least visually.</div><br />
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