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Mes dernières aventures en Espagne, du côté de Saint-Jacques,100% dessinées en PDF, en cliquant ici (french)

My last trip to Spain, in Santiago and Santander, 100% sketched, PDF file, click here to download (english)





EDIT: link fixed and transferred from my external website, should work now.

Thanks to my friend Schouick, we've just seen Black Sheep. Plot is simple: genetically modified Sheep, and things goes wrong.
If you saw Peter Jackson's Brain Dead and liked it, you'll LOVE this one.
Really great Gore movie, really original and funny.
You'll never look at sheep the same after this.

(speaking for Waiyim and I)

english translation:
it's there, I can feel him... He's just...
...THERE!
Nothing? I was sure that...
F**C! He was behind me! There, I gotcha. Now, the way is clear ; just this corridor and....
GODDAMNITYAIYAI!AREYOUNUTS?I'MPLAYINGDOOM3YOUSCAREDTHSHITOUTOFME'GONNAKILLYA!

c'est marrant, déjà dans la glace je ne me ressemble pas, alors, là, c'est encore pire. strange thing, I don't not even look like myself on the mirror.

Bon, allez, en couleur, sinon c'est pas sérieux. right, here comes the colours, let's be serious, my...




p'tain, mon rouge à lèvres, la gomme du crayon et ce texte sont assortis en plus! note that lipstick, eraser and text matches!

C'est plus fort que moi, quand je ne sais plus quoi dessiner et/ou que mes modèles potentiels me font la gueule, je dessine mes mains.
Et sans vouloir pencher dans l'enseignement du dimanche soir, tous les profs d'anatomie vont le reconfirmeront, y'a pas plus difficile à maîtriser que les articulations de nos extrémités (je parle de celles avec des os dedans).

Rajoutez maintenant toute la puissance du langage des mains, et voilà de quoi occuper nos longues soirées d'hiver.

S'il vous reste encore de la salive, lancez joyeusement le débat de l'enseignement de l'académisme dans les écoles de dessin (apprendre les règles de dessin au risque de s'y enfermer ou au contraire, se lancer la tête la première sans connaître les bases du dessin pour garder sa liberté du trait.)

Pour ma part, je m'octroie gaiement le plaisir de dessiner des moufles à 5 doigts aux pieds et aux mains de mes personnages, parce que, MOI, monsieur, quand je ressors ma sanguine, MOI, j'en ai d'ailleurs les chevilles qui gonflent, mais MOI, j'en ai suffisamment bavé pour savoir dessiner correctement les pieds et les mains!

La preuve. Tiens.

(en revanche, l'homme de vitruve, je le reconnais, c'est pas encore ça...)

english translation:
I have to admit, I can't help it: when I don't know what to draw, or when my potential models get angry, I start sketching my hands.
And, I might add that there's not many things harder to draw than the articulations of our extremities (I mean, those with bones inside)

Not to mention the complexity of hands language.

And, would I dare to add again, let's debate about the teaching of the academic rules of sketching in Art Schools (is it better to learn the rules and then being nailed to them? or not to learn anything and start sketching freely to "gain" creative/freedom line drawing?).

Personnaly, I sketch 5-fingered-gloves to my characters hands and feet with no shame as I, yessir, I spent so much time with my red chalk, learning the rulez, so that I CAN DRAW HANDS AND FEET!
Hereyougo, uh.

(but I still need some practice on the vitruvian man, I guess)

english translation:
in just 2 weeks...
...no less than 4 different girls...
...slept in my room...
..and opened the shutters right in front of my neighbour.

...too bad I wasen't in my bed with them in those very moments.
"I told you, a girl a day, I SAW those creatures!"
"and he's married with a foreigner, my, my, my..."