Hi fellow gorillas!  Some stuff I did recently!

1- I mixed some pencil sketches and played with them on photoshop. the text means ”

2- Well like everyone I couldn’t resist to color Clo’s lines :)

3- Fun with Alchemy!

4- It’s sooo cold here, I needed to draw something related hehe

I have spent the past year in a deep slump hating and loathing my work. I have since learnt that the ‘boot camp’ ideology is not for me. I have taken self criticism of my work to a pathological, destructive level and found myself spending too many days/weeks too paralysed to even draw. For those who plan to take this crippling path of ruthless perfectionism, I have found that personally, it only leads to frustration, failure and disappointment. Taking a break is great, easy and helps, but it never solved anything for me. I needed an attitude shift. I’ve always been ambitious on improving, but I’ve recently lost touch with the connection that sparked this crazy obsession with art.

For example, I’ve spent many hours in front of canvas or paper, and learnt nothing because I was blinded by my own obsession to get it “right”.  I think working more is never the answer, but it’s what goes through your head, why you draw and how you manifest what you learn that counts. I have to start having fun with what I do again, or else I’ll lose sight of why I even did this in the first place. Perhaps the only way out of this hole is to draw what I enjoy, to explore and to mess around with things and not worry about the consequences. I think there is a long way before I find the right balance.

Even posting here is a big step, as before I never would have felt I was up to the standard to deserve it.  I hope this doesn’t sound too melodramatic or self absorbed, I’m just trying to be honest and have a feeling there are some out there who feel the same way about these things.

They are just some drawings (some with pastel) I have been working on, as well as a life size oil painting of a homeless man. Thanks for looking and happy holidays!!!

P.S I also have a new website, made for free by an old high school friend, who is a professional in these matters. www.rodluff.com

life size oil painting, smelly homeless man.

Sorry for spamming guys, but I’ve *just* received my copy of Botobit: vol1, and I realized I never posted the art I did for the book here. In case you didn’t know already, Botobit is an artbook packed with awesome artists, more than a hundred pages of pure illustration goodness, and several of the contributors are Gorillas, so it would be great to see your stuff here guys : D. You can buy it here.
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Hello, gang !

A modest post from me today. Just want to share the kind of stuff I do for myself, just for practice. I also want to apologies to anybody who could be shocked by the last picture.

Love on you all, folks. You guys made great art on this blog. As usual, should I say ?

[Clic for see it larger]

Hello, gang !

I’m currently working on painting some buildings before add into it some San Fransisco’s shots I made a year ago. Ho, that and work on some theatre poster, specially on font. You will understand I am not able to post a dirty sunday special…

That said, I still have a few chicks I painted for my erotic comic pages [see last week post]. They don’t appear that way in the panels, so that’s the opportunity for me to show you the full pictures [plus a lil' Tool lyrics in it] ! ^^

Enjoy !

I consider second one as a prototype for further investigation, in case I will have to do some trade in the near future… That’s for you, Dave ! ;)

Love on you gang,

and go back to work ! ^^;

J.

Hi ! Great work everyone! I did something too! Quite weird…

edit : After looking at it more, i realize that i really dislike the colors i did, so here is the line work only! :P

Bonjour, mes amis !
First, I hope you’ll have a nice Dirty Sunday ! :D
Here’s my contribution…

I have been contacted by Petit à Petit publishing, for participate on their upcoming French comic book erotic anthology. Roughly, I had to pick a poem from a list and make a sequential of it, four pages, no moren no less. My choice was limited by the fact I was hired at the last minute, and most of the cool erotic poems where allready selected.

Hopefully, nobodies picked “À Une Inhumaine” yet, a poem by Henri Cantel.

So here’s an earlier step of pages one and three. That’s all I allow myself to show you, for not spoil the French readers before it gets published. I’m actually finishing the last page, then it will be time to make tiny adjustements on the drawings and add little corrections on the font, wich might be removed by the publisher… so what you see might be print in a very different version. Clic it for see it bigger and enjoy.

A special thanks to Nénent and Clo, you guys know why. ^^

And a very very special thanks to Dave Palumbo, who convinced me to post the naked girls I made a few months ago, while I thought I should keep it for me. That’s how I get hired since.

So in a way, nothing will be possible without Dave’s sense of persuasion. Merci, Dave ! ^^

Stay Dirty, my friends. ^^;

Julien

Hello, folks !

Here’s another sample from the project I’m currently working on [see my previous Dirty Sunday post]. I think I will have to wait something like a good week or two before tell you more about it. That said, here’s a few hint: that’s for a sequential, it’s an adaptation from a erotic poem, written by a young prodigy [1]. My goal was to find something that fits to the rythm of the text and to find a story to tell underneath it, or it will be way too obvious. Photography [and nude art, obviously] plus a lil’ fantasy mood appears to be the best solution for that project. ^^

So, yeah, this WIP is not THAT dirty. But don’t worry, I will do worst another time.

Happy Dirty Sunday !

Love.

J.

[1] No, wait, he’s dead since a few decades now, my bad ! :P

Hey guys!

I’ve got some new stuff to share (hope some of you haven’t seen these).  I really like the new Dirty Sunday bit that is going on.  I’ll have to come up with something to join in.

Various Marilyn Monroe Stages

My mom, grandma, and girlfriend all gang-critted me one night saying that her nose was too red and she looked either really drunk or really sick.  i tried taking it in photoshop to fix it but it still has a long ways to go.

Finally somewhat satisfied with this B.B. King sketchbook entry after ruining it multiple times.

Some more blues musicians

sketch compilation

Here is a new batch of B&W interiors I did for White Wolf Publishing earlier this year. It was a fun gig to do. Thanks Craig!

Heyyy here’s a quick one for dirty Sunday! :D

Pencil+Brushpen+Photoshop. I hope you like it!