Daily Practice

April 22, 2016art, cg artart, artist, artistic, b&w, cg, concept, digital, doodle, draw, drawing, illustration, nude, paint, photoshop, practice, sketchutopie selective

Since I started working in the new company, I’ve been working daily on my digital art before I can get some time for oil painting: now that I’m in China, I don’t have a studio anymore.

I’ll get my colors and shadings in order before putting it into traditional medias. So here is some of the showable drawings made in the last days.

The rest of the team are all amazing digital artists, so its inspiring Gotta get my skills up to par.

I’ll give the originals credits:
- original drawing by O O Joo (check on artstation)
- sculpture by Fred Fichet
- Original oil painting by Nicola Samori

later!

Wu Zhaoming practice

February 8, 2016art, cg art, Uncategorizedart, artist, artistic, cg, color, colors, concept, digital, doodle, draw, drawing, illustration, instaart, nude, paint, painting, photoshop, pose, poses, posing, practice, sketchutopie selective

I don’t often paint on the computer,
but it’s probably time I start.

from a Wu Zhaoming painting

cheers!

Pictures of Shanghai

February 7, 2016life, Photobund, flickr, french concession, instagram, photo, pictures, shanghai, SHVFS, travelutopie selective

So,

I had the chance to be invited by SHVFS to give a lecture about concept art. I’m not going to talk about how nervous I was and clueless of what I could say. But, the best part was that I found myself in Shanghai for a week, with a lot of free time to go around and the chance to take some pictures.

Although I ate all the proofs of this: the food was awesome.

This is only a small selection, you can see more on my Flickr page, right there.

Sketching in China

January 31, 2016art, lifeart, Base, Base-FX, basefx, damon, draft, great, matt, movie, sketch, the great wall, wall, yimou, zhangutopie selective

So I moved to Beijing,

I was invited to work on the Zhang Yimou movie “The Great Wall” staring Matt Damon, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau, Pedro Pascal, Jing Tian, Lu Han.

The-Great-Wall-2015-LR

After the project, I was invited to stay at Base-FX as a Concept Artist. They have given me the chance to work on a big variety of projects, both chinese and american movies. Things have been going very quickly this last year, and I’m looking forward for more, but it didn’t give me the time to post. I will try to share more eventually!

Here is some sketch made in Beijing in 2015…

I’ll post some photos soon also!

That Muscular Guy

November 8, 2015artart, artist, artistic, b&w, dance, dancing, doodle, draw, drawing, man, muscle, muscular, pencil, pose, poses, posing, practice, sketchutopie selective

quick sketch this morning,

its actually from a painting
no real credits sorry, I just saw and draw it.

cheers!

Red Sun

July 8, 2014artart, artist, artistic, blue, bourgeoise serigraphe, color, colors, draw, drawing, gift, illustration, new, paint, painting, pattern, red, screen, screenprint, serigraphe, serigraphie, sketch, studio, woman, yellowutopie selective

Here is a fast little project I did last winter in order to give some self-made chrismas gifts.
The artwork is an assembly of sketches and vector patterns I made earlier in 2013. I then screeprinted those in order to get the result you see now. It was a fun little project, lots of mistakes since it was a very fast thing (two days in total) but it was nice to get back to the screenprinting table (it’s been a while!)

Sketches

July 7, 2014art, Uncategorizedart, artist, artistic, doodle, draw, drawing, illustration, ink, instaart, nude, paint, painting, pencil, sketch, studio, technique, watercolorutopie selective

Here’s a quick updated of sketches made recently.

Loosening up with ink and a little bit of watercolors too. There’s a strong influence of Michael Lentz in those, but for the practice it was interesting.

Still alive & the X-Men

July 6, 2014lifeben kingsley, bob zemeckis, charlotte lebon, days of future past, dofp, film, gordon, gordon-levitt, halle berry, hugh jackman, ian mckellen, james mc avoy, jennifer lawrence, JGL, joseph, joseph gordon-levitt, kingsley, lebon, levitt, life, live, michael fassbender, movie, patrick stuart, petit, philippe, philippe Petit, robert zemeckis, the walk, twin towers, walk, workplace, world trade center, WTC, x-men, xmdofp, xmen, zemeckisutopie selective

So it’s been a while since I wrote something!

Lots of stuff changed since my last post, I’ve been really busy, but here’s the work-related news:

I spent the last year working on X-Men : Days Of Future Past as a set designer, and although it took all my free time for a year, it was a real blast.

It was hard to go to the studio at that time, but the project allowed me and the rest of the team to be really creative in many ways. We had the opportunity to design in all direction: sci-fi, 70ies, an ancient monastery, etc…. (That’s why in the movie industry, we all love time travel)
Had the chance to redesign some iconic pieces of the X-men world, like the Cerebro Console.

I’ll check if I can get some pictures cleared to post them here, otherwise, it’s mostly all over the internet at that time. It’s been out for…. like 6 weeks I think? And we are really happy here that the film is a success and a good movie (those two don’t necessarily go together).

I’m currently finishing work on another movie, The Walk by Robert Zemeckis

(staring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Lebon and Sir Ben Kingsley) It tells the story of frenchman Philippe Petit that illegaly crossed on a wire the World Trade Center Twin Tower in 1974.

Too much work these days,
I’m really impatient now to go back to the studio to work on my own stuff,
but bills have to be paid (and I must say I’m lucky to work in that industry as a designer since its always fun)

Ciao.

“La frontière des Mythes”: One Massive upload!

November 15, 2013artutopie selective

Hello everybody,
Now is the time to show the complete serie I’m working on. Well, “all I did so far” since I planned for 30 pieces and I’ve been able to finish 10 by now. You can expect more in the coming weeks.

Click on any picture to go to the project page and be able to see the details

July 15, 1995 – Srebrenica

November 11, 2013art1995, anti-war, antiwar, art, artist, artistic, artoftheday, artwork, b&w, bosnia, death, frontiers, ink, july 15, lino, linocut, massacre, ONU, paper, serbia, slaughter, srebrenica, stamp, stamping, stamps, toll, UN, victim, victims, war, yougoslaviautopie selective

JULY 15 1995 – SREBRENICA
ink (linocut stamps) on paper
15 sheets 20″x26″
complete artwork 108″x80″

Here is the first artwork of the new serie I’m working on, called Frontiers of Myths (Les frontière des Mythes in french).
it’s serie of the wars in Yougoslavia in the ’90. I was only ten years old at the time, and it was the first time I realized that not everybody was having a confortable childhood like me. The fact that genocides, systematic rapes or other methods of destroying a population were still happening in the nineties, and so close (in the middle of Europe!) was shocking for me.

It took me several years to go back to the subject, but I still feel strongly about those events, so I decided to do a serie about that subject. Here you can find the first artwork I’m releasing, the rest is coming in the next days!

Stamped 2361 times… one for each identified body of the Srebrenica massacre.

On July 7 1995, The Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladić invaded the city of Srebrenica, located in a UN protected zone. During the whole week, the soldiers will capture and kill the population trying to escape the city.
We estimate between 6000 to 7000 victims, most of them males of any ages.
2361 victims have been identified to this day.

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