Archive for July, 2007

Lately I´m trying with a “simpler” style (simple by the visual appearance, not by the difficulty involved). I was going to say more “comic” but in fact, there are all types of comics (a few authors with really complicated styles come to my head right now) so…

What I mean is that I am trying to apply (and to maintain) the ink in my drawings since normally my drawings are not inked per se, perhaps due to my form to work the watercolor, when I passed to the computer I continued maintaining that “odd habit” of not leaving a black edge.

Now I want to recover that “comic style” of what I have very few samples in my gallery, mainly of old drawings. So here I leave a pair of inked drawings ready to be painted. The boy is a sketch that I did at the time I was reading “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn” from Tadd Williams, great series (and great author) for whom hasn´t read it. I found it misplaced and I´ve redrawn it completely and inked. As far as the other….well I had to draw something for the inking, ehem.

As always, comments are admitted. Critics and insults only two by person please, do not crowd to me

Well, at last, the first drawing made for posting it. Actually it´s not a great thing, just one of those drawings you make on a notebook without paying much attention and, when you finish, you look at it and say ” mmmm….Must do something with this someday”. So, here it is. I´ve made the Ink with my beloved Painter and when the time arrived to paint it, I was more interested in trying background colors than to actually make a good draw on the character and that´s obvious. But it has been funny. And yep, I like Star Trek. So what?

I think not much people would see this but, for you, reading this….What header do you like more?. Clicking on image you´ll see how they look like on the blog. The one that´s on the blog now enters on the pool. You can send commentaries or send me a message through the contact form :-)

As you can see the translation of the titles of the posts is working, but I have some ’ little’ problems with the size (font size, don´t be a pervert). At this moment only the translation of posts titles is working, page titles (like the gallery) isn´t working yet (even though as far as I know it should work). Thanks to Gh3, the creator of Babel plugin who is very very kindly taking a look at the blog and the template´s code to see if the problems can be fixed. We´re having some problems but I think with this plugin the effort is worth the trouble. It could be nobody but me who, without having no idea of html nor php, began to make a blog (first one in my entire life, I swear) choosing wordpress as cms and start “playing” with the code (with Google´s aid, of course). I even don´t use widgets, all is embedded into the template´s code…..

I have a extrange love/hate relationship with Google this days….:)

Well, finally Babel is installed and running, an awesome plugin that you can get here, from the author´s own web. I still have some problems with post titles not being translated (I don´t know if it´s my template´s fault but I have had to figure how and where to introduce the code lines because the install as the author explains didn´t work for me) but I hope to fix it soon.  Now, just a few details to be done like adding links to blogroll and a few things that, I supose,will be done over the time.
Right now you can change the language (just for that posts that I have wrote in both
languages, Babel is not an automatic translator, you have to write the text in both languages in order to keep Babel working) with the little flags next to the feeds, top corner of the sidebar.)
with the little flags next to the feeds, top corner of the sidebar.

Hope I´ll get the rythm soon…