Drawing by night

First off, welcome!

Most readers stopping by here probably know me, but for those who don’t…

I’m a 26 year old Concept Artist from Montreal. I’ve been doing everything from graphic design for print and multimedia to user experience design more recently, without mentioning storyboarding, commissioned portraits, animation, you name it! This leaves me to work on my own projects in the little spare time that’s left.

Hence, I’ve been drawing by night for the last couple of years.

Recently, I’ve been working on a comic book project, and it has been a great learning experience. Over the last year, as friends and various people have caught glimpses of my work, I’ve shared tips and techniques, gotten useful feedback and a fair share of interest and requests for more material and information.

This is where this blog comes in.

I’ll be maintaining it with artwork from my project as it becomes available, tips and tools, behind the scenes material (such as pages that didn’t make the cut, pencils, sketches, storyboards), and news comic and art related.

So whether you’re a new comer or someone I’ve already had the chance to meet and discuss with since the beginning of this project, welcome!

I look forward to engaging with all of you fellow comic & art enthusiasts, artists, and anyone who takes the time to stop by here.

The Trigger Project is what Marc-André Legault and I have dubbed our latest comic boook project.

It’s a tentative name, that we’re going to have to replace soon, now that the first issue is well under way.

In the meantime, here’s the latest page I finished in color, the majority of the first issue being pencilled and inked…

As you can see from the artwork, it’s a western! Took us some time to realize thi is what we should have been doing for a while! Of course its mixed with video game influences and a healthy dose of hip-hop culture…

For kicks, here’s the pencilled page.

For more artwork, you can always swing by my comicspace for 4 additionnal colored pages.

Lebrecord, a lebanese art & design webmag published an article and samples of my work back in May 2007.

View the full interview here .

In the spirit of letting you readers in on the creative process, here is a first piece of concept art for one of The Trigger project’s villains.

The Duke needed to give off an aura of power, luxury, and arrogance.

He totes some serious weaponry, and has a very flamboyant style.

Often going to great lenghts to show off his power in front of his lackies, you have to make sure you don’t rub The Duke the wrong way, or hog the spotlight… otherwise, you might wind up being part of his next show.