Blue Hood

Here’s the hero I came up with for the Heróica Zine (did you know you can download it for free over athttp://ricardobessa.com/HEROICA-Zine? Go get it!). He’s inspired on the Iberian emerald lizard, which I tried to show mostly with the suit’s color scheme.

Being a part of this zine feels awesome. So many cool people. Seriously, go check it out. The art is great and there are so many cool ideas for heroes!‪ Read it, dig it, share it!

Classic Figures of Terror - Dorian Gray

I was invited to be a part of the Classic Figures of Terror exhibition, a traveling exhibition that features different interpretations, by many great portuguese illustrator, of classic figures of terror - from Dracula to Frankenstein's Monster to Cthulhu, you'll find many familiar faces there. I got the character Dorian Gray, and it was fun to figure out what to do while trying to maybe be different from the obvious interpretations of the character.
I was happy with how it came out, and people who visited the exhibition (which unveiled at 2015's edition of the horror movie festival moteLX) gave me some good feedback.

Photo by João Alves.

Here are a couple of illustrations I did for Portent, the Webcomic. The first one features Hammerfall II and the second features Portent on his very first fight. Want to know more? Check out the webcomic!

Portent

Meet Portent! He's the main character on a new funny and action packed webcomic I'm working on. Written and lettered by MaGnUs, drawn by me, and greys by Pedro Carvalho. It's available simultaneously in English, Spanish, and Portuguese!

English: http://portent.thecomicseries.com/

Spanish (nothing here yet, check on Sunday): http://marcheuncuadrito.blogspot.com/search/label/Portento

Portuguese: English: http://oportento.thecomicseries.com/

Cover - GAS3K.4

Here’s the cover I did for GAS3K.4, a collection of short comics and general awesomeness. Thanks to my friend Magnus von Tesla for inviting me to draw this cover, I had a blast :D Keep an eye out for GAS3K.4, it’ll be for sale at Montevideo Comics and it’ll be available for download soon after that.

Commission - Individeos

Over the past few days I’ve been working on a big commission. I did it for the awesome portuguese production company Individeos, of which my friend João Leitão is a partner. He asked me to draw himself and the other 3 Individeos partners riding dinosaurs on the moon. It was a really fun concept, so I had a blast drawing this. The guys dug it as well, so I’m a happy camper. Since I’m so happy, I’ll share the preliminar sketches, the flats and the final look of this piece.

This was one of the first sketches. Messy pencils all around.

This version is a little cleaner, and the layout is a little more defined.

Here are the color flats.

Final version.

Hope you dig it!

Looking back on 2011

I noticed that some awesome artists I really admire (Evan "Doc" Shaner, Dean Trippe and Mike Maihack) updated their tumblrs/websites recently with a look back at some of the art they produced on 2011. It's an awesome idea, so here's a little montage with some of the pieces I did on 2011. Enjoy!

Tintin

You guys might recall the double dose of Attack the Block drawings me and Mike Horowitz gave you a couple of months ago - we both had unfinished sketches and we made a deal that we’d both finish and post our drawings. That was a lot of fun, so we decided to repeat the experience.

This time, Mike suggested we drew something from Tintin. I loved the idea, because I read pretty much all the Tintin comics when I was a kid, and they’re still an important part of my comic references. The Shooting Star was one of my favorite Tintin comics and I thought it’d be cool to recreate a moment from the book. This is the result.

Check out Mike’s Tumblr to see his awesome drawing! Hope you enjoy this new double dose of Carla/Mike drawings, it was a lot of fun.

Drive

Last weekend I got to see Drive. It was awesome, so here's a Drive-related drawing for you.

Enjoy!

Happy Halloween

Since it's almost Halloween, here are a couple of Halloween related pieces for you:

I drew this simple Nosferatu for Monster Month! I was planning on doing a bunch more drawings, but I just realized we’re nearing the end of October and I won’t have time to draw more Monster Month submissions. Bummer. If so, I hope you liked this one. You can check it out over at Monster Month.

In addition to this, Chris Haley drew a pretty kick ass black and white set of Halloween-related characters and made them available for people to color. The drawings were too much fun and I couldn’t resist, so here’s Chris Haley’s young mummy dressed up as frankenstein with my colors on it.

Make sure you check out the other drawings over at Chris’ Tumblr, and make sure you check out the webcomic Let’s Be Friends Again. It’s pretty much my favorite webcomic.

Have a happy and safe Halloween, you guys!

Jamie Lannister

Last week, I quickly wipped up this Jamie Lannister drawing to go with the previous ones I did of Jon Snow and Ned Stark. I'm planning to draw some more characters, I think it'd be fun to have a whole set of these drawings. We'll see how that goes. For now, hope you enjoy this new one!

Fido

Here’s something new for you. A few months ago, Matt Mogk - author and creator of the Zombie Research Society - invited me to do an illustration for his upcoming book. The illustration should be of a famous zombie from film history. This is exactly my cup of tea, so even though I didn’t have much time for drawing, I managed to create this black and white simple drawing of Fido, the zombie.

Matt Mogk’s book - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies - is now out and you can get it through Amazon, Book Depository and all that. It features my ilustration and many others by some awesome artists, so make sure you buy it!

Plus, you know, zombies. Matt Mogk is pretty much an authority on the subject, so I’m sure you’re gonna want to have this book by your side when the plague of the undead hits.

EDIT - I now have the book in my hands, and I can't wait to read it. Here's the published Fido:

The Rocketeer

Can you believe I had never watched this movie? Shame on me, I know. All is right with the world now, though. I drew this as a gift for Pedro, because he's awesome and he introduced me to The Rocketeer!

Capitão Falcão

I got home pretty tired from work today, so I decided to draw something fun to clear my head. I chose to draw something inspired by the adventures of Capitão Falcão (Captain Falcon, in english), a fictional portuguese hero a la Green Hornet that will be the main character on a new comedy tv show. I thought the “old comic” look would fit the characters, so I went with it.
If you want to check out the trailer for Capitão Falcão, just head over here.

Attack the Block

Here's a new piece, based on the cool new sci-fi movie by Joe Cornish, Attack the Block. Enjoy, and see this movie! It's a lot of fun. Believe!

Scarlet Spider

I've always been a huge fan of Spiderman, and back in the 90s, don't ask me why, I actually dug the Clone Saga, and Ben Reilly - the Scarlet Spider - was one of my favorite characters. His costume his so 90s - just notice the little pouches on his ankles - but I still kind of like it anyway. Today I took a little time off to draw him. Enjoy a little experiment and the full colored version below.

Snape and Harry

In case you guys didn't know, I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. I started reading the books when they first started getting published in Portugal, and the whole Potter world became a big part of my imagination. Even now, as a grown adult, the series is still a big part of me, even if there will be no more Harry Potter books or movies. Last weekend I went to the movies to check out Deathly Hallows: Part 2. I really liked it - obviously, as a fan, I have a tendency to nitpick, but I think it was a really good wrap-up for the series. Snape pretty much stole the show, but I don't want to spoil anything for anyone who hasn't seen the movie or read the book yet. Since he was so awesome, I felt like drawing something with Snape and Harry, and I decided to represent a scene that used to be typical at Hogwarts. Hope you enjoy it!

As a little treat, here's a progress shot of this particular piece: first lines only, then the flats, and finally the finished drawing.

Bob's Burguers

Me and my boyfriend recently started watching two new tv shows: Game of Thrones and Bob's Burgers. It's a great ballance, really: Game of Thrones is intense and dark, and Bob's Burgers is extremely funny, and it really feels good to laugh a bit after watching some Lannisters prance around the screen for a while (grrr Lannisters suck!). Since I like Bob's Burgers so much, I had to try my hand at drawing the family, so I did. I came up with this extremely simple drawing while I had a day off from work and decided it was a good idea to practice my digital drawing skills (sadly underdeveloped so far). I hope you enjoy it, and trust me, check out Bob's Burgers!

What about fan art for Game of Thrones, you ask? Maybe soon you'll see some. Check out Game of Thrones too, while you're at it. Fantastic show and even better book series.

Mad Scientist

My newest contribution to Hungry for Lines was an interpretation of the theme "Mad Scientist". Here I give you not one, but two versions of this drawing: the inked version and the colored version.


I drew this with a mechanical pencil, inked it with a mix of 0.1, 0.3 and 0.5 pens, as well as a brush pen. I hope you dig it!

Ride

Finally, some new drawings, right? And it's a new drawing, and also some cool news: I am the newest member of the Hungry for Lines collective, an art collective that, every two weeks, creates work related to a specific theme. I'm really happy to be a part of it, because it will not only give me a chance to practice and improve, but also because some of my current favorite portuguese artists are members of Hungry for Lines, so I can't help but be proud to be a part of it too. This week's theme is Ride, so here's what I drew for it:

I invite all of you guys to check out the website: hungryforlines.com and have fun browsing through the artwork. I promise it's all awesome!