Saturday, October 27, 2012

RAIN... pencils

Pencils for the RAIN piece.

                                                                                                                         Copyright © Gerardo Sandoval

RAIN...

Inspired in those days when I was young, when the rain just get you all wet and you just enjoyed the water... nice feeling. In this case... this little girl is not that pleased as I was when I got all that wet.

                                                                                                                      Copyright © Gerardo Sandoval

Thursday, October 25, 2012

DREAD FORCE Page 6

From Dawn Of the Dread Force...

                                                             Dawn of the Dread Force. Copyright © Jaran Studios.

DREAD FORCE Page 7

From Dawn Of the Dread Force...

                                                                                         Dawn of the Dread Force. Copyright © Jaran Studios.

DREAD FORCE Page 8

From Dawn Of the Dread Force...

                                                                                                   Dawn of the Dread Force. Copyright © Jaran Studios.

DREAD FORCE Page 9

From Dawn Of the Dread Force...

                                                                         Dawn of the Dread Force. Copyright © Jaran Studios.

MEMORIES...

Do you remember when we were teens... those nice days when you only could think in that little person?

                                                                                                                                          Copyright © Gerardo Sandoval

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

SAD...

A fast layout, done in seven minutes. I love cartoonist style. 

                                                                                                      Copyright © Gerardo Sandoval

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

NEOKHAN PENCILS VERSION!

This piece is double spread comic book page, took me like thirteen hours to finish. Done with Mechanical pencils 0.5 and 0.3 HB.

                                                                    Dawn of the Dread Force. Copyright © Jaran Studios.

NEOKHAN COLOR VERSION!

The same piece, with the amazing Danimation's colors!

                                                Dawn of the Dread Force. Copyright © Jaran Studios.



Monday, October 22, 2012

SPORDS ILLUSTRATED KIDS 1

I love soccer, and I really enjoyed drawing this book.

                                                                                    Copyright © Stone Arch Books

SPORDS ILLUSTRATED KIDS 2

                                                                                      Copyright © Stone Arch Books

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED KIDS 3

                                                                                   Copyright © Stone Arch Books

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED KIDS 4

                                                                                     Copyright © Stone Arch Books

Sunday, October 21, 2012

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED KIDS! 5

The rain and the blue colors, amazing details from Benny Fuentes' color.

                                                                                  Copyright © Stone Arch Books

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED KIDS! 6

I really loved work this cartoon style!

                                                                                Copyright © Stone Arch Books

Saturday, October 20, 2012

LOBO!

The main man. If I could just get a chance... only one chance, to work this amazing character for DC Comics... (sigh)

                                                                                              Copyright © DC Comics

Thursday, October 18, 2012

HULK MAESTRO VS DARKNESS!

A commission about this epic battle. Damn... how do I love the badass characters.


X-MEN!


A commission from this amazing characters. Made with mechanical pencils 0.5mm and 0.3mm HB.

                                                                                          Copyright © Marvel Comics

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

JAGUAR WARRIOR!

This piece was 100% Photoshop CS3. Like eight hours of work. This one took me more time than it looks like.

                                                                                       Copyright © Gerardo Sandoval

EAGLE WARRIOR!

Great hollywood movies about Roman empire, gladiators, great tv series about Rome... what about Spartacus? amazing serie!... but...  why not about Aztecs? Why in hell nobody cares about Aztecs? If the Aztecs were an European culture... would be movies about it?

One of the biggest genocides in history happened here, in México. Our amazing Aztec culture was devastated, thousands of people were annihilated by the spanish pathfinder. A very nice story to tell about a huge battle with the most amazing warrios and no one care a shit about it.

I'll love to do a comic book about my culpture... I hope some day I can!

 
                                                                                          Copyright ©Gerardo Sandoval

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

AZTEC WARRIORS Pages 1!

Some samples pages that the legend Whilce Portacio asked to me a few months ago. I hope we can work together some day.


AZTEC WARRIORS Pages 2 - 3!

This piece was like eight or maybe nine hours of work. Double spread done in bristol artboard, mechanical pencils HB 0.5mm and 0.3mm.




KUNG FU PANDA PENCILS!

This is the way I do a quick pencil piece. 2mm red color for layouts and HB 0.5mm mechanical pencil. This Po took me like ten minutes to draw. 

                                                    Kung Fu Panda. Copyright © DreamWorks.


NEOKHAN COVER PENCILS!

Here is my original scan, it  tooks me longer to do some clean lines, since this piece is not having inks... I needed to do my pencils as clean as possible. 

This is the way how an original page from Dread Force looks like. 

                                                   Dawn of the Dread Force. Copyright © Jaran Studios.





NEOKHAN COVER FULL COLOR!

This a the colored version for one of the future Dread Force covers.

Dawn of the Dread Force. Copyright © Jaran Studios.

Monday, October 15, 2012

KUNG FU PANDA!

This is a piece for my upcoming sketchbook. Done in photoshop CS5.

                                                   Kung Fu Panda. Copyright © DreamWorks.


Sunday, October 14, 2012

DAWN OF THE DREAD FORCE!

My good friend Jason Anderson and I, have spent the last five years, working this project. His idea about the big Mechs got my attention... he showed me some nice mechs designs he did and I loved the idea. So... I worked the final mech designs and all the human characters faces. At the begining, this project was a nice team work, with Kurt Hathaway as writer and Misty Coats, Dani (Danimation) and Simon Bork as colorists.  We were building a fantastic book. But unfortunately, in those days, I had several personal issues with my wife in hospital... she had a surgery accident and she entered in coma.

We had to stop the project. All the team work understood my situation and all of them waited for me while I was a witness of my wife fighting for her life. Thanks God everything came better and my wife saved her life. She waked up from the coma and we needed two years for a very long and painful recovery. Two fucking years with a lot of suffering, with her learning to walk again, with her stomach learning to eat again, but this wonderful woman made it. Today... she is in perfect conditions. She is my fucking hero ever!!!

After all this, the project couldn't work. The writer and the colorists had to move on, and my good friend Jason and I, never stop thinking on Dread Force. So, once my wife came back to her regular life... every night before I went to sleep, I always stayed working layouts and new ideas for Dread Force's story.  I felt like it was my fault that the book was never realised, I felt responsable for it and it becomes an obsesion for me. I checked the scripts over and over (it supposed to be a three issues story) and I find a lot of mistakes, I started writing ideas, fixing details, creating concepts. I didn't realised how it happened, but I ended with the first season, sixteen issues of a nice story with a lot of great action and human characters with nice story behind them.

So, I talk to my friend Jason, I let him knew my thoughts and how I felt responsable about it. I felt a personal issue to finish this project and he understood me. So... the last three years, we had work hard on it. We tried to get a colorist and we haven't good luck. It's not easy to find such a good colorist as the old team did. Simon and Misty did some awesome interior pages on issue one, and we couldn't find a replacement for them... so sad. But since the story had a big change, all will be redone. Yes... that beautiful and amazing color on issue one that they colored (and nobody see it yet)... will have to be redone at all.

OK, right now. Jason and I are working together in redoing the series in order to bring it to live. I changed a lot of stuff, new characters, new scripts, new story direction and new nice pages.

Dread Force, is a comic book with nice huge mechs, spectacular battle fields and a lot of great action. But the story is not about mechs... the Dread Force's story it's about human survival, human priorities, human relationships, fear, hungry, fury... real human behaviors. This is the story of a big survivors group, that had find the secret to destroy those monster Mechs that acclaimed the earth for them... 

                                 ...DAWN OF THE DREAD FORCE, IS COMING SOON!  

                                                    Dread force Created by Jason Anderson and Gerardo Sandoval. 
                                                                              Dawn of the Dread Force. Copyright © Jaran Studios.

CRAVEN!

The responsible for the final world war. Designer, creator from the most amazing alien technology for war. 

Craven sent to earth five war machines to kill the last human's rebel forces that survived the war. This five machines, are the huge Mechs designed with amazing skills and technology. The five Mechs' group called: The Dread Force.

                                                        Dread force Copyright © Jaran Studios

NEOKHAN!

Neokhan started having some different thoughts than the other four. He decided not to annihilate more humans. The other four Dread Force, will declare the war to him, at the same time that the new powerful Craven's Beast arrives to figh them all.

                                                                           Dread force Copyright © Jaran Studios

TYRANNACZAR!

A mechanical huge monster builded with all the power needed to destroy the five Dread Force. 

                                                                          Dread force Copyright © Jaran Studios

SINISTAUR!

The big boss, the one... this Mech is the leader from the five Dread Force. His goal is to control the earth and bring war to his creator Craven.

                                                         Dread force Copyright © Jaran Studios

DREADNAUT and NOKTURNAL!

The white/black mech called Nokturnal, is a very violent soldier. He loves to kill and destroy. Dreadnaut is a very good soldier. Always at his leader services. 

                                                                           Dread force Copyright © Jaran Studios

LEVIAKHAN!

Double personality, a very fierce Mech. This monster is the strongest from the five Dread Force.

                                                                            Dread force Copyright © Jaran Studios
Page one, Cyber Force from the samples asked for the great Whilce Portacio:



Pages two and three for Cyber Force samples.

CYBER FORCE!

I did this pin up sample for Whilce Portacio. Done in five hours, pencils HB. 

                                                    Cyber Force. Copyright © Image Comics

JUDGE DREDD!!

I always thought that a bad guy character, is harder to design than the good guy... and when a hero is designed as a bad-ass... I just love it!!!

Judge Dredd-- A fine sample about what I mean! Here is my pencil version from this amazing character. 


ENJOY--