Jeunes Pilotes

Here's an illustration I did for CFORP, it's for a short story written by Paul Prud'Homme, about a group of teens going in the wilderness of Alaska for their spring break. They only bring the essential; no mp3 players, cellphones or electronic games. I always love a good survivor storie, so it was fun project to work on.

Carcajou

For close to a year now, I've been working on the mini serie Carcajou for Tremplin magazines. The comic bounced between two styles depending on if it was for 4th or 2nd graders. After 20 comics the adventure as come to an end. It was a great project and I'm glad I was part of it.

Here's the last 4 one-pagers for the 2nd graders and a few samples from the last 2 comics for the 4th graders.

Baseball illustration

Here's the latest illustration I created for Mon Mag a Moi. I added the preliminary sketches I did to get to the final idea. The second sketch was my favorite but they wanted to depict the fun and teamwork aspect of baseball and less the competitive side. I'm still very happy with the shot that was chosen, I got to draw a bunch of different characters in dynamic poses.

By the way if you've never seen a baseball pitch in slow motion, youtube it. It looks painful.

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I did a couple of illustrations for Mon Mag a Moi. They are like games you see on the back of cereal boxes, the ones where you have to find errors. The theme was dessert, so I did them and sent them off to the client. Here's the kicker... the theme wasn't desserts but desert! So I had to do another set!! So, I saw the sun come up a few times this week and got to post a few more illustrations on this blog. Here's the 2 sets and a close up.

By the way, there's 7 errors!

Premier Jeux Interplanetairs

These illustrations will be found in the magazine QUAD9 for a story about the galactic games of 2090, on Saturn. The athletes get infected by space dust and the doctors find out about a remedy from the Saturnians. It was nice to work on a story that touches current events: the H1N1 and the upcoming winter games.

I tried to keep the illustrations simple with a limited palette. They are on a beige background because I wanted to show you how I cut them. I can't wait to see them printed!

Kinou au Zoo

Another project for CFORP, this time for the Mon Mag a Moi magazine. The story was about an alien kangaroo teleported to a zoo on earth and then getting himself in a little trouble. I had a lot of fun with the characters and colors for this one.

Minimag

Here's a few illustrations I worked on last month for CFORP's new magazine, Minimag. They're going to publish at least 2 other issues that I hopefully will have the chance to work on. Later this year, all the stories and illustrations will be gathered into a huge book so teachers can read along with the kids. The illustrations really changed from the beginning to the end of the project. The characters and over feel needed to be ajusted quite a bit. Check out the first character sketches and the finished product!