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Last week I finished drawing the last panels of Ringbreaker #2, scripted by Alan Bahr. I was able to indulge in several panels with a strong focus on backgrounds, long wide shots where the characters are very small, it's really fun to play with scale. You can follow me on: Instagram | Twitter  | BSky

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A panel from one of the projects I'm currently working, from Rinbreaker #2, written by Alan Bahr. Few things are more difficult than drawing horses, but what a visual power they have in a composition. You can follow me on: Instagram | Twitter  | BSky

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These four illustrations form a series titled The Doomed Magicians: Prisons. They are mages from different parts of the Universe, sentenced to endure a terrible punishment, unjustly imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. Inspired primarily by the imagery of trading card games like Magic: The Gathering or Mitos y Leyendas, I wanted to recreate a series with the same spirit—those magical captions that, in just two lines of text, could paint an entire character, situation, or feeling. I’m really excited to start working on the next series, which for now will be titled The Doomed Magicians: Liberations, where they will finally unleash their full power. You can follow me on: Instagram | Twitter  | BSky

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Returning to my obsession with Egyptian aesthetics, another key piece that was burned into my mind was the first Stargate movie (Jaye Davidson's portrayal of Ra is incredible), and of course, the desert scenes from The Fifth Element, with all that concept art by Jean-Claude Mézières and Moebius displayed before my eyes—without yet knowing who they were. Another lineart I really enjoyed finishing, though it took me longer than I would have liked to define the pose. You can follow me on: Instagram | Twitter  | BSky

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The initial concept of the Doomed Mage Horus, the Transmuter of Stars. I wanted my representation of the Egyptian god to have armor as well—not only because of my obsession with Saint Seiya (I think that's pretty obvious), but also to protect him from the infinite power of the Sun as he travels across the Universe. One of the things I enjoy most when designing these illustrations is developing the characters, both aesthetically and narratively. You can follow me on: Instagram | Twitter  | BSky

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My fourth Doomed Magician: Horus. One of my earliest aesthetic obsessions was Egypt, with its mythology and cosmogony filled with gods bearing beautiful animal heads, magical creatures like sphinxes, and monolithic structures. Part of that still lingers in my aesthetic DNA and served as the clay to shape this image. "Specimen 342 from the private collection of the Exiled Pharaoh".

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These are the materials I’m currently using to paint my personal illustrations: Pébéo gouache, I love the hues you can achieve, though I wish they were creamier (they’re a bit dry to work with) And Nicker’s cerulean blue is a little treasure I was able to bring back from Japan. I'm using these two brushes: a classic round brush size 5 and a flat brush size 4. Since I'm working on A3 format, these two brushes are more than enough. I should get a metal palette for mixing! You can follow me on: Instagram | Twitter  | BSky

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One of the things that dazzled me most about Saint Seiya was the distortions in the faces and bodies when they were affected by extremely powerful attacks. I tried to incorporate a lot of that into the second chapter of Sundari. You can follow me on: Instagram | Twitter  | BSky

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At the stairs of Shahar Buddha, The Illuminated City. The panel I enjoyed inking the most from the first chapter of Sundari. You can follow me on: Instagram | Twitter  | BSky

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These past few weeks I've been working on an action sequence that's inserted between the scenes of other artists, so it was a coordination job as well as designing panels. I can't show much more, if it ever gets published I'll surely share it here. Since the idea was to pay tribute to Dragon Ball fights, I was able to indulge myself in paying tribute to one of the scenes that had the most impact on me as a kid from "Super Senshi Gekiha" (Broly's 1994 first movie).

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A panel from a few pages that I'm working on these weeks, I was able to treat myself by making a character coming out of the Earth's atmosphere, which was something I wanted to draw in some sequence one day!

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Coming back to draw Revnah, for Ringkreaker #2, scripted by Alan Bahr! I already missed drawing these characters, I don't want to spoil, but dragons appear in this issue.

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“You will be sentenced to 1000 years in the Prison City of Madinat Alsjin”. I'm immersed in a whirlwind of drawing digital layouts of several projects, wishing to ink some of that.

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"That bead again, crossing my destiny". A panel that I really enjoyed inking from the third chapter of Sundari. I've already finished to write the plots for the next three chapters. Back to drawing now! Read Sundari #1. Read Sundari #2. Read Sundari #3.

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The zine version of Sundari is printed! A lot of effort but it was worth every hour invested. It took several days and nights of printing, folding and sharpening. This version is only available for Argentina, but you can read online and free the three chapters of this story in Manga Plus:

Read Sundari #1. Read Sundari #2. Read Sundari #3.

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The third chapter of Sundari is now available to read online. This chapter closes the first stage of this comic, I am already working on the scripts for the next three, focused on Ramil, the Sand Magician. "One of the beads crosses the heavens to the Arabian desert of Rub al-Khali, where Madinat Alsijn, the Prison City lies. Sundari is mistaken for a fugitive while searching for one of the lost Buddha Rosary beads". Read Sundari #3 on Manga Plus. You can follow me on: Instagram | Twitter

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The second chapter of my comic Sundari is now available to read online. I think this chapter is the most Saint Seiya inspired artwork I ever made, it has a lot of Masami Kurumada but specially of Shingo Araki and Michi Himeno influences, I enjoyed a lot doing these pages. "Sundari follows the trail of a bead to a mysterious garden of sand and rocks, which turns out to be an illusion, a mental labyrinth of the artificer of Buddha's death, the Black Lotus himself. A battle for control of one's own mind".

Read Sundari #2 on Manga Plus. You can follow me on: Instagram | Twitter