THE SKETCHING AND ILLUSTRATION WORKS OF MAURICET
LA GRANDE OURSE A.S.B.L.
VOL . 1
"Sketchbook Collection" Icon-O-Clash & Artwork Š Mauricet All rights reserved. Editor : Tony Lariviere Book Design : Mauricet Published by La Grande Ourse A.S.B.L. 187b, rue Salm B-5300 Landenne (Belgium) Write to : tony.lariviere@skynet.be Visit our website at www.lagrandeourse.be For more information on Mauricet, please visit www.mauricet.be and mauricet.blogspot.com Printed in Belgium by Adrenaline. First printing, October 2009
THE SKETCHING AND ILLUSTRATION WORKS OF MAURICET
VOL . 1
LA GRANDE OURSE A.S.B.L.
right and overlay : Malicious alice. pencil & markers sketch and photoshop illustration. "this was one of my first photoshop drawings. The end result conforted me in the idea to pursue in that direction."
left : umbrellasian. Photoshop illustration.
Below : prelim pencils and markers for the umbrellasian illustration.
opposite : Blue riding hood illustration. pencil, markers and photoshop tweaking.
opposite and overlay : The icebear. pencil prelim and Photoshop illustration. "I tried to capture the icy cold of water with the colors. It’s one of my first real attempts at animals too." Below : Thru the window of my eyes. marker prelim sketch and photoshop illustration. "this one was intended as a try-out panel for a new comic book project."
opposite : photoshop illustration. An Hommage to the spirit.
below : Preliminary pencils for the Spirit illustration.
right : photoshop illustration. "This one was inspired by elisabeth bathory and photo model seffana. hence the name seffathory."
opposite : Bite me, piglet! Photoshop illustration. "I added the BDSM piglet at the end of the process to adjust the balance of the image. well..."
right and below : jezebel. photoshop and preliminary pencil sketch. "an illustration inspired by a depeche mode song. In the prelim, I intended to use Piglet again but then decided not to."
opposite and overlay : Snowbrella. pencil prelim and Photoshop illustration. "Notice how the umbrella becomes a stick in the final drawing. In this one I wanted again to convey coldness and try to draw pretty animals."
Above : Lady GlamGlam. A quick photoshop illustration. "inspired by the creative miss gaga."
right and overlay : Typhoid mary. markers prelim sketch and photoshop illustration. "One of daredevil’s freakiest foes."
Below : markers & brush illustration. "Inspired by music again. this time, a visage song called the damned don’t cry."
right : The witch illustration. pencil, markers and photoshop colours & tweaking.
below : The dead of night. Pencil illustration. "and yes, again inspired by a depeche mode song."
left : happiest girl. A quick brush & markers doodle. "I just love her nose."
overlay and opposite : Axelia & butcher niles. pencil & markers prelim and pen & ink illustration. photoshop colours & tweaking. "I did this one in the spirit of the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival posters."
opposite : Apnea and her umbrella. markers illustration and photoshop colours & tweaking. "this is the poster for the 2010 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival and I’m pretty damn proud of it!"
overlay : Apnea and her umbrellA. pencil & markers prelim for the 2010 bifff illustration.
below : Apnea’s umbrella. pen & ink illustration and photoshop colours. "when I did this piece in 2007 some people suggested it’d make a great bifff poster. 2 years later, the dream has come true. funny how life turns out sometimes."
right : The goon. preliminary pencil sketch.
opposite : The goon. markers illustration and photoshop colours. Pinup for the french edition of the comic book. "I couldn’t resist paying a tribute to bodacious bettie page here." Below : Blood and snow. 2006 season’s greetings card. pen & ink illustration and photoshop colours. "talk about cheering and being jolly..."
opposite : Hellboy and liz sherman. pen & ink illustration and photoshop colours. pinup for the french edition of the comic book.
left : Hellboy pencil sketch.
Below : Pan. brush & ink illustration and photoshop colours. "Inspired by guillermo del toro’s amazing and moving film El Laberinto del Fauno."
right : Daredevil & elektra. marker illustration and photosop colours. "I tried to convey that duotone effect used by Miller and Janson on the series... sort of."
Below : By thy side. marker illustration and photoshop colours. "In loving memory of Mike wieringo, wonderful human being and co-creator of the tellos comic book."
opposite : usagi yojimbo. pencil illustration and photoshop colours & tweaking. cover for the dutch edition of the comic book.
opposite : rise, The demon etrigan. pen & ink illustration and photoshop colours & tweaking. "one of King kirby’s greatest creations with the fantastic four and kamandi."
Below : The demon. marker illustration and photoshop colours.
opposite : half dead. photoshop illustration for an american comic book.
below : Invincible. preliminary sketches. pencil and markers.
above : Invincible. marker and photoshop illustration. pinup forthe french edition of the comic book.
opposite : Garance. Try-out page for comic book story. markers, brush & ink and photoshop colours & tweaking.
above : Love is all é I wish you were here. 2008 and 2007 season’s greetings cards. marker illustrations and photoshop colours. "I forgot to inverse the superman logo on the girl’s underwear." right : The pissed-off dolls. pencil & markers doodle. "kick-ass girls !"
left : little goth girl. brush & ink illustration. photoshop colours & tweaking.
below : emo & goth girls. two markers sketches . I usually do doodles such as these as warm-ups.
opposite : sirse. pen & ink illustration. photoshop colours "I was in n a kirby mood again."
Mauricet
was born in 1967. He always knew that he’d become a comic book artist. He had the chance to learn the basics of the craft with eddy paape. at twenty, he started working for Spirou magazine, drawing hundreds of cartoons and co-creating the series cosmic patrouille, a superhero parody, among other things. a fan of american comics, he fulfilled his dream of working for them when he was asked to draw a set of batman illustrations and some superman pages for dc. He also drew a tellos tale for image and the crossovers for crossgen comics. for casterman he co-created the series mort de trouille. He penciled a mademoiselle louise album for éditions dupuis. he’s now busy working for bamboo éditions on three series. Basket dunk, cosmic patrouille and garance, a personal project. he hopes you will enjoy this selection of rarely seen drawings done between 2006 and 2009 and collected in this first issue of icon-o-clash.