Richard Vallerand

Jours d'insomnie

2012-01-18T09:05:00.000-08:00

Un petit avant goût du livre pour enfant que je développe en ce moment.

Fancy Walk

2011-12-29T06:18:00.000-08:00

I've been experimenting new brushes and a different way to work in PS.

Occupy North Pole

2011-12-22T11:50:00.000-08:00

Joyeux Noël tout le monde!
L'idée a fort probablement été faite, mais difficile de passer à côté, Occupy Wallstreet est sans doute la chose la plus impressionnante que j'ai vu cette année lors de mon passage à NYC et puis c'est le mouvement qui a marqué la planète 2011. Après tout c'est bien un message de paix et de partage qui se trouve à la base du mouvement non?

Girl Study

2011-12-15T05:58:00.000-08:00

La Fille au Rocher

2011-12-12T19:12:00.001-08:00

Colle ROulé

2011-12-12T18:08:00.000-08:00

Obscura - A Few Pages

2011-12-01T08:13:00.000-08:00

Silver Girl

2011-11-08T19:49:00.000-08:00

Des Chats

2011-11-03T15:51:00.000-07:00

Cette semaine je fais des chats parce que Olwen aime les chats et pour mon Auréo qui étudie son exam d'histoire pendant que je gribouille des chats random.

Deux Jouals

2011-10-28T11:38:00.000-07:00

Deux page pour "Deux Jouals" une BD en développement sur un scénario de l'excellent Philippe Girard.

Bloody Brush

2011-10-18T16:39:00.000-07:00

I've been experimenting with a new brush to do those bloody figures. Pretty fun to work with pitch black.

Xpressions

2011-10-16T11:52:00.000-07:00

I've been working on this character for an upcoming comic book project.

Semaine des Tigres

2011-10-05T15:05:00.000-07:00

Cette semaine j'ai eu envie de dessiner des tigres, histoire de faire changement.

The Horribles

2011-09-28T15:07:00.001-07:00

Making Faces

2011-09-28T14:14:00.000-07:00

Page Break

2011-09-27T08:46:00.001-07:00

BatYoda

2011-09-26T03:49:00.000-07:00

Head in the Clouds

2011-09-26T03:12:00.001-07:00

Mr Potato Head

2011-09-24T11:46:00.000-07:00

This is one pretty scary potato head that just came out randomly of my pen.

Prince of Spade

2011-09-24T11:27:00.001-07:00

Blue Haired Girl in Space

2011-07-17T14:05:00.000-07:00

2 Poules

2011-07-16T12:57:00.000-07:00

Une commande spéciale pour une amie... de toute évidence quelqu'un qui aime les poules.

Georges Meets Girl

2011-07-05T18:29:00.000-07:00

The Manga in Me

2011-07-03T20:13:00.000-07:00

Noir d'Encre

2011-06-09T06:40:00.000-07:00

...sur fond gris. Doodling with a angular brush.

Some Monster

2011-06-08T13:46:00.000-07:00

Square Man

2011-05-31T07:44:00.000-07:00

Random Lines

2011-05-28T08:53:00.000-07:00

A few random lines to warm up...

Black Haired Girl

2011-05-23T19:08:00.000-07:00

Delphine

2011-05-19T19:29:00.000-07:00

Well in her 20s, she sings in an rock indy music group. She's a bit witchy and not to complicated. She won't talk until she had a very strong coffee...

A few Doodles

2011-05-19T04:40:00.000-07:00

A Windy Night

2011-05-16T12:23:00.000-07:00

Incube Boufon

2011-05-09T19:43:00.000-07:00

Man with GUns

2011-04-26T19:36:00.001-07:00

Recherche de Style

2011-04-19T19:12:00.000-07:00

et de couleur...

Striped

2011-04-18T20:38:00.000-07:00

I was working with these random characters above and thought I'd try them in a comic strip. The stripes came over the characters by accident and it kinda adds to the overall drama of the sequence so I left them there.

Down the Stairs

2011-04-11T21:42:00.000-07:00

Quelques Filles de la nuit

2011-04-11T21:36:00.000-07:00

Agent SpacioTemporel

2011-03-28T20:56:00.000-07:00

Not quite finished yet but almost there...
La BD Observatoire bientôt terminée Yeah!!!

Frenchies

2011-03-23T21:30:00.000-07:00

A few character studies for this very exciting new project. I got vaguely inspired by those awesome musicians "Angus and Julia Stone" I keep listening to all the time. They are both very charismatic and talented as hell.

Dirty Hands

2011-03-21T20:04:00.000-07:00

Some kinda religious figure, from a cult of the past...

Mélanie

2011-03-19T18:03:00.000-07:00

Commissioned character design for comic book project that will be displayed on the walls of the Complexe G and be a part of a great new exhibition... coming soon!
http://www.observatoirecapitale.org/

One Bad Seed

2011-03-19T15:17:00.000-07:00

My take on Nick Cave for the Caricaturama3000. Caricature is kinda new to me, I know I'm not quite there yet but What an awesome grim face to draw.

Shadows on the Rocks

2011-03-09T20:24:00.000-08:00

You never know what you can find hidden behind those rocks...

A little Inkprovisation

2011-03-06T21:31:00.000-08:00

Angular Figure

2011-02-28T18:10:00.000-08:00

My character are a bit angular these days... something I might try to exaggerate in the futur, to see where it leads.

One Crazy Professor

2011-02-28T18:05:00.000-08:00

I was doodling around to come up with some crazy professor for this commission work. He's not gonna be in the final result but I kinda liked the way he's weird, not super old sort of ape like.

Bardot

2011-02-26T06:09:00.000-08:00

I wanted to rework this Bardot I did for the Caricaturama 3000

Electric Geisha

2011-02-19T21:37:00.001-08:00

Laying

2011-02-19T21:28:00.000-08:00

Magestic

2011-02-06T20:43:00.000-08:00

Armed

2011-01-30T21:02:00.000-08:00

Something I've been working on. Thought I'd show the work in progress...

Ka_Goule

2011-01-28T20:33:00.000-08:00

Improve 1

2011-01-20T21:18:00.000-08:00

How about using meat for plastic surgery...

A Few Freaky Heads

2011-01-15T12:25:00.001-08:00

The Wanderer

2011-01-11T20:29:00.000-08:00

Some random character just to get the hand going...

Saturday Drawings

2010-11-29T18:30:00.000-08:00

A few sketches from this saturday drawing session. This model was amazing to draw, she had simple and natural poses and yet a lot of expression.

Cuty Girls

2010-11-17T07:41:00.001-08:00

Bad Rabbit

2010-11-15T21:05:00.000-08:00

This should be a special easter bunny, I guess I'm a little off season!

Eye of the Needles

2010-11-15T08:23:00.000-08:00

I felt like doing some landscape for a change, practicing rocks...

Dead Wooden Thing

2010-11-08T20:58:00.000-08:00

And a character leaning on it...

Femme Fatal

2010-11-08T14:07:00.000-08:00

Still working on this top secret spy project so of course I couldn't help but draw a femme fatal to get in the mood...

Dark Souls

2010-10-26T14:11:00.001-07:00

Arabic Rockabilly

2010-10-25T09:23:00.000-07:00

I wanted to practice more PS painting technics and portraits. I was looking looking for a very angular horizontal kinda face and it turned out like this...

The Girl with a Sword

2010-10-24T21:05:00.001-07:00

A character

2010-10-18T06:13:00.000-07:00

Session 2

2010-10-16T11:40:00.000-07:00

For this second drawing session we had a really nice lady who had a sort of childish quality, some innocence in her poses. She was lots of fun to draw.

Turn Around

2010-10-15T18:47:00.001-07:00

Some kind of Face

2010-10-15T18:01:00.000-07:00

Ursulla

2010-10-14T13:10:00.000-07:00

While doing my spy research I couldn't help but get inspired by the very first James Bond girl, ... underneath the Mango Tree...

Spy People

2010-10-13T20:23:00.000-07:00

Just playing around with shapes, to get dynamic poses for this Top Secret Spy Project...

Ave Cesar

2010-10-09T14:31:00.000-07:00

I've started doing life drawing again, it's been such a long time and it feels great to do it. This is definitely the basic of everything, the ultimate construction in art, don't know why I had stopped... anyway this model was fun to draw, I kept thinking of some emperor as I was drawing him, some sort of Cesar, he had this nobility in his pose this is why he probably comes up a bit younger on paper. I realized it's a good tip to imagine the model as a character, it helps to give direction and personnality. I'll think about that for next session.

LA Buildings

2010-08-31T10:47:00.000-07:00

I did these apartment buildings just in front of central market. I kinda liked the idea of drawing ridgid structures freehand to give it a bit of life.

Time for some exercice

2010-08-30T08:05:00.000-07:00

Fall always comes with some getting in to shape resolutions....

Bandana

2010-08-18T10:16:00.000-07:00

I've been practicing coloring faces and clean up with this picture..

Biped Mech

2010-08-08T11:11:00.000-07:00

Destroyed Palace at Night

2010-08-07T09:41:00.000-07:00

A few Mech Ideas

2010-08-03T14:12:00.000-07:00

Obscura Reloaded

2010-08-02T12:09:00.000-07:00

A couple of pieces I've been working on for a new take on Obscura.

Miss Aureo

2010-08-01T12:55:00.001-07:00

Metro Heads

2010-07-31T10:58:00.001-07:00

While riding on the Gold Line...

Eden's Garden

2010-07-24T09:51:00.000-07:00

Little Greek restaurant just around the corner on Holly Street.

Obscura Reloaded

2010-07-24T09:48:00.000-07:00

A few quick thumbnails sketch for different ambiant scenes

Over the IceField

2010-07-22T12:43:00.000-07:00

Priest of the Great Wall

2010-07-22T12:41:00.000-07:00

An environment I did playing with geometric shapes, something more graphic than what I ususally do.

Organic Shape

2010-07-20T16:38:00.000-07:00

Sky City

2010-07-20T10:40:00.000-07:00

Jake's Burger

2010-07-11T11:21:00.000-07:00

This is My favorite Burger spot in Pasadena. Had to do a restaurant study on Ed's master class. Night and Day atmospheres. Still need to work and making those flat walls less rigid I think. This was my first digital paint using the Cintiq, but I'm pretty happy with the result. They promised me some free burgers if I comeback with the result, I'm looking forward to this.

Swamp Thing

2010-06-26T11:47:00.000-07:00

Some color study I did of a swamp. Turned out pretty good for a quicky.

Character poses

2010-06-21T17:53:00.000-07:00

Some work study I did based on an existing character...

More scenes from Pasadena

2010-06-21T17:50:00.000-07:00

Some views of the city landscapes...

Menton

2010-06-16T12:22:00.001-07:00

This blog is in need of colors... something I did I while back from a picture taken in Menton...where the deads have the best view.

Staircase

2010-06-15T18:49:00.001-07:00

Value study of the staircase from Brookmore

Studying Tarzan

2010-06-15T10:26:00.000-07:00

Following Rad's advice I've decided to go back studying the classic, doing quick poses from films. Glen Keane remains one of my favorite. So much appeal and dynamism in his art.

As if saying "I Don't Care"

2010-06-14T21:38:00.001-07:00

A little tall brown hair teenage Girl vaguely reminiscent of somebody I know...

Old Town Pasadena

2010-06-14T11:50:00.001-07:00

Quelques vue croqués sur le vif pendant mon dernier sketching safari

Tone Studies

2010-06-14T11:10:00.001-07:00

Studying film environments and James Paick's best practice.

Sortie de Secours

2010-06-13T20:57:00.000-07:00

Vue du Brookmore Apartments, my lil home in Pasadena...

Green Castle

2010-06-12T17:43:00.000-07:00

Sur la rue Green ça va de soit... un genre de Chateau Frontenac de la Pasadena

PickUp Blanc

2010-06-11T17:20:00.001-07:00

Une étude de tonalité à partir d'une esquisse.
En marchant dans les rues de Pasadena...