I'll do signing sessions for my comic books during the festival "Bulles à Croquer" of Saint-Brieuc on the 8 and 9 July. I'm also honored the festival organized a Pepper&Carrot exhibition this year. The entrance is free and you'll find many other authors and activities. I hope I'l … | Continue reading
3 days left before the Pepper&Carrot game jam starts! It's hosted by Brett Chalupa here: → https://itch.io/jam/pepper-carrot-jam Good luck to the 17 participants who already joined, and because I cannot wait to see the results, I colored a sketch with Pepper and Carrot playing a … | Continue reading
Watch it on: Peertube: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/oU74hKW7xGuAfVjrL4Kkoi Youtube: https://youtu.be/bIJ0yYDOHrw I just posted a new video with my solutions for mobile digital painting on GNU/Linux! It's not sponsored, about a refurbished 5 y/o hardware, and relatively low b … | Continue reading
I had a very good time last year at the Geek Faëries Festival 2022 and I published an article about it, so I'm very happy to announce I'll be part of the 2023 event. The Festival will take place from 2 to 4 June 2023, at the Castle of Selles-sur-Cher, France. It's the castle you … | Continue reading
Finished a piece I've been working on during my warm-up time. | Continue reading
A speedpainting I made this morning to test the amazing new impasto brush made by Emilm for Krita on https://krita-artists.org/t/rotating-light-brushtips-wip/64930 | Continue reading
Hey, I'm back home after 10 days at the Réunion des Communs, an event hosted at the library of Saint-Joseph on the Réunion island. The Réunion island is a French island, located in the Indian Ocean, approximately 600km/400mi east of the island of Madagascar. The event was about a … | Continue reading
Hi! I just posted a new Pepper&Carrot episode on peppercarrot website: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/ep38_The-Healer.html Have a good read ! (I'll add more infos in the comments later) | Continue reading
️ In May, I'll be on the Réunion island for signing sessions, conferences, and workshops! All info: https://communs.cemea-reunion.org/ | Continue reading
Here is a WIP webcomic panel of the future episode 38 of Pepper&Carrot "The Healer". It takes shape! The release will be next week, and the beta is now ready for translation. 🤩 I'll be full-time painting until the release; each panel requires at least 3 to 4h of paint-ove … | Continue reading
Hey, from now on, I'll be totally inactive on Twitter. I'll leave my account 'as is' with a link to this article in the most recent Twitt. I'll not close or delete my account to prevent bad intentioned users to recreate fake accounts in my name and impersonate me. But that's all. … | Continue reading
A photo of me during while signing at Trolls & Legendes 2023 Festival, in Mons Belgium - Photo CC-By 4.0 Steph Vesch. I'm back after a weekend of signing sessions at the "Trolls et Légendes" Festival in Belgium. I drew on more than 50 books, met amazing people, and it gave me a l … | Continue reading
Three panels without text, a visual sample of a scene as 'speedpainted' on the Apha-FR step of episode 38, page 1 Here is a quick blog post to announce an important milestone on the production of episode 38: yesterday, I posted on our collaborative tool a work in progress version … | Continue reading
Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are pleased to announce a joint partnership to develop the Pepper&Carrot Cinematic Universe. The two companies announced this unprecedented partnership over a gala dinner celebrating this historic event. "It's truly remarkable" said David Zaslav, … | Continue reading
Save Point − A concept-art demo from the digital painting class I taught, sources and high resolution on Pepper&Carrot Misc gallery I gave courses for Activdesign, a French CG school teaching design, video-game and web-dev. It's a school using Free/Libre software, that's so cool! … | Continue reading
Achievement unlocked: we found with the Pepper&Carrot community Fa BD Comic, the publisher of the worst derivations of Pepper&Carrot made so far. Unfortunately, the product's are published under my name and also in the name of artists who sent fan-arts of Pepper&Carrot... That's … | Continue reading
Here is a new illustration to announce I'll be the 8 and 9 April in Mons, Belgium, for signing sessions at the festival Trolls & Légendes. Looking forward to meeting many of you! | Continue reading
Disclaimer: None of the panel you'll see here are 'final'. I'm still in the process. Also, "spoiler alert" obviously.. Hey, I'm doing a pause today to share with you where I am in process of the production of Episode 38 and also look back in the mirror of what happened so far sin … | Continue reading
A speedpainting inspired by Devin Townsend's 2022 music album. I'll go to his concert tomorrow in Toulouse! Lightwork Tour. I listen to his music since 2000. I can't wait! | Continue reading
Long time without a blog post, but I have been active on social media. I had an issue on the website with posting new article and I fixed it this afternoon (oh, the joy of self hosting... -_-`). Anyway: I'm still penciling on the next episode of Pepper&Carrot, and this week, I di … | Continue reading
Photo: Krita beta-testing session; two monitors, four Wacom tablets (2012). This article details my experience with all the graphic tablets I used since 2002. This article started a decade ago and receives constant updates and new paragraph along the years of practise (last updat … | Continue reading
I made a new video about improvements, modifications, and tweaks I made to my tablets: overlay sheet (Photodon), keyboard tray (Cintweak), a real bug issue under the glasses, and a too-grainy overlay surface for the Intuos Pro Large. Ptb: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/228kxHx … | Continue reading
Intro We are already past two weeks into the new year, and I wanted to start it with optimizing my new brushes, clean the thumbnails and remove the double. I collected this way this pack of 38 brushes. I'm sharing them today. You might find that some of these brushes are similar … | Continue reading
A new artwork I made to celebrate 20K followers on my Mastodon profile (a parody of the famous animation "My Neighbor Totoro"). I switch this artwork under 'fan-art/fair-use' because even if I painted it from scratch, the artwork contains many element of derivation that belong to … | Continue reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor ️🥰 Click on the artwork to download the 3840x2047px version (good details for printing or a wallpaper). I started this one as a sketch yesterday to test a new set of Krita brushes I made, and decided this morning to push it with eno … | Continue reading
I wish you with this illustration strength and courage against all the "dragons" who might be on your way in 2023. Can you see the numbers in the silhouettes? I'm doing this type of illustration yearly on the blog for the new year, I have a tag with all of them since 2009 if you … | Continue reading
Video links: ▶ Peertube: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/6GetvC3grjMRdFooDDMe62 ▶ Youtube: https://youtu.be/kisT96h5h80 4k Wallpaper: https://www.davidrevoy.com/data/images/blog/2022/2022-12-18_point-of-view.jpg Source of the artwork: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/artworks/a … | Continue reading
(click for the full 4K resolution) I wanted to explore if I could bend my style around a bolder composition choice and stylised main shapes. Just to experiment how it could bring a modern more contemporary perfume to my style. The theme is probably obvious as we reach the end of … | Continue reading
A visual development concept art ☔ (click on the picture to open the 4K version) | Continue reading
I uploaded a new set of artworks to have greeting cards ready on my Redbubble shop. You can still get them before the 25, worldwide delivery (and I get 20% off the sale so thank you for your support!): Greeting cards on Redbubble All artworks & products If you want to print them … | Continue reading
Each year −more or less− I try to paint a Pepper&Carrot artwork for the holidays. So here is one for 2022. I'm still doing my drawing researches and studies, so I took a break this week and finished this piece. You'll see in this artwork where I am right now in my researches: I s … | Continue reading
I'm not gonna lie, I started to miss drawing these two. Click for the full resolution (and for looking at the brush work, I start to get a good economy of brush strokes). Have a good week-end! | Continue reading
I continue my drawing training and sometimes I push the rendering of a test and finalize it, like in this one. I'm using almost no ref' to train my ability to predict color and light by imagination. Among my new skill, I'm now more confident at drawing and designing men. I can al … | Continue reading
4K picture, click to enlarge. I'm still training my brushwork and my speed to complete artwork. My goal, is to sort of bypass drawing or inking totally and draw later with the thin brush while painting. After many failed tests, this one is starting to bring together a lot of aspe … | Continue reading
An obvious parody to celebrate 15K followers on Mastodon (it grows quickly because a lot of Twitter users joins it recently). It's a social network I love because it is made of Free/Libre software, a decentralized network, and open standards for the protocol. My account is here: … | Continue reading
4K picture posted, click to enlarge Hey, slowly but surely I'm continuing my experimentations. I filled many pages on my brainstorming (a libreoffice draw multipage ODG file) and I'm starting to get a better picture of where I'm going. I still need a little bit of time to train c … | Continue reading
Here is a new animation from the Morevna studio. The movie was published last week and I immediately reshared it on all my social medias. But now I can take the time to write a blog-post about it, so it joins my collection of derivations. So, at first, movie time! Ytb: https://w … | Continue reading
Hi everyone, right now it's a special time: I need to experiment and it's more like a wind that is blowing quite strongly in me. You have probably already noticed it by the latest content I shared on blog or on social medias. So I'm telling you: I'm very likely to scatter myself, … | Continue reading
Hey, I'm continuing the experimentation around this two characters. I also start to like these two, they also let me express a visual metaphor of what I'm living. Maybe I'm finding a simpler form of storytelling. On a technical point of view, they are super challenging with their … | Continue reading
4K resolution available, click the picture to enlarge. SO, after the previous "Confront the Dragon", I continue my research. This time, I wanted to study a more cinematographic shot, with depth of field and again, multiple light sources (obviously a contrast of a cold and warm on … | Continue reading
I'm still continuing my research and I had to do a test to stress my new method even more. My stress test: I had to paint visual effects (fire), night ambiance, fog, a foreground/middleground/background, a perspective system, etc... And because I'm doing all of that in a larger p … | Continue reading
A fanart of the little girl robot Arale Norimaki, main character of the Japanese manga series Dr. Slump (Japanese: Dr.スランプ) written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama from 1980 to 1984. I have all the manga at home and I had a lot of fun painting this one. This artwork was also he … | Continue reading
Hey, I'm happy to announce two signing session dates in November: Foire du Livre de Brive • Saturday 5 November (afternoon) • Sunday 6 November (morning and afternoon) I'll be in the "Espace des trois provinces", the part dedicated to comics in this festival. More info: http://ww … | Continue reading
A workflow experimentation that turned ok. I'm trying to capture a feeling of nostalgic (J)RPG, like a mix of old Zelda, Secret of Mana, but also series like Record of Lodoss War, all of that mixed with the high fantasy I also loved at that time, D&D, Magic the Gathering, DragonL … | Continue reading
So I am into a period of doing anatomy studies with for main purpose trying to get better at articulating the body on (digital) paper. My motivation: easing the drawing process on the future episode and feel more confident to start drawing lessons on my video channel. On the last … | Continue reading
A remake in my style of the original character by Kasuga for the unofficial mascot of Wikipedia, a Krita artwork licensed under the CC-By-Sa-2.5, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic. Wikipe-tan reads and edits the Wikipe-tan page on a transparent neon retro-futur … | Continue reading
The publisher Prikazka-igra just ended their crowd-funding campaign for publishing their Bulgarian translation of Pepper&Carrot. It was a success with over 1700 books sold. Congratulation to them! Now their campaign is over you can still buy a copy: it's just now a bit more expen … | Continue reading
A contribution to Wikipedia (pages without pictures), I discovered it thanks to the French initiative Les Sans Images. It was difficult but a good training: I had to not copy the photos but derivate a lot from them so the portraits could be under libre license. I'll upload them l … | Continue reading