Caveman

Since I don't have much time to do new stuff, here are few design researches I've made for a personnal project few months ago.

Babydoll

The website theavantgarage.com kindly gave me a little interview.

Tutorials

Few days ago, Rad Sechrist asked me to participate to a new blog called The Art Center. The blog is driven by Randall Sly, the guy behind the famous Character design blog , and gather tutorials by different artists who share there tips and ideas. Go check it, it's a good place to learn and find ideas:

--> THE ART CENTER


If you want to improve your drawing skills, go NOW on Rad Sechrist HOW TO blog, you will learn a lot of very interesting little tips that will make your life better. Go NOW !!

--> Rad's HOW TO blog


And so, here are the tutorials I've made. I have to warn you that I don't do this because I think "I KNOW" or "I'm good at this" (because I really don't), it's just to share some ideas and tell how I do things.

Doodles

No time to make a new illustration so here are few rough drawings I've made 2 month ago.

Kreativ Blogger Award

Thanks to the fabulous Chris Battle, I just got a Kreativ Blogger Award ! So a big thank to you Chris, you rock !

The rule is that I have to nominate 7 other blogs and tell 7 interesting things about myself.

Nominees (they are all great and fantastic artists) :
-Julien Bizat
-Aurore Damant
-Julien Le Rolland
-Radford Sechrist
-Chris Sasaki
-Lorelay Bove
-Alberto Mielgo

7 Things :
-I'm allergic to chocolate
-I started drawing when I was 15 years old (I was spending all my time copying mangas)
-My girlfriend is doing her PhD in cinéma at La Sorbonne, she's specialised in animation, of course (and she's writing a book about Bill Plympton right now).
-I like to read children's book to my girlfriend before we get asleep
-I discovered How I met your mother 4 days ago, I've nearly finished season 2 now, it's legen... wait for it... dary !
-I suck at writing english
-but I cook the best croque-monsieur ever !

Werewolf design

Here are the wolf design I told you before. The rough version and the color with the changes the client asked.

Woman in red

A few researches for an abandoned comic book project.

Naked Girls

To celebrate the 100 000 page views, 46 000 visitors and 185 members, I've made this illustration to thank you all for your visits, comments and support. When I put the counter 2 years ago, I didn't imagine so many people would be interested by my work.

So THANK YOU ALL.

Frankenstein Creature and the Little Girl

Interview

The website pixelatedgeek.com honnored me as the Artist of the week.
Here is the link with a little interview http://pixelatedgeek.com/2010/01/aotw-xavier-ramonede/

Wolf study

I have a wolf to design for a freelance job but I really suck at animals... So I've been studying the all day !

Zombie & Girl

Red and Black

Few experiments in photoshop.

Bear & Girl

A new illustration before the new year.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

I wich you all the good stuff you want for 2010 !

My top 10 movies of 2009 and 2000s

Here is the end of the year and of the decade, so here are my top ten movies !

So here is my top 10 of 2009. I wanted to put Avatar in but I couldn't find a nice image of this verygoodbutugly movie...











And here is my top ten movies (live action and animation). It was quite hard to decide
(Jason Bourne and Lord of the Rings are the trilogies, I couldn't just pic one. And American beauty arrived in France in February 2000, so it's in the decade for us).

Lucie in pink

Snow in Paris

Today it was our first day of snow. It was beautifull.
A guy was even snowboarding at Montmarte.

It Girl

Little red riding hood it girl with her wolf bodyguard .

70s teenagers

Red Scarf

Inspired by the very nice " Le blog de Betty ". Another good link given by my sweetheart Lucie.

Gym

Other designs for the gym. I'm sure your know those kind of though, dumb and arrogant guys...

Rockabilly dumb zombie

I want to thank you all guys because today I have my 100th followers ! BAZUUUNGA !

To celebrate this great day, and because I havn't time to make new drawings, I'll post few old design I've made for miscealeanous projects. Hope you'll enjoy !

I start with a rockabily dumb zombie...

Orange Star

Not a lot of time to make an update those last days, I'm working on the character design of a new TV show for french TV , it's the very beginning so it takes a lot of time. And beside I'm doing a new CGI animation for my démo.

During september I've been working on a TV ad for Orange at Wizz. I've made 2D flash and CGI animation, here is the result.

orange - "origami Star" from iboosession on Vimeo.

I don't know if you noticed but there's a coward dinosaur surrounded by UFOs, cavemans and flying cars, here is the animation:

Dino Orange Star from Xavier Ramonède on Vimeo.

Urinate

A new animation, CG this time ! Just to practice for my showreel. The line is from The Big Lebowski and te character is from a short film called Lionel .

Urinate from Xavier Ramonède on Vimeo.

Paris Girl 40s

Posca

I've a bunch of Posca pencils I never used. I tried to do few rough drawings, not very successfull but it was quite refreshing for me.

Boots

I couldn't choose one so I decided it would be better to let you choose the one you like the most :)