SushiXAV

Mom & Dad

2012-01-27T23:38:00.000+01:00

Blue

2012-01-21T14:13:00.000+01:00

Green Redhead

2012-01-07T02:07:00.002+01:00

Goonies 2D animation

2011-12-30T12:31:00.000+01:00

I've done this just for my reel, with a character I've created for a futur project and using a line from Chunk in The Goonies.
I've done it using my cintiq, Photoshop CS5 and Ctp (the paper texture is just for fun).

Merry Christmas !

2011-12-22T11:49:00.002+01:00

Days are rainy

2011-12-17T19:36:00.001+01:00

... but parisian girls stay sexy.

A gift for my bride-to-be

2011-12-07T18:30:00.002+01:00

Logan

2011-11-05T17:32:00.003+01:00

Just playing with my cintiq.

Late for the show

2011-10-28T10:01:00.000+02:00

I'm back !

Cap-Ferret

2011-09-06T09:21:00.000+02:00

Last week, I was on vacation in a little place called Cap-Ferret. Paris sucks, I want to go back there.

Few pictures of the place...

Milton Test1

2011-07-07T19:10:00.000+02:00

Milton_test1 from Xavier Ramonède on Vimeo.

A test animation for a short film project, animated on a Cintiq with photoshop CS5 (don't be mean on the sound, I've made the voice myself...).

Animal Kingdom

2011-05-30T12:44:00.001+02:00

Mon premier Larousse des qui fait quoi

2011-03-13T17:45:00.005+01:00

Few month ago, I've made few illustrations for a child book called Mon premier Larousse des qui fait quoi. I had to illustrate five double pages about different families of jobs (police, music, animals, sport and magician). I've made only 10 pages in the book (5 other artists made the rest of the 200 pages), but it was fun to do.
I'm just a little bit fed up because they have stretched, cut and invert a lot of my images...

Black and White

2011-02-28T00:44:00.004+01:00

Why those titles ?!?

2011-02-12T00:05:00.004+01:00

No new art today but a question for all of you guys from USA, Great Britain and other english speaking countries: WHY THOSE STUPID MOVIE TITLES ?

In France, when an american (or english) movie is released, the distributors have 3 options for the title:
1- They give a french title, which can be a direct translation (Le roi lion for The lion king), an approximate translation (40 ans, toujours puceau for The 40 year old virgin, not so far) or give a completly different name (Rendez-vous l'été prochain for Jack goes boating, nothing in common).
2- They keep the original title (the best option, in my opinion).
3- They give a new name, but in english.

And this 3rd one is a wonderful nonsense stupidity.

I let you discover the exemples above, it speaks for itself. It seems that in France, we can only understand films with VERY simple english words like TRIP, VERY or BAD. I know that our average skills in english are not very high in France (and me too) but I'm not sure we are that dumb... It's perfectly ridiculous.

The funny thing to notice is that the english movie The boat that rocked, called in France Good morning england, has another name in USA: Pirate radio. I guess the french distributors are not the only ones who think their local audience is dumb...

I'm curious to know what you think about that guys!

So Cold !

2011-01-31T00:49:00.002+01:00

So 80s

2011-01-08T21:54:00.003+01:00

Tribute to the 80s.

And a small interview I've done for somethingwelike.com

My top 10 movies of 2010

2011-01-03T23:31:00.002+01:00

As usual, only the movies released in France in 2010.

Fashion Girl

2011-01-01T20:51:00.001+01:00

Snow Girl: Step by step

2010-12-14T22:53:00.016+01:00

Time to time, readers of my blog ask me how I work, so I've decided to make a simple step by step of my last illustration. I hope everything is clear, if you have questions I'll try to answer in the comments.
By the way, as you probably notice, I'm french and my english is not very good so sorry if I don't explain the proper way (and also my photoshop is in french.)

So, first of all, I only work in Photoshop. Time to time I make drawings on paper then scan them but all my last illustrations and designs were made with my wacom intuos and this last one with my all new Cintiq 21UX.

1. The drawing, with a simple home made brush, very rough.

2. I turn over the drawing and make a cleaner drawing.
3. I rebuild the tricky parts to be sure of the construction.
4. I make the final drawing with a clean line and I fix some parts (here the face).
5. I start the colors with the line above.
6. Every part (face, jacket, hair, etc) on a separated level.
7. The face.
8. cheeks and nose.
9. I add the lines and other details.
10. With the gradient tool, I make a subtle color effect.
11. I set the layer in screen mode and lower the opacity.
12. I start the background with the basic color.
13. I add the snow with a brush that looks like snow flakes.
14. A white gradiant to suggest the snow on the floor.
15. A quick shadow on the ground to set the character in space.
16. A quick skyline of Paris.
17. I add a layer of noise.
18. I lower the opacity and set it to color burn.
19. I had a paper texture layer that I colored in light blue before.
20. I set it to screen and lower the opacity.
21. I finally add my signature...
22. And voila !

Snow Girl

2010-12-10T23:42:00.000+01:00

There was a lot of snow this week in Paris :)

Character Design Test

2010-11-28T20:36:00.005+01:00

A long time ago I've made a character design test for a TV show project, but they didn't like it...

She's a zombie killer

2010-11-01T23:57:00.001+01:00

A tribute to the great René Gruau. But with zombies.

Designs again

2010-10-23T01:07:00.002+02:00

For the same abandonned project.

Vintage sexy brunette

2010-09-25T21:26:00.002+02:00

Character Design for a canceled project...

2010-09-22T16:20:00.002+02:00

During the first month of 2010 I've been working on a TV show project. I've made a lot of designs but it's canceled now so here are some of them... I'll probably post more later.

Influence Map + Pierre Périfel Link

2010-09-11T23:58:00.003+02:00

My influence map. I wonder if anyone can name all of them ?
Answers will come next time if you don't find :)

My good friend and former Gobelins teammate Pierre Périfel just created (at last) a blog. Go to see his work, he's one of the greatest artists I know, everything he does is gold !

pierreperifel.blogspot.com

Oups, I forgot my panty !

2010-09-05T19:42:00.001+02:00

SPA Girl

2010-08-28T18:43:00.004+02:00

Because of my last two weeks of vacation and my new job since june, I haven't been able to produce a lot of things for my blog...

So, here are few researches I've made for a website about salon and spa. I had to make few drawings of a sexy girl but, after changing their minds all the time, the client finally decided not to keep me for the job (fortunatly, the webmaster was pissed of be the client attitude and was kind enough to give me the money I deserve).

So here are few drawings I made, they are just the first rough.

Animal Kids 3

2010-06-26T15:06:00.002+02:00

Animal Kids 2

2010-06-19T12:00:00.001+02:00

A new one.

New York 1

2010-06-14T19:54:00.005+02:00

Before continuing with the Animal Kids serie, here are some pictures from my trip to New York.

Tell me and post a comment if you like them, this way I know I can post more.

Animal Kids 1

2010-06-12T13:56:00.003+02:00

Two days ago I've seen a fabulous movie/art video by Pierre Huyghe called Steamside day Follies, it reminds me one of my favorite white-trash movie called Gummo by Harmonie Korine and inspired me for a little serie of illustrations.
Here is the first one.

Surrounded by girls

2010-06-06T20:51:00.002+02:00

Back from New York since few days, here's a all new illustration, to bring life back to my blog.

I'm going to New York !

2010-04-26T18:39:00.003+02:00

I know I wasn't very productive those last days but it won't be better during the newt 3 weeks because I'm going to visit New York and part of the east coast (between Boston and Washington).

So sorry in advance for the lack of drawings and a big thank to all of you guys who are coming on my blog, I'll try to post again when I come back.

Triptyk 3

2010-04-06T22:27:00.000+02:00

Triptyk 2

2010-04-05T20:38:00.001+02:00

Triptyk 1

2010-04-04T22:41:00.002+02:00

Caveman

2010-03-07T23:33:00.003+01:00

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

2010-02-27T13:29:00.003+01:00

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

Tutorials

2010-02-19T22:54:00.003+01:00

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

2010-02-13T17:49:00.003+01:00

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

Kreativ Blogger Award

2010-02-10T23:49:00.003+01:00

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

2010-02-06T12:01:00.002+01:00

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

Woman in red

2010-01-29T22:17:00.004+01:00

A few researches for an abandoned comic book project.

Naked Girls

2010-01-22T19:19:00.002+01:00

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

2010-01-15T13:07:00.001+01:00

Interview

2010-01-14T10:37:00.001+01:00

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

2010-01-10T21:46:00.004+01:00

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

2010-01-06T17:22:00.003+01:00

Red and Black

2010-01-03T13:40:00.001+01:00

Few experiments in photoshop.

Bear & Girl

2009-12-26T21:03:00.001+01:00

A new illustration before the new year.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

2009-12-22T20:20:00.003+01:00

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

My top 10 movies of 2009 and 2000s

2009-12-21T20:47:00.004+01:00

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

2009-12-18T19:08:00.002+01:00

Snow in Paris

2009-12-18T00:29:00.005+01:00

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

It Girl

2009-12-12T20:18:00.004+01:00

Little red riding hood it girl with her wolf bodyguard .

70s teenagers

2009-12-01T10:45:00.002+01:00

Red Scarf

2009-11-15T23:40:00.003+01:00

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

Gym

2009-11-10T12:44:00.002+01:00

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

Rockabilly dumb zombie

2009-11-06T23:17:00.003+01:00

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

2009-10-30T19:12:00.003+01:00

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

2009-10-15T12:10:00.002+02:00

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

2009-10-02T10:45:00.002+02:00

Posca

2009-09-27T15:48:00.002+02:00

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

2009-09-22T00:44:00.003+02:00

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

Thank you !

2009-08-29T00:53:00.003+02:00

I never say much but I wanted to say a big thank to you all for the visits, the comments and everything :)

Sacrés Coeurs !

2009-08-09T12:37:00.008+02:00

I've created a new photo blog with my girlfriend, have a look and tell us what you think ! sacrescoeurs.blogspot.com

Where the wild things are

2009-07-23T22:19:00.005+02:00

I've been asked to make an illustration for the blog www.terribleyelloweyes.com

Here's my contribution, go check the website, there's great pieces by many great artists.

Viméo account

2009-07-14T00:08:00.002+02:00

I've created a vimeo account for my animations, this way:
http://vimeo.com/user2022300

Lollipop animation from Xavier Ramonède on Vimeo.

Strong men from Xavier Ramonède on Vimeo.

Blondie 6 and 7

2009-07-09T16:29:00.001+02:00

The last two.

Trumpet

2009-07-05T20:30:00.002+02:00

A little break on my Blondie girl. Here is y first REAL painting in 10 years, so be kind...
It's acrylic on canvas, 33x22.

Blondie 5

2009-07-03T11:16:00.001+02:00

Blondie 4

2009-07-01T11:03:00.001+02:00

Blondie 3

2009-06-29T14:33:00.000+02:00

Blondie 2

2009-06-27T15:06:00.002+02:00

Blondie 1

2009-06-25T14:26:00.002+02:00

I'm startinga new serie of girls, here is the first one.

Gym, the last two

2009-06-18T10:53:00.004+02:00

Not the time to make a new lady but here are my last two designs for my gym thing.

The guy how used to be a playboy bt it was before World War II.

The guy nobody told him he should stop ?

Shy Hawaï

2009-06-03T17:30:00.003+02:00

A little colored tribute to Roland Garros :)

Hawaiian Ass

2009-05-26T18:23:00.003+02:00

Some people asked about it so here is a little step by step tutorial of how I work, it's very simple !

No Panties

2009-05-22T19:34:00.001+02:00

Hawaii Girl

2009-05-21T21:22:00.002+02:00

Blue Pantie

2009-05-20T23:37:00.002+02:00

Back from California !

2009-05-18T09:38:00.003+02:00

I'm back from my 19 days trip all around California with my sweet Lucie. We've seen incredible things, meet fantasic people, it was great great great !
I want to thank everyone we meet and who have been so kind with us: Pierre, Claire and Nola, Chistophe, Rodolphe, Alexis, Phil, Yoshi, Mark, Mike, Andréas, Hide, Lorelay, Chris, Kristophe, Jean-Claude, Louis, Simmon, etc... A huge thank to all of you guys :)

I'll soon post few pictures of the trip, a new guy from the gym for now: the guy who comes only for the sauna and the shower.

Lost at the gym

2009-05-12T08:23:00.003+02:00

I'm still in California, leaving San Francisco tomorrow for Monterey, but here is a new one: the guy who don't really know what he's doing here.

Gay

2009-05-03T06:38:00.002+02:00

The guy you don't really want to be in the shower with.

Ass girl

2009-04-26T00:18:00.001+02:00

The girl who make sport ONLY to have a better ass than Beyonce.

GYM 1

2009-04-25T00:38:00.002+02:00

Since a couple of month I go to gym and have the pleasure to discover freacky people you can only see I such a place...
So I start a new serie of drawings about them.

This one is the guy nobody told him we are no longer in the 80's.

Backgrounds

2009-04-19T18:46:00.002+02:00

Usually I'm more in characters than backgrounds but here are few ones I've done for one of my project. It's very hesitating but I really take a lot of pleasure doing this, playing with colors, shapes, tones, contasts, etc...

If you have any experience in backgrounds don't hesitate to give me your tips and advices !!!

Le Building and Festival Qualité

2009-04-15T15:11:00.004+02:00

Here are two short films I've co-directed when I was in Gobelins. They are a bit old now but it's never to late to post them on my blog !

Le Building:
Co-directed with Marco Nguyen, Pierre Perifel, Olivier Staphylas and Rémi Zaarour in 2005 for the Annecy animated film festival. http://www.le-building.com

Festival Qualité:
Co-directed with Pierre Perifel, Jun Frederic Violet and Rémi Zaarour in 2004 for the Annecy animated film festival.

Schoolgirl

2009-04-11T16:15:00.002+02:00

Because they are cute, sexy and liked by boys and girls from every culture.

Redhead in pink

2009-04-07T22:58:00.002+02:00

Based on a commission for juxtaposephotography.com.

Lu & XAV go to California !!!

2009-04-05T15:23:00.003+02:00

An illustration with me and my girlfriend to tell you that i'm coming to California from 29th april to 16th may to make a car trip all around the state !!!

I'm aleady going to Disney and Dreamworks to visit friends, but i'd be very happy to go to other studios to meet american colleagues and to show my reel and portfolio.
So if you want to meet some frenchies, just tell me :)

Orange woman

2009-03-27T22:57:00.003+01:00

Majorette, le retour.

2009-03-24T19:45:00.002+01:00

Après le succés de mon premier post, je me permets de reposter un dessin en l'honneur de mes amies majorettes et de leur art.

N'hesitez surtout pas à commenter.

Mais vraiment, n'hesitez pas.

Man and the moon (Disney 1955)

2009-03-23T12:19:00.006+01:00

I'm fed up of people thinking that Disney is only stupid princesses, singing birds and mainstream visual style. A closer look in the history of the studio proves that it's totally wrong.

In 1955, Ward Kimball, on of the Nine old men and finest graphic designer at Disney, has directed a program called Man and the moon, an educational mix cartoon/live action speaking about our relation with the moon.
The first part of the show, dedicated to the history of the moon in men's cultur, is all animated. Ward Kimball show here all the graphic and original style of the Disney artists, using the distinguish style of the late 50's cartoon modern. Moreover the animation is very good, funny and well balanced.
The kind of cartoon artists and producers show learn about.

(Thanks to Amid Amidi and his Cartoon Modern blog to make me discover this master piece).

A funny thing to notice is the presence, in a Disney program, of Wernher von Braun, the father of the american space program, but before that the creator of the deadly V2 rockets used by the nazi germany during world war 2... spooky !

New avatar

2009-03-21T16:40:00.002+01:00

This time it's really me :)

Doodles page

2009-03-20T19:35:00.001+01:00

I've been very busy this week so here is a all page !

Red and Blue

2009-03-13T17:55:00.001+01:00

USSR Général

2009-03-12T14:12:00.002+01:00