Under the Mountain

If my sources are right, in heraldry, the gold symbolizes the noblest colour... by contrast, the green symbolizes the less noble colour, and, if this sources are right - well, sincerely, I am talking about wikipedia -, it was the less used colour... I imagine a humble beginnings for this dwarf, and highs destinations for him...

The Warlock and his kin

A mere improvisation, made lightly and unplanned...

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INKTOBER Day 19: Guille the Cat

As one would expect, here is our little friend cat, Guille, for the 19th INKTOBER day; for this time, in napoleonic mood...

INKTOBER Day 19: The Samurai Elf

A bizarre concept for the 19th INKTOBER day... 

INKTOBER Day 17: The Creature from Black Lagoon

Did it for 17th INKTOBER Day, the creature from the 1954´s film; could be a deep one´s cousin, or a silurian relative...

INKTOBER Day 16: Victor Frankenstein´s Creature

You can interpretate the Mary Shelley´s novel in many different ways; and this is what do it so great...

"I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel"

INKTOBER Day 15: The Sandman

Also known as Dream, Morpheus, Oneiros, Murphy and a lot, lot of other names... Created by Neil Gaiman and Sam Kieth, for the homonymous DC-Vertigo Cómic... And of course, in his shoulder, Matthew, the raven...

INKTOBER Day 14: The Star-spawn of Cthulhu

Yes, that is, the star-spawn of Cthulhu, who came along with her ​​master from the sidereal depths for countless eons ago...

And, by the way, the blasphemous criature is emerging from a sacred cenote, located in the Yucatan jungle... 

INKTOBER Day 12+1: Jack Carter

El último día subimos una ilustración con un Carter, y para el INKTOBER del decimotercer día traemos al matón y ejecutor del hampa inglés Jack Carter, interpretado magistralmente por Michael Caine para el film Get Carter (1971)... Somos conscientes de que la caricatura y el retrato en general no se nos dan muy bien, pero bueno, ahí va...

For the last post we uploaded an illustration with a Carter in it, and for 13th INKTOBER we bring another Carter, Jack Carter, the english underworld executioner, from the 1971 film Get Carter, masterfully played by Michael Caine...

Interlude: Marscape or Barsoom Scene

Con la cosa esta del INKTOBER estamos dejándonos en el tintero algunas ilustraciones ya terminadas, así que aprovecharemos para intercalarlas entre tanto dibujo a tinta monocromático...

La que ilustra la entrada de hoy es un homenaje al héroe pulp John Carter de Barsoom - es decir, de Marte, para entendernos -, obra de Edgar R. Burroughs (también creador del afamado Tarzán, señor de la selva). Junto a él, el espécimen de thark, nativo de Marte, conocido como Tars Tarkas. La conversación que mantienen transcurre en alguna sala del palacio de Dejah Thoris, princesa homónima de la primera novela de la serie, A Princess of Mars, de 1917.

Because it´s INKTOBER month, we have distracted some finished illustrations; so, it´s time to upload some of them!

llustration of today is a hommage to the pulp hero John Carter of Barsoom - I mean Mars, you know -, created by Edgar R. Burroughs, also creator of the famous Tarzan of the apes. The character near him is the thark known as Tars Tarkas; the conversation takes place in some hall of the palace of princess Dejah Thoris, homonymous of the first novel of the Barsoom series, A Princess of Mars (1917).

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"I would scarcely recognize you, John Carter, but there is no other mortal upon Barsoom who would have done what you have for me. I think I have learned that there is such a thing as friendship, my friend."

                      A Princess of Mars

Detalle de John Carter de Barsoom (i.e. Marte) / A detail of John Carter from Barsoom (I mean Mars, you know...)

El amigo thark de John Carter, Tars Tarkas / Tars Tarkas, the thark friend of John Carter...