2018 - Dedicatorias

      
     Aquí os presento una pequeña selección de algunas dedicatorias hechas recientemente / I present here a small selection of some drawings-dedications made recently.

    Estos primeros 4 dibujos son para mis amigos Nina, Josh, Jesse & Chris del grupo de rock A Sound of Thunder / These first 4 drawings are for my friends Nina, Josh, Jesse & Chris from the rock band A Sound of Thunder.

   

Y estos otros dibujos son para mis amigos Núria y Andrés Abel /And these other drawings are for my friends Núria and Andrés Abel.

 Todas estas dedicatorias están hechas en ejemplares de mi portfolio Seffana Vampirique / All these dedications are made in copies of my portfolio Seffana Vampirique.

Esta otra dedicatoria es para mis amigos Corner4Art y está hecha en un ejemplar de la novela Sangrario / This other dedication is for my friends Corner4Art and is made in a copy of the novel Sangrario

ELS SEGADORS - Color Pages

 
       We continue with the previews ELS SEGADORS, my participation in the graphic novel IT WAS METAL, the comics adaptation of the last album of the American metal band A Sound of Thunder

     Here I present the color pages.

     Script adapted from the lyrics of the song by Marc Gras
     Color by Diego L. Parada
     Reaper Woman played by Seffy Moon

                   More about It Was Metal/Els Segadors:
         https://mikeratera.blogspot.com/search/label/A%20Sound%20of%20Thunder


         You can order It Was Metal graphic novel on Amazon:
   https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Thunder-Was-Metal/dp/0692111859/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526283860&sr=8-1&keywords=Marc+Gras


       And you can also order It Was Metal directly from A Sound of Thunder website store:
     https://www.asoundofthunderband.com/store

ELS SEGADORS - Pages WIP

         We continue with the previews Els Segadors, my participation in the graphic novel IT WAS METAL, the comics adaptation of the last album of the American metal band A Sound of Thunder.

     Here I present the work stages in the black and white pages, before adding the color. You can see the storyboards, the pencil-line versions and the pencil final-art.

     Script adapted from the lyrics of the song by Marc Gras.
     Color by Diego L. Parada
      Reaper Woman played by Seffy Moon


      In a next post you can see the final color of these pages!

   



                   More about It Was Metal/Els Segadors:
             https://mikeratera.blogspot.com/search/label/A%20Sound%20of%20Thunder


       You can order It Was Metal graphic novel on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Thunder-Was-Metal/dp/0692111859/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526283860&sr=8-1&keywords=Marc+Gras


       And you can also order It Was Metal directly from A Sound of Thunder website store:
        https://www.asoundofthunderband.com/store

ELS SEGADORS - REAPER WOMAN

 
     We continue with the previews Els Segadors, my participation in the graphic novel IT WAS METAL, the comics adaptation of the last album of the American metal band A Sound of Thunder.

     I present here the main character, around which we have created the pages Els Segadors. We have called her Reaper Woman. And this is the origin of the character, created between Marc Gras (script), Diego L. Parada (color) and me:

    In Els Segadors there was no place for too many main characters, due to the short story format. But I came up with the idea of ​​focusing the attention on a character, who could lead the reader from one image to another. And since this character was going to be a reaper, I thought it would work very well if I were a woman. A revolutionary woman, a bit like the woman with the naked breast of Delacroix's famous painting "Liberty Leading the People" of 1830. And whose clothes were also in red, and covered with blood and with one or two sickles in her hands. That would highlight a lot, and I also thought it was important that the character was a woman ... maybe because Nina Osegueda is the vocalist of A Sound of Thunder! And here is where I present another of my usual collaborators: the Belgian model Seffy Moon, with whom I have done many illustrations and covers. When I proposed to use her as the basis for our Reaper Woman, she was delighted to participate!


   Here you can see Seffy Moon ...


   

...and the concepts search for our Reaper Woman. 

More about It Was Metal/Els Segadors:

 http://mikeratera.blogspot.com/2018/05/it-was-metal-els-segadors.html

You can order It Was Metal graphic novel on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Thunder-Was-Metal/dp/0692111859/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526283860&sr=8-1&keywords=Marc+Gras

And you can also order It Was Metal directly from A Sound of Thunder website store:

https://www.asoundofthunderband.com/store

IT WAS METAL - ELS SEGADORS

       
        At last I can announce this to you. It's a job done a few months ago, a collaboration with the American metal band A Sound of Thunder, from Washington DC. 

       His new album It Was Metal has been funded in a kickstarter campaign that included a graphic novel where a lot of artists have made the comics version of each of the songs. My contribution has been the drawing of the song THE REAPERS / ELS SEGADORS, with a script adapted from the lyrics of the song by my friend Marc Gras. And with the spectacular color by Diego L. Parada.

     Soon I will present to you here the images of this first collaboration with A Sound of Thunder. 
    For now, you can see this extensive interview that I have done the A Sound of Thunder and that you will find on its website, in English, Catalan and Spanish, and where I explain my participation in It Was Metal: 

     https://www.asoundofthunderband.com/home/blog/it-was-metal-artist-spotlight-mike-ratera


     And to start the previews, I leave you with this concept colored by Diego, which represents the Reaper Woman, something like the main character of our story Els Segadors set in 1640, in Catalonia. 
   For the Reaper Woman I was inspired by the Belgian model Seffy Moon, who has been my muse in many covers & illustrations. She has also participated in this work!

      

    You can order It Was Metal graphic novel on Amazon:
     https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Thunder-Was-Metal/dp/0692111859/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526283860&sr=8-1&keywords=Marc+Gras
 

      And you can also order It Was Metal directly from A Sound of Thunder website store:
     https://www.asoundofthunderband.com/comics