davidrevoy

Hello super patrons! Spring is inspiring and after spending the last ten days traveling to visit far-away family, I'm back with updates and a lot of sketches. Here is what's ahead for the Pepper&Carrot project ( sorry if it's a bit long, I'll try to make it short next time ) : # Speed-up production to one episode by month It's two time faster than the previous rhythm and soon I'll try to increment to 3 episodes each 2 month , to finally reach the target of 2 episodes by month. But it will...

Episode 6 : The Potion Contest

After month of works ( new website, multilingual collaborative platform, video tutorials ) , weeks of production and sleepless nights ; I have the pleasure to present you the new episode 6 "The Potion Contest" ! http://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article271/episode-6-the-potion-contest It's a special long episode of 9 pages to celebrate and thanks all my Patreons for helping Pepper&C...

Thank you !!!

Today Pepper&Carrot reached the unique 'milestone goal' : 900$ full-time production and I was very happy and exited all afternoon. Thank you very much ! Now, I'm back to work on the next episode with a big smile.

Hi, update from 'The potion challenge' (next episode) production : the storyboard is done and sketching almost. Next week(s) ; inking and colors :) Thanks a lot for your support!

Website upgrade

Hi! I (finally) finished the website upgrade. It took me time, but this fundamental change was necessary to open even more Pepper&Carrot. For the main visible part : * French translation available on website * Collaborative multilingual support ( anyone can add a new translation now ). * the Source page was totally rewritten, with more source, and now in sync with translations. => more infos : 2015-03-02 17:17:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Shichimi & Yuzu

Here is a colored artwork about a new character for the next episode 'the potion challenge' ; Shichimi (Japanese: 七味唐辛子, "seven flavor chili pepper" :-P ) and Yuzu, her Kitsune fox. I also recorded two free videos tutorials to contribute at the illustration of the future Krita 2.9 release page : http://www.davidrevoy.com/article247/krita-2-9-comic-coloring-tutorial

I'm happy to present you a concept-art sketch for the new witches. On left, Badiyan ( chinese star anise ) with her young Kitsune fox named Yuzu. She is an albino character and I'll color her soon to see how works white hair and red eyes. On the right, Coriander the young voodoo witch with her black chicken Mango, I also need to color her to test her black skin shading. Let me know if you like or dislike them, or have ideas on how to improve them. ( website work continue in background, I upgr...

http://www.peppercarrot.com new website is now online ! New 'fan-arts' and 'derivations' gallery ( thanks for your contributions) and a new fully illustrated 'Philosophy' page ( http://www.peppercarrot.com/static2/philosophy ) to communicate better the concept. Pages and website in overall should now be faster, and I can host the 1GB of 'Sourc...

Flying around Komona

A new free creation with an open license : a tutorial, an artwork and a video timelapse ! Link on my blog : http://www.davidrevoy.com/article245/flying-around-komona-making-of-tips

Hi, I just finished to paint this big illustration for the future peppercarrot.com website and I wanted to share it with you. You can see on it how Komona looks from far away ( the flying city-tree in the background ). I'll post this artwork publicly soon along the full video timelapse on Youtube. I'll also prepare a bonus PDF here with detailed tips. ( in attachment : the full lossless quality picture , 6400x3600px , 20MB , made from scratch in Krita 2.9beta ) (PS: I post it a second time , ...

Hi, and Happy New Year 2015 ! A lot of things are happening here right now for Pepper&Carrot , and I'm working a lot on it. Here are the news : * New website : I'm building a dedicated website for Pepper&Carrot ; the address will be www.peppercarrot.com. The website will have plenty of new illustrations, a fan-art category, a FAQ, a 'news' system only related to Pepper&Carrot, a page with faster downloads for the sources and the whole structure will be ready to host multilingual co...

Hi, I attach here a PDF of bonus for my Patreons 'Heroes' , with sketches, photos, storyboard, and a commented work-in-progress panel from the last episode. The PDF is 16:9 , optimized to watch in 'presentation mode' on modern screens. I hope you'll like this document. Thanks again for supporting Pepper&Carrot ! As usual, feel free to comment, question, critic or give any opinions about what could improve the project in general for the next year.

Special holiday episode

Hi, I present you today a surprise; a 'special holiday episode'. I hope you'll like it, it's my way to wish you all happy holidays ! :-) I don't forget the 'potion challenge' main storyline, I'll work back on it for the next episodes. Many thanks again for your support and nice messages on this year 2014. - David

Episode 4 : making of PDF

Hi, I attach to this post a PDF file : "the making of Episode 4" , 20 pages of exclusive bonuses for my Patreons 'Heroes' ( sketches, speedpainting, photos, storyboard, pencil version, etc... ). Thanks again for supporting Pepper&Carrot.

Episode 4 : Moment-of-genius

Hi, I just published the episode 4 of Pepper&Carrot and I very hope you'll like this new episode. Feel free to share your crits and feedback :-) link : http://www.davidrevoy.com/article243/episode-4-moment-of-genius Thanks a lot again for your support, have all a good week-end and I'll post next week a *.pdf file of the making-of.

Hi, production news : a big step on the episode 4 was done this week : full inking is done ( the definitive drawing of thin black lines ). I share here a picture showing the steps of my process on two panels of episode 4.

Happy Halloween :-) I'm still drawing and painting on episode 4 and if my schedule is ok, it should be done by mid-November. I also work on a system to manage and ease translations and improve the website too. Thanks a lot for your support !

What skills are needed to draw?

Hi, I just published a new article on my blog : a sort of table of content for those who learn drawing and painting. I'm back drawing 'Episode 4' now :-) Have a good week-end all.

Hi, I share here a screenshot of the bottom of page 1, for the future episode 4. I'm working with a new method to improve the visuals, expressions and the mood of each panels. Result, I get something more near to the artistic rendering i'm looking for ; less digital, and exposing more the craftsman' s work, happy-accidents, and organic painting stroke a human can do. There is still a lot of work ahead to complete the episode 4. I'm very happy to see how Pepper&Carrot grows, it gives me a lot...

Special Bonus

Hi, welcome to all the new Patreons who decided to support more Pepper&Carrot adventures ! Thank you. Thanks also to all the other Patreons who decided to continue to support Pepper&Carrot after episode 3. I attach here a PDF of 20 pages of bonus for my Patreons 'Heroes' , with sketches, speedpainting, photos, storyboard, pencil version ; a lot of visual coming from the period of August/September 2014 (between episode 2 and episode 3). I hope you'll like this bonus.

Episode 3 : The secret ingredients

Hi, I just published the episode 3 of Pepper&Carrot and I very hope you'll like it. Crits and comments are very welcome :-) Thanks a lot for your support !

Warm colors, new font, city of Commona ; here is my page one for episode 3 ( still work in progress, but labeled 'prefinal' on my disk ). I'm painting page 5, 6, 7 right now and I'm planning to release soon :-)

Gmic line-art colorization

I'm using really recent open technologies to color the upcoming episode 3, so I decided to post on my blog an article/tutorial about what I use : the new Gmic beta colorize filter http://www.davidrevoy.com/article240/gmic-line-art-colorization

Hi, Last weeks I drew a lot and I have since yesterday my seven pages ready to be colored on my disk. A big step. All line-art are already scan, clean, with speechbubbles, texts and panels. I took me time to adopt and rethink a new list of technical standards too : - I split now each episode by 300ppi A4 pages in the source, to ease printing publishing of Pepper&Carrot, and future *.epub format. - I also use now an open-font named 'Lavi'. With this one, I'll be able to bundle the font in t...

Screenshot description (in attachment) : 1st page of ep3 during production, and storyboard next to it. In a corner, a photo during the process of drawing 1st panel. Hi ! Step by step, little by little, the episode 3 is taking shape. It took me time to start the production of the real pages but now I'm on it, and I progress daily. Why so long ? During August, I felt I had to *design better* the universe of Pepper&Carrot. And it means I had to review many ideas, story, draw more concept-art i...

Pepper character design

Hi, here is a speedpainting research about Pepper. As you saw on the previous comic I had a little issue to decide about her design ( in ep1 she is younger than in ep2 ). For the work-in-progress ep3, I decided to work on her design a lot. This speedpainting is one of my research the more near to what I'm looking for after dozens of sketch : not too young, not too old, full of energy and funny. Ep3 will reveal more about her personnality. Feedback and crits welcome :-)

Free creation : tutorial From blue sketch to digital ink with Krita

Hi, I've made a new free creation : a tutorial showing how I clean my line-art. Released under a Creative Commons Attribution license. I'll be back soon with extra sketches and scan for my Patreon +3$ :-)

Free brush-presets for Krita software

Hi, this week I share on my blog my new brush-presets for the free, libre and awesome open-source digital-painting software Krita. All the brush I use to color Pepper&Carrot are now available for free and released as Public-Domain(CC-0). Also, all the brushes I'm using for my freelance work are inside the ZIP files too. More infos : http://www.davidrevoy.com/article238/ressource-krita-brushe...

Hi, I'm back from my travel week to Amsterdam ( for Blender Fondation Gooseberry open-movie project preproduction ) and then one week in Brussel ( for Flossmanuals, to write an open manual for the Blender Game Engine ). Today, I finished the storyboard of the 3rd episode of Pepper&Carrot and I wanted to share a bit of informations here with you. This is just a little step in my production, but also an important one, because now I can start the drawing production. I painted the storyboard v...

Research artwork for episode 3

( pencil on paper )