Remembering Franquin's cartoons!

[ivan louette]

These three brushes are dedicated to one of my preferred belgian cartoonist André Franquin. Each one remember me one important period in his career.
While working to create and experiment brushes I try to capture my impressions. Sometimes very strong ones appears!
That's the power of brush tool in Xara X which permits that. A true, extremely sensible artists tool!

Regards,

ivan

[ivan louette]

These three brushes are dedicated to one of my preferred belgian cartoonist André Franquin. Each one remember me one important period in his career.
While working to create and experiment brushes I try to capture my impressions. Sometimes very strong ones appears!
That's the power of brush tool in Xara X which permits that. A true, extremely sensible artists tool!

Regards,

ivan

[ivan louette]

The three brushes:

[Egg Bramhill]

Ivan
I don't know the cartoonists work but the brushes a very fine. I particularly like the centre brush, it's very fine almost to fragile.
Egg

[Ross Macintosh]

Ivan, do you have an example of this cartoonist's work you can post - or perhaps a link??

Regards, Ross

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[Erik Heyninck]

http://www.gastonlagaffe.com/gaston/index.htm

Ivan's brushes remind me more of the "Black Ideas" cartoons.

André Franquin is known for his Spirou, Marsupilami and Gaston LaGaffe (Gus Blunder).
He is one of the greatest cartoonists of all time in the whole universe, and... I do not exagerrrrate. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]


Here is the link to Ivan's brushes:

[Ross Macintosh]

Thanks for the example and the links Ivan. You're right his work is great. I saw in one of your links mention of the creator of TinTin. As a child I would borrow TinTin books from the library and get lost in the pictures. I was facinated by them. The adventure stories were great too, even if the Captain was a jerk. I'm hoping when my sons are older they will like the books too. I have seen the TinTin cartoon series on TV and was pleasantly surprised how well they translated to animation.

Regards, Ross

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[ivan louette]

No comments!

(but enjoy it)

ivan

[Ross Macintosh]

Sorry Captain! No offence intended. I'll make it up to you by telling my kids you are the main star of the TinTin series and not TinTin. Now, will you call Snowy off my ankle?

Regards, Ross

[RTK]

I used to have all the TinTin albums as a kid! I even had quite a few records that played the dialogue (in Swedish) with really cheap sound affects.

Ahhh... those were the days - sitting on the couch flipping through the album with the record on and eating myself sick on pop corn.

Risto