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2008: Back to my roots, back to JUB & back to gay cartoons! This is my new exhibition taking place again in Paris :

"Les Hommes de CLX"

From tuesday april 29th to sunday june 1st

DVD Café 48 avenue Claude Vellefaux Paris
subway 2 Colonel Fabien or 11 Goncourt

If any of the french jubbers or much better : from all over the world, has some holidays during the exhibition, come & see it. We could even meet there have & drink & chat!

As some people say: it's GOOD to be back!
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I made it! This the new website, new url to see my cartoons & keep in touch with me. Many improvements are coming, come and check these out!

www.art-of-clx.com
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I'm a Dreamer. I'm a big one. Those who know me are aware of that.

Whenever I feel fine, thanks to artistic projects, cool events or so, my mood may drive me to imagine that my artwork touches someone. A special someone. Someone who has money. Far much money than I would ever have. Someone who comes to me and offers to buy some of my pieces, just like he'd buy famous art pieces, quite expensive. Someone who's there to help me go on creating, allowing me to go on without working for whatever company just to pay bills, allowing me to focus on my artwork, focus on my career, focus on me.
We all know there are in the world people plenty of money, so much money they don't even know what to do with it! Of course, I know there's far much better to do with such money than helping so called artists, yeah, but this makes me dream, still.

It is beautiful to dream. Really beautiful.

 

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It's done! The preview of my brand new exhibition took place last saturday & it was a success. I even sold 3, maybe 4 pieces, I'm so glad!
As for the first one, back in 2005, I had to *cure* my extreme nervosity with lots of alcohool. Yeah I drank a lot but I still kept control, I was delighted, I tried to see & talk to everybody, explaining my artwork, the way I create, i see my art. The night was such a success.
Well, not about one point: the french gay medias. none of them came for the preview, whereas I invited all the ones I knew about. Anyway, I'm not THAT disapointed: I learned from them some years ago and because of the way they act I decided to focus on graphic design, putting aside my gay cartoonist career.
That was a mistake. I'm the one to decide my path & what I really wanna do. Even if my toons only please me, myself and I (which is not the case, I have some fans, well almost!), I gotta go on cause that's what I'm meant to do.

I am a cartoonist, this I know for sure.

 

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One day, I'll know how to play!
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A friendly cartoonist was invited to the preview & told the people how it's been with a cartoon, drawing me & my best friend! It's adorable:

And this reminded me another cartoonist friend made me look like this & that three years ago:

 

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Well, tomorrow I start working again full time for the animated studio, as the compositing leader (including special FX) for a tv serie.

I know this sounds like great news, but I was used to my new rythm of life, I loved it. Most of all, it postpones all my personal projects, including an amazing porn comic project I've been working on & I was glad to present here on JUB in a close future. Well, no drama, I won't give it up, but I won't have much time to draw now, even if I promise myself to keep on cartooning each time I can do so.

Before I also have to finish the 80 cartoons I've been hired to draw for a school book. This is a real opportunity for me & I'm so glad it's going to print at the end of june. Well, this project is the other reason I didn't have the time for the porn comic lately. I'd like so much to work on this full time!

I'd like to say I appreciate the little holiday time I had during a trip to Port Grimaud (this is close to Saint Tropez, the French Riviera), but it's not exactly the case, for different reasons.
Anyway I liked the luxuary cars & boats of this "little Venise", this is some pics:

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I also discovered in San Remo, Italy, that the Häagen-Dazs icecreams are two euros less expensive than in France!!! What a shame, if I could I would have taken back so many cups!!!

Well, this is a pic of me while in Italy. No, the two icecreams didn't belong to me, only one! Guess which one?

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I should celebrate. Or I should be mad at it. I should be happy. I should cry.

I don't know why, this year it means nothing to me. No joy, no pain. Time goes by, that's the fact.

Maybe I suffered too much last year, cause I've always related 35 to my so-called father.
Yeah, thinking 'bout this, I guess I'm quite happier now that I'm no longer 35.

Where's the Goddamn Champain bottle!?

 

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I don't know why I waited so long to be a JUB Supporter. Well, it's a feature that came far after I've been a member, even after I worked for JUB as a cartoonist.
When this feature has been launched I didn't figure out the whole thing until a long time. After that it's true I didn't come back very often to JUB.
But, well, you see: you always, always, find you way Home.

I've seen many websites, blogs, portfolios, etc. Nothing can compare to JUB. If you put aside the whole porn stuff, there's an incredible community there and a complete full function blog, galleries, mailing, etc.

I don't think many people among us can see how far JD, Seth & their team have reached with this website. This is just HUGE. I'm really proud of them, proud that they rent me for some cartoons & comics some years ago & I just want to write a BIG THANK YOU for the whole thing: all the JUB members owe you.

XOXOX

 

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I'm a bit late, but there are some shots of this event in a dedicated gallery.
Next exhibition is scheduled for this october. Stay tuned.

 

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"Dandy".
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Step #1: the sketch, the first drawing, with all the try outs, the mistakes & lines.

Step #2: the hand's required again here, to finalize the drawing with correct black outlines. Just after that: numerize & cleaning with computer softwares.

Step #3: how the character looks with light & shadows, playing with maximum contrast black & white, adding grey areas.

Step #4: classic colors I use for my cartoons. This may be the final editing.

Step #5: full colors, with the outlines not black anymore, showing colors as the part it's related to.​

 

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I’m no Angel.

But does that mean that I won’t Try?

I’m no Angel.

But does that mean that I won’t Fly…

...High?


Photos by Aziz Ary / Lyrics from Dido.
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Lately I had the chance to model for some photographers, & another shooting is scheduled for this week end. I gotta admit I enjoy that!

This is "Body Lines" by Vincent Desauti: http://www.vincentdesauti.book.fr/

 

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Well, lately I had the chance to get many new pictures of me. It happened at a point I just needed this, it'd be hard to explain it better. Let's say it's an ego trip I just had to go through. And I guess it's not even over.

Anyway, this portrait of me is somewhat the one who represents me the best, in my opinion. This expresses the main two sides of the guy I seem to be, of the guy I am deep inside.
If you look at it first, you see strenght, a tough, maybe rough feeling may come. That's the way anybody sees me usually: a tall guy, big, muscular for some years now, so cold, hard, not friendly, rude, distant, proud, agressive.
Then, looking closely, you get my expression, my face, my eyes, and I feel like you might see inside, the main me who's a huge bunch of emotions, feelings hardly controled.
This is what really close people see about me, close friends, and most of all boyfriends. And, for once, a picture succeeds in showing just a little bit of the true me.

And I like that.